Tom Ford Tubereuse Nue Review – 2021

As concepts, ‘Tom Ford’, ‘tuberose’ and ‘naked’ go well together. So it was with a considerable amount of excitement – albeit of the clothed variety – that I reviewed the designer’s latest addition to his Private Blend collection, Tubereuse Nue, in episode 177 of Love At First Scent. Here’s a link: Tom Ford Tubereuse Nue review.

If the idea behind the scent really was to compose a heady, opulent tuberose drama – as per the press material – then its creators have failed. But one suspects that, in the lab, the anonymous perfumer’s (or perfumers’?) intentions were rather different. Nue feels like an attempt to strip away the floral aspects of tuberose’s personality and emphasise its woodiness without compromising its inherently attention-grabbing nature. In that regard, it isn’t devoid of interest. But the execution of the idea – if that is, indeed, what the idea was – isn’t entirely convincing. The scent ends up grasping for two opposing poles without managing to latch on to either of them. Still, it might work well as a peppery, saline-breezy, musky-woody-floral masculine.

Persolaise

[Tom Ford Tubereuse Nue review based on a sample provided by the brand in 2021.]

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