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My Signature
627 reviews
A screeching, macho nightmare for seedy young city "alphas" who take loads of coke and cheat on their girlfriends. Headache-inducingly sweet, with tobacco, but the kind of tobacco smell you'd get by holding an unlit Marlboro light to your nose. It reminds me of 90s scents, although I can't put my finger on which. It's just a screaming, bravado stench that slaps you in the face and pinches your arse, and definitely without consent. It's the guy who wears Sauvage after he's won a couple of thousand on the lottery.
It's good quality, but I don't like the ambergris, which dominates the rest of the notes. It's very overpowering and the vetiver loses its shimmer as a result. Not bad but not great.
I love vetiver, and I love TF fragrances but this is underwhelming. It's like Vetiver by Guerlain watered down with the most recent, under-performing formulations of Bleu de Chanel EDP, then watered down some more. It's not a bad scent, but it's too bland, and there are many other, better, vetivers out there for a lot less. Update: it gets better in the dry down, very creamy, and stronger and more persistent than I expected.
Weird synthetic banana smell, like H24.
Pure lemon meringue pie, sort of synthetic and weird, but I have no idea why this is called Métallique. This and Soleil Blanc are the only Tom Fords I actively dislike.
There's a lot going on here. It's got everything, but somehow it works. I'm nasally devouring my wrist over and over again, loving the floral extravaganza.
All of the above notes are there, but strongest of all is patchouli. It's a very nice, but very needy perfume, so I have to be in the mood for it.
A boring perfume in the same spirit as L'Homme Idéal EDT by Guerlain, which is more striking and complex. Pi gives me almond and vanilla and not a lot else. It smells good, but not interesting, and certainly not worth the price.
Richer than the EDP with a wondeful ginger element. I also get a tobacco vibe as someone else mentioned. Together this makes for a sexy, smokey scent. On the opening, it's seems similar to the wonderful Homme Idéal Intense from Guerlain, but this one has stronger sillage, legs and complexity, which is only right given the huge price. Given the criminally bad performance of the EDP, the Parfum slightly redeems the line. I say slightly because it's way overpriced. Now I have smelt this, I find the EDP insipid and quite horrible.
This leaves me completely cold in the winter but is incredible on a hot, humid day. Who would have thought 🤷
Wonderful opening, stays wonderful for an hour, then becomes a basic, cloying, nauseating horror show.
An air banquet of rare truffles and chocolate flakes, oozing and wafting, deep and dark, velvety and smooth. Just delicious and super addictive. This is one of the only perfumes I can sniff close up and deep and there's nothing but joy, no harshness. I love it, it may even be the most exquisite perfume in my collection. After a long while, the dry down reminds me of L'Instant de L'homme EDP by Guerlain, but while I love the Guerlain, this is next level. Perhaps it's the quality of the ingredients, I don't know, but it's sublime.
