Tom Ford · 2017

Oud Minérale

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Pink pepper over smoky oud and styrax, with fir balsam, marine notes and ambergris underneath.

Tom Ford says

You’ll smell Pink Peppercorn, Oud Blend, styrax, Ambergris Accord, Fir Balsam and Marine Notes.

More from Tom Ford’s description

It also mentions Oud, Ambergris, Smoky woods, Musks and Smoked wood.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Oud Minérale’s scent picture, a draft: pink pepper, oud, styrax, ambergris, fir balsam, marine notes drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Oud Minérale, top notes: Pink pepper, Fir balsam

Heartas it settles

Oud Minérale, heart: Marine notes

Dry-downwhat stays

Oud Minérale, dry-down: Oud, Styrax, Ambergris, Musks, Patchouli, Cedar, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Farnesol (linden blossom)

What’s inside it

What the label names

17 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

3 citrus3 herbs & lavender2 florals5 woods4 spices

4 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholPhenoxyethanol, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.