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Neroli Portofino Tom Ford 2007 Eau de Parfum

Neroli Portofino (Eau de Parfum) by Tom Ford

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Neroli Portofino (Eau de Parfum) (Tom Ford)

7.2 / 10 826 Ratings

A perfume by Tom Ford for women and men, released in 2007. The scent is fresh-citrusy. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
Pronunciation

Layers well with Oud Wood (Eau de Parfum)

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Main accords

Fresh

Citrus

Floral

Aquatic

Green

Fragrance Notes

Bergamot

Orange blossom

Mandarin orange

Amber

Vanilla

Perfumer

Rodrigo Flores-Roux

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Ratings

Scent

7.2826 Ratings

Longevity

6.4713 Ratings

Sillage

6.1704 Ratings

Bottle

8.2725 Ratings

Value for money

4.9396 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 21.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The faces of the advertising campaign are the models Josephine Skriver and Jamie Jewitt.

The fragrance is part of the "Private Blend" collection.

Reviews

24 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/20/2018

1
Pricing 5
Bottle 4
Sillage 4
Longevity 3
Scent

Sonny94
11 Reviews

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Sonny94

Top Review

Money horny summer companion

The anticipation was great when my eyes discovered the Tom Ford department at Galeria Kaufhof. Immediately I went there to look around. My eyes fell on a few inconspicuous blue flacons from his Private Blend that I hadn't seen before.
Among them was Neroli Portofino. I closed my eyes and smelled my arm as I sprayed it on. I was expecting something special!

Suddenly a bright flash in the sky, a flaming meteor supports to earth!

Disappointment pure I can only say. Smells just like 4711, this slightly lemony orange freshness. The one you know from your forerunner. So he's supposed to be the famous Ford seducer. Quickly looked at 4711 and just couldn't tell the difference! After approx. 2 hours Portofino was still recognizable while 4711 had already said goodbye, 2 hours later the blue Bonzen Wässerchen was finished. Moment a difference there was nevertheless the price!

Attention to all by no means buy, you are fucked as a customer here. Ford just poured 4711 into his blue water and is now basking in our money on the Caribbean!

03/03/2019

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 3
Scent

Anfänger
1 Review

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Anfänger

Expensive toilet cleaner

Okay, I admit, I'm prejudiced about Tom Ford. His suits are fantastic. Everything Mr. Ford does is fantastic. But Neroli Portofino taught me better. Frankly, I was expecting a lot. A scent that triggers head cinema. Orange trees, boiling heat, Italian villas with floor mosaics, marble, sea. The actuation of the spray head of the, admittedly, quite pretty flacon caused me and my companion unfortunately rather associations with toilet cleaner. The fragrance smells fresh. I also feel the shelf life is good. On Friday a very friendly and courteous lady in a local perfumery sprayed my left wrist generously with five or six sprays. Also on Sunday evening, after two showers, there are still traces left. But the, as I see it, extremely synthetic, biting, simply unpleasant scent is simply nothing. With the development of the fragrance, the toilet cleaner note becomes weaker, but does not disappear completely.
In summary, Neroli Portofino disappoints all along the line.

05/01/2019

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

TruuMax
69 Reviews

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TruuMax

8

The cleaning agent at Ferrari

Fresh, citric, a little bit biting and quite dominant... But somehow also something like a cleaner.

I love the scent, some see it as the cleaning agent variant of 4711.

After 5 minutes of the first aggressive ?chlorine? The scent of an absolute daydreamer scents a scent that puts you in an Italian sports convertible of the 80s and drives you through Miami's streets with one.

The direct first sniffer, however, puts you rather in the freshly wiped visitor toilets at the same manufacturers in the museum.

Unfortunately the fun is already over after 3 hours if you don't follow up.

11/23/2011

7.5
Longevity 2
Scent

Apicius
222 Reviews

Apicius

Helpful Review 11

Standard Pitch, for Hours!

Tom Ford's exclusive line is how niche perfumery should not be. It consists basically of a monolithic marketing concept, optimized by special perceptions of sales psychology. The outcome is a fancy scent bar with numerous, quickly developed perfumes.

In the past, the real maîtres among the perfumers allowed themselves years and years of development before they finally decided to release a scent to the public – but at Tom Ford, they simply buy what is quickly available for money. All perfumes of Tom Ford's exclusive line that I have come across so far are optimized for quick sale: the customer is presented a spectacular head note, but with not much behind it.

Just like this is Neroli Portofino: the start is overwhelmingly good – one is pleased with so much delicacy and refinement. Airiness, freshness, but also considerable orange-y volume mingle together in perfect balance. Any possible customer can easily see the difference between Neroli Portofino and a Neroli-cheapie like 4711.

However, a slight glance on the packaging should make you suspicious: A neroli scent, labeled as “Eau de Parfum“? Usually, neroli is not very enduring. As a flowery, citric note, it is mainly being used as top- or maybe heart note in many traditional colognes. After this short period, it fades away. And for this reason, neroli is the center of many simple, short-living Colognes – such as Guerlains' Eau du Coq, a true gem. But since a few years, we sometimes find neroli notes with monstrous life period. Examples are Colonia Essenza by Acqua di Parma and the number 201 from Micallef's Art Collection line. Did they find means to fix neroli? Or is it some chemical replacement of natural neroli oil? I suppose the worst since I came across this neroli type of scent blown into the air by a room freshener machine.

Basically, Mandy Aftel writes in her book about the advantage of natural perfume oil that the batches all slightly differ from each other, since the oils are never completely pure. On the other hand synthetizised scents smell like „dead“. You may put this aside as the thoughts of an esoteric natural perfumer – but as far as neroli is concerned, I can very well follow these thoughts. To me, Neroli Portofino is just as dead as the central cemetry of my home town. Once the interesting top note has settled there is only sweet and sticky kind of neroli with maybe some amber.

This is so solid, it does not move an inch! And it never leaves you alone, just like unwelcome relatives. I can only describe this as an olfactory tinnitus!

With Neroli porofino, you seriously peril your sensitivity for scent. It is just the attraction of neroli that it is fleeting. One should never even consider holding it! Whoever wears Neroli Portofino in a certain period of time will surely develop an averseness against it. So, this is also another way to put off customers.
The marketing concept of Tom Ford is just as sustaining as the deforestation of the amazonas region. At the Tom Ford scent bar, customers' interest is being exploited, not aroused. They will not return to the perfume shop for good.

07/21/2012

3
Scent

Coutureguru
223 Reviews

Coutureguru

Very helpful Review 9

Unjustifiably pretentious!

I have a problem with Tom Ford's Private Blend Collection ... 90% of it is pure bilge! Smoke and mirrors ... there are perhaps two that I would consider owning (I've diligently tried all of them)... and then only if they were on major markdown.
Neroli Portofino has to rank as one of the biggest ripoffs in perfume history. I buy litre bottles of Eau de Cologne to add to my bedding laundry for less than $10 a pop ... even that has better projection and longevity, and SMELLS better too! Pretty bottles and creative marketing do not a great fragrance make, and in this case they don't even make a good one!
This is a less than mediocre sub par attempt at a classic cologne ... with a whopping price tag!
Amber? Where? Vanilla? I beg to differ. Cheap orange blossom with a touch of Bergamot and a huge dollop of Iso E Super (to my nose at least) ... c'mon!! With any luck this nasty phenomenon that has the cheek to include itself within the revered halls of niche perfumery will just go away.
On the other hand, I'll never be spending any of my money on it :) ... so I'll just ignore it 'til it disappears.

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