Metallique

Okay: I have been a serious perfume collector for many years. Hundreds of bottles. Hundreds of samples and decants. Metallique is in my all-time top 10-20 perfumes. It is vanillic, yes, but somehow icy, like glass or crystal. Yes, hints of iron-rich blood. The smell of raw metal, above all. My father owns a machining (tool and die) company, and when he came home from work when I was a child, his shirts smelled of machine oil and he had metal shavings embedded in the soles of his dress shoes from walking the factory floors. An oddly comforting scent to me. Anyone who knows the aroma of an old car engine, a shed full of tools, or a freshly-oiled gun knows the smell I mean. In sum, we have Metal, blood, and vanilla (and traces of dewy green from the hawthorn and LOTV). This is not cozy, this is not a dessert, this is not candy for the kiddies. It's not precisely an aldehyde, it's not exactly green, it's not really gourmand. It's NOT powdery, unless you mean powdered glass. It is sweet ice, machine blood, a synthetic flower. It's the coins you were told not to lick when you were a little kid, but you did. It's a crystal-clear clean window showing a disquietingly foggy dawn light. There are traces of new-car smell, but it's not a leather. It smells glittery-cold yet warm, like a handful of antique diamond engagement rings. Uncle Serge's quirky Dent de Lait comes semi-close with that blood-metal, pulled-tooth twinge; it also has traces of a vintage Calandre or Chanel Cristalle. But it's not. For 9 out of 10 people, Metallique is puzzling, forgettable, strange, cuddly, nasty, "not what I wanted." For 1 out of 10, it is mindblowing. Tom Ford, my hat is off. Cheers, Friends.

I have mixed feelings about this one. From the moment I smelled the tester at Lord & Taylor, I fell in love. I could sense the aldehydes in it, and I'm most definitely an aldehyde loving girl. Then, I went to Nashville, in the Fall of 2019 to visit my cousin. I wore it every day that I was there. My cousin fell in love with it instantaneously. She had to know what it was. I told her it was a Tom Ford, and really expensive. So, I left my sample vial with her, since she loved it so much. She was a mom with two babies, and didn't really indulge herself very often. When I got back home, I ordered something from Sephora. I ended up getting a cute little roller bottle of Metallique for free. I was over the moon. But, here's the thing with my relationship with Metallique, I enjoy smelling it, more than actually wearing it. I love the smell from the rollerball. It gives me vanilla cream soda with Sprite or 7UP vibes. I can feel the bubbly aldehydes popping, and I love that part. It is such a comforting and nostalgic scent for for me. But, when I wear it, it ends being too much vanilla and too gourmandy for me. I love smelling it from the bottle though. I don't get the pencil shavings or even a metallic smell, like others have mentioned. With all that being said, I don't wear it very often, but don't want to give it up yet. Although, I'm pretty sure that eventually, I will be passing this onto my sweet cousin. She'll definitely wear it more often, and appreciate it more than I will. She's going to be to so happy, when she opens that box from me, and out pops that little bottle of Metallique. Sorry for the long review. This is why I don't post reviews very often. Ha Ha!!

I blind bought this because of a dupe I won in a mystery box! Long story short: I bought a mystery box on TikTok and received Metallico by Paris Corner in it. I had NO idea Metalique existed, but immediately fell in love with the dupe and came here to add it to my collection of perfumes. It’s not listed on fragrantica, but very much to my surprise,I saw a suggestion for Metallique and realized my dupe was based on a Tom Ford! Naturally, I immediately blind bought the real deal and OMG! The dupe is spot on, btw, and is about a 80%match with the aldehydes being a little sharper and the vanilla being slightly weaker than this one on dry down. It’s a good dupe! I’m so glad I bought the real deal, though. Metallique has more depth to it and the aldehydes are almost like a soapy incense. It’s way more complex than the dupe, for sure. For my nose and body chemistry, this makes an excellent equinox season daytime scent and a fantastic summer evening scent. Wear what you want whenever you want, but sparkling aldehydes, bergamot, Lily of the valley, heliotrope, and hawthorn absolutely do *not* scream “winter”scent for me, though I think it appropriate for all seasons. I can’t believe this is being discontinued but I’m so glad I found out about it just in time to find a bottle before they’re gone forever!

The Aldehyde note in Metallique opens authentically Metallic & Cold. It puts me in the mind of what a Crystalline Vanilla Resin from a Dark Planet would smell like. Its a Vanilla scent created by Floral & Resinous notes that imitate the scent of Vanilla. So all at once it smells Metallic, Vanillic, Musky, Floral, Powdery, Resinous, & mildly soapy. With just a hint of Spice provided by a note of Pink Pepper. As this fragrance wears on the Floral notes begin to turn a tad morbid. A thing that Tom Ford is known to do with Florals. Its a nuance that comes from the note of Hawthorn. Just as Hawthorn imitates the scent of Vanilla. It also imitates the scent of decaying flesh. Not to say that this fragrance smells of decaying flesh. But there is a subtle nuance of decay within the Floral notes. ... and like most Tom Ford fragrances Metallique smells Haunting. Yet, Its not a Dark Vanilla. Its an Ominous Vanilla. Like a weathered Grey Tombstone on an overcast day. Beautifully unsettling like the fragrant cold embrace of the Angel Of Death. Metallique is 100% Unisex. Easily worn by both genders. Performance for this fragrance is verging on Beast Mode. So it can be too much if over sprayed. I find Metallic best worn at night in Fall & Winter, & during occasions where you're dressed your best.

I live for the dry down of this omg! Opening: Imagine you’re standing in front of a thin glass window and there’s snow falling on the other side of that window. Someone takes a big hammer and shatters the window. The glass completely disintegrates and mixes with the snow and gushes in at you! Metallic, glass, icy and chill! Mid: You run inside to escape the cold in search of warmth, you jump into a linen closet and lock yourself in. What you smell in there is fluffy warm fresh laundry! Soap bubbles, but the warmest, floral scented laundry-esque soap bubbles. And then it starts to get powdery... Dry down: You start smelling the most delectable and amazing vanilla butter scent. You realise, someone has been hiding vanilla butter cookies and other gorgeously sticky vanillic treats under a pile of sheets! You dig out the treats and sit in the floor gobbling down the sweets to keep yourself warm and fed. There’s still a shattered glass snow storm just outside your door, but in this closet, you’re safe. You’re warm. You are fed. This was a cinematic experience for me! And I love it, through and through! Find me on instagram @perfumedmemoirs ! @DT953 - this is not "vile", perhaps it just doesn't work for you :) It is in fact DIVINE.