MAYA NJIE TOBAK

FRAGRANCE FAMILY: WOODY

TOP NOTES: tobacco leaf, vetiver

HEART NOTE: cinnamon

BASE NOTES: musk, leather

In Tobak, your new fragrance love will be ramped up via the beguiling honeyed smokiness of the tobacco leaf, a trail of animalic musks and leather resonating many hours later, meaning our noses (and yours, we are sure) will be firmly glued to your wrists as you wear it. The heat of your skin seems to carry Tobak in a haze around you, a personal cloak of perfumed protection, we feel, which resonates deeply with wafts of the cinnamon spicing the warm air. Both transportive, in that it takes you somewhere else, yet reassuringly familiar, in that Tobak has a sense of assuredness and comfort amidst the simmering sensuality it grants the wearer. A fragrance for abandoning the maps and compasses, and simply following your heart (or where your nose takes you)…

Maya Njie (pronounced ‘N-Jai’) has diverse familial and artistic roots, having been born in Västerås Sweden, with a West African heritage, and moving to London in her teens where she studied at the University of the Arts. Weaving together these threads via the medium of the senses, Maya began experimenting with smell alongside the visual mediums of colour and photography. Using her experience as an artist, Maya also designed the perfumes’ packaging, drawing on ‘the dreamy colour ways’ of her family’s photo album once again. Right from the start, these are scents that have not only sprung from Maya Njie’s imagination but have captured other people’s: when we wear them, our own memories and emotional connection ruins are triggered.

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EXPLORE: Maya Njie Tobak

• Where in the world does this fragrance take you?

• Do you agree that this is a woody scent?

• Can you smell cinnamon straight away or does it evolve?

• What music springs to mind when wearing this scent?

• Which three words best sum up Tobak for you? Expressive? Comforting? Individual? Over to you…

From £95 for 50 ml eau de parfum mayanjie.com