Advertisement for Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille, launched in 2007. Tom Ford Published11 September 2021, 10:00 Perfumer's Secrets: Between Eroticism and Spirituality: Tobacco Captivates Perfumery The smell of tobacco leaf inspires high-flying fragrances. It is even the fetish material of Marc-Antoine Corticchiato, nose of the house Parfum d'Empire. by Emmanuel Coissy When François Demachy presents Tobacolor which he composed for Christian Dior, he evokes the "nuances of a fresh tobacco, tinged with joyful colors". The new eau de parfum arrives on the market 100 years after the creation of Molinard's Habanita (1921), the first masterpiece to use the smell of tobacco leaf as the backbone of its fo... [Read more]