Soleil Blanc by Tom Ford bottle
Tom Ford

Soleil Blanc

4.1/5 · 7,952 votes Feminine 2016
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Fragrance notes

Top notes
Heart notes
Base notes

Character

Longevity3.0/5
Sillage2.7/5
Day87
Night25
Summer100
Spring46
Fall19
Winter12
Our take

Pistachio is an unusual note to lead with, nutty and faintly green, and here it sits alongside cardamom and pink pepper for a warm, spiced opening before bergamot adds any real brightness. It smells more like a spice market than a beach, at least at first.

Tuberose, ylang-ylang and jasmine crowd into the heart next, thick white florals that push the pistachio and spice into the background. The tuberose stays creamy and soft, without the sharp, waxy edge it sometimes has.

Coconut, amber, tonka bean and benzoin settle into a long, warm base that takes up the back half of the wear, tying the spice-market opening back to the fragrance's beach-adjacent name. The coconut here avoids suntan-lotion territory entirely, staying soft and creamy instead, blending into the tonka bean's hay-like sweetness and the benzoin's warm resin until the whole base smells like toasted sugar and warm skin. Amber adds a final glow that holds everything together. It holds a workable, average stretch, and it keeps a small, warm halo close around the wearer.

Summer daytime is its natural home, worn somewhere warm enough to match its beach-and-spice-market mood. It rewards a taste for coconut fragrances with more going on than sugar and sunscreen, built instead around cardamom, pistachio and tuberose before the sweetness ever arrives.

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