TOBACCO

Eau de Parfum Pre-orders open until 30th June. All orders ship in July, once stock arrives from the States. Kentucky tobacco was once the state's defining crop. From the 1930s through the late twentieth century, most farms grew some, and the cultivation cycle, from spring planting through summer topping and autumn curing in those tall, slatted barns with the leaves hanging in tiers, structured an entire agricultural calendar. The federal tobacco program supported prices and managed how much each farm could grow from 1938 until 2004, when Congress passed the Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act and ended the system. By then, foreign competition, falling domestic demand and a properly belated public reckoning with the tobacco industry made the program unsustainable. The buyout was the exit ramp from a structure that had supported farmers for nearly seventy years. Twenty years on, fewer than a thousand Kentucky farms still grow tobacco. Some counties that once had hundreds of growers have seven or eight. The barns are still there, mostly, weathering into the landscape. Dawn Spencer Hurwitz's composition is a sepia-toned photograph of that vanishing world, capturing the agricultural smell of leaves curing in summer heat: honeyed, haylike, leather-and-molasses warm. Dark plum opens against dry cedar, the architectural smell of an empty curing barn. Drying tobacco leaves bring honey and hay through the heart, then deepen into cured leather and molasses, with the faint smokiness of aging wood. A velvety rose threads through, softening the rustic edges. Amber and sandalwood settle the base into a warm, textured glow. Composition: Plum, Rose Drying Tobacco, Barn Wood Leather, Molasses, Honey Perfumer: Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, 2025