Tom Ford · 2014

Costa Azzurra

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Tom Ford asks $240 for 100 ml
50 ml$165
100 ml$240

The houseUnisex

From lightest to strongest

Sparkling lemon and salty sea air over cypress, oakwood and driftwood, drying down to salty amber with incense.

Tom Ford says

You’ll smell lemon, Cypress Oil, oakwood, Driftwood Accord, labdanum (cistus absolute) and Salty Amber.

More from Tom Ford’s description

It also mentions Sea air, Fresh aromatic notes, Evergreens, Citrus, Cypress, Oaks, Aromatics, Oak, Driftwood, Lavender, Vanilla, Fucus (seaweed), Oud (agarwood), Ambrette seed, Celery seed, Cardamom, Artemisia (armoise), Juniper berry, Myrtle, Basil, Yellow mandarin, Lentisk (lentisque), Frankincense (olibanum), Incense and Vetiver.

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The drawn Costa Azzurra bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Costa Azzurra’s scent picture, a draft: lemon, cypress, oak, driftwood, labdanum, salty amber drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Costa Azzurra, when you spray it: Lemon, Cypress, Lavender, Cardamom, Artemisia, Juniper, Myrtle, Basil, Mandarin, Lentisk, Bergamot, Sweet orange, Eucalyptus, Geranium, Mint

As it settlesheart notes

Costa Azzurra, as it settles: Salty amber, Ylang-ylang, Jasmine

What staysdry-down notes

Costa Azzurra, what stays: Oak, Driftwood, Labdanum, Vanilla (vanillin), Seaweed, Oud, Ambrette, Celery, Frankincense, Vetiver, Patchouli, Virginia cedar, Cedar, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Tom Ford names

LemonCypress OilOakwoodDriftwood AccordLabdanum (cistus absolute)Salty AmberSea airEvergreensOaksAromaticsLavenderVanillaFucus (seaweed)Oud (agarwood)Ambrette seedCelery seedCardamomArtemisia (armoise)Juniper berryMyrtleBasilYellow mandarinLentisk (lentisque)Frankincense (olibanum)IncenseVetiver

What the label names

38 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

7 citrus9 herbs & lavender8 florals6 woods2 sweet4 spices1 musks1 powder

Citrus7

LimoneneBergamot oilLemon oilBitter orange oilCitralTerpinolenealpha-Terpinene

Herbs & lavender9

PineneLavender oilEucalyptus oilSpearmint oilCamphorLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineolCarvone

Florals8

Geranium oilYlang-ylang oilJasmineCinnamyl alcoholGeranyl acetateGeraniol (rose)Rose ketonesCitronellol

Woods6

Patchouli oilCedarwood oilCedarwood oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)VertofixEbanol

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices4

beta-CaryophylleneEugenolIsoeugenolIsoeugenyl acetate

Musks1

Hexadecanolactone

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
12 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell12

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateOctinoxate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Ci 19140Ci 15985Ci 60725Ci 14700Ci 15510Propylene glycol, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Sunken TobaccoBeauFort London · shares oak, cistus, seaweed, cardamom and 3 more$170 for 50 ml
Cape WrathBeauFort London · shares seaweed, ambrette, lentisk, frankincense and 1 more$169 for 50 ml
Costa AzzurraTom Ford · shares lemon, cypress, oak, Driftwood Accord and 1 more$300 for 100 ml · about the same as Costa Azzurra’s $240
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