Noir Anthracite Tom Ford 2017

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7.8 / 10 400 Ratings

A popular perfume by Tom Ford for men, released in 2017. The scent is spicy-woody. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Earthy

Smoky

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Sichuan pepper Ginger

Ginger

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Galbanum

Tuberose

Jasmine sambac

Base Notes

Cedarwood

Patchouli

Macassar wood

Ceylonese sandalwood

Perfumer

Honorine Blanc

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Ratings

Scent

7.8400 Ratings

Longevity

8.1354 Ratings

Sillage

7.6352 Ratings

Bottle

7.9347 Ratings

Value for money

6.9126 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 08/13/2025.

Interesting Facts

The faces of the advertising campaign are models Jon Kortajarena and Yasmin Wijnaldum.

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Reviews

21 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/26/2017

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Rmf1112
17 Reviews

Rmf1112

Top Review 4

Modern Austere and Masculine Coal

Has a generally classy, and appropriate for the name, charcoal like feel overall but specifically opens with bergamot and Sichuan pepper then some vaguely familiar elements of the noir edt with the spices, ginger and cedar, although I really wouldn't say it's very similar to the others in the TF Noir line. Feels like the dark wood and sandalwood just slightly tempers the assertiveness of the fragrance overall, but just enough to be well rounded. It is also very linear with the exception of the fleeting bergamot and ginger in the beginning, but I'm glad because I really enjoy what remains. If I had to describe it only by a few notes, I would say its mainly Sichuan pepper, cedar, and spices. Not sweet at all, and definitely more of a mature masculine fragrance than the other TF Noirs, which I personally found to be very sweet and borderline unisex.

Performs fairly well and has decent longevity, I had a spray on my arm from the tester at the store and kept getting wafts from it hours later. Enjoyed it so much, I ended up going back in the evening and buying a bottle.

10/15/2021

6
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

FantOmaSS
35 Reviews

FantOmaSS

Very helpful Review 3

Unfortunately discontinued...

Very surprising scent that this Noir Anthracite...
Somewhat confusing at first for the uninitiated, i thought this perfume would fall into my ranking of the most horrible scents...
In top notes, i seemed to breathe cold cigarette ashes in an ashtray...
Sichuan pepper has a lot to do with it, it's full-bodied, it comes to your nose like a strong mustard.
Then the spices make their appearances, and that's where it gets interesting.
The fragrance arises, is released, becomes a little "softer", to finally release all its olfactory potential, to finish with woody notes, leather and patchouli... A true delight.
So don't be fooled by this spicy start, because the rest is worth the effort.
It is not a perfume for young beginners, but for men of at least 30 years old, or more...
My advice, test it before buying it blindly.
After reflection and several tests, this perfume has the art of disturbing, with its spicy, incisive, original, seductive, elaborate and very original side, to have its place in my top 10.
Very good and long lasting on the skin, with an above average wake without going overboard.
Bottle is very chic, sober with petroleum reflections, and evokes the mystery of its contents.
Conclusion: To perfume yourself with this Noir Anthracite fragrance means to embark on troubled waters...
Gentlemen, you have therefore been warned.
My rating: 9/10

05/14/2025

blindy
38 Reviews

blindy

2

Bring it back!

I am not a huge fan of Tom Ford. Surely, they have some good fragrances but I get the feeling that all the interesting and “experimental” perfumes that they’ve created will be inevitably discontinued if they aren’t already.

The same fate befell Noir Anthracite and I genuinely don’t know why. It is the best and the least sweet and boring perfume in the noir line. Instead of developing anthracite TF decided to stick to the “safer” options to sell more bottles I guess. Sadly, their other noir perfumes are not to my liking.

Anthracite is a beast in a suit. Why in a suit? Because I believe the best occasion for this beauty is a formal meeting where you’re not scared to “offend” people a little bit and show your strength at the same time.

It opens with a sharp note of pencil shavings and coal? At least that’s what I smell here: the coal is not burnt yet. Later on, I sense some pepper grounded on top of that mix. That’s all I sense until the end of its performance but that’s all I need from it to be honest. It’s quite straightforward and doesn’t evolve much as I said or maybe I am just noseblind. I don’t smell a lot of notes listed on Fragrantica, to me it’s all well-blended in one strong and dark composition. I hope TF will re-think about the discontinuation and will bring it back to life.

04/23/2018

QuercusAlbus
72 Reviews

QuercusAlbus

2

Haunting Photo-Realistic Coal

The title is really just a retrodiction of that of my previous review; and whereas in that case it was meant in full earnest, in this it is a tad (and some) hyperbolick! However, when I first picked up the sample-bottle of this & squirted from it, my thoughts went something like "anthracite? ... yeah right! ... how is a perfume going to smell of ... oh my dark angels! it does too!". How it is rendered I do not know, but this is a stunning piece of perfumery innovation.

I think these TF ~Noir~-themed 'fumes are very much a trade-off between performance & originality, with the see-saw falling very much on the side of originality. Having tried this one ^and^ ~Extreme~ really quite thoroughly, I unfortunately cannot but agree with those reviewers who scathe these 'fumes for having rather weak performance; but in exchange uw ^do^ get originality, & that in generous measure. Both are ^extremely^ °interessante°, and a delight to wear going out. That sweet powdery coaly note is just a total salvager of any other deficiency it can reasonably be said to have - and I think sheer weight-of-metal-brought-to-the-field is indeed the ^only^ index whereat it is weak, forthat in every other respect, like ~Extreme~, maugre its innovativity, it is a perfectly plausible reasonable & °proper° perfume.

A little aside if I may in connection with this: when I was a youngster in the seventies, occasionally as one was a-walking down the street, a tar-truck would go past on the way to road-works, with smoke billowing out of the back. I would always intraspire deeply on such occasions, loving the aroma loving it. In fact, I find the smell of petrochemickals in general pleasant. It seems to me that persons might be divided into two distinct categories of those who like such aromata & those who don't (& I ^extremely^ heartily deplore the modern fashion for suffusing petrochemickally produce with cheapo aromachemicals, the result being that it just smells ^stupid^!). I think quite likely this 'fume will be liked or disliked according as the putative °liker° is in one category or the other, the way-round being self-evident. I am willing to be wrong about this; but I am very curious apropos the matter.

... a day or so later ...
I'm reconsidering what I said about heft & durance in this case. Wearing it another day (coz I ran out if time for selecting a new one) I found it really quite stupborn, in that it just wasn't going away °any-time-soon°; although it did dry down to something that, quite frankly, smelt even more of coal-type stuff (in fact, much like the aforementioned espirations of the tar-truck) than it does in the opening. And this was fine by me - I love that sort of thing. ^Not^ a safe acquisition for anyone who is not into °maverick° 'fumes!

What's this ~macassar wood~; has that got something tæ do with it?

I've just remembered: another 'fume that smells kind of similar in the dry down, but ^much^ more unexoectedly, is Kilian's (no! I'm ^not^ saying 'By Kilian''s!) ~Incense Oud~: but I say 'kind of' because that's more evocative of smouldering wood than of smouldering petroleum-type produce.

03/08/2025

HwanVall
1 Review

HwanVall

2

Cold concrete.

From the very begining, pepper hits you hard, spicy, dense, almost solid. It is stubborn and expansive, and in little time, it goes in a cold direction, without much to say about the citrus and ginger declared. It is supported soon by green, resinous notes that my nose can't differentiate properly, that go on to a woody, dry base.
The perfume suits the colour of the flacon, reminding me strongly of the smell of a road after rain, that crosses a forestal setting.
It is mature, demands attention and, if we go by traditional standards, it would fit perfectly a stern, well dressed in a dark suit. This fragrance starts strong and can be perceived up to 8-10 hours after application. It could be a daily driver for some, it is definitely interesting but I think you need a certain assertiveness to pull this fragrance off. If you don't, it's one of those that can wear you instead.

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