Tom Ford · 2023

Vanilla Sex

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5
Tom Ford asks $615 for 100 ml
30 ml$265
50 ml$405
100 ml$615

VersionEau de Parfum

Bright and deep vanilla with a bitter-almond edge over creamy sandalwood, jasmine and powdery orris, warmed by a skin-like musk.

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Vanilla Sex’s scent picture, a draft: vanilla (vanillin), sandalwood, jasmine, iris, animalic notes, almond drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Vanilla Sex, top notes: Almond

Heartas it settles

Vanilla Sex, heart: Jasmine, Animalic notes, Ylang-ylang

Dry-downwhat stays

Vanilla Sex, dry-down: Vanilla (vanillin), Sandalwood, Iris, Tonka (coumarin), Iso E Super (pencil shavings)

What’s inside it

What the label names

14 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.

1 citrus2 herbs & lavender4 florals3 woods3 sweet1 spices

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

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Lyric WomanAmouage · shares vanilla, sandalwood, jasmine, orris and 1 more$395 for 100 ml
Reflection 45 ManAmouage · shares vanilla, sandalwood, jasmine, orris and 1 more$550 for 100 ml · about the same as Vanilla Sex’s $615
BeautifulEstée Lauder · shares vanilla, sandalwood, jasmine, orris and 1 more$115 for 75 ml · about a quarter of Vanilla Sex’s $615
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.