You (well I) sometimes have to remember that the '...smells like...' section is not a smells like at all, it's a '...reminds me of ...' which is a broader church for sure. However, let's just say for arguments sake it's a smells exactly like... then I don't get eau des baux from this, or Lui or Tonnare but perhaps some of the others with tobacco then sure. I will also just preface this review with the fact that today I'm wearing a perfume called also titled smoke, which I'm glad (much like this one) wasn't just a huge OD of smoky cade and birch materials or even that bacon bbq sauce effect of guaiac wood. It's not that, tonally it's much fresher, un smoked tobacco. I've got to say the tobacco note/accord in this AKRO is pretty spectacular, going from smelling like a rich, real absolute, to a deliberately constructed accord with different resonant frequencies. I think the issue with this is that tobacco vanille by Tom Ford kinda set the bar for tobacco fragrances most of which just wanted to replicate that success, quite deliberately. This has the cherry and fruity tones but it's more manure like with a natural sweetness not coming from a glug of vanilla. As a result this is more bittersweet and tabacco like, so is it just TV minus the Vanilla? In very simplistic terms yes, but I can't help but respect the craft of this perfume and I definitely like it. My tobacco vanille has a balsamic sharpness and I do mean vinegar to it which I can't really abide anymore, this Smoke I could probably live with much better. However, it's rare I find myself in the mood for such things these days. Objectively speaking it's a well made, less cloying tobacco vanille type approximation with a little more about it that your average deliberate, smell alike, which I sense from the spirit of this perfume and it's development on skin, not what was intended.