Description
The inspiration for the new perfume collection ‘The Four Corners of the Earth’ came from the indigenous flora of different parts of the world Linda Pilkington has visited on her travels.
Montabaco is a perfume to capture the essence of Latin America: leather, suede, wood and tobacco leaf repeated over and over again creating a suggestive sensuality and Latino temperament. It sits above the rich floral presence of magnolia, jasmine and rose. It is all unashamedly seductive yet profoundly simpatico.
Top: air note, orange absolute, bergamot, juniper, clary sage, cardamom. Heart:
magnolia, hedione, rose, violet, tea notes. Base:
tobacco leaf, iso e super, suede, sandalwood, moss, tonka, ambergris.
The fragrance is available as Eau de Parfum.
Montabaco was launched in 2012. The nose behind this fragrance is Geza Schoen.
aleksspb – :
This is a high quality, natural smelling niche version of Montblanc Legend and Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce. Beautiful, and a true competitor against Aventus, Layton, Amyris Homme, Bleecker Street, Reflection Man, Elysium, Vodka on the Rocks, and L’immensite
руссабалт – :
wearing a second time and love it, received a nice compliment from my wife…so def a keeper. Sillage and longevity are great. I have the intensivo version and i highly recommend it.
dieff69 – :
I have the intensive version, for me , very high well blended quality of fragrance.
It is Aventus in the send mass appealing. Will not let you down.
Different in good terms than any other fragrance I smelled ( above 500)
Great day/signature/mature/elegant scent.
Prefect. Loved it.
One spray is good enough to fill in a room air ( this is how it projects and stay)
Surely will buy another bottle and more form the line.
amemiSkarne – :
The opening of this fragrance is one of the best I’ve come across – it’s soft aromatic suede leather, tobacco leaf, warm cardamom.
There is a lot of ISO E Super in this number, which for me is both good and bad.
The good is that in from the opening to the heart notes, it creates truly amazing effects. If you put even a dab of this on, it is very strong, with ISO E Super modulating the sillage into many vapour trails each of which have a slightly different ‘take’ on the central theme. This really draws you in. People around you would smell it and notice it – and it really does smell a cut above. Very noticeably – but nothing about this fragrance is ‘in your face’.
So in the beginning, the ISO E Super for me is acting as a modulator for the other scents, keeping everything dynamic and dancing around this central suede/tobacco/cardomom theme.
As the scent dries down, I get more and more ISO E super, until it’s all I can really notice and if I’m honest the effect is cloying. There are other things there, but the ISO E Super really does dominate.
I was truly blown away by this fragrance on first application, and subsequently, the opening never fails to impress. But you have to really like ISO E Super to really dig this one long term (in my opinion), which, let’s face it, is a synthetic molecule. If you are into Ormonde Jayne for the naturals which they excel at, it seems to me a bit off piste to go for a fragrance which steers so heavily towards Geza Schoen’s calling card a la Molecule 01.
Still a great fragrance, but for me Ormonde Man remains at the top of the list of offerings from Ormonde Jayne.
2676 – :
Not sure if it’s the same but I have the Intensivo version. Quite nice, spice and a subtle tobacco in a classy way. Projection and longevity just right.
intertabakru – :
I tried this a while ago in a shop and recall being haunted by it later in the day. I’m sampling it again and my experience is different from my memory. It’s a potent citrus/aromatic, pretty masculine with an almost barber-shop vibe. A high end aftershave. The citrus, tea, and woods are most prominent to me, with a sprinkling if herbs and some soft suede. Dried tea and dry tobacco have a similar smell to me, but this isn’t a sweet, ambery tobacco kind of smell.
Well done and well blended IMO, but not sure I like it as much as I thought I did. I think I may need to try it in warmer weather to see if it develops differently. Longevity and projection are both excellent.
D.I.M.A. – :
Montabaco is a light, lemonadish-but-not-so-sweet, tea scent. It is very unisex. I didn’t get the tobacco that well and In the dry down it got quite soapy.
Quality is good, longevity ok. It is in fact a quite original creation, I wouldn’t be able to come up with a similar fragrance.
To me there is no wow factor and I find it a bit boring.
So far I got mixed feelings about Montabaco. I think I got my hopes up too high judging from the reviews and the other work of Geza Schoen.
I won’t rate this one yet, I think I will have to smell/wear it a few times more.
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Recently sprayed it on again. This time it got very soapy, a bit vetiver like. I do think this is something special and very unique. Just still don’t know if it is for me.
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I am starting to understand it more and more. And I also appreciate it more and more. It’s just very refined and original. I still have not bought it yet (only sample spray), but I am seriously thinking about it. Maybe I”ll try the Intensivo version first! 🙂
upsi33 – :
I like the bright, mint-like opening with a touch of tea, but I’m not sure of the dry down….does anything get the Dior Sauvage at the dry down of Montabaco?
Veittefup – :
Perfect in every way. “For the price it better be.” Yeah, I hear you. It is. I am blown away by this juice. Tobacco fans in particular MUST sample this.
You will see from any of my reviews that I am not given to hyperbole. To my nose, this is just simply incredible.
art00111 – :
I went to the Ormonde Jayne store to buy a bottle of Ormonde Man and was given a sample of this. It’s incredible.
banan91 – :
This is what I imagine a beautiful model man (Tyson Beckford) must smell like on a misty, foggy morning, smoking a rolled up (the ones you make yourself from a tobacco pack) cigarette, while sitting naked on a rock, covered in lichen, moss, funghi and wild mushrooms.
The month is October, when it is mild and moist in the morning, yet it already has the scent of autumn in the air and the sun’s rays are warm but meek and mild.
This is what this fragrance is. A modern melancholic classic, oozing with class, natural essence and unparalleled beauty.
It smells natural and feels like a hug from a friend or a lover.
10/10. Modern Masterpiece.
labenik – :
Great man fragrance. It’s not sharp or more sugar. I love this composition, idea. Intensive is enough its not tired to nose. The best part is spread and prejection. It works all day. I recommend really for real perfume.
Scent: 9
Long: 9
Project:8
dimash250 – :
What a great perfume this is real creation nothing like this one , my signature perfume for all occasions
kalif213 – :
There isn’t anything special in this fragrance more than it’s like any designer’s fragrance with mild tobacco, and allot of mixed ingredients that i can’t define clearly what it is other than it’s quite artificial, Sorry but it’s quite artificial & doesn’t deserve it’s price at all.
joker4848 – :
İlk denediğimde kararsız kalmıştım. 5 ay sonra tekrar denediğimde ise çok beğendim. Marka bununla birlikte 4 adet özel parfüm üretmiş. Ben bunu ve oud lu olanı beğenmiştim. Oud san halen emin değilim ama Montabaco gerçekten çok başarılı. Tütün bildiğiniz tutun gibi değil. Kadife gibi bir tütün. Listedeki notaları tek tek alamıyorum ama tutun ve süet ön planda. Bu kokuya güzel demek istemiyorum. Belki de ilk defa bir parfümün çok şık olduğunu düşünüyorum. Genel havasında kalite atmosferi var. Bence her mevsim ve her iklim için uygun. 30 yaş üstü için ideal. Yüzlerce parfüm denedim bugüne kadar ve Montabaco ilk 10 arasına girdi.
DOKER31 – :
Your immediately hit with smokey tobacco, clary sage, suede, iso super and spicey cardamom which expands all around you in a warm atmosphere. I think it is the clary sage which is making my eyes water! I find this rather acrid but then as it settles further and it seems to sweeten and the jasmine and cardamom come more to the fore. Its the fact the clary sage has lessened! I get the refreshing lime, the sea from the amber gris and the sweet wood from the tonka and sandalwood at the base. I can just about make out the dry effect of the tea note. This would be gorgeous on a man but the killer clary sage note is too much for me.
julia250 – :
This is awful! It makes one think you smoke roll ups and go to strip shows with a rain coat, with a bag of humbug sweets and your name is Dick sporting thick glasses and a comb over to hide your bald patch. Yuk!The price is outrageous too. I note another thing with O.Js frags, they are very well built and I do believe she uses some fine essential oils in their blend, however they go rancid very very quickly. So it you do like her fragrances it is best to buy a small bottle and use it within 12 months.
hohol-nt – :
It opens up with sweet orange, it’s quickly over taken by a peppery spice from Cardomom and clary sage.. it then develops into a high mix of ISO E Super, very light cloudy like pale scent.. jasmine comes in at the mid of the fragrance, very softly, with a suede like note in the back which I think is made from the Iso E..
Tobacco is the weakest note and can barely pick it out..but it’s a very dry tobacco, and is not pleasant.
It comes out a little bit more on the end of the dry down.
It’s overall very heavy on the ISO E molecule.
Lasted 5 hours on my skin before turning into a faintest skint scent for another 5 hours.
Average sillage for the first 3 hours, then very close to the skin.
I think the information listed on the voting is totally wrong.. it should be moderate to weak sillage and moderate longevity, and the tobacco note is not a main note.. it’s a very faint compared to ISO E Super and Jasmine are the main players – I think the suede like note is an illusion from the ISO E molecule personally, as it gives that smooth soft vibe – waste of money for the price, I think it’s shocking personally. Day light robbery
FWoqbonQ – :
The first I’ve tried from Ormonde Jane…I think?
Well this is the first review in any case and I have to say, a very impressive fragrance.
The composition of this scent is truly well conceived, I often think of Geza Schoen being an ultra modern, minimalist (or con-artist?) due to the eccentric Molecules line. In fairness he’s done many works worthy of note like Kinski and Bouddica Wode which are pretty complex.
Anyway… Montabaco is a real knockout and I’d say it’s quite a floral focused scent at it’s core. The sweetness of jasmine and magnolia definite chime strong in this and more so as I was expecting it to be laden with heavy tobacco, especially from the way the SA sold it to me.
The tobacco isn’t that strong though and even the bergamot, and herbal clary sage/tea combo comes through delivering quite a fresh and uplifting scent.
There’s a warmth behind it all the time though and I’d attributed that to sandalwood and cedar ~(ISO) but when the main event lands the tobacco sits subtly but powerfully under those top notes. I genuinely couldn’t Identify it as tobacco from the first couple of hours and then, as if by magic it’s there and suiting the other notes perfectly. It’s even a little bit smokey too when you get deep into the drydown.
I don’t know what else to say about this fragrance other than I wholeheartedly love it, and I want a bottle.
bonHodank – :
ELEGANCE WITH A TWIST _______________________________________________________
Today I was in a fragrance store in search for a new oud scent – I had my eyes on a new Montale fragrance. When the ‘Montale’ disappointed, I told the clerk that I was looking for something different and bold.
After trying out some fragrances, she was at her wits’ end and presented me with MONTABACO.
It was so spectacular, that I was speechless. She tried vaguely to say something about the company and about this scent, but I couldn’t hear her. My mind was too blown, to be able to hear anything at all. It was like, all of your life you knew that out there were only 3 doors to go through… but then comes MONTABACO, takes your hand and shows you a forth one – spectacular!
Everybody seems to get strong tabacco in MONTABACO, but I don’t. All I got was a very elegant and floral combination of suede and clare sage, with a powerful twist of bergamot.
Longetivity: – 10/10
Sillage: – 10/10
All in all: 10 out of 10 points.
P.S. Even after I had showered, my wrist still smelled of MONTABACO.
vik154bedyWelty – :
I tried all of Four Corners and must admit that Montabaco was the one I truly and deeply fell for. (unlike most bloggers who praise Tsarina which on my skin smelled dull and somehow flat). Montabacco on the other hand is a completely different story: it’s strong, it’s powerfull and it demands atention. Definitely not a scent for faint hearted and weak women as it has a subtle yet dominant masculine note. This is one of the very few fragrances that I can actually distinguish separate notes and according to my nose the strongest is tobacco, leather and sandalwwod accompanied by duo of jasmine and rose. I can also smell clary sage which my brain classifies as a balmy accent.