In short
Tobacco flower absolute is extracted from tobacco blossoms, not the cured leaves. It is floral, sweet violet and spicy carnation over a tobacco note.
What Tobacco Flower Absolute smells like
Parchem and The Good Scents Company list tobacco flower absolute as floral, with sweet violet, spicy carnation and tobacco notes. Hermitage Oils describes a darker olive-green absolute with plum jam, dark cherry and bitter cocoa, made from the concrete by solvent extraction. The leaf absolute, under the same CAS number, smells of hay, honey and cured tobacco instead.
- Leading note
- Floral tobacco
- Clear facets
- Tobacco
- Supporting facets
- Violet, carnation
- Character
- Sweet, warm
What makes Tobacco Flower Absolute distinctive
Tobacco as a flower rather than a cured leaf.
Where the descriptions disagree: Some grades read floral-violet, others dark and jammy, with plum and cocoa.
How Tobacco Flower Absolute is used
Used for a floral tobacco in oriental, floral and leather accords.
Typical role: modifier (used in small amounts to change the character of a blend).
How Tobacco Flower Absolute differs from similar materials
- Tobacco Absolute
- The leaf absolute is honeyed, hay-like cured tobacco; the flower absolute is floral, with sweet violet and spicy carnation over the tobacco.
Each difference compares the published descriptions of the two materials. Smell varies with grade, supplier and dilution; compare them side by side on blotters before substituting one for another.
Formulation considerations
Shares its CAS number (8037-19-2) with tobacco leaf absolute, so none is given here.
Identity and classification
- Type
- Absolute
- Origin
- Natural
- Odour family
- Floral / Leather
- Note position
- Heart to base note
- Physical form at room temperature
- Viscous liquid
- Also known as
- Tobacco blossom absolute
- Botanical source
- Nicotiana tabacum L.
No CAS number is shown: suppliers use different identifiers for this material, and none could be confirmed as its own.
Safety and compliance
This page is general information, not a safety assessment or a specification. Confirm identity, composition, IFRA status and allergen content from your supplier's documents for the lot you hold.
Materials it works with
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Tobacco Absolute
Absolute · Leather / Gourmand — tobacco, honey, hay, leathery
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Ylang Ylang Absolute
Absolute · Floral / Fruity — floral, ylang ylang, earthy, juicy
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Tabanon
Aroma chemical · Leather / Fruity — tobacco, fruity, floral, dried fruit
Used in formulas and accords
Used in 3 published formulas
Tobacco Flower Absolute is an ingredient in 3 perfume formulas in the Formula & Accord Library.
Community formulas
RUŌOD House Originals
Original compositions by RUŌOD House.
Further reading
Questions about Tobacco Flower Absolute
Is Tobacco Flower Absolute natural or synthetic?
Tobacco Flower Absolute is natural. It is a concentrated extract obtained from plant material with a solvent, then washed with ethanol to remove the waxes.
Which published formulas use Tobacco Flower Absolute?
Tobacco Flower Absolute is used in 3 published formulas in the RUŌOD Lab Formula & Accord Library: 1882 Naturals, Mate Field and Pipe Smoke Orchard. Each is listed with a link under "Used in formulas and accords" on this page.
Sources
- Parchem — tobacco flower absolute — distributor's description.
- The Good Scents Company — tobacco flower absolute — odour database.
- Olfactory profile: the RUŌOD Lab team's synthesis of the published descriptions above, reviewed 24 October 2026. Evidence: more than one published description. Classification and the short description: revision 1. Descriptions of odour are judgement, not measurement.