The absolute of tobacco in which the cured leaves are solvent extracted and washed with alcohol is used in perfumery for its rich, warm, slightly dirty and sweet tobacco note. It may or may not be nicotine-free. The effect of tobacco in a perfume is hard to achieve with other ingredients. Some detect a hint of whisky or caramel in the absolute; others find it coumarinic and reminiscent of pipe tobacco.

The nine random winners

100 ml MONTABACO- from the Four Corners of the Earth Perfume Collection from Ormonde Jayne – LORRAINE

50 ml XERJOFF TOBACCO OROVILLE– NOSEY

50 ml of Cognoscenti No 16, by Danielle Sergent  SONIA

 DSH Perfumes, 10 ml of Le Smoking  DONALD EITNER

55 ml of Neela Vermeire Creations BOMBAY BLING  MAXINE

Shelley Waddington of En Voyage Perfumes 15ml of Havane pour Homme IGOR KIPNIS

Charna Ethier of Providence Perfume Co. created Tabac Citron PONDEROUS

Christi Meshell of House of Matriarch 15 ml travel size of Woo CAROLINE

From our author, Elise Pearlstine, 15 ml of Rose of Cimmaron AMER

If you are a winner, here is what you have to do. Email Michelyn@cafleurebon.com  with the exact name of your prize as the subject ie 55 ml of Neela Vemeire bombay bling as your subject  and your complete mailing address. Please include your phone number if youa re an international winner. Please claim your prize by Monday Februaruy 25, 2013 4 PM EST. This is a deadline and there are no exceptions.

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