Ébène Fumé

This is it. This is the one I didn't know I was looking for. It's like I've been circling the drain trying to get to this point and getting closer with every blind buy and sample. It started with encre noire a l'exteme - delicious smokey fragrance but not at all versatile and just a bit too heavy. I love herod, it's gorgeous and not all that similar, but it suits the same scenarios. Still, I wanted more smokey, dry, incense and woods. Fan your flames? Loved but too boozy for most situations. Tried other dry woods - Oud wood, Versace Oud noire, Bravo Monsieur? Beautiful smoke and dry woods, but the 🥒 smell is burned into my brain and I can't disassociate the two. By the fireplace? Simply edible one minute, gone the next. And then, out of nowhere, the fragrance that just somehow feels like it was made for me (and you, if you dig it too). It's the way it's blended. The smoke and resins are so delicate, but noticeable and masterfully balanced with dry, yet creamy & smooth sandalwood. It's earthy and natural, yet it's somehow sort of fresh at the same time. The scent profile is so hard to describe and very simple at the same time. It's like a minimalist approach to a complicated DNA: like a hundred memories reduced to one photograph. A singularity - the smell of a thousand forests and an infinite number of moments all reduced to a few ingredients, denatured alcohol and brown food dye, packaged in a tiny 50 ml bottle. And it's so blunt and encompassing, like a hug from a long lost best friend or lover, it's aggressive and lasts too long, but it feels so good you don't want it to end. Also, I wore hacivat this morning and blended the two by accident earlier and 🤯. Accidental bliss. Lay down the hacivat first then layer the ebene fume over it. Or don't. But you totally should.

Ébène Fumé by Tom Ford is one of the most evocative and spiritual creations in the Private Blend collection. It is not just a perfume, but a real sensorial experience that plays on the contrast between the sacred and the profane. A Purifying Ritual: The beginning is dominated by Palo Santo and Incense. Don't expect the classic cold and liturgical "church" incense; here it is warm, woody and almost crackling. Black pepper adds a burst of energy, while violet leaf (often overlooked in this pyramid) adds a green, metallic touch that keeps the fragrance from becoming too heavy right away. As the fragrance warms on the skin, the "stronger" soul emerges. Cade oil and leather create an accord reminiscent of burnt wood or the smoke of a luxury fireplace. It is here that Rodrigo Flores-Roux demonstrates his talent: rose and labdanum act as mediators, softening the sharp edges of papyrus and leather, making the composition velvety and incredibly elegant. The drydown is the most persistent and reassuring part. Ebony and guaiac wood give a solid and dark, almost "black" structure. The resins seal everything with a dense, amber sweetness that remains on the skin for hours. It doesn't "scream" like other fragrances, but creates a magnetic aura around the wearer. If you love fragrances like Santalum or dry woodies, Ébène Fumé is a masterpiece. However, it is not a safe purchase because the "burnt wood" scent can be polarizing. Personally, it reminds me a lot of Emilio Schuberth's Schu.

I haven't been on Fragrantica very long, but I'm starting to get the idea that unless a fragrance fills the entire room with a given scent, it is commonly vilified as weak and poor quality. I guess if that's why you use fragrances on the first place, that would be a fair evaluation of this absolute stunner by Tom Ford. I have different criteria: I don't want a fragrance that jumps off my skin and slaps the face off of everyone else on the room. As I heard one reviewer say, "I want to be discovered, not announced." Besides that, I want something a little different from the everyday, something a bit exotic. Most important, I want a scent that appeals to me. I'll be smelling it all day, after all. I love Ebene Fume! It's rich, exotic (but not "strange"), woody, smoky, creamy, and delicious. It's a bit like TF Oud Wood, but much smoother, less sharp, and more mature, which suits me perfectly as I am 61. It you are a very young man, trying desperately to get noticed, I can understand you not loving this one. However, if you have reached the point in life where you have developed genuine self-confidence (and not false bravado) I would highly recommend giving this scent a try. I like it for day and evening, and have used it in all seasons except summer, and I'm going to try it this summer, just to see what happens! I may use less of it, and will probably try layering something light and citrusy on top of it. I will have a lot of fun experimenting, that's for certain.

i’ll settle with buying a 100 ml of the Eillish No. 2, but just so you know, you’d have to kill me and rip my 10ml of this from my cold dead stiff hands. I just want to bathe in this so fucking badly. On a cold winter day it emerges stoically, and like a ghost of heat. Often times sweet smells trigger this gagging reflex where my jaw clenches, or a smokey smell will trigger a tingle in my nasal turbinates. This is a sweet-smoke, or sweet-fire. My skin radiates warm and the palo santo smell that i already love so much sings out with a longing. It’s kind of the ultimate emotionally dejected scent for me. It so evokes memories of a cold winter morning walking into Easter mass as a 7 year old and smelling pure incense and burning wood. People try to find an authentic “catholic-guilt” smell, there’s tons of fragrances inspired by saints and archbishops and whatnot, what notes truly evoke catholic whateverr-core. But this to me smells like what church was to me. A concept of sanctity and ritual that never really intrigued me, but instead the ambience and atmosphere that captured me of wood carving and steeples and mom and aunt in long embroidered skirts. This is a catholic or religious frankincense and palo santo in kind of an ironic way, like a Mapplethorpian fixation on catholic beads and jewelry. Im honestly going to keep this a secret to myself and just lie to people and say this is some other woody fragrance.

At first, I was hesitant to blind-buy this fragrance. On one hand, one of my favorite fragrance reviewers described it as really nice on the other, I kept seeing a lot of mixed opinions about it. The price point also held me back for a long time. That changed when, by pure chance, I found it on sale in a mall: a 50 ml bottle plus a 10 ml travel vaporizer for 200$. That’s not something you see every day with Tom Ford, so I bought it instantly and I’m glad I did. This scent is beautiful. It’s smoky, resinous, slightly sweet, and woody, a perfectly balanced combination. I find it very versatile, you can wear it in every season except maybe summer. fall, winter, and even spring work perfectly. Performance is excellent on my skin (mind you most of fragrance i tried don't last long on my dry skin :( ): it lasts all day and even 3 days on clothes. Projection is moderate rather than loud, which I personally love. it sites close instead of shouting. Overall, I’d rate it 8/10. It would easily be a 10/10 for me if the resinous notes were pushed a bit more, especially in the base. As it stands, the resin feels more present in the mid than in the dry-down. Still, an elegant, classy fragrance that I’m genuinely happy to own.

smelt this for the first time in a store the other day and my god it was intense love at first sniff..... holy fuck this is a glorious perfume. walked down the street feeling all nice in myself while wrapped in the sheath of perfume and not even 2 minutes later, a woman passed me by and then turned around and followed me to ask what perfume i was wearing. then a while later i sat down at the bus stop and a couple sat beside me and although i had headphones on, the woman tapped and waved at me to ask me what perfume i was wearing. both her and her man then proceeded to gush about how much they loved it and searched for it online immediately... i was like 🤭 this has the same energy as musc ravageur.... very seductive, moreish and mysterious... elegant yet dirty. im rarely drawn to tom ford perfumes but i spotted this dark elexir and knew it would be good but did not expect it to be THAT good. i could still smell it on my chest and arms midway through the following day.. phenomenal longevity. i neeeeeeeeed a bottle of this but it’s so expensive :’( update: i was gifted a travel size bottle of it yipppeeeee

Absolutely beautiful and one of very few fragrances which project far enough off my skin to garner compliments. Though its expensive, for me it's well worth the price. As to the opinion of it being liner, my honest reaction is that you may not have worn it enough or paid attention to it after the first say, 4 hours. On my skin, as it dries down, the palo santo starts to take precedence over the incense and resins which makes it a bit lighter, fresher, and perhaps sharper than the opening and. After about 10 hours on my skin, it begins to mellow out and sweeten a bit. I can typically still catch whiffs of it the next day which is truly impressive to me. While there may be some aspects which bring people to believe it has a "stereotypical arabian" vibe to it. there are very few if any fragrances I've met which truly remind me of this; in my opinion, Ebene Fumee is more than unique. A beautifully crafted fragrance I think anyone should be proud to make their signature fragrance for colder weather or nights.

This is a precious fragrance. I used to make soap, bath, body, and makeup products, so I'm very familiar with individual notes - however, I'm not sure everyone would be familiar with some of the woods in this, so I'll use some more common woods to compare them to. For me, this smells like the slightly sweet Atlas Cedarwood, perhaps with Rosewood combined. The Rose note is subtle but necessary in my opinion. You definitely pick up on the incense note and a bit of spiciness from the black pepper, but again, it's subtle. I don't smell the smokiness on my skin but others have picked that note up. So beautifully blended, but as others have mentioned, I would only use this on special occasions - for me, date nights, summer evening gatherings, winter evenings would all be appropriate occasions if you're inclined to spend the money on it, or get a sample. NOT screechy or overwhelming, but soft and oddly reminiscent of a hot summer evening.

I'm not much of a fan of TF's other "dark" scents except for Oud Wood (too much tobacco/leather, I think), but I'm absolutely bewitched by this one! To me it smells like my favorite woody incenses. Mysterious, alluring, and sexy. It's my go-to for nights out, either alone or layered with a white floral for a softer vibe. It lasts absolutely forever (seriously, I wore it to a party last Friday and can still smell it on the clothes I wore as of today, Wednesday) and has the perfect sillage imo (people will notice you entering a room but not all the way at the other end of the bar). I think it's extremely unisex and am confused by the consensus it's more masculine! Maybe I'm biased because I favor woody, spicy scents but to me it's so easy to see it as an exotic femme fatale kind of scent, like a sorceress luring you into her sumptuously adorned home. There's something that feels sort of sacred and magical, spellbinding!, about it.

This was a grey market buy. I bought about 7 Tom Ford fragrances at once and I really like them all except Tobacco Vanille. No longevity sadly so i bought a fragrance world clone that does a bad job at trying to emulate this. It's maturing for an eventual review I sprayed this on for the first time after getting it a few months back. It doesn't disappoint. I like how it's a floral type of clean smell with an uderlying Smokiness. I really like smoke and incense notes in scents. The Palo Santo and violet leaf are evident for me. The smoke is just so enveloping. There's a comfort to it. My wife really loves this one. I got a big hug and huffing when I cam down from the bedroom this morning. The unisex factor is 100% here. It's an all arounder. Work play date night ....you can't go wrong. Inoffensive and safe. Not on the sweet end and not cloying in the least. I could see myself driving this daily.

Before buying, i had sampled it on paper and had the paper sit on my bedside for a few days... At least 3 days later i could still smell it and i was loving it. I bought this for the sole purpose of just having access to this smell whenever i want. I just love it. It's so resinus! When i first smelled it, it reminded me of some certain parts of the forest where small rivers pass and the trees around the river just smell "louder" and livelier. At the same time it's very ceremonial and meditative.. it's smoky but not in the ashy way. I had also tried Myrrhe Mystere but this one lasted longer and i loved the resinus smell better. Even though it's way overpriced, it lasts forever on clothes but other people don't seem to notice and no one commented on it when i wear it. It's hard to decide when to wear it and many times i just spray a bit on me, just for me to enjoy.

Ébène Fumé is an experience. It kicks off smoky, peppery, and almost medicinal, with a hint of varnish or turpentine. But give it time, and the woody and resinous notes start to shine, adding warmth and depth. It’s a paradox in a bottle—intensely smoky yet surprisingly smooth and wearable. Despite its complexity, it feels light and airy rather than dense, making it easier to wear than you’d expect. But this isn’t a “love at first sniff” kind of fragrance. It needs multiple wears to fully appreciate, and it absolutely needs skin warmth to develop. If you’re into smoky, woody scents with a refined edge, Ébène Fumé is worth exploring—just be patient with it. In the end, it’s a perfect marriage of spice/pepper, smoke/resins, and woodiness. Ideal for cold weather and leans masculine, though anyone who loves bold, atmospheric/mysterious scents can pull it off.

Probablement ce qui se fait de mieux chez TF actuellement. On est là sur un parfum très boisé et épicé, semblable à un feu de bois. C'est un parfum réconfortant, audacieux, charmant et mystérieux. Il peut très bien se porter de jour, lors de très basses températures, que lors de soirées mondaines ou de dîners. La tenue est très bonne, je le sens personnellement encore après plus de 10 heures. Le sillage est assez important pendant 2-3 heures environ, avant de se rapprocher de plus en plus de la peau au fil du temps. Si vous vous souciez des gens, sachez que je le porte depuis plus d'un an, je vois environ une soixantaine de personnes par jour, et je n'ai eu que des compliments malgré ses saveurs intenses. Est-ce un blind buy ? Absolument pas. Est-ce une pépite ? En tout cas, c'est un coup de coeur olfactif pour ma part.

Unbelievably good. Mastery from Tom Ford, and almost certainly one of the best fragrances TF has available right now. First and foremost, it's nothing like Gucci Pour Homme I. This is darker, heavier, smoker and has a heavier reliance on Palo Santo and Incense. Pour Homme I is a smooth, cedar fragrance from the very beginning. If you're looking for a PH1 replacement, keep looking. This won't tick that box. With that out of the way, this stuff is magnificent. Rich, opulent and heavy. Textbook Tom Ford. Lasts forever, but doesn't choke out a room. This is sensual, dark and mysterious. Absolutely signature scent worthy, and definitely backup bottle worthy... but not quite worth the price. $280 for 50ml? Please. Bring it back to $200 and then, maybe, you're in business. Still. Grab it before TF gets rid of it.

I freakin love this whenever I get the chance to sniff out some Tom Ford fragrances. It's nothing too extraordinary, but I definitely love the scent. I'm picking up smoky wood and amber and strangely enough not too dry as some might say. I've developed a liking to deeper fragrances like this so it's no surprise I'm loving this. This fragrance also sticks on my skin quite well to the point that even if I try to wash it off I still get remnants of it, and even then the fragrance is still just as good. I've also smelled myrrh mystere and I believe it has the same vibe, but definitely still a different fragrance. Since I wouldn't allow myself to purchase a 50ml with the price of the more expensive TF private blend line, I might settle for this instead .

Love this fragrance. Was given a travel spray for free by a Tom Ford rep back in November. (Also gave me Myrrhe Mystere as well, even though they smell identical) The overall scent is extremely strong and unique as it smells exactly like an old church with incents and smoky notes. Definitely not an everyday wear for office or first dates, more for like an exquisite suit and tie gentlemen at a cigar lounge or fancy poker nights. I have only ever worn this fragrance at night in the winter months. The projection and longevity are strong it smells as if you lit incents on in your home right next to a fireplace. Not a safe blind buy as it is very niche and has a particular experience that it goes for

This is everything I have been looking for and I am going to hunt for a full bottle as soon as I can. Perfect blend of incense, resin, aromatics and carnality that hypnotises you as soon as it hits you among the heady smoke. It’s deep and strong, yet you get to see some tenderness and elegance in the somber, rough miasma as it progresses. It’s medicinal enough that it seems a bit inhuman, a bit closed off and cabalistic, approaching divinity as the incense, labdanum and papyrus take hold. I can already picture myself tracing shaky, curious lines along the lean, delicate, yet vigorous figure of an ethereal looking alchemist in some forgotten library, where we remain unheard. One hundred percent.

So on my skin, very very pretty. I’m a man, and this leads very feminine to me. I smell sweet tea when put on, very subtle spice to spicy woods, but once it wavers down, to be 2 more hours, it comes out the sweetness as a pop as it lingers, and in the end comes out super feminine. I feel with its intimate presence, it is as though I had hung out with another women. If I were to walk past someone wearing this to be female, I would be very wowed. Not much people represent this as a feminine fragrance, but to my skin it unfortunately turns to be that way. Definitely try, I do feel the price is okay, definitely expensive, but hey, in this day to feel like a charmer, what isn’t?

2022 batch here A22* As in most cases, the “this perfume reminds me of” section is absolute trash on here. It’s quite sad. This fragrance literally smells nothing like the ones above... Sprayed this on my forearm to sit down and relax. It’s been about 2 hours now. I really love this offering from TF. It starts off as a gorgeous creamy sandalwood that meets incense. It has a tinge of sweetness to draw it in together and also makes this a great unisex fragrance. I absolutely love it. A must try. If you love woody / incense fragrances, you have to try this. **Next morning - 14 hours later, still on skin and I can smell it moving around. Nuclear longevity!!!!

A nice Palo Santo Sandalwood fragrance that has a massive black pepper presence. I also smell the incense and papyrus as well, but the black pepper is a major player on my skin. Eben Fume does not actually smell like Serge Lutens Santal de Mysore, but it does have a thickness to it as does SdM, but where the Lutens follows a slight cumin spiciness along with benzoin's sweet vanilla waft, EF goes peppery and smokey. I like this perfume...not as much as I like Santal de Mysore...but this is still a very nice fragrance on my skin as well and I would recommend it. Although, as with all fragrances, I'd sample it on your skin before committing to a purchase.