Vert d'Encens Tom Ford 2016

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8.0 / 10 384 Ratings

A popular perfume by Tom Ford for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is green-resinous. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
Pronunciation

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Main accords

Green

Resinous

Woody

Spicy

Smoky

Fragrance Notes

Fir balsam

Frankincense

Pine resin

Heliotrope

Tree sap

Basil

Boxwood

Cardamom

Lavender

Bergamot

Jasmine

Lemon

Perfumers

Yann Vasnier, Antoine Maisondieu, Shyamala Maisondieu

Ratings

Scent

8.0384 Ratings

Longevity

8.3346 Ratings

Sillage

7.6353 Ratings

Bottle

8.3330 Ratings

Value for money

6.294 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 24.04.2024.

Reviews

14 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/26/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Pollita
224 Reviews

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Pollita

Top Review 51

The chapel at the edge of the forest

On one of my running tracks there is a small chapel, which is located quite exactly between my home town and the neighbouring town. Many years ago this corner of Baden-Württemberg was still well populated. Now there are only meadows and woods and a lonely farm. The chapel is small and yet so beautiful. It is said that during the Advent season it is always beautifully decorated and the citizens always put up a uniquely beautiful nativity scene.

I know the chapel only as a point on my running course. I come up a slight climb, next to me fields of wheat and corn and freshly mown meadows. Numerous bushes and shrubs can be found along the way, before I turn around the corner directly at the creek and see the beautiful, old, small chapel. It goes uphill for another piece and I am in the dark forest with a lot of conifers, where I continue walking to the neighbouring village. On a good day, and if I have the time, I walk up to a ruin, which is one of the popular outflow destinations here at the eaves.

All the impressions that this route to the small chapel at the edge of the forest evokes in me are manifested figuratively when I sniff Vert d'Encens. In the beginning, the scent is so wonderfully green and fresh as if I was walking across a freshly mowed meadow. I also have the impression of hay or straw, which I ascribe to the lavender and the flowers. In addition there are some darker, slightly bitter notes that make me think of bushes and shrubs. The fir balm and pine resin soon become noticeable - I enter the dark forest. And at the edge of the forest, there is the beautiful chapel, which I can clearly see in front of me because of the incense scent.

Vert d'Encens is a contemplative fragrance. It combines the fresh, green notes of nature with light incense, which brings a slightly sacred character. For me, it's more of an odour than a perfume, but fragrances for such contemplative moments shouldn't be missing in a perfumed life. I could imagine Vert d'Encens being wonderful on a relaxing Sunday or a holiday. For my nose, it's perfect in any season.

For me one of the finest fragrances from the house of Ford so far. Lovers of Trudon II should definitely have a look at this one too. Unfortunately Vert d'Encens is to be discontinued, which I can't really understand again.

Many thanks to AdAstra72 for the sample.

02/27/2019

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Leimbacher
421 Reviews

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Leimbacher

Top Review 23

Green behind the ears, starting the forest engines

Green incense, Ford knows how he calls his scents that fits,
because at this tannigem high stand one makes only too gladly rest.

Ford himself doesn't fit into any dense forest for me,
he'd rather buy a whole piece of his massive salary.

But "Vert d'Encens" connects fir needles with a smoky witch's house,
in it I cuddle and cuddle, a little mouse whispered to me.

You can hardly believe that you can clean up such a woody-green smell,
but Tom Ford is even in the Black Forest in a suit his husband.

Resinous trees, natural woods - and yet smell like a million marks,
i would be crazy to say this green smokey wouldn't be exceptionally strong.

Safe without real edges and very smooth drawn,
to say that it was a Botox forest, however, would be overly lied.

But it's a forest that's more likely to be in L.A. than Braunschweig,
but you still find enough green if you sput yourself.

Like a fir tree, decorated by Ford and covered with wafer-thin chocolate,
there have today some nose flights bent out of interest and delight.

Who still owns the Adidas "Active Bodies", will inevitably discover similarities,
Ford just knows what treasures hardly anyone knows, after which he can stretch out his grippers.

Who wants to have a nice pine tree around the year in the neck,
should pick the lock on his vault.

07/03/2019

MT1575
4 Reviews

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MT1575

Top Review 13

An olfactory journey

What do we have there then, for a long time I have been adamant to try out this fragrance, because needle fragrance is not necessarily among my favorites and I always inevitably have to think of "Arbre Magique Pino" from my childhood, this miracle tree which hung in every car of the 80s and had stunk terribly. But this scent has as little to do with the Christmas tree from my youth as Tom Ford has with Mustang. Green is the motto here, or rather green incense, and this name fits like a fist on the eye. A splash of this elegant little water on my skin unleashes a green-citric scent that at first reminds me of pinimenthol paired with candied lemon peel, but disappears within a few minutes. Afterwards a pleasant mix of incense, benzoin, bitter almond and bux tree spreads out, the citric undertone remains easily perceptible. My nose wanders again and again towards my forearm to sniff out this mixture of green and resinous essences. I have light sweet but also fresh and earthy notes (is this the cardamom?) which are so densely interwoven that they result in a beautiful composition. This fragrance actually reminds me of Christmas, Christmas in Italy, where I enter a monastery where a festively decorated flu (preseppe) decorated with moss and pine branches welcomes the visitors. Incense burns somewhere in the vaulted monastery church and impregnates the air with incense, accompanied by a discreetly perceptible smell of old porous damp walls and dusty old wood.

Do you know that, you come into a room or building that has a certain smell, you suck up the air inside you until it tickles in your jaw and you find it pleasantly even soothing almost intoxicating, you just want to absorb more of that smell in you? That's how I feel about Vert d'Encens, this fragrance conjures up images in my head and awakens memories of the past, revives the old as if it were happening at that moment, not many perfumes can do that!

But now I have digressed a bit, actually I wanted to describe the scent.
In the middle with me so from one hour I perceive less and less of the green, it becomes gourmandig I smell marzipan some vanilla candied violets that rebel against the resinous one. These chords then fly away after another hour and it comes to a very nice ending which turns into a soft-powdery-balsamic scent on my skin, which gradually becomes weaker and weaker.

I have found here a new favourite fragrance which is not worn everyday but in a special way

11/08/2021

4
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Smoetn
30 Reviews

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Smoetn

Very helpful Review 14

What is pleasant in the present is activity, in the future hope, and in the past memory

Now I still hold it in my hands, this for me almost legendary fragrance of Tom Ford. But in turn...

For the first - and actually also the only time - I was allowed to smell this fragrance a good year ago in a perfumery. I immediately liked it extremely well and I thought to myself, what a great forest fragrance. The following week I wanted to show it to my wife, but - what a shock - I was told that this fragrance was no longer available and had been discontinued. Since then, however, this fragrance has lived on in my memories, put on a pedestal and tried again and again to relive it in my mind. Loosely based on Aristotle, I held this pleasant fragrance tightly in my memory.

Fast Forward by a Year. Here in the souk, a brand new bottle, still shrink-wrapped, is offered, and I get sweaty palms. Can this really be, should I dare? Now the pleasant in the form of hope set in. After a short and nice exchange with the corresponding Parfumo like-minded (thanks goes out), the bottle was also already on the way to me.

And now this one is - the moment of truth. Is the fragrance really as great as I remembered him or did I suffer from an acute case of memory distortion? Can the fragrance also convince in the present and my - now much more "experienced" nose - still so very flattering?

The fragrance
I fall equal times with the door in the house - Yes! The fragrance is as great as I remembered. It is really a great, authentic forest fragrance, as I have always wanted. But, of course, not all woods are the same. Bracken Man for example is also a great and very very authentic fern scent, as you can also perceive in the forest. But Vert d'Encens is completely different here. The fragrance is much darker, more opulent and also more resinous.

The fragrance starts relatively fresh with bergamot and lemon, intermixed with some lavender. This opening dissipates but relatively quickly and goes into a green, resinous-smoky heart note and thus makes here all honor to its name. You can now clearly smell the incense and fir. The fragrance immediately transports me to a beautiful autumn walk in the forest on a Sunday afternoon. Anyone who knows this beautiful, fresh, but also resinous forest air, can certainly understand what I'm talking about. The incense additionally gives a slightly sacral mood.

In the drydown, the fragrance, then becomes increasingly sweet and light chocolate and vanilla notes are still added, even if these are not listed. Here certainly shows the heliotrope responsible, which, as is well known, also contains a sweet almond note.

Vert d'Encens is really an extraordinary fragrance. He is fascinating, peculiar, almost decadent (in the product description it says he would fit at the court of Louis XIV or Napoleon Bonaparte), growing and demanding, both for the wearer and for fellow men. Therefore, the fragrance is certainly not for perfume novices, but those who get involved with the fragrance will be rewarded with one of the most complete and refined fragrances of recent times.

Overall, it must be noted that it is a very typical, but at the same time atypical Tom Ford fragrance. Typical because of the really high perfume art and the almost uniqueness or daring of the fragrance, which can act quite polarizing. Untypical but because this fragrance is not so loud, not so "in your face" comes along, as other fragrances from the Tom Ford Private Blend series.

Rather, the scent is almost for oneself; another review wrote "contemplative", which I can definitely relate to. The fragrance isn't designed to go full on and make you feel elated about life; in fact, the opposite is true. The fragrance is suitable for "coming down", to reflect on oneself and one's environment and to simply let one's soul dangle. And what is better suited for this than a walk in the woods?

The fragrance is by no means quiet; the sillage is quite moderate and the fragrance can be perceived well. The durability is very good and the remains happy 7-8 hours on the skin. The fragrance fits nicely in autumn and winter, although spring is also quite feasible. Only in very hot temperatures, you should use the fragrance rather carefully. Even though the fragrance is marketed as unisex, I see it leaning in the masculine direction, but ultimately it really can be worn by anyone. For me, he has in the opening certain similarities with London for Men Eau de Toilette, although the Tom Ford is of course much more complex and higher quality, which is also reflected in sillage and durability.

All in all, I'm very glad to have been able to get hold of a bottle of this wonderful fragrance, even if I will certainly use it rather rarely and mainly for me at home.

02/21/2021

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Dreamwalker
2 Reviews

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Dreamwalker

Time will tell

After reading through the inspiration for the fragrance, which was meant to capture the coasts of Corsica (also known as the perfumed island), so the interplay of sea, rocks and forests, I was excited to test the scent.

I was expecting a lighter or fresher oud mineralé with green tones. With anticipation, I held my nose to my wrist and... wait what?! A slightly sweet Christmas tree with incense?! Confused, I wrinkled my nose and at first didn't know how to judge the situation, was it me or the scent? My first impression: complete miss of the theme of the fragrance, but still positively surprised by the naturalness of the fir note, as well as the pleasant scent progression, but with an island has nothing to do, I thought, for now.

But then the olfactory enlightenment! After several days of testing and repeated smelling (and of course with the knowledge of the inspiration behind the fragrance), I can already slowly imagine the previously mentioned island. On closer smelling, the dominant mix of fir, pine, incense and sweetness has something slightly salty about it, which is probably caused by the citrus notes. An image of a cliff separating sea and forest now settles in my mind. It's 6am in July, the waves bring a cool breeze that blows over the rocks. The sun begins to shine through between the trees and the mist settles. It's not obvious, however, whether this is taking place on real ground or a surreal dream island. But that's what makes the fragrance so special for me, it brings something artistic and magical with it.

Every time I spray the scent on I see this exact scenario and it just feels calming and, oddly enough, somehow refreshing despite the sweetness.

However, the question arises whether my environment has the same image in my head when it smells the fragrance (and it certainly will with this enormous durability and sillage). I doubt it but strongly and it will probably remain at the well-scented Christmas tree, but so be it as long as it smells good!

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