SMOKE Show

Looking for a COZY WINTER SCENT? Blends laced with the appealingly warm, earthy aroma of TOBACCO strike a surprisingly COMFORTING NOTE.

READY, SET, SMOLDER From a whisper to a wallop, these blends offer tobacco intensity to please all palates. Clockwise from top left: Vyrao Georgette ($190), Clive Christian Art Deco Blonde Amber ($550), Krigler Good Fir 11 ($810), Dior Tobacolor ($310), Amouage Opus XIV Royal Tobacco ($360), Eisenberg Secret II Bois Précieux ($125), Boy Smells Cowboy Kush ($98; shopBAZAAR.com (B)

As a nonsmoker, I face a dilemma: I want to smell like tobacco's deep, smoky richness without actually lighting up. I trace this back to childhood summers spent in India with my bibliophile grandfather, who had a compulsive cigar habit. This was a time when nobody batted an eye at a child inhaling secondhand fumes, so the two of us read quietly side by side for hours, hotboxed indoors while he smoked. That time spent together imprinted tobacco on my scent consciousness forever.