Nishane
Nishane
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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The first spray delivers coconut that's fibrous and woody rather than creamy, immediately doused in dark rum that smells fermented and slightly funky. There's an almost medicinal edge to this pairing, like coconut oil mixed with aged spirits, sweet but sharply alcoholic.
Tobacco leaf unfurls with surprising richness, honeyed by tonka bean that adds a marzipan-like creaminess without turning gourmand. The woody backbone intensifies, that peculiar Chinese toon adding an herbal, almost onion-skin greenness that keeps the sweetness in check and adds complexity to what could have been straightforward tobacco-vanilla.
Oakmoss takes over, earthy and authentically bitter, mingling with lingering traces of sweet tobacco and that savoury toon wood. What remains is a skin-close woody incense, resinous and slightly smoky, like the smell of a forest floor mixed with cigar ash and the ghost of something creamy and vanillic beneath.
Fan Your Flames takes its name seriously, opening with a blast of boozy coconut that recalls spilled drinks on sun-scorched teak rather than piña colada sweetness. The rum note here is dark and undiluted, meeting coconut flesh that's been shaved into cigar boxes left too long in tropical humidity. This isn't beachy; it's the smell of a wood-panelled smoking room in Havana where someone's inexplicably cracked open a fresh coconut with a machete.
The genius lies in how Nishane pivots this into full tobacco territory. As the rum-soaked opening recedes, a resinous tobacco leaf emerges, sweetened by tonka but never tipping into dessert. The tonka adds a creamy, almost vanillic backdrop that makes the tobacco feel lived-in rather than sharp. Then comes the Chinese toon—that peculiar onion-like wood that adds an unexpected savoury edge—grounding everything with oakmoss that smells authentically bitter and forest-floor damp rather than scrubbed clean for IFRA compliance.
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