Noir Pour Femme by Tom Ford bottle
Tom Ford

Noir Pour Femme

4.3/5 · 5,853 votes Feminine 2015
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Fragrance notes

Top notes
Heart notes
Kulfi
Base notes

Character

Longevity3.5/5
Sillage3.0/5
Day51
Night92
Winter100
Fall93
Spring24
Summer13
Our take

Kulfi is the note that makes Noir Pour Femme worth talking about, a creamy, cardamom-tinted dessert note more common in Indian cooking than in Western perfumery, and it sits at the center of the heart alongside rose and jasmine like something served warm rather than sprayed.

Ginger and bitter orange open sharp and a touch bitter before that heart takes over completely. The base of vanilla, amber and sandalwood turns dark and faintly resinous by the end, helped along by the balsamic mastic sitting underneath everything else. This belongs to dinner tables after dark, somewhere candlelit more than sunny.

Mandarin orange gives the top a brief lift before the kulfi settles in for good, and the balance between spice and dessert holds steady without tipping fully into either camp.

It has real staying power, unhurried about fading once it settles on skin. What it throws is a modest, warm presence, felt by anyone leaning in close, not by anyone across a party. Anyone who wants a dense, creamy oriental with a genuinely unusual signature note will find this distinctive, since kulfi is not something most fragrances ever reach for.

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