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Tobacco absolute is a perfumery ingredient that adds animalic, leather, and amber notes to fragrance compositions. It is used mainly to enhance base notes, bringing warmth and depth to a scent. Its presence in fragrance formulas is limited due to its high production cost, making it a rare ingredient in the world of perfumery.
This ingredient gained special recognition in 1919 with the launch of Tabac Blond by the house of Caron and creator Ernest Daltroff. This fragrance was a landmark in the history of perfumery.
From a botanical perspective, tobacco is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Solanaceae family and the Nicotiana genus. Tobacco absolute is extracted from the plant leaves through a complex process that preserves its rich aromatic characteristics.
Tabac Blond from 1919 was a revolutionary fragrance for its time, as it challenged social conventions by offering a masculine tobacco scent to women during a period when women smoking was still considered a taboo.
The production of tobacco absolute requires roughly 1 ton of tobacco leaves to yield just a few kilograms of the final ingredient, which explains its high cost and rarity in fragrance compositions.
While smoking tobacco is linked to negative health effects, its use as a fragrance ingredient is an entirely different process that utilizes only the aromatic characteristics of the plant without the harmful consequences of combustion.
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