Tom Ford · 2007

Oud Wood

VersionEau de Parfum

Tom Ford says

You’ll smell cardamom, Pink Pepper, patchouli, amber, oud and Tonka Bean.

More from Tom Ford’s description

It also mentions rosewood, oud notes, sandalwood, vetiver, RARE OUD WOOD, SANDALWOOD and CHINESE PEPPER.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Oud Wood’s scent picture, a draft: cardamom, pink pepper, patchouli, oud, tonka, rosewood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Oud Wood, top notes: cardamom, Pink pepper, Black pepper

Heartthe first hours

Oud Wood, heart: rosewood

Dry-downhours later

Oud Wood, dry-down: Patchouli, Oud, Tonka, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Iso E Super, Vanillin

On the label

What’s inside it

12 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

1 citrus4 herbs & lavender2 florals3 woods2 sweet

Citrus1

Limonene

Herbs & lavender4

CamphorLinaloolLinalyl acetateTerpineol

Florals2

HydroxycitronellalFarnesol

Woods3

Patchouli oilSantalolIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)

Not in Ingredients yet3

Beta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetCinnamyl alcohol, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

Named by Tom Ford, never on a label

CardamomPink PepperOudTonka BeanRosewoodSandalwoodVetiverCHINESE PEPPER

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 12 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.