Noir
Tom Ford Noir opens with bergamot and pink pepper, caraway adding a warm, slightly anise-like aromatic quality that gives the opening a distinctly masculine-leaning character. Violet in the heart is the composition's softening element, sitting against amber and benzoin to give the whole mid-stage a warmth that is powdery without being feminine. Patchouli and leather in the base are the darker materials that earn the name, vetiver adding a smoky-earthy quality that holds the whole composition in a dry, persistent close. Noir as architectural statement.
Why We Carry This
Tom Ford Noir is the house's most classically structured masculine: caraway-violet-patchouli is a composition sequence that references the fougere tradition while moving it toward something warmer and more resinous. The leather-vetiver base gives it the authority the name requires, and the benzoin heart gives it a warmth that keeps the composition from reading as merely dark.
Scent Profile
Top notes: Pepper, Pink Pepper, Cardamom, Bergamot
Heart notes: Amber, Labdanum, Oud, Iris
Base notes: Vetiver, Sandalwood, Amber, Musk
Character
Accords: Amber, Woody, Warm Spicy, Oud, Aromatic, Leather
Perfumer: Harry Fremont, Jacques Cavallier Belletrud, Olivier Cresp
Launched: 2012