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Private Blend

White Suede Tom Ford 2009 Eau de Parfum

8.0 / 10 587 Ratings

A popular perfume by Tom Ford for women and men, released in 2009. The scent is leathery-powdery. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Leathery

Powdery

Floral

Creamy

Fresh

Fragrance Notes

Musk

Suede

Lily of the valley Saffron

Saffron

Sandalwood Amber

Amber

Frankincense Rose

Rose

Tea

Thyme

Perfumers

Harry Frémont, DSM-Firmenich

Ratings

Scent

8.0587 Ratings

Longevity

7.3479 Ratings

Sillage

6.6470 Ratings

Bottle

8.1456 Ratings

Value for money

6.0240 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 10/30/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Private Blend collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

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Reviews

31 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/17/2014

Tresor
12 Reviews

Tresor

Helpful Review 5

Sueded Lily

White Suede, along with the other fragrances in the White Musk Collection, is something that I'd overlooked for quite some time. Thanks to the incredible generosity of a dear friend I had the opportunity to give this little gem a go. The opening is redolent of a dewy and bright lily-of-the-valley. It borders on sharp but soon softens and becomes subdued and incredibly gentle. The suede note is buttery and incredibly smooth, dusted with saffron and bathed in a blushed hue of a tender rose. It smells of the inside of a luxurious handbag where one has kept precious treasures like a compact of French cosmetic powder and a vial of sweet sandalwood perfume. The drydown is a soft, delicate and powdery amber musk. It's crystalline and registers as a gossamer haze just above the skin. What makes me so fond of this composition is not particularly its originality but how it reminds me of something from my past, something I can't quite put my finger on. That state of beguilement keeps me coming back for more.

05/30/2013

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

4

White? Suede?

White suede starts out with a nose-hair singeing chemical suede scent that seems like a shoddy copy of Heeley's cool-to-the-touch Cuir Pleine Fleur. It’s not half-hearted, or ‘not-quite’, it smells defective. The jarring topnotes give me a bit of fight or flight reaction, and I have to make certain not to shit myself.

In perfumery the notion of suede is usually conjured with references to tea, dried leaves, birch, violet and the like. And, while true that ‘leather’ notes might more precisely be called ‘tannery’ notes, the chemistry involved in White Suede is undisguised. White Suede grows quieter, but never less shrill and gives the nerve-wracking sensation of a siren passing you, fading in the distance, but always sounding too sharp in pitch.

By chemical I mean unnatural. "Natural" is the verbal equivalent of zero in mathematics. Strictly defined, imaginary, entirely conceptual. In common usage "natural" is falsely fundamental. We use it with a wink and a nod and make a point of never defining it and hoping nobody else will either. It carries enormous significance, principally judgement--good and worthy--but has no meaning in fact. I find it hard to use the word in a sentence.

But 'unnatural' is another bird entirely. It’s campy but not blatantly humorous. It comes to have much more meaning than 'natural' because it's like saying, 'all that crap over there--the things you stuff inelegantly into that word "natural"? It's not that.' 'Natural' is a consensual fiction that we don't dare pry into. 'Unnatural' in perfumery means that you can’t hide the chemical origin with a botanical ‘note’. ("Watch out, girl. That chemical flower note will torch your ass!") Again, judgement is implied, but camp saves day because, though you use the word, the implicit irony means you don't believe the literal meaning of it.

So, White Suede is as unnatural and chemical as they come. It's a reminder that an imbalanced perfume made with mostly aromachemicals has a higher risk of flying out of control than one made of mostly botanicals. White Suede isn't the person humming a vague ditty out of tune. It's the forgotten, full, screaming tea kettle that you hope will soon run dry and burn the house down.

From scenthurdle.com

03/18/2025

6.5Scent 4Longevity 6Sillage

Raluko111
421 Reviews

Raluko111

Helpful Review 1

Noa (Cacharel) + Leather.

White Suede is indeed Noa (Cacharel) plus leather. It's a very nice, diaphanous scent, just like Noa, except that here the musk is a lot creamier and more delicious. Unfortunately, the price is extremely steep in relation to the silage and longevity, so I much prefer Noa to this.
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Intradevar, White Suede este Noa de la Cacharel plus pielarie. Este foarte dragut si diafan, la fel ca Noa, doar ca aici moscul este mult mai cremos si reusit. Din pacate, pretul este extrem de piperat fata de siaj si longevitate si parca Noa merita mai mult in sensul asta.

02/13/2021

5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

GoldGoddess
5 Reviews

GoldGoddess

2

Sharp rubber-gasoline...

All I can smell, sadly for me (as I’ve anticipated so much different fragrance) is a sharp, chemical, burnt rubber. After about an hour it calms down a bit and to my nose it turns into gasoline scent, which I don’t like either. I’m new to perfume world and just sharing my impression based on one test. So many noses, so many perceptions I guess...

01/10/2020

8Scent 6Longevity 5Sillage

Emorandeira
395 Reviews

Emorandeira

2

White musc

This is for me a musk perfume more... It is nice and overall the quality of the smell of the suede un here , as most leather notes used by Tom Ford, is very high, but i am not sure if It really worths to pay this amount of money for a perfume which doesnt give anything new. There are lot of fragances in the market with similar smell and even better performance, because the oerfumance here is very very moderate. For example musc secret by Béjar which gives a very similar vibe for only 9.95€. but for Tom Ford lovers and musk lovers White suede can be a good option for a daytime use during winter.

Scent: 8
Longevity: 6
Sillage: 5
Quality/price: 4
Versatility: 8
Originality: 5
Global: 7

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