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3 Stages

Click the names opposite to view fragrances in each category

Top Perfume Note
The initial, lighter smell of the fragrance, which lasts for around 8-15 minutes.

Heart/Middle Perfume Note
This remains constant throughout use of the fragrance (hence the term heart note) and develops after the top note.

Base Perfume Note
This is the last to develop, and helps to fix the fragrance to the skin. This is where you will smell the 'woodier' notes of the scent, which become more noticeable when the fragrance has been on the skin for a while.

 

Citrus

The clean, tangy aroma of citrus fruits: lemons, mandarins, bergamot oranges and grapefruit.

Soft oriental

Incense adds a sensual softness to heady flowers, spices and amber.

Green

The sharp green scent of crushed leaves and fresh-cut grass.

Oriental

The hypnotic fragrances of oriental resins, night-blooming flowers, vanilla, musk.

Water

Soft sea breezes.

Woody oriental

Rich oriental notes blended with the potent wood scents of patchouli and sandalwood.

Floral

The fresh-cut fragrance of flowers from a single rose to a rich bouquet.

Mossy woods

Perfumers call these forest notes of oakmoss, woods and citrus chypre fragrances.

Soft Floral

These soft, powdery floral aldehydes blend nature’s flowers with the perfumers aldehydes.

Dry woods

Dry resins, cedar and tobacco make a mossy-woody fragrance drier, sometimes a little smokey.

Floral oriental

The soft, spicy notes of orange flowers, sparkling aldehydes and sweet flowers.

Aromatic fougere

Sexy cool-warm notes of citrus and lavender, sweet spices and oriental woods.

Tom Ford

Perfume and aftershave from Tom Ford

Thomas Carlyle Ford, better known today as Tom Ford, is an American fashion designer and film director. Tom Ford returned to the U.S. and announced the creation of his own brand in 2005.


The company offers fashions, accessories and eyewear, and is known for its sexually-charged advertising. Ford also formed a partnership with Estee Lauder that same year, for the development of fragrances and cosmetics.

The Fragrance Counter Cheap Perfume Choice: Tom Ford White Patchouli EDT

The Fragrance Counter Favourite Fragrance: Tom Ford Black Orchid EDP

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