Tom Ford · 2021

Ébène Fumé

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5
Tom Ford asks $460 for 100 ml
30 ml$202
50 ml$300
100 ml$460

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Black pepper over smoky palo santo and ebony wood, with rose, then leather, cistus resin and pine tar.

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Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Ébène Fumé’s scent picture, a draft: palo santo, ebony, black pepper, labdanum, pine, leather drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Ébène Fumé, top notes: Palo santo, Black pepper, Pine, Violet, Juniper, Lemon, Bergamot

Heartas it settles

Ébène Fumé, heart: Rose

Dry-downwhat stays

Ébène Fumé, dry-down: Ebony, Labdanum, Leather, Papyrus, Patchouli, Peru balsam, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Vanillin (vanilla)

What’s inside it

What the label names

21 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.

6 citrus4 herbs & lavender2 florals3 woods1 sweet2 amber & resins2 spices1 powder

9 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Ombré Leather ReserveTom Ford · shares black pepper, cistus, pine, leather and 2 more$300 for 100 ml
Detour NoirAl Haramain · shares black pepper, cistus, leather, rose and 1 more$19.05 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Ébène Fumé’s $460
Eilish No. 2Billie Eilish · shares palo santo, ebony, black pepper and papyrus$82 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Ébène Fumé’s $460
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.