Toscano Tobacco – SANTA MARIA NOVELLA | Tobacco & blond leather cologne

Tuscan tobacco — the kind from Florentine manufactures, not cigarettes.
Velvety, honeyed, deeply elegant.

Tuscany has cultivated tobacco for centuries — a blond, sweet, and slightly honeyed tobacco, very different from the dark and smoky tobaccos associated with heavy oriental perfumes. Santa Maria Novella, whose Florentine officina has existed since 1221 and whose first preparations already used plants and resins from the region, approaches this material with the direct knowledge of a local artisan. Tobacco Toscano is not a perfume that conventionally evokes tobacco. It evokes this specific tobacco — that of the Tuscan lands, blond and velvety, as known by the Florentine manufacture.

The composition opens with a luminous and discreet clarity. Bergamot establishes a slightly lemony freshness — brief, clean, not seeking to dominate and quickly giving way to the central material. Jasmine transitions to the heart with an indolent floral sweetness — neither too floral nor too sweet, just enough to soften the approach of the base. Amber, blond leather, tobacco, sandalwood, tonka bean, vanilla, and honeyed notes then settle into a base accord of remarkable richness and coherence — the tobacco is blond and velvety, the leather soft and slightly milky, vanilla and tonka bean provide an almost edible warmth, sandalwood structures the whole in a creamy woody depth. Tobacco Toscano envelops. It never leaves you.

Tobacco Toscano is the fragrance for those who know that tobacco, when treated with nobility, becomes one of perfumery's most sensual and refined materials.