Costa Azzurra
Four materials is as short as a composition gets, and Tom Ford Costa Azzurra Parfum 100ml is built on exactly that: lemon, cypress, amber and labdanum, with nothing hidden between them.
Lemon opens it, bright and rindy and over fairly quickly, more peel than juice. Cypress takes over almost immediately, sappy, dry and faintly bitter, the smell of a cut evergreen branch rather than a forest, and it is the material that gives this its spine. The last two do the lasting. Amber brings a warm resinous glow, and labdanum is the heavier of the pair, sticky, leathery and a little balsamic, with an almost scorched quality at the edges. Between them they turn a sharp beginning into a warm, resinous finish, and that is the whole journey.
There is no point pretending this evolves. It states its case in the first ten minutes and then simply persists, which at parfum strength it does very well indeed: ten hours or more, with the resins still legible late in the day and a soft trail on clothing. Apply lightly, because concentration without complexity can become monotonous if you overdo it. It suits warm weather and cooler evenings equally, which the citrus and the resin between them allow, and it reads unisex. Anyone who liked the lighter treatment of this name and wanted more weight behind it will find the trade off here is simplicity in exchange for staying power, which on most days is a trade worth making. Released in 2022.
Tom Ford Beauty, which makes every scent sold under this name, opened in 2006 with a single luxury fragrance. The brand it belongs to had been founded the year before.
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