Black Orchid (for women)

guest_saks marcus

im a straight guy and i use it all the time. they sell it in the mens section at neiman marcus. id have to say its my favorite fragrance because its the most distinctive.

megannsmom

I only have a sample of this and while I would like to hoard it until I can get my hands of a bottle, I can't resist wearing it. Such an enticing scent, deep and opulent! I don't get even a hint of the citrus listed in the notes, but I do get plenty of truffle, Orchid and wisps of dark chocolate. I detect something woody here, too...not exactly sandalwood nor patchouli....maybe both with the vetiver? Whatever it is, I find it Sinfully delicious, from the rich beginning to the sensual drydown.

Lorilavira

Ermm..ermm.. Black Orchid ,Black Orchid what a mystic and multifaceted fragrance you are.
This fragrance drives me crazy today and screw my face up and later it surprised me with his changes.
When you look at the notes you might thing how crazy this guy Tom Ford is to make a fragrance as he throw any notes in the pot and see what happend,for me it looks like this. Flowers,Chocolate,Incense,Woody Notes and Citrus/Fruity Notes in a combination it's really strange.
When you put the fragrance on your skin and you take the first sniff it's perverse in my opinion,it's strong and sticky sweet you smell the chocolate it's Oriental and floral and i screw up my face my mother and my sister too.After some hours it becomes softer and you smell the sweetness of the chocolate but it smells also a bit soft and creamy i like the drydown more than the beginning it's like a crawler becomes a butterfly.
And after this you smell some base notes it is a bit masculine in my opinion,i smell the woody notes and the incense and the patchoulie it's warm and it smells pure and confident.
All in all this fragrance is really provocative and takes getting used to.
It's nothing for the daytime and summer!
I think it's nice for a winter evening.
Black Orchid is a fragrance for mature woman nothing for teenagers.
I really like the Bottle looks elegant and charming and the black match also very good to the scent.

Auguszta

This might just be the 8th wonder of the world. It's like nothing I've ever smelled before. It's larger than life, lush, decadent, exhuberant, euphoric, two and a half hours of heaven... then the patchouli rears its ugly head and that's when the party's over for me (my skin doesn't take patchouli well). The drydown is rather musky, not very interesting, quite boring in fact, and lasts an icredibly long time. Despite all this, I'm still trying to convince myself that those 2 1/2 hours are worth the purchase, because what I feel during that time is pure euphoria.

tash

Black orchid would have to be my fav at the moment,
I love wearing orientals .
When I wear this fragrance I can't really smell the chocolate .
I smell the beautiful notes of black orrchid,amber and Incense .
I get alot of compliments with this one.
Try the finishing oil spray with the fragrance too .It lasts 3 times longer.
Dark!Sexy!Classic!

FANNY

Ooooohhh!! I think I'm in love again after such a long time!
Mister Tom Ford!! where have you been hiding all these years???.. What can I say about BO? Maybe I should just encourage you: GO AND TEST IT! Such a luxurious and rich substance hidden in a black bottle! Dont hurry up judging this masterpiece, as it is very likely in the beginning to feel its strong dark potion (not very pleasant for some people)! That's the reason why not everyone can "support" this perfume by wearing it! It will definitely enhance your presence in a room! But after some time the gorgeous blend of black truffle and ylang ylang mixed with fresh bergamot and delightful black currant will give its place to this warm feeling of a creamy sweet along with smooth woody notes! Truly a feminine masterpiece for every woman who knows what she likes!

dandy721

I try it on my skin , this fragrance is amazing seems to be unisex. Yeah this is to die for

essija

Luxurious for sure is what you get with Black Orchid. Sweet Black currant and insense, this is to dye for. You must try this, I love it.. Warm and Creamy I get a soft twist of the Blackcurrant and Vanilla dry down and still pick up the gorgeous patchouli, This is so yummy. Many compliments after wearing this from men and women.

Kyrrah

I want to like this one so much (it cost me enough!) but I just can't help smelling dirt when i wear it. As in mud and soil ruining what should be an amazing perfume. I smell it on others and its gorgeous. Sorry Black Orchid but to eBay we go, its not you, its me.

ericwatson2009

at first I hated this fragrance. i never dared to wear it. after a couple of months i decided to try it on and WOW. it is beautiful on the skin. it doesn't smell so bad! it smells creamy and chocolaty and sweet and sexy and dark!!!!!!!

mmmm i love it!

the bottle is AMAZING too. i love the edged feeling and the intensity of the shiny black and gold. :)

mirror

It really hurts writing anything bad about this fragrance. I really want to love it and smell the things everyone else is smelling...
Truthfully I do not find it very special. It reminds me of hypnose but sweeter and more chocolaty.
I guess it is just an average comforting scent. I wish I could smell all the other things... the darkness, the sexiness. I do not know why this fragrance is so high rated.

honeypoppyseed

Stunning. Literally. Whenever I where this I get hoards of comments from my friends and especially their boyfriends, like "You smell so good... hmmm.." Naturally I have to blush, wondering if I applied to much (the fragrance is so strong when you first apply it), but everyone reassures me "No. It's really subtle, what is it? What is it?"

There is a process with Black Orchid, but, once done right it smell like sweet bursts of vanilla infused exotic mists. You will wish you could bathe in this fragrance. It's very feminine, with an almost damp sexuality. It's woodsy and sweet.

BUT CAUTION: when you go to test it, make sure you are smelling Black Orchid and not, Black Orchid Voile De Fleur. While there are similarities between them, there is significant divergence between them.

I want to bathe in this. However there is one caveat to this scent: just after application there is a heavy presents of chocolate, which I think does nothing for the fragrance. It fads once the scent has dried, and then it smells wonderful.

veruska

Black orchid always strikes me as not so black as i'd like. it's heady and honeyed but as the time flies the lotus note give a watery slightly stewed note that makes it strange and unusual but a bit sweeter than i'd like and it leads in a soft berry vanilla ending.This is a younger and more simple scent that the top notes suggest.A not so dark melodrama characterised by an interesting disparity in styles, acts like a diva and in the same time feels strangely naturalistic. The contrast shouldn'nt work but somehow does. A well-thought out scent.

tessture

If you like Angel, male or female version, you'll like this. It has the same patchouli/chocolate feeling, but lacks the persistent body odor note that Angel has. Dries down to a pleasant wood scent.

pimentosugars

I got a tiny tester of this last year, and wanted to save it but couldn't stop myself from using it every day - unsuitably perhaps, because it isn't an everyday perfume.

A friend described it as evoking 'beach parties' and I could see why...there's a touch of incense underlying the chocolate/amber/vanilla movement, like smoke; the craft of it lies in the lightness of that touch; I love jasmine so much and really suffer when I see it bunged into alchemical messes that should be consigned to stripping paint. Here, the jasmine is allowed to be itself and yet be new, and the result is a permeating sweetness that beguiles without ever cloying; earthy and yet brightly dry. This is not the signature of your average femme fatale or pink edged sweetheart, or even the dream dryad walking barefoot in the woods. Decadence is not far from the heart of the Black Orchid. It is the one, a rich, sexy worldly fragrance with hidden stories to tell.

Carla

Ford's exhibition of a semi-
monochromatic theme is well pronounced in this work of art. With the focus of blackness, a mythical synergy is encountered with his well balanced selection of black flowers and woodsy spices.The darkness of the black currant, black orchid, and black gardenia mixed with the sweetness of black truffle create the mood of darkness in an exotic form.The array of fruity notes in the base are inviting and you can't help anticipating what will evolve in the heart of this scent.You reach the heart with all its spiciness and savor the aroma of the unique rare black orchid. You then reach the finale and embrace the smokiness of burning incense which dissipates quickly but the gourmet chocolate, vanilla and patchouli appear and you feel content and want to shout Bravo! This is not for the faint of heart and somewhat intense for day wear but for those with a confident attitude, go for it!

Malegria

What a gorgeous scent!
An essence of decadence, art nuveau, the 20-s, Fitzgerald`s novels...Mr Ford, you outdid yourself.Black Orchid is an inviting dish of berries and fruit, succulent and ripe, adorned with exotic flowers.The velvet drapes are opened and the moonlit pond is gleaming under the lemon trees.There is incense burning on the carved wooden table, and a beautiful dark skinned woman with luxirous hair is indulging on chocolate truffles, waiting for her lover...A very sexy fairy tale!!!

Mitsouko

Stupefying, dark, rich, floral perfume. Gloomy and sensual, worrying and very elegant. Black Orchid smells luxury and resource. Exotic, tropical white flowers and black orchid smells beautiful , but this fragrance is too af-fected for me.

SheVampire

No other perfume smells like this one. This one talks, writes dark gothic poems, comes with such a power and on the other hand makes you feel warm and sexy in that castle of darkness. I simply couldn't resist to write this comment this way - without talking about components.Some perfumes you can only describe this way.Perfect ones.:)

scalaczek

I was really enchanted trying this frangrance for the first time. It seemed to me very profond, pretty allegorical ;). Real Black Orchid - combination of popular ingredients making some new quality, some new scent. But now all I can smell is a caramel - and I do believe that's my skin's fault.

Vickalena

My first impression was that this perfume is VERY similar to Angel by Thierry Mugler, it is also "gourmand" fragrance, the same bright, intence, "catching". Then I compared the components, and it has a lot (too many!) notes of Angel!

In the top notes both have: bergamot, jasmine, mandarin orange. 3 from 7 in BO are identical to Angel!

Middle notes: orchid, in BO "fruity notes". Orchid, passion fruit, pineapple, peach and apricot are the middle notes of Angel.

Well, lets go on, the base notes, 4 from 7 in BO are identical to Angel: amber, vanilla, patchouli and dark chocolate...

Those two perfumes are like a brother and sister, but there are 14 years between them...

Black Orchid is also beautiful scent, softer and darker, then Angel, with a nice legend about mysterious black orchid and black gardenia.I like both.
I think, those who like Angel would like the Black Orchid too.

eccentricJ

This is a very strong scent that demands attention. Unlike some others, I am not turned off by the top notes. I smell more citrus and spice than chocolate truffle. I am very impressed with the tom ford frangrances I have tried thus far.

guest_iamperfume

Disagree with Juliebean. Tom Ford -"Black Orchid" is wonderful. The best of best...

juliebean

UGH.... not sure which version I tried but the top notes are horrendous. They literally turned my stomach. Maybe that was the black truffle.

But then the dry-down is much better. Smooth, slightly sweet, and a bit creamy.

I think this would make a great fall/winter scent. (if you can get past the horrid top notes!)

guest_ljubica

I can't get over the initial 'off-kilter' notes, since I don't like truffles, or fennel or other overly-aromatic food, not to mention other more indecent things people smell in this perfume.
But I surprisingly like what's left of it when the initial drama is over.
It's dark and sparkling, it has some mistery in it, and it's definitely exciting.
This is why I'm getting Voile de Fleur version, a safe choice for those who are too afraid to be provocative.

TAMMY

Ok Ladies...here's the lowdown on the Black Orchid. I tried it on at Saks and hated it initially. Then suddenly loved it. Then i sprayed the Black Orchid Foile de Fleur on top of the Black Orchid already on my skin. Absolutely beautiful scent. Men ask me all the time "What is that you are wearing". The two combined are awesome. I bought them both and that's how I wear them. I spray the BO then wait 5 minutes and spray the Voile de Fleur.

Nuppu

This was first time when I was little bit of afraid to test perfume. There's so much negative things said about BO, you either love it or really, really hate it (thigs like "The monster won't come of with soap!" and "It's smell like a mans *******" (pardon me)) are not words that make you confident, but they sure make BO very intresting.

So after encouraging my self, I did it.

And what I did have= Sweet, spicy tendernes with whole bunch of stawberries. No monsters, no unclean bodyparts. It's strong like hell, but good. And there's quite much of masculine feeling too, this maybe coud be weared with man too.

cafeyleche

this fragrance is extremely sultry, and on my body chemistry it is sweet and sexy...Every time I wear it people ask me what I am wearing. this one is in my TKO list.

sophywt

"Ever been in one of these old Hollywood palazzos? That's from when they were making eighteen thousand a week, and no taxes."

Everytime I smell BO, it will remind me of these lines of film Sunset Boulevard. Black Orchid is just like the mansion that beyond our imagination, it's an echo of the faded glory which luxury perfume used to own. It's so different from nowadays perfumes which always pretend to be lovely but lack of characters.

If you're tied of those "lovely" heady floral notes, then try this deep sensual sexy creation!

Aeternitas

Alright, I had a mix up! I confused this one with Black Orchid Voile de Fleur. This is the one I don't like, so consider my previous review the review for Voile de Fleur.

Aeternitas

I smelled this today... wow. It's simply incredible. It's the strong, spicy, darkness in a fragrance I've been looking for! It's decadent, intense, and intriguing. Powerful at first spray. The most I got out of it was the incense, which was very prominent. Smoky. Warm. Perfect! Not for the faint of heart, though :p. It's almost to the point where it's masculine, but the floral middle notes hold it back and keep it feminine. This is a must have!

BlackAmberMoon

Imagine a dark forest at night, thick with mist, the moon full and bright. A dark haired beauty wearing a deep red velvet dress awaits her lover in a gossamer tent under the trees. Inside the tent, incense burns while the woman enjoys dark chocolate, slowly allowing the bitter sweetness to melt on her tongue. Her lover finally arrives and they make passionate love, their bodies glistening with sweat as they utter eternal love. This is Black Orchid! It's the perfume I've been waiting for all my life...