White Patchouli

💫⭐️✨🌟SWAPPING PRISTINE 50ml *I no longer have much use for a ‘put together’, ‘power fragrance’, I’m an in home caretaker now & it is a family member so it really doesn’t get much more informal. Besides, I’m no longer ‘a lady who lunches’, or goes out for dinner &/ or cocktails... I am a homebody who can’t leave the house for even 10 mins, if I must leave the home then i either have to arrange for a sitter or hope that the few people I know who do as I do are providing care for an ambulatory client- that way they can relieve me for a time & I do the same for them when they need in turn. Aaron Terrace Hughes is my favorite fragrance influencer- he has far more perfumery related knowledge & practical experience (his scents are amazing & they command a VERY pretty penny). Watch his YouTube review... he isn’t an influencer that believes that if you don’t have anything nice to say- you don’t say anything at all. That’s just dandy for laypeople buts literally defeats the whole purpose when applied to REAL, unflinchingly honest product reviews. I digress. I enjoy really playful gourmands that aren’t photorealistic or entirely juvenile... I’m not here for all the skin scents, not every frag need be nuclear ☢️ BUT I do expect above average performance all around. I also enjoy ‘moody, dark, atmospheric, otherworldly’ fragrances- I’m not interested in fragrances that remind one of a hundred other fragrances- doesn’t need mass appeal. I would venture to guess that no more than 6-7 mls are missing. I have images & the fill line comes all the way up to the curve to the neck really starts- the ‘shoulders’ of you will. She has unmatched quality, that typical of TF fragrances from over a decade ago & is every bit as beautiful as the day first sprayed. Stored in a dark, cool hope chest. Open to all manner of offers- like everyone else I am going to focus more on offers I feel match the trade value of this bottle. I am an ebayer w/ 100% positive feedback, over 650 total transactions over the course of 23+ years & will be happy to share my ID where you can message to confirm I am the owner of the account if we may have a potential swap in the works- nothing firm necessary. I’m a collector but wayyy before I started collecting. I was trying to get my hands on a fragrance to replace Jovan ‘Fresh Patchouli’ ... I obviously wasn’t so focused on the cost a decade + ago... I was SUPER disappointed when I got White Patchouli, so much so that even with a total fragrance wardrobe in the single digits I didn’t come back around to her until she magically materialized while I was cleaning... unfortunately still wasn’t wanting to wear her. At this juncture in my fragrance journey I had sworn off florals. What I wanted in a fragrance back then is too difficult to characterize, I have taken her out every 9-10 months for the last 3 years & this time I didn’t put her on my skin as I ALWAYS do with EVERYTHING. In a collection of over 100 bottles (I have averaged a bottle a week now for about 2.5 years. This is one of the top 3 most potent parfums in my collection. She is cold in nature- great ‘power perfume’. She is not romantic or cozy or warm... she makes me think of what it might feel like to stay is the most fancy, marble mausoleum for 24 hours. I am not a freshie fan, not in the least. The way that this perfume has retained every note without any degradation in a decade since it was opened really is amazing & males me long for the Tom Ford fragrances of yesteryear. I don’t have a single other perfume that I find similar to her. Longevity is amazing & silage from 2 sprays on a tee? Crazy... she screams quality & the inclusion of some fine raw materials that I wouldn’t expect to find in fragrances that aren’t astronomically priced in 2026, really is sad. She is not my favorite... HOWEVER I have such respect for her bold & spicy refusal to change, I hope that she keeps this facet of her character for decades to come, I do fear that if I start using her more- that she will degrade more quickly as when there is more room in the bottle for oxygen, that is usually how it goes- BUT, she’s not ‘every other perfume. I can’t bear to re host the juice in a different, smaller flacon (a beautiful art deco milky white bottle that I don’t anticipate TF using again -but I will try not to forget about her & take her out more than once a year... I mean if a spray or 2 on a tee will truly last a day & then some... she may age much better than I! A sobering thought indeed

Collector/ enthusiast. ♻️swap &/ or 💲, references, admin to quite a large & active frag group, smells better than the day I got her. All of my fragrances are stored in a huge cedar ‘Hope chest’ (a dead tradition it seems). I have likely smelled over 1K fragrances in the last decade & I have never smelled a fragrance that is so cold, bold, & ‘in control’ as she. She fortunately was produced with ingredients just as strong & resilient- made before TF fragrances changed most if not all its fragrances to seem more ‘watered down’. She is SO potent that I would advise moisturizing your skin to the max, deciding where you are going to spray- before doing so put an excess of cream, oil etc on those sites & only then spraying over top of the thick layer of whatever emollient(s) & gently ‘stamp’ on another site primed but not with an excess of product. I use pulse points. I will only spray once on a wrist & transfer that perfume & product to my inner elbow gently working the product into the wrist & inner elbow w/ just that wrist & elbow. Repeat on the other side then assess after 20-30 mins if possible as she blooms & radiates so very much & you may not want to choke yourself & others out. I usually finish with a spray to the hollow of my neck & I am more than sufficiently scented. I know I am going on ... & on but she is special & I want to share what took some time to figure out so her precious discontinued juice isn’t wasted. The bottle is absolutely iconic, there will never be another in that stark opaque white lacking a fleck of ‘paint’. An art deco bottle that is a must have for TF collectors of Black Orchid & her flankers as well as Velvet Orchid, makes a display of these together pop. Bottle is pristine in every way lacking a single scratch on her glass or metal. Her fill line is mid to high ‘shoulder’ before the bottle moves into the ‘neck’. I am offering her in ♻️swap preferably- I will entertain 💲offers as well. I have not had occasion to wear her, she is the ultimate ‘power perfume’ perfect for interviews & high stakes executive meetings & the like. Perfectly unisex. Feel free to email me at- [email protected] Naturally i have pics a plenty & i will send a picture with a current nameplate dated the day a deal is struck 🙂 Post script- she is a 50ml bottle w/o her original packaging which I tossed in favor of more protective packaging. I can send my list of fragrances I am rehoming female, male, unisex. Discounts & combined shipping available

I was born in the heat of the summer. It’s my most cherished season despite the fact that Palm Beach is pretty much warm all the time. I give most of my thought to summer fragrance because there are so many warm days and I get bored if I don’t redefine the status quo now and then. Air conditioning may be the cornerstone of modern civilization, but I still want to be set free of heavy aromas when the sun is closer to my side of the Equator. I am one of those tan people who still like to be in the sun, even when it’s fierce, and even though sun worship has pretty much given way to either alabaster skin or spray tanning. I just don’t do fake anything if I can help it. I also prefer some of the old school ideas about summer and wear an awful lot of white linen with sandals and fanciful loose clothing that might catch the slightest breeze, etc. Bearing all of this in mind, I dug up this treasure from the past and began to wear it this year like it was a newborn release. What an antidote TF's White Patchouli is for the sultry, wet July we are having! It’s not just the heat and humidity, but the simple fact that all fragrance seems to shift and change noticeably on sun-warmed skin that really makes a difference in perception. Moreover, if you swim in the ocean or a pool the difference is even more dramatic. The exceptional aroma of bleached-white floral patchouli on salty, toasted skin, for example, bears out this seasonal nuance to perfection. Conversely, I tend to avoid brooding fragrances the like of Tom Ford’s Anthracite Noir in the summer. Heavy hitters devour the radiant patina of sun-exposed flesh, crashing the pleasurable afterglow like the smell of fresh tar steaming in the sun. Just spend a few afternoons in the Florida heat lounging on a pool deck with an icy drink in hand and you will comprehend these vicissitudes of performance as you grow evermore tawny.

I feel White Patchouli is a bit of an acquired taste. It took me some time to love it, but now there's no turning back. Even though I didn't like it when I first tried it, I was intrigued enough to try it again and again over the years. This has a strong, polarizing opening where the dank, dark patch really takes the center stage and makes the fragrance feel weirdly musty and harsh. But that's not really what this perfume is all about. After a short moment the Patchouli changes on my skin. It's still earthy and aromatic, it's not the sterilized sparkling patch you find in most mainstream fruitchoulis. But it's very smooth and polished, like sleek dark woods. And when the florals come in and lighten it up, suddenly the name "White Patchouli" starts to make sense. A duet of rose and peony, both surprisingly airy and dewy, sings the loudest. It's supported by a background choir of creamy, clean white flowers. To be completely honest I'm not sure what ambrette seeds smell like on their own, but there is something musky in this that adds to the creaminess, so I guess it's ambrette aka musk mallow. White Patchouli is a rather cool scent without much sweetness, but it never turns sour, bitter or scratchy on me. Everything works together beautifully. It feels sensual and glamorous in a serious, grown-up way. Even though this doesn't work for everyone, I strongly advise any patchouli lover to give it a try before it gets increasingly hard to find, as it seems to be discontinued. I'm so glad I finally got a bottle before it's too late.

I have never considered myself a fan of Tom Ford. For the longest time it has seemed to me like a case of the emperor's new clothes. I guess I don't need to say I was primed to dislike everything about this fragrance, even expecting to, when I came across this at a perfume shop. Is this a good time to mention I dislike patchouli? I never imagined I would so much as like an unapologetically patchouli fragrance, not to mention be unable to stop smelling my wrist once I had sprayed it on myself. White Patchouli is different from pretty much any other patchouli fragrance I've smelled. It is not at all oily, damp, dirty or even earthy-smelling as one might expect from this note. It is instead a crisp, dry and sligtly floral patchouli with a hint of citrus. What this brings to mind is fresh laundry and a breath of winter air, rather than anything earthy. Something about it always comes across cold, which is something that sets it apart. It really feels light. If you want a precise and detailed review of the ingredients and the composition then I suggest you take a look at Aaron Terence Hughes' review of it on YouTube. It is marketed to women, but I think this is completely unisex. It does have a slightly floral character, but it's very much in order to balance the patchouli and none of the other notes steal the show. It's relatively linear in my opinion, which is something I like about it. The longevity is really good in my experience so far.