Black Orchid Voile de Fleur Tom Ford 2008

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7.5 / 10 74 Ratings

Black Orchid Voile de Fleur is a popular perfume by Tom Ford for women and was released in 2008. The scent is floral-oriental. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.

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Main accords

Floral

Oriental

Spicy

Sweet

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Black truffle

Blackcurrant

Bergamot

Ylang-ylang

Heart Notes

Gardenia

Black pepper

Lily

Black orchid

Black plum

Honeysuckle

Lotus wood

Base Notes

Milk

Balsam

Cinnamon

Sandalwood

Fruity notes

Patchouli

Vanilla

Perfumers

David Apel, Pierre Negrin

Ratings

Scent

7.574 Ratings

Longevity

8.557 Ratings

Sillage

7.947 Ratings

Bottle

7.861 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 09.04.2024.

Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/13/2012

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Very helpful Review 6

Big White Flowers Dusted With Darkness

Black Orchid Voile de Fleur edt wears like pure perfume: very strong, very insistent, with big sillage and a seriously commanding presence. This composition seems extremely feminine to me, and the huge bouquet of white flowers--especially gardenia, but also tuberose--would be enough to knock some people out, I am sure.

I, however, love this intoxicating potion, which exudes quality and richness. It's difficult to convey the distinction between a perfume such as this and those evidently sourced from the vast vats of low-brow juice factories, but it's absolutely palpable. The composition is itself excellent, but there is another factor which makes this perfume what it is. The house of Tom Ford appears to use much better basic ingredients, and as a result it feels and wears very differently from most designer perfumes.

Although Black Orchid Voile de Fleur is indisputably a big white floral fragrance, it is much more than that, and achieves its oriental quality from the patchouli and spices, in addition to the mysterious "noir" accord. The abundant white flowers have been thus dusted with darkness, but it is only a screen: the white flowers are still there in all of their splendor, and they really do dominate this perfume.

05/23/2021

Hatice
1 Review

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Hatice

5

... have or have not...

This fragrance is just indescribably different for me.... I'll try to put it into words a little.... When first spraying a sensual pepper smell comes to the nose, but after a few minutes, it combines with your own body scent and it creates a wonderful, heavenly scent, which is as mentioned at the beginning, indescribable.... I like to wear this fragrance when I am out in the evening and have been asked about it many times.... The scent lasts very long, so that at times two sprays are completely sufficient. Therefore, I find that the price-performance ratio is perfectly fine

01/04/2012

10
Longevity 9
Scent

Thatsmr2usir
67 Reviews

Thatsmr2usir

Very helpful Review 1

Another beauty that is no longer with us.

Black Orchid Voile de Fleur is a strange, yet interesting fragrance that at first sniff was very sharp & floral.. I recently wore this to my brothers wedding & let me tell you... THIS STUFF LAST FOR AGES!!!!! I put this on & my mother claims that she could smell this before I came down stairs... IT WAS THAT STRONG! However, the scent is rather a creative masterpiece from Mr. Tom Ford! I really dont like it for the first 30-45 minutes, but I tolerate it, then the worst note of this frag appears.. That awful rotten mushroom smell which I just find simply dreadful... Thank goodness it does not last long & the best part kicks in which is the base! SIMPLY MARVELOUS! When I took my rental tux back the next day, the lady who opened the bag to make sure everything was there she said MY U WORE SOMETHING THAT SMELLS JUST GREAT! WHAT IS IT???? Mind you I did not spray any on the tux. I grinned & said Black Orchid! She smiled back & said I'll have to give that a go!

09/26/2023

Exciter76
77 Reviews

Exciter76

4

It's A Nice Day For A GOTH Wedding (To Paraphrase Billy Idol)

Originally reviewed on April 19, 2012:

Plums are very seductive fruits and they do not get any more sensuous than they do here in BOVdF. They are dark, opulent, and slyly sinister here. I am over the moon in love with Tom Ford’s misunderstood boozy villain. This villain in velvets also brings gardenias to woo its prey in the cloak of darkness. Its drydown is consistently dark and dense, with heady fruits and berries, spicy sandalwood, and loads of amber and patchouli. Compared to its older sibling, Black Orchid, this is a lighter, effervescent version but it’s still heavy hitter with a secret double life.

This is a dense cloak of a fragrance with sillage that announces, “The wearer has left the building.” It is certainly a fragrance with a bullhorn! Very much like anyone with a bullhorn, this fragrance is unconcerned with offending others, though it has the potential to do so. I know I’ll be wearing this the next time I go bar-hopping in Downtown L.A. BOVdF was made for upscale nightlife and devil-may-care urban adventures.

Updated (but not really) on September 26, 2023:

I sounded like such a blowhard in this review. This was my first Tom Ford fragrance so I thought I was on the cutting edge of fragrance. Still, I agree with 2012 Me's assessment, more or less.

My best friend talked me out of my bottle when he got married—he said it was the perfect goth wedding scent. I could not argue with that. This is the perfect goth wedding scent: larger-than-life funereal white gardenia, blackened fruits, and other witch's cauldron ingredients.

Giving him the bottle was the right thing to do but it didn't stop me from missing it terribly. I spent seven years hawking auction sites and Facebook for a reasonably priced bottle and vigilantly watching for viable swaps. (One such swap interaction: "No, I won't send you my Parure for your 1 oz. half bottle of Black Orchid Voile de Fleur.) I finally got my precious Black Orchid Voile de Fleur. No one is talking me out of my bottle a second time.

08/30/2012

5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 5
Scent

Missk
1165 Reviews

Missk

A nightmare when mixed with my chemistry

I really didn't like the original Black Orchid with its somewhat putrid smelling fruit accords and loud chocolate notes. Black Orchid Voile de Fleur is much softer and more wearable on my skin, provided that you don't apply too much.

The strange fruity accords found in the original are also present in this fragrance, which is kind of off-putting. They actually smell sharp and metallic when blended with my chemistry.

In the opening I sense a subtle hint of milk and cinnamon alongside the rich and dark plum accords which is very pleasant to my nose, however the heart washes out this softness bringing forth those fruity notes that I so detest.

Thankfully the heart is relatively short-lived, which makes way for a soft, delicate and sugary blend of gardenia, milk, cinnamon, lily and plum. I like Black Orchid Voile de Fleur's softer side, but I'm not so keen on its sharp and peppery fruitiness.

I enthusiastically applaud this fragrance's unique approach, but I can't seem to mourn its disappearance from our shelves. Occasionally this fragrance makes me nauseous, particularly if I'm not feeling the best to start with.

I sometimes wonder whether I would enjoy this fragrance more if all of the fruit notes were removed. But I came to the conclusion that Black Orchid Voile de Fleur would lose a lot of its boldness and complexity. While it's not my cup of tea, I will certainly be passing on my sample to someone who I'm sure will appreciate it.