Private Blend

Myrrhe Mystère Tom Ford 2023

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7.4 / 10 117 Ratings

A new perfume by Tom Ford for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is woody-spicy. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.

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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Smoky

Oriental

Fragrance Notes

Myrrh

Myrrh Orpur®

Australian sandalwood orpur®

Ultravanil®

Perfumers

Rodrigo Flores-Roux, Givaudan

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Ratings

Scent

7.4117 Ratings

Longevity

7.799 Ratings

Sillage

7.198 Ratings

Bottle

8.3102 Ratings

Value for money

4.786 Ratings

Submitted by Spl3xx, last update on 22.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

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

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/28/2023

2
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Nutmeg
18 Reviews

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Nutmeg

Good mood: Priceless

The end of the story was that I was laughing with my upper body hanging over a fancy glass case and thought it was about to collapse.

The sales clerks thought that apparently also, they had gathered around me and disapproved silently my appearance. I did not know at all that one can disapprove silently dermaßen.

The beginning of the story was that I had discovered by chance in the noble department store of my confidence a new Tom Ford fragrance.

I am yes optimist, and all years brought master Ford yes between the whole Plörre true strokes of genius out.
New game new luck, Curious I am already.

Campfire smoke, a nasty vanilla note with the each Duftbäumchen pales with envy and a touch of mountain pine cold bath. The whole somehow strangely watered down. Somewhere in the campfire someone roasts a sausage.

The absolute horror it was not now, merely somehow strangely discordant as if one had very extensively considered which notes in no case fit together. And what certainly no one wants to smell.
It was not even penetrating, even discreetly in the range one takes it quickly even no longer perceived.

So far so unspectacular. I sprayed and sniffed and announced that this fragrance is probably rather not my forest area. Just I wanted to go, I remembered to ask about the price.
Maybe you're back on the ground of facts landed after Tom Ford has sold off everything.

The laughing fit was epic.
Tears, stomach ache, the full program. And as soon as I had caught myself it started all over again.

"Um, we also carry fragrances in cheaper price categories" tried one of the disgruntled saleswomen to calm me.

"Yes, almost all of them" I snorted with a high red head.
Being embarrassingly obvious and having a lousy sense of humor are my core competencies I'm afraid.

After I had still elegantly wiped the tears from my face with my sleeve, I thanked politely and walked as gracefully as possible towards the exit.

"If the nutcase comes next time I hide in the cosmetics department" it moaned behind me.

The ladies just have no sense of humor.

12/04/2023

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

loewenherz
56 Reviews

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loewenherz

Top Review 24

All gone astray?

I sometimes miss the Tom Ford Private Blends of the first generations. I miss how they were conceived and made - and who they were, and the stories they had to tell - which the recent products of the Tom Ford label no longer do. In top, heart and base notes - immediately after application, after an hour and at the end of a long day, these are often completely different fragrances that develop, unfold and blossom. You have to know this, you have to want it - because what the top note promises is often nothing more than a hunch and a promise, followed by a journey that can be challenging, sometimes difficult - but offers much more than 'just' Chamber Note A.

The newer Private Blends - the iconic bottle shape has remained, but their colors are now strangely different, sometimes garish - no longer tell such stories, at least not with the dramaturgy and depth of their predecessors. The fragrances are still quite beautiful and not unsoundly crafted, but comparatively monochrome and one-dimensional - and there are far too many ®s where there used to be none. I know, the naïve idea of Bedouins wrapped in cloth collecting resin in silver vessels under the light of a pale desert moon is just that - naïve. But when everything just looks like ®s put together by artificial intelligence, I miss something. Very much.

Myrrhe Mystère is myrrh through and through. You can argue about 'Mystère'. It is a thoroughly appealing, yet monothematic resin and desert scent, medium in volume and range. It is made of loud ®s, where I would have liked dark myrrh and oily woods - just more than just chamber note A. Myrrhe Mystère promises something that it is not able to deliver: where 'exciting' is promised and then only 'solid craftsmanship' comes, a vague feeling of disappointment will always remain. Because Tom Ford can do Orient, can do desert, can do Mystère - he proved it in Sahara Noir and Vert d'Encens. Estée Lauder can - apparently and unfortunately - not.

Conclusion: a 7 in my nose, maybe a 7.5. That's decent, and I mean it. But a desert fragrance from Ford has to be a 9, at least! Hence, as Judy Garland sang so incomparably and so unforgettably in 'The man that got away':
'No more his eager call, the writings on the wall,
the dreams you dreamed have all gone astray...'

12/04/2023

6
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Sevda46
11 Reviews

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Sevda46

Mary Magdalene's fragrance or "A bag of myrrh is my beloved, resting between my breasts."

Whether the scent is mysterious is debatable, but it is seductive, as myrrh plays the leading role. And it is known that myrrh can stimulate pheromone production, i.e. our body's own sexual attractants that shape our attraction.

The fragrance combines two powerful myrrh essences with a peppery opening and a light vanilla blend in the background to create a seductive eroticism. This is thanks to the eroticizing effect of myrrh. The grounding fragrance is sensually stimulating, apparently myrrh was considered an aphrodisiac in ancient times.
I can only partially agree with the opinion that the fragrance is reminiscent of the church. I associate the aromatic, spicy scent more with feminine eroticism, even though myrrh very often creates a sacred atmosphere, which is why I associate Mary Magdalene with this fragrance.
. Myrrhe Mystère is like an erotic spell, characterized by its spicy and very slightly sweet scent. With a balsamic-peppery opening, it is joined by a very light southern vanilla in the heart note. Finally, a slightly smoky vanilla remains.
The longevity and sillage are not great. What really pains me, however, is the price. Yes, it's a wonderful myrrh fragrance, but it's not worth that much. Of course, everyone should decide for themselves.
I just think that the fragrance is underrated here, which I think is a shame.

11/17/2023

3
Pricing 5
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 6
Scent

Mlleghoul
353 Reviews

Mlleghoul

Helpful Review 1

When show & tell goes wrong

Myrrhe Mystere from Tom Ford is a scent that I really, desperately wanted to love, and in theory, with its notes of myrrh resins, sandalwood, and vanilla I feel like I should love it, I feel like it should sort of be the platonic ideal of a gothic romance novel cover art fragrance…and it is that for a few mysteriously fleeting moments. But then there arises something inexplicably off-putting about it.

It is the scented equivalent of bringing to class a very special item, something incredibly dear to you, to share for the weekly round of show and tell. As you tell the story of your precious thing’s origins you become too aware of how it looks through other people’s eyes, a little weird, a bit unsettling, maybe it exudes an underlying strange and vaguely unpleasant smell of cumin’s unwashed gym clothes’ B.O. pungency that has been masked with an herbaceous bouquet of anisette and mothballs from crinkled cough drop wrappers at the bottom of your handbag. You realize that maybe people aren’t as excited about your collection of teeth and bones and taxidermy as you’d initially hoped.

You go back to your earlier comparison or metaphor or whatever and realize your gothic romance heroine is written with more human flaws and foibles than you prefer and in fact she reminds you an awful lot of yourself, with equal parts hideous conceit and treacherously low self-esteem, that befuddling balance of the you you’re trying to put out into the world, charming, elegant, enigmatic, and the you that you try to keep locked in a secret attic, the one who hates to wash her hair and snorts like a truffle pig when they laugh and inevitably has food stuck in their teeth or a stain on their shirt. I wanted a Myrrhe Mystere representative of the gorgeous, doomed figures in those marvelously illustrated midnight tales of passion and madness–so that I could feel a bit of that beautiful gloom myself– and what I got was a mirror reflecting the glum reality of all of the ways I am none of that at all.

03/28/2024

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Simi7r
6 Reviews

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Simi7r

Wow.

This was my 1st very smoky fragrance.
I think this is a very masculine perfume and would not wear this as a woman, but fortunately tastes are different and everyone should wear what he/she likes.
The myrrh in this fragrance is very strong, which is definitely not for all noses.
I think the longevity of this Tom Ford fragrance is still relatively good compared to the others. For me, the fragrance lasts a good 6-7 hours with about 6 sprays.

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