White Patchouli

this is a hell of a perfume. the ad with Erika Badhu hits it right in the stomach. it is a bombastic and at the same time supersophisticated perfume. I thought it was a brilliant follow-up to Black Orchid. they have the same personas. and being very different. although the patchouli didn't loose any of its fatty, earthy, inhospitable aspects, this is all being caught by the flowerworks (peony, white flowers, jasmine, rose) , the spicey aspect (spices, ambrette, incense) and the woody finish that fits seamlessly to the patchouli. this is a more ladylike version of patchouli perfume as Noir Patchouli from les Histoires de Parfums (which is also brilliant). the flacon is to die for. Tom Ford had still a lot to do but for me he was already the hero (with Karl, Gianfranco Ferré, Donatella and Gianni). I whore this perfume to the hospital to be operated and it was strictly Verboten to wear any perfume. yet I spritzed. before the operation the nurses started swooning 'oooooh what is that smeeeeel ?'. yes it is me, I reposted. isn't it a Gents scent ? they asked. no I am such Gent who wears ladies' perfumes. and they got their spritz. smashing, unforgettable, personal and presentist. (new, april 2026) next to the Edt as above still mentioned I have the Edp possibly from 2008, but if I remember correctly it was my 2nd bottle, still from 'Tom Ford Beauty', perhaps approximately from the 2010s. the perfume smells exactly as I remember and I ask myself if it then already were so sublimely macerated from the start because this scent is what draw me in immediately. 'patchouli' as a perfume accord I have to learn (not to appreciate) to recognize while I am from 1957 and surely must have smelled ALL the patchouli's there were in the 1960s and 1970s. my memory isn't thát good but faintly I seem to recognize a 'troubled, dusty, cellar-like smell' which didn't bothered me then as it neither bothers me now. with Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Intense (2018) I finally came around to recognize the Patchouli smell. my straight twinbrother loves Patchouli and had the best Patchouli-perfume: Patchouly Indonesiano from Farmacia SS. Annunziata (c 1990s). here the note is so well blended but lends it imposing scent upon the other notes to concipiate that domineering, austere yet ultrachique perfume which mesmerized me in 2008 and still does as I spritzed it on again after quite some years. it is because I have so much bottles of perfume that some perfumes dwindle to the background mostly because of the false assumption to be frugally because it is such dear perfume to me. and yes, with Black Orchid and Blonde Violet, and later with Black Orchid perfume (the golden bottle), and already liking all Tom Ford did with the revamping and pornographing of Gucci ca 1995, I cherish this perfume with my Life. I have a feeling the Floral Notes are all fused together in syn(es)thesia and the Spices of Coriander and Ambrette give it a further spikey lift. the most amusing thing with this perfume was that you weren't allowed to wear perfume when you were operated upon (and I was a nurse for 45 years AND w(h)ore perfumes during my entire tenure) yet I went in the Operating Theatre with White Patchouli and already the nurses reveled before the operation on the ward with 'What is that smeeelll ?'. but in the Operating Theatre they must have been in narcosis from this heady and Imposing perfume while I was 'away' on the propofol ...