With his new Vert line, Tom Ford is dipping his fine feet into the pool of green with a quartet of Private Blends that highlights all things herbal and verdant. (Yes, it’s a quartet, much to the puzzlement of the Saks Fifth Avenue sales associates, though only three are currently available stateside.) Out of those [...]
Tom Ford Goes Green, and It’s Gorgeous
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Tom Ford & A Naked Jake Gyllenhaal
Our weekend of Tom Ford continues with this promising post. In what has got to be the most eagerly anticipated film for me this year, ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ directed by the one and only Tom Ford, finally gets its first official trailer. His virgin directorial effort ‘A Single Man’ remains a stellar showcase of beauty and [...]
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The Real Great Debate: Battle of Tom Ford Leathers
Inspired by his recent runway show, Tom Ford has a new leather fragrance out – ‘Ombre Leather 16’ – and it’s a doozy. One of the first Private Blends he ever released was ‘Tuscan Leather’ – a potent beast that I despised for a few years before coming around to its smoldering, dark beauty and [...]
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Tom Ford: My Private Blend Collection
If I have an obsession, it’s with fragrance, but compared to other obsessions (crack, heroin, luxury cars, gambling, Louis Vuitton) my cologne fixation has yet to ruin any lives. If anything, it improves things – our bathroom smells sweetly at all times. Still, seeing the long list of fragrances which I have amassed over the [...]
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He Gets Me, He Really Gets Me
Leave it to Tom Ford to distill my little life into a few choice sound bites. It’s as if he’s taken the wisdom gleaned from four decades on this earth and bottled it in one Private Blend bottle. Complex, challenging, yet sublimely simple. This is why I find him such an inspiration. When you achieve [...]
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Tom Ford & the Elusive Japon Noir
Whispers had it that upon the launch of his Private Blend series, Tom Ford favored the dark and decadent thrill known as Japon Noir, and that he regularly wore it himself. It’s very much a head-turner, and as one of the most hyper-masculine entries in that original PB series, it stood on its own at [...]
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Tom Ford for Men
A true classic never goes out of style, and Tom Ford’s first mainstream cologne (named, simply, ‘Tom Ford for Men’) remains one of the few fragrances I’ve ever brought more than once. I returned to it again recently, after running low on ‘Tom Ford Extreme’ – and even though I do prefer the latter for [...]
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REVIEW: Tom Ford’s ‘Nocturnal Animals’
Have you ever left a movie feeling like you want to cry and smile at the same time, and maybe die a little too? It’s not necessarily because you recognize yourself in any of the characters, but perhaps for the first time in your life you can admit to some regrets, and you no longer [...]
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Love Trio
This post neatly merges three of my loves in one simple and refined package: fragrance, leopard, and Tom Ford. It’s a collection of Ford’s mainstream frags (and quite honestly, this is a lazy-ass repost of photos already featured here). But hey, it’s the holiday season, and if people want shit wrapped this is the cost. [...]
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Shore Scent: Oud Minérale by Tom Ford
A scramble and a gamble, this is Oud Minérale by Tom Ford. I broke the cardinal rule of fragrance-purchasing: never buy an item that you haven’t tried on. But this is Tom Ford, and his Private Blends are made for breaking the rules. Unlike the Vert and Portofino lines, which each feature a magnificent specimen (Vert d’Encens and […]
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Fucking Fabulous
Don’t hate me for the profanity-laced title of this post, nor for any of the ‘fucking’s that are about to follow. Blame it on Tom Ford, whose latest limited-edition Private Blend just stomped all over his recent fashion show with its none-too-subtle name: Fucking Fabulous. If ever there was a fragrance to buy without sniffing […]
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Tom Ford’s ‘Noir Anthracite’
With all the fucking hubbub over his ‘Fucking Fabulous’ fragrance, a new mainstream Tom Ford fragrance snuck in the back door in chic and sleek fashion. ‘Anthracite’ is the latest of his Noir line – one which has, up until this moment, failed to capture my adoration. I’m not even a fan of his ‘Noir […]
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Leather & (Raspberry) Lace: Tom Ford’s Tuscan Leather
One of the very first Tom Ford Private Blends produced, and the most touted scent to the whole line back then was Tuscan Leather. It remains a cornerstone of this line, but it took me a long time to come around to it. It’s not a subtle one, and the first few years of sniffing […]
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Tom Ford’s Fucking Fabulous
Everyone I know probably thinks that I would have purchased this solely for the name alone, and everyone would be right. When rumors started circulating that Tom Ford was naming his latest limited edition Private Blend something like ‘Fucking Fabulous’ I believed it instantly. It was just insane and cheeky enough to be true. I […]
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Getting Into Tom Ford’s Underwear
I’ve been begging for this for years. With his celebrated history of putting sex into fashion, Tom Ford by all rights should have been putting out underwear collections a long time ago. I have a feeling I know why he hasn’t up until now: he has always claimed he doesn’t wear underwear. Ruins the line […]
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Sick Delirium
When you’ve been cooped up in your house stricken with the flu for seven days straight, we’ll see what sort of antics you get up to in the name of staving off boredom. For me, it was photographing the bulk of my Tom Ford Private Blend Collection backed by color-coordinated scarves as the background. Beginning […]
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Tom Ford’s ‘Fougere D’Argent’
No other plant exudes quite the same feel of freshness and bright greenery than the fern. The genus is so expansive and diverse that almost every shade of green is found within it, as well as every texture and size. From the smallest and daintiest button fern to the grandest tree fern, the fern world […]
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Dare I Lose My Cherry Again?
Tom Ford’s upcoming Private Blend ‘Lost Cherry’ has the provocative name one has come to expect, and the typical mainstream tendencies that mar so many fragrance releases these days, with something that leans (at least on paper) decidedly toward the candy sweetness that is such a big turn-off for those of us who like something […]
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Leather and Blush
At first the idea of these two together was inconceivable. Mixing fragrances is a risky business, and even those who know the dangers and do it carefully run the risk of inadvertently causing clashes instead of inspired combinations. I tend not to mix and match, with the occasional exception of a few tried and true […]
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Tiny Threads: An Insignificant Series
Animal prints never much interested me on underwear. Until Tom Ford told me it was ok. Not directly, but I understood. #TinyThreads
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