Soleil Neige Tom Ford 2019 Eau de Parfum

Soleil Neige. Sunny Snow. Tom Ford markets his 2019 creation by saying that it smells like the sun's rays shining on the blanket of fresh snow in the mountains. Hmm yes what are you supposed to mean by that now so exactly. What does fresh snow smell like? In itself there shouldn't be much of an olfactory confluence. Water, which condenses, rises, cools down in extreme heights and then falls to the ground in solid form. Doesn't sound like anything exciting to the nose. Maybe the sun. Does it smell like something? (From my own experience, I'll just say no here.) Maybe it's the interaction of these two components. We have snow and then the sun. The sun melts the snow. This then becomes water again. But even said water doesn't really have a distinctive smell of its own. So what is this name supposed to convey to us? We will look at this detail later. It remains to be said that the fragrance should smell of precisely nothing if it were to live up to its name. Or perhaps after something warm, aquatic maximum.
But this is not the case. Of course, the fragrance does not smell like nothing either. About the fragrance: in fact, it is a wonderfully fragrant nose-pleaser! What a great release from the house of Ford. It is not aquatic burning. Rather, it is a great, floral-fresh fragrance with super performance.
In the top note you get a wonderful citrus kick missed by the bergamot. Wonderfully balanced and not too intrusive. Quickly joins after a few minutes a white sea of flowers. It develops a wonderful citrus-floral mix that gives a great fresh kick. In the drydown, the scent doesn't get much different, a little bit sweeter due to the more prominent labdanum and very light vanilla notes. So we have a nice fresh floral citrus scent here. However, not the usual white-floral powdery experience that Reflection Man, for example, gives. It's different, more citrusy, not quite put into words, but still beautiful.
The fragrance is absolutely unisex in my opinion! Despite the floral notes, it's not too feminine and it's also not too harsh due to the bergamot. I think he fits perfectly to spring and summer, contrary to the expected snow rather less in the cold season.
In addition, I must say that the fragrance has an incredibly good performance for me for the freshness he conveys. On the skin it is easy to smell 8-10h and the sillage can be seen with 4-5h but times so what!
But now back to the name. So he conveys nothing of melting snow or generally of the sun or snow. And yet the name fits perfectly. You have to include the environment that the name conveys. Because if you imagine standing on a snowy, icy field, looking at the blue sky and breathing deeply the clear air, while the sun is laughing down on you, then the association fits very well with this clear, fresh fragrance.
I thank you for your reading and your perseverance, I hope I could put you this wonderful fragrance a little closer. For me, he finds far too little attention for how great he is :-)