Tom Ford · 2015 · Sonia Constant

Noir Extreme

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Tom Ford asks $240 for 100 ml
50 ml$165
100 ml$240
150 ml$280

The houseFor men

VersionEau de Parfum

Warm cardamom, saffron and neroli over rose and milky kulfi ice cream, drying to sandalwood, amber and ember-warm vanilla.

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The drawn Noir Extreme bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Noir Extreme’s scent picture, a draft: bitter orange, saffron, indian kulfi, rose, sandalwood, vanilla (vanillin) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Noir Extreme, top notes: Bitter orange, Cardamom, Sweet orange

Heartas it settles

Noir Extreme, heart: Indian kulfi, Rose, Jasmine, Clove, Ylang-ylang

Dry-downwhat stays

Noir Extreme, dry-down: Saffron, Sandalwood, Vanilla (vanillin), Amber, Patchouli, Peru balsam, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay), Hexadecanolactone (musk)

What’s inside it

What the label names

34 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.

4 citrus5 herbs & lavender11 florals3 woods3 sweet1 amber & resins5 spices1 musks1 powder

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

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoatePhenoxyethanol, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

HawaSwiss Arabian · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), rose, sandalwood, vanilla and 2 more$68 for 50 ml · about half of Noir Extreme’s $240
Odyssey HommeArmaf · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), rose, sandalwood, vanilla and 1 more$45 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Noir Extreme’s $240
Instant CrushMancera · shares saffron, rose, sandalwood, vanilla and 1 moreabout $174 for 120 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.