Tom Ford will launch Patchouli Absolu, the latest addition to the limited distribution Private Blend range…
Bunch o’ fragrance ads 2014, part 5
A slideshow round up of new fragrance advertising, print and digital, plus a few older ads (28 slides in all) — most of these are for fragrances recently released in stores or just about to be released…
Tom Ford Velvet Orchid ~ fragrance review
The old saying has it that “everything old is new again.” Tom Ford Velvet Orchid, a salute to the grand oriental perfumes of the 1980s, seems to have taken that saying to heart. Lovers of Yves Saint Laurent Opium, Estée Lauder Cinnabar, Boucheron de Boucheron, and other room-permeating, spicy-woody-ambery fragrances will want to give it a try. Fans of Velvet Orchid’s older sibling, Black Orchid, will probably see no reason to switch.
Velvet Orchid’s notes include bergamot, mandarin, honey, vanilla, orange blossom, rose, jasmine, narcissus, magnolia, Cattleya leopoldii orchid, heliotrope, rum, suede, labdanum, sandalwood, and myrrh — not that any of these notes stand out distinctly. Even without the gorgeous deco bottle and “orchid” in its name, a single whiff ties Velvet Orchid to Black Orchid.
Although Velvet Orchid has the guts to take the ring with any of the big orientals, it’s billed as a floriental fragrance…
Tom Ford Mandarino di Amalfi & Costa Azzurra ~ new fragrances
Tom Ford will launch Mandarino di Amalfi and Costa Azzurra, two new unisex fragrances joining Neroli Portofino in the Private Blend collection…
Tom Ford Shanghai Lily ~ perfume review
I fell for it so hard that on any given day if I don’t have other perfume wearing plans it ends up on my skin.
I honestly cannot think of anything that smells like it and it definitely joins one or two other launches as being the most exciting perfume released this year…
Not just a bit of love for this one, but a big burning love.
That’s Bois de Jasmin, The Candy Perfume Boy and Perfume Posse, respectively, talking about Shanghai Lily, one of the four fragrances in the Atelier d’Orient collection from Tom Ford (the other three are Plum Japonais, Fleur de Chine and Rive d’Ambre). They’re all in the Private Blend range, and as I’ve written before about my general lack of affinity for Tom Ford Private Blend, I won’t belabor the point other than to say that the two quartets released just before Atelier d’Orient, Private Blend White Musk and Private Blend Jardin Noir, did nothing to shake my suspicion that the whole line is overrated and overpriced. Still, when Atelier d’Orient came out last year, I dutifully smelled them all on paper blotters at Neiman Marcus. I did like Shanghai Lily the best of the four, but I didn’t like it well enough to chase after a sample, so I went on about my merry way and forgot all about it…