Just as I was mulling over which Louis Vuitton fragrance to request for a possible wedding anniversary gift (the heart is currently drawn to ‘Meteore’), Tom Ford’s company releases something that speaks to so many of my comfort and crave zones. See and sniff the sun-kissed brilliance of their latest release ‘Taormina Orange’.
A natural offshoot of their summery Portofino line, this one sounds like it has all the makings of a happy summer dream. A few of my favorite Ford fragrances are in this freshie vein – the original ‘Neroli Portofino‘, the exquisite ‘Mandarino di Amalfi‘, the spicy ‘Costa Azzurra‘, and the emotionally-weighty ‘Azure Lime‘ come to mind.
While my preference is for more potent bottles when it comes to the Tom Ford price point, I forgive a lot once the calendar turns to summer, and no one wants a clingy, cloying perfume to stick to the skin during the sweaty season anyway.
With its blood orange center and promised bitterness to take the sweet seas, the note palette here touches on some of my favorites – from cardamom and orange flower to earthy oak moss. As with most fragrances, just because all the listed notes align with scents I love, that doesn’t mean that they will make beautiful music together; this one could sway cloyingly wayward, or the blood orange might veer off the path of pleasant – all of which means I’ll be sampling this before requesting or purchasing it myself. We don’t have the financial fortitude to blind-buy anything these days.
That said, I’ll be clearing space on the Tom Ford shelf of the cologne cabinet just in case.
