The most underrated Tom Ford, Champaca Absolute, my theory is because it’s so intensely feminine from beginning to end that I have a hard time imagining a man wearing it. Champaca, gardenia, jasmine, sweet and soapy all at once. A whiff of white tea, bubbly like champagne, revitalizing like a lush wet garden.
I always think of this as a summer perfume, but it’s mood-lifting in the dead of winter, beautifully heady and tropical, completely different from anything else at the Tom Ford counter. A decade into my collection and it’s still unique enough to hold on to, still interesting enough to reach for.
