Ombré Leather
Tom Ford (2018)

A absolutely sexy stunner of a fragrance that will make you smell like a member of the billionaire boys club. And someone who has just stepped out of his expensive leather upholstered sports car for a night on the town.

As soon as you spray this on you are enveloped with the most plush and luxurious aroma of jasmine and supple plush leather. It's floral, smoky and slightly sweet and gets creamy in the drydown. The fragrance is so lush you may be mistaken for royalty if anyone smelled this on you.lol

Performance for the first two hours is stellar, projection and sillage is strong. After that it stays within arms length but longevity is over eight hours on my skin. Wonderful regal smelling leather scent, big thumbs up from me.

Well.... I have wanted this for a few years now.
Why the hell did I hold back on getting this stunning frag?.


I love everything about this, to my nose this is pure addiction in a bottle!
I wear this my nose and mine alone, I love this aroma, so I wear it for myself. I got a 50ml... maybe I should have got the 100ml???

Well the e.d.p. is awesome and so is the Parfum.... but that is more floral, another love, they are very similar, love both, but this is harsher, darker and heavier.

Parfum is more mass pleasing and love the floral addition in the parfum.
The parfum stays less weighty but continues on...on... and on.

So both are worthy of the full bottle. Awesome stuff.




Overall.... 8.6- 10
Scent ......8.9- 10
Silage......8.5- 10
Longevity 8.1- 10

The year this was released the perfumer who did it made another eleven perfumes; that's one a month, and almost as many as Roudnitska did in his whole life.
So having assembled a black leather accord and a sort of spiky Guy Thing that smells like drain cleaner, it was time to move on to the next project, most of which have been flankers or made for unknown labels of no import, and which don't need more than a cursory lash up before bottling.

So why is this different? Because it's Tom Ford? No, because it costs 250€.
Taking the piss.

Edit: If you like strong leather scents without much else, you may like this. Ironically, it is somewhat hurt by its excellent longevity, because the "leather, leather, leather" drumbeat that is nice at 2 hours gets tiring at 8 hours. I really want to like this more, but I don't see much utility for this unless I layer it with something else; and you shouldn't have to do that with a niche fragrance in the $250 price range. Some people compare wearing this to wearing a leather jacket or sitting on leather seats, but this is much stronger and more animalic that those prosaic images.
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It appears that many women are repelled by the scent (watch the curly fragrance blind smell test where 11 out of 12 women on the street reacted violently to this). This is the kind of fragrance that you wear primarily for yourself.

I give this a neutral because it is a good version of what it is, though what it is is pretty limited.

Really?!? Really....

OK, so pretty much every niche brand and downmarket Middle Eastern perfumery has copied Tom Ford's Tuscan Leather by now, so much so that it's become the definitive, ubiquitous modern leather perfume recipe. So, in what's either a shameless ploy or an example of brilliant post-modernism, Tom has copied everyone who copied him and released his own downscale version of Tuscan Leather.

In terms of differences, Ombré replaces TL's signature cherry topnote with minty greens, and while Ombré has decent longevity, it lacks the nuclear strength and staying power of its father.

I'm giving this a thumbs up (even though I'm a bit ashamed) because this is a well-worn formula which I enjoy, but I'm still confused why this needs to exist.

This leather-forward scent leans fresh and clean. The overall performance could be better for an EDP.