Tom Ford Private Blend Tobacco Vanille is a perfectly likable smell. It's more than just accessible -- it's comfortable. It's a tobacco that's not too masculine, a vanilla that's not too feminine. There's sweetness for your inner child and booziness for your inner Lindsay Lohan.
Tobacco Vanille is everybody's best friend. If perfumes had a high school yearbook, Tobacco Vanille would be all over the extra-curricular activities pages: mucking around on senior prank day, pitching in on the fund-raising car wash, goofing off with buddies.
Tobacco Vanille isn't particularly ambitious or eager to change the world. It will never be voted “Most Likely to Succeed”. But you'll find it several other categories, including “Most Easy-Going” and “Best Hair”.
Tobacco Vanille starts at $180 for 50ml -- check TomFord.com for retailers
brilliant review Katie! TF just plain annoys me now with it's almost milky, thick honey note. I don't get the tobacco or clove much at all just honey.. and heavy at that. ah well.
ReplyDeleteBut thanks to you, I sampled cuir cordoba and I LOVE it. I guess it's not groundbreaking but isn't it the most gorgeous violet-scented suede ever? I'm waiting for my bottle! :)
Oh btw I got a bottle of Hypnotic Poison Elixir which is EDP version of the original and was done by a different perfumer but it's definitely better somehow..I found the top notes much easier on the nose and overall smoother than the original so check it out! :)
Lily
I hear you about the TF, and think that analysis would sum up quite a few of his works--definitely approachable, wanting popularity. I do get tobacco, but it is a supremely wearable one, although Lily is right, it does veer off into sweet honey territory a bit too eagerly.
ReplyDeleteLily and LBV, you bring up a good point. I think the real problem here is that Tobacco Vanille is misnamed. If it were called Tobacco Honey, then you'd know what you were getting into, and wouldn't get cranky when the honey reared its head. Taken as a honey perfume, Tobacco Vanille is very easy-to-wear, unlike the Serge Lutens' divisive Miel de Bois.
ReplyDeleteAha! I knew there was a troublesome note in there somewhere. Thanks to all of you for explaining to me why I cannot wear TV. I'm not completely, absolutely, fully convinced that it's honey, because honey usually makes me think that someone's played a little joke on me and added a (completely safe, sterile and synthetic) pee note to my morning perfume. I don't quite get that from TV. But it gets too sweet and cloying. I like it on others, but not on me. I have the same reaction to scents like Chergui.
ReplyDeleteI get too much tobacco from TV, sadly, but I do have a very soft spot for Chergui. I hope to test Havana Vanille shortly, to see if I react in a similar way to the tobacco in that.
ReplyDeleteWell flittersniffer, looks like we're all Goldilocks when it comes to TV: too much honey, too much tobacco, not enough tobacco, etc etc. Let me know if HV is your "just right" tobacco vanilla.
ReplyDeleteTo me it smells like a cereal I had as a kid, Count Chocula. Just too foody for me. I still need to give Havana Vanille a proper sample. I had high hopes for it too. I love Amber Absolute by Tom Ford.
ReplyDeleteGojira, I think Count Chocula and Frankenberry are the basis of many perfumes these days! And Booberry must've have served as the inspiration for Britney Spears Midnight Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteGod god no! It's like movies today. Can't think of anything original and break out the old tv shows.
ReplyDeleteStill waiting for Eau de Cap'n Crunch and Lucky Charms Elixir.
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