Tobacolor
Christian Dior (2021)

A light tobacco note with an apricot or peach background followed by amber and a slight cherry note in this. This is finalized with a vanilla note. Not bad at all. I think this will be enjoyed more in the cooler months. Projection and longevity is above average. 7.5/10

Tobacolor

Though not mentioned in
The Little Book of Dior
It’s a great perfume

Tabac-code honey
Disguised as sugar water
In Heaven’s Ash Tray

Sun Tzu’s weak yet strong
Stripper girlfriend Amber Wong
So good, yet so wrong

Wait just a second
Verify that I’m human
It’s the Basenotes way

I have to wonder
Can machines love tobacco
In the way I do?

(((((((My) dad’s) hookah pipe’s)
Too-dried smoke’s) good memories’)
Feedback’s) parity)

Seems Universal
Though deeper in the design
In a Rossum way

And bees make honey
But did somebody make bees
Just to make honey?

O, Perfume of Life
Spare not sordid details from
Iteration next

Lest some Joy be lost
As new smells replace old ones
To be remembered.

***

This is a strong, complex, tobacco fragrance with sweet, smoky, woody, boozy, ambery, ashy, fruity, honey, and fresh facets. It's surprisingly good, and a bit unlike any other stout tobacco fragrances that I love, including Back To Black, or even lighter ones, such as McGraw Southern Blend, to which there is a pleasing resemblance.

In fact, when sniffed side-by-side with Back To Black, Tobacolor seems like a differently weighted combination of the same elements. Sniffed apart, however, Tobacolor really comes across as its own perfume. It is certainly not redundant with Back To Black, but if you enjoy one, you may very well enjoy the other.

Some may think Tobacolor is very sweet - I find it just sweet enough.

The scent is a bit less "dry" in the heat - surprisingly - making it extra enjoyable on hot days. People generally think of Tobacolor as a fall and winter scent, but it's great in spring or summer, too.

The scent is very tenacious, surviving sports, showers, and even moderate washing and scrubbing. It still smells great after any or all of these.

The aroma sometimes strikes me as a kind of naughty potpourri. It has a definite potpourri vibe, which is both "nice" and seasonal for the holidays, but it's a bit too masculine, and too "on the town" instead of "at home".

Consider the fragrance to be a gift from "Bad Santa"!

***

We left booze and smokes
For corner bar Santa Claus
Who in kind return

Left potpourri oil
From Slumberhouse x Dior
Called Tobacco Lore

Ambery tribute
To alcohol, tobacco
And walnut firearms

Hermèssence McGraw
The face, Statham, told Ellen
RE woody ambers

Don't spray your cigars
With this flavor enhancer
It's the last bottle

Doubling as cologne
For men who are serious
About getting girls

Oh, wait - fact checkers?
Something from the Middle East?
Hookahs and fabrics?

Yeah, sure, something else
Transformed into new beauty
By arc of great sphere

Where French perfumers
Didn't vacation for that
Hillbilly mind-meld

We loved our bad take
On this rotten French whiskey
That cost way too much

Before it became
Secret rocket propellant
In a weird white case

Did Elon make it
To make up for that bad stuff
That smelled like burnt hair?

Well, doesn't matter
Perfume being all these lies
One more shouldn't hurt

You see, Charles Bronson
Made this macho potpourri
While wearing Mandom!

Colonia Ebano with plumb and tobaco instead of ebony wood.

This is basicaly a very smart move from the great master parfumeur Francois Demachy.

Which through the skeleton of this Ebano, launched 4 years later, the much praised Dior Tobacolor.
In essence, the perfumes are the same, with a few minor differences:

Tobacolor is centered more on an amber vanilla and a plum-tobacco accord.
While Ebano, on the ebony wood. Both have in common the amber skeleton, labdanum and especially honey, which is the fundamental central element in both perfumes.

Both perfumes take on sticky-resinous undertones, due to the presence of resins and bee honey. However, tobacolor is slightly smokier.
Overall, Demachy has released some masterpieces that deserve their value.
Price-quality ratio - excellent
Generous longevity and beautiful sillage.
I recommend both, especially for a pertinent test!

Just bought myself a bottle of Tobacolor.

While Pineward Treacle is a heavy tobacco with molasses, Slumberhouse Jeke is a resinous, sirupy tobacco with huge rum cask influence and benzoin and Tobacco Vanille is a cherry scented tobacco with vanilla twist, this is probably leaning towards Tom Ford’s TV. The difference is Tobacolor has different fruits - to me peaches.

This is nowhere as strong as Slumberhouse Kiste, and Kiste is definitely more wearable during warm weather (definitely not summer though - spring and early autumn fit the bill), Tobacolor is a typical autumn-winter warmer. I am mentioning Kiste because both have peach in their notes breakdown.

At times might be a little boozy, I would call it rather safe and cozy in general. And it makes it suitable for office use, just with lighter application.

Hard to tell wether this one was already reformulated or not yet. If so - this is reformulation done right. But I think it might be left untouched, which is a good thing.

This is oriental tobacco like Tobacco Vanille and in general this theme was played over and over again - some might say. That is correct.

But Tobacolor is rather a journey, an experience, a perfume that takes me places. I love that. Being in the countryside, observing bees doing their job around their beehive. Somewhere around my great grandpa with his son are working and smoking pipe tobacco, both of them. Then, at the end of the day we eat together, myself eating a sandwich with a good slab of honey on the bread and drinking hot tea. Memories.

Longevity is over 7 hours, sillage is a little above average.

A strong, interesting perfume, but not quite for me. My wife says it’s in a similar spirit to Le Lion de Chanel, a big, darkly sweet smell that’s good for autumn.

Super longevity: a day later and it’s still going strong. It has a bit of a tobacco feel that’s promising at first, but I’m over it from this never-ending wearing.

Update: We got the big bottle of this, our first from this line (other than minis). My wife loves it.

Fantastic fragrance!

Pipe tobacco, overdose of honey, syrupy, full bodied, sticky with a slight chocolate/caramel vibe. It's one of the only sweet tobacco scents that actually smells of tobacco. Yes, it's pretty sweet but the tobacco never gets lost. Despite the sweetness, it smells mature. I've had multiple compliments which really surprised me. Amazing performance as well. Got to give it a solid 10!!!