If you love this shade you will adore TOM FORD.
Absolute secret - because it has not been unveiled yet to the press, not a name, not an image, but the new highly confidential perfume I've been wearing for almost a month could hardly pass unnoticed in Vatican this Christmas - it is a cardinal sin, a confession wrapped in deep purple.
Beware, this is an unofficial presentation of the perfume. Keep the secret!
Let's call it "Absolute Secret" for the ease of my presentation because every woman dressed in black seeks the absolution of her sins during the secret confession - her absolute perfume is a temptation in the confessional carved from precious woods.
"What perfume do you wear?"
"It's absolute secret", would say Estée Lauder on her return from the far East when she introduced the amazing designs for the concrete solid perfumes in the 70's.
The best since Mitsouko, Femme, Nombre Noir, Féminité du Bois and even Gucci Rush or the dark Kilian, this magnificent creation from Tom Ford evokes the deep shades of a Japanese lacquer box when the plum blossoms are in bloom. It is the secret of a Geisha, one hundred years ago, her mysterious European perfume preciously preserved in a wooden box because in those days forbidden perfumes were kept closed in a forbidden city on the other side of the world. The cosmetic industry was still a curiosity.
"Absolute secret" is the hinoki wood wrapped with the delicate volutes of mystical incense which, by a mysterious accident of Nature, blooms like a plum. It bears, as only a bonsai does, both the flower and the fruit on the same very old branch, an absolute power of nature and the miracle of the man seeking the Beauty. With his finger, the youth dew from the flower becomes the resin on the branch.
If golden amber was purple ....
If the tear of a tree, stacte (στακτή - one component of the Solomon's Temple incense) had a purple shade.
With a certain candeur, yet highly dramatic, this is a flower from a dark chamber, a spice bomb for he and her. Male/Female is an invention for those who read the Roman alphabet. Like Black Orchid, "Absolute Secret" has no specific gender and if you loved "Bois Noir" (Chanel) you will adore this perfume. In the 90's, a masculine product with a turquoise cap sold millions. The spice facet of this new perfume has at least 800 years old, it belongs to an Asian formula which entered Europe after the 4th crusade.
If golden amber was purple ....
If the tear of a tree, stacte (στακτή - one component of the Solomon's Temple incense) had a purple shade.
With a certain candeur, yet highly dramatic, this is a flower from a dark chamber, a spice bomb for he and her. Male/Female is an invention for those who read the Roman alphabet. Like Black Orchid, "Absolute Secret" has no specific gender and if you loved "Bois Noir" (Chanel) you will adore this perfume. In the 90's, a masculine product with a turquoise cap sold millions. The spice facet of this new perfume has at least 800 years old, it belongs to an Asian formula which entered Europe after the 4th crusade.
This "absolute secret" essence is a mysterious combination of fresh flowers and sensual petals floating in the volutes of scent - dark rose, plum flower, cherry blossom and a precious suggestion of osmanthus with its tender apricot cream note. The spice bouquet combines the cinnamon from Cinnabar, candied ginger root and a special blend with extreme sensual power.
Mystic wood, cedar, hinoki, soft sandal wood are wrapped with a delicate balsamic touch with the honeyed aspects of benzoin and opopanax. A small very dark fruit, like a poison berry, waits in the darkness of this precious elixir of an absolute beauty.
Wooden panels in the Forbidden City were made from rare oud wood and island woods which offered them a special cachet during the evening. The combination between the scented architecture of the pavilions, the incense games and the plum blossoms create a mystical experience known only by the Emperor and his court - the garden was absolute secret, the entrance was sealed.
The original Féminité du Bois from Palais Royal has been reformulated, it is no more the same luxurious perfume since the house started to sell the perfumes in Sephora, but the new creation from Tom Ford fills the gap with something fabulous and highly sensual. The purple note, an orris root in the 1992 perfume is now a magnificent flower with a fruit plus a secret spicy accord. The result is fabulous. Cardinal sin.
Tom Ford is still working on his top secret perfume. Its scent is noir like a Japanese lacquer box with a deep purple ornament - the perfect ornament for an absolute beauty cream. The name is still an absolute secret, but you will discover the fabulous beauty the next year.
8 years ago, Tom Ford, dressed in red did his last collection for Yves Saint Laurent - the last moment had such a high artistic intensity than only this new perfume was able to capture - a resurrection of Beauty.
Because we are at Christmas, it is worth to remind you that all these tonalities, so beautiful expressed by Mitsouko, Feminité du Bois, Bois Noir, Spicebomb and my "absolute secret" from Tom Ford, all alluding the chypre woody-fruity-spicy theme, are nothing else than an invocation of Christmas tree - the wood, the cookies, the wine, the candles, the presents - they are all inside a Canadian absolute, a natural product launched several years ago on the market which I presented at that time. That natural ingredient is mythical.
"Absolute Secret", the nickname I gave to the top secret Tom Ford perfume, is a resurrection of Beauty in its absolute form. A beautiful present for a magnificent future.
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