C6 – Sandalwood Tobacco – UNIKA | Creamy Woody Eau de Parfum

A light filtered through incense, a milky wood that lingers.
Green tobacco giving sandalwood a depth it wouldn't have alone.

Sandalwood is one of perfumery's most beloved ingredients — creamy, milky, slightly sweet, it envelops with an almost universal softness. But sandalwood alone can lack tension, depth, and character. Véronique Stambouli, exclusive perfumer for the Grasse-born house of Unika, makes a precise choice for C6: combining sandalwood with its apparent opposite. Green tobacco — vegetal, dense, slightly leathery — introduces a shadow into this creamy light and changes everything. Not a sweet blond pipe or shisha tobacco: a leaf tobacco, almost wild, which gives the woody note an organic and profound dimension that no other accord could produce.

In this Eau de Parfum concentration, the composition opens with an aromatic and slightly resinous warmth. Pink peppercorns, frankincense, and sandalwood establish a hushed and slightly sacred atmosphere from the first seconds — frankincense elevates, pink peppercorns bring a dry and slightly fruity warmth, sandalwood lays down its creamy sweetness as a base. Sandalwood returns to the heart accompanied by green tobacco and fruity notes — the green tobacco arrives discreetly, vegetal and slightly leathery, cutting through the sandalwood's sweetness with a dark and perfectly balanced tension. The fruity notes soften this contrast with a lightness that prevents the composition from ever becoming austere. Sandalwood, vanilla, and musks settle in the base in a creamy and enveloping fullness with remarkable longevity and persistence. C6 – Santal Tabac does not impose itself. It remains — for a long time, silently, with a presence that one eventually seeks out.

C6 – Santal Tabac is the fragrance for those who know that depth always comes from the tension between two things that shouldn't go together — and yet fit perfectly.