Tabarome™ (Synarome)

What does Tabarome smell like?

The supplier listing gives the odour as tobacco, powdery, spicy, gingerbread, floral, and describes a refined tobacco foundation enriched by elegant powdery facets, subtle floral tones and warm spicy accents. It is a French-made dark brown liquid and is classed as a base note and a fixative, so in a formula it is both the tobacco itself and the thing that holds the rest of the dry down down. The powdery and floral side is what separates it from a raw tobacco absolute: it reads as cured pipe tobacco in a tin rather than smoke, and the gingerbread nuance gives it a warm spiced sweetness that lets it sit under fougeres, chypres and leather accords without turning tarry.