Tabac

Tabac is a fragrance and personal-grooming brand created by the German fragrance company Mäurer & Wirtz in 1959. The brand is associated with a floral scent profile built around bergamot, neroli, and lavender, with tobacco, oakmoss, and vanilla used as accenting notes. Its name and identity connect the fragrance with tobacco-inspired olfactory styling, while the product range extends beyond perfume into traditional men's grooming formats. The Tabac line has included eau de toilette, eau de cologne, shaving soap, aftershave, and deodorant. This breadth places the brand within the classic European toiletries model, in which a central fragrance is adapted into complementary bathing, shaving, and body-care products. Rather than being limited to a single prestige perfume, Tabac functions as a coordinated scent-and-grooming range. The brand's historical significance is also reflected in its appearance in popular culture. A bottle of Tabac can be seen in the bathroom of the main character in the 1963 spy television-series episode "The Yellow Package" from The Fifth Column, alongside a bottle of Old Spice After Shave. This provides a documented example of the product's visibility in mid-century screen culture, although it does not establish a formal product placement agreement. Available reference material identifies Mäurer & Wirtz as the creator of Tabac and records the brand's launch in 1959. It does not provide reliable information about a current headquarters, ownership structure, executive team, financial performance, listing status, or the full geographic scope of present-day distribution. Those fields are therefore left unspecified rather than inferred.

Tabac was created by Mäurer & Wirtz in 1959 as a fragrance brand. Its documented scent construction combines floral and aromatic materials, including bergamot, neroli, and lavender, with tobacco, oakmoss, and vanilla providing additional depth. This combination gives the brand a profile that bridges fresh citrus-floral facets with darker, warmer, and more traditionally masculine fragrance notes. From its core fragrance, Tabac developed into a broader grooming system. Documented products include eau de toilette, eau de cologne, shaving soap, aftershave, and deodorant. The range reflects the longstanding European practice of extending a signature scent across several daily-use toiletries, particularly shaving and post-shave products. As a result, Tabac is best understood as a coordinated fragrance-and-grooming brand rather than only as a single perfume. The brand also has a small documented connection to television history. In the 1963 episode "The Yellow Package" of the spy series The Fifth Column, a Tabac bottle appears in the principal character's bathroom next to Old Spice After Shave. The reference demonstrates that the packaging was visible in popular culture during the early 1960s, but the available material does not establish whether the appearance was paid advertising, editorial use, or incidental set dressing. The supplied reference material does not document later reformulations, changes in ownership, corporate acquisitions, major advertising campaigns, executive appointments, financial results, or distribution markets. Consequently, the modern corporate and commercial history of the brand remains incompletely documented in this entry.

• 1963

  Appearance in The Fifth Column

  [1]Tabac (perfume)en.wikipedia.org

  A bottle of Tabac appears in the bathroom of the main character in the episode "The Yellow Package" of the spy television series The Fifth Column.

• 1959

  Tabac is created

  [1]Tabac (perfume)en.wikipedia.org

  Mäurer & Wirtz creates Tabac as a fragrance brand.

A classic European fragrance and men's grooming brand centered on a floral, tobacco-accented scent profile and a coordinated range of shaving, aftershave, deodorant, and fragrance products.

• Fragrance · 1959

  Tabac fragrance

  The core Tabac scent is described as floral, combining bergamot, neroli, and lavender with tobacco, oakmoss, and vanilla accents. The fragrance serves as the olfactory foundation for the wider Tabac grooming range.

• Fragrance

  Tabac Eau de Toilette

  An eau de toilette format within the Tabac fragrance line. It presents the brand's documented floral and tobacco-accented scent profile in a wearable fragrance concentration and forms one of the principal formats associated with the brand.

• Fragrance

  Tabac Eau de Cologne

  An eau de cologne version of the Tabac scent. It extends the brand's central fragrance identity into a lighter traditional cologne format, although the available reference does not specify its launch date, formulation history, or current availability.

• Men's grooming

  Tabac Aftershave

  A post-shave product carrying the Tabac fragrance identity. It places the brand within the classic men's grooming category, linking fragrance use with shaving routines. Specific formula details, packaging variants, and market availability are not provided in the reference material.

• Shaving care

  Tabac Shaving Soap

  A shaving-soap product in the Tabac range. Its inclusion shows that the brand was developed as a broader grooming system rather than solely as a fragrance label. The available source does not state the product's original launch date or detailed ingredients.

• Body care

  Tabac Deodorant

  A deodorant carrying the Tabac scent and brand identity. It extends the fragrance into an everyday personal-care format, complementing the eau de toilette, cologne, shaving, and aftershave products documented for the line.

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