BOTANICAL NAME Nicotiana tabacum

Nicotiana is a beautiful plant, growing to between one and two metres in height depending on the variety and growing conditions. It has huge green leaves and very sweet-scented flowers which range in colour from white to purple, through pink and red.

SCENT:Tobacco (Nicotiana) has a warm, rich, very sweet tobacco-like odour and is an absolute favourite in cottage gardens for this very reason, the scent of the plants being more prominent at twilight. Its absolute reproduces and augments this delightful fragrance purely because it is so concentrated.

STRENGTH OF AROMA: Strong

PLANT PART: Flowers

EXTRACTION METHOD: Food Grade Solvent

ORIGIN: Brazil

COLOUR: Deep brown

CONSISTENCY: Medium to viscous

NOTE: Top

USES:

Tobacco absolute is often employed as a base note in perfumery, adding its touch in 'dry' or 'masculine' scented perfumes. Carrying a distinct smell which is difficult, if not impossible, to imitate.

BLENDS WELL WITH

Bergamot, Clary sage, and Sandalwood.

HISTORY:

Tobacco has been used and cultivated in America for a very long time, 10,000 years by some accounts. High nicotine content varieties of Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rustica were prized by many tribes. Both species are thought to be cultivars. N. rustica (Wild Tobacco) contains about 10 times the nicotine of N. tabacum, and should be considered one of the most important hallucinogenic entheogens, although both have been used ritually and shamanically by many tribes throughout the Americas.