Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille Eau de Parfum
Product Type: Tom Ford fragrances
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Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille Eau de Parfum
Member Name: lillamarta
Product:
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille Eau de Parfum
Date: 06/02/12
Rating:
Advantages: Quality, delicious raw materials and well-crafted blend
Disadvantages: Expensive, slightly on the soft side
Launched: 2007
Group: Oriental spicy
INTRODUCTION
It's winter time and I'm naturally gravitating towards warm and spicy oriental scents. I also have a growing passion about niche fragrances - sources of quality raw materials and also meant to be olfactive artistic expressions - so I took the plunge and bought a 5ml sample size of it on eBay.
THE PACKAGING
Ford's niche line is called Private Blend and is composed of unisex numbers that can be worn alone or layered with other scents in the collection. The fragrances are mostly named after the raw materi-als they are based on. The full size 50ml and 100ml editions are black, rectangular bottles with a heavy, rectangular cap. Complete with a golden emblazonment, the collection has an exclusive, ex-pensive look to it.
THE FRAGRANCE
Top notes: tobacco leaf
The top opens up with powerful bursts of a rich, boozy and aromatic cherry pipe tobacco accord which feels very natural, not too sweet or made-up. It has a combination of spices, cherry, honey and hay to my nose that adds some depth and mature feel to the composition. These first notes are quite long-lasting and linger on for about ½ hour to an hour or so.
Heart notes: tonka bean, tobacco flower, vanilla, cocoa bean
The cherry and tobacco hay are the most dominant notes I get from the fragrance until it's starting to blend in with the slightly sweeter and more powdery heart mainly composed of vanilla. The result, that lasts for hours and hours, is a deep, dark, syrupy but not too sweet, spicy vanilla that is to die for. Even better than in Un bois vanille which I find a tad too sweet to my taste. The heart is topped off by the fruity - spicy element to make it truly delicious and stop it from becoming too sweet.
About 3 - 4 hours later I'm getting a cocoa note, a sort of unsweetened, powdery chocolate accord, that's very natural smelling. It blends in nicely with the dark, naturally sweet vanilla and a dash of spicy, woody tobacco. Despite the soft, rounded ingredients used there's plenty of sillage. Especially when I'm moving when the ingredients start swirling too and create a truly dynamic, multi-faceted accord that stays on for at least 6 - 8 hours.
Base notes: dried fruit, sweet wood sap
The dry down has gone quite soft by now but it doesn't stop it from evolving. Besides the remain-ing vanilla - cocoa combo I'm also getting a distinct coumarin note - found in tonka beans now produced synthetically - that I can describe as aromatic, sweet, hay-like and woody and in some ways similar to the aroma of raw tobacco strips. Indeed, it complements the soft tobacco I still detect on my skin. The base notes will last up to 10 - 12 hours.
CONCLUSION
Tobacco Vanille is a lovely, natural smelling vanilla blend that's made special by the delicious fruity-woody-aromatic addition of tobacco. Despite the powerful aromatic and spicy ingredients, the fragrance is never harsh, overwhelming or aggressive and in fact can be rather on the soft side. It oozes sophistication as well as casualness which is not at all contradictory here but rather natural. Easy to wear while extremely worked-on - signature of great attention to detail - a niche attribute I prize so much.
I simply cannot justify buying a full-sized bottle of this beautiful creation, however, I tried recreat-ing it by mixing Joop! Le Bain for its cherry-pipe-tobacco note with Serge Lutens' Un bois vanille, a deep, sweet, aromatic almost vanilla solinote fragrance. Le Bain has a darker, woodier cherry pipe tobacco accord and has less of the sweet, aromatic vanilla. The two combined turns out a tad sharper and thinner and somewhat lacks the extreme softness and roundness of Tobacco Vanille but it's pretty close. And most importantly, it's on the budget side.
I recommend it as a generous gift or if you have the budge to spoil yourself with one of the world' best modern interpretation of cherry-pipe-tobacco vanilla. I took off one star for the price. Bar that, simply divine.
PRICE AND AVAILABILITY
Tom Ford Private Blend: Tobacco Vanille can be bought in most department stores for £125 / 50ml £180 / 100ml EDP. Ouch! A 5ml sample size can be bid up to £10 plus postage.
Thanks for reading.
İpowered by lillybee also posted on ciao.co.uk
Group: Oriental spicy
INTRODUCTION
It's winter time and I'm naturally gravitating towards warm and spicy oriental scents. I also have a growing passion about niche fragrances - sources of quality raw materials and also meant to be olfactive artistic expressions - so I took the plunge and bought a 5ml sample size of it on eBay.
THE PACKAGING
Ford's niche line is called Private Blend and is composed of unisex numbers that can be worn alone or layered with other scents in the collection. The fragrances are mostly named after the raw materi-als they are based on. The full size 50ml and 100ml editions are black, rectangular bottles with a heavy, rectangular cap. Complete with a golden emblazonment, the collection has an exclusive, ex-pensive look to it.
THE FRAGRANCE
Top notes: tobacco leaf
The top opens up with powerful bursts of a rich, boozy and aromatic cherry pipe tobacco accord which feels very natural, not too sweet or made-up. It has a combination of spices, cherry, honey and hay to my nose that adds some depth and mature feel to the composition. These first notes are quite long-lasting and linger on for about ½ hour to an hour or so.
Heart notes: tonka bean, tobacco flower, vanilla, cocoa bean
The cherry and tobacco hay are the most dominant notes I get from the fragrance until it's starting to blend in with the slightly sweeter and more powdery heart mainly composed of vanilla. The result, that lasts for hours and hours, is a deep, dark, syrupy but not too sweet, spicy vanilla that is to die for. Even better than in Un bois vanille which I find a tad too sweet to my taste. The heart is topped off by the fruity - spicy element to make it truly delicious and stop it from becoming too sweet.
About 3 - 4 hours later I'm getting a cocoa note, a sort of unsweetened, powdery chocolate accord, that's very natural smelling. It blends in nicely with the dark, naturally sweet vanilla and a dash of spicy, woody tobacco. Despite the soft, rounded ingredients used there's plenty of sillage. Especially when I'm moving when the ingredients start swirling too and create a truly dynamic, multi-faceted accord that stays on for at least 6 - 8 hours.
Base notes: dried fruit, sweet wood sap
The dry down has gone quite soft by now but it doesn't stop it from evolving. Besides the remain-ing vanilla - cocoa combo I'm also getting a distinct coumarin note - found in tonka beans now produced synthetically - that I can describe as aromatic, sweet, hay-like and woody and in some ways similar to the aroma of raw tobacco strips. Indeed, it complements the soft tobacco I still detect on my skin. The base notes will last up to 10 - 12 hours.
CONCLUSION
Tobacco Vanille is a lovely, natural smelling vanilla blend that's made special by the delicious fruity-woody-aromatic addition of tobacco. Despite the powerful aromatic and spicy ingredients, the fragrance is never harsh, overwhelming or aggressive and in fact can be rather on the soft side. It oozes sophistication as well as casualness which is not at all contradictory here but rather natural. Easy to wear while extremely worked-on - signature of great attention to detail - a niche attribute I prize so much.
I simply cannot justify buying a full-sized bottle of this beautiful creation, however, I tried recreat-ing it by mixing Joop! Le Bain for its cherry-pipe-tobacco note with Serge Lutens' Un bois vanille, a deep, sweet, aromatic almost vanilla solinote fragrance. Le Bain has a darker, woodier cherry pipe tobacco accord and has less of the sweet, aromatic vanilla. The two combined turns out a tad sharper and thinner and somewhat lacks the extreme softness and roundness of Tobacco Vanille but it's pretty close. And most importantly, it's on the budget side.
I recommend it as a generous gift or if you have the budge to spoil yourself with one of the world' best modern interpretation of cherry-pipe-tobacco vanilla. I took off one star for the price. Bar that, simply divine.
PRICE AND AVAILABILITY
Tom Ford Private Blend: Tobacco Vanille can be bought in most department stores for £125 / 50ml £180 / 100ml EDP. Ouch! A 5ml sample size can be bid up to £10 plus postage.
Thanks for reading.
İpowered by lillybee also posted on ciao.co.uk
Summary: An exquisite spicy - aromatic tobacco-vanilla fragrance for men and women
