Tom Ford has launched the Atelier d’Orient collection — Shanghai Lily, Plum Japonais, Fleur de Chine and Rive d’Ambre, four new additions to the Tom Ford Private Blend range…
Tom Ford Private Blend Jonquille de Nuit ~ fragrance review
When I went into Nordstrom a few weeks back to try the new Tom Ford Jardin Noir perfumes, the sales person proclaimed: “People are coming in and buying all four (perfumes) at the same time.” I said: “I hope they sniff them first!” The response: “Oh, no! They say ‘we love Tom Ford.’” The perfect Tom Ford Private Blend customers! If it says Tom Ford on the bottle and costs $200 to $500 a pop…you are “in!” (And buying the Private Blend perfumes is WAY cheaper than buying almost anything from Tom Ford’s clothing lines.)
If you read Tom Ford Private Blend reviews on this site, you’ll notice I’m probably the biggest fan of the line here at Now Smell This; the early perfumes in this line were interesting and I enjoyed more than a few of them. As the years passed, the perfumes kept coming, but they didn’t grab me like they used to. Robin has always thought the lower-priced “signature” Tom Ford line smells better than the Private Blends, and I’m beginning to come around to her way of smelling.
The nadir of the Private Blends was the White Musk collection…
Tom Ford Jardin Noir ~ new fragrances
Tom Ford has launched Jardin Noir, a new collection in the Private Blend range. The four fragrances include Café Rose, Jonquille de Nuit, Ombre de Hyacinth and Lys Fume…
Tom Ford Santal Blush ~ perfume review
So when I reviewed Tom Ford Violet Blonde last month, I said that I may be nearly alone among perfumistas in preferring Tom Ford’s Signature Collection to the Private Blends. I like Oud Wood, but I like Yves Saint Laurent M7 better, and I’ve never been more than lukewarm about the rest of them. If anything, my interest in the collection has decreased over the years, and it pretty much hit rock bottom with the release of the White Musk collection.
The Signature Collection fragrances strike me as generally better thought out and better executed — Tom Ford tends, in general, towards loud, but the polished elegance of the Signature Collection stands in stark contrast to the blunt force of some of the Private Blend scents, especially the early ones (I still remember wondering, when I first smelled the Private Blends, if some of them weren’t maybe unfinished mods for Black Orchid). The three Signature fragrances fit together nicely; they don’t smell the same but they have a similar style, and as such they lend a sense of cohesiveness to the Tom Ford Beauty line that is notably missing from most mainstream designer perfume houses.
The Private Blends, on the other hand, seem like a mishmash…
Tom Ford Jasmin Rouge & Santal Blush ~ new fragrances
Tom Ford has launched two new fragrances in the Private Blend collection, Jasmin Rouge and Santal Blush…