Story time: My love affair with Tom Ford's Black Orchid began when I was in Year 12. I'd never liked a guy my age, always seeming to find the older boys more interesting than the naive ones I was friends with. The Christmas holidays came around and my male best friend and I met up with a few other friends. He wore Tom Ford's Black Orchid and I began to see him in a new, manly light. Romance soon took centre stage to friendship and my first romantic relationship soon after began. Although we parted ways 3 months later deciding that friendship suited us better than romance, I was never able to part ways with BO. It became the fragrance I associated with masculinity. So much so than when I was in my 1st year at University, I suggested it to my 2nd boyfriend as the fragrance that he should wear, and also bought my new male best friend a mini (and he's always had a bottle of BO in his collection ever since). Unfortunately BO seems to have fazed out from being the fragrance most men prefer to wear, but I have always been enamoured with the scent, even tried and failed to wear it myself (BO + my aura = mismatch). Then La Yuqawam came along and finally I smelt a fragrance much like BO, but unisex enough that I can wear it with my lovely dresses and not feel like I've borrowed my brother's cologne. Others have described this fragrance in great detail, so additional input in that arena, is not necessary. If there is anything missing in this fragrance vs BO, it is a smooth, full bodied expression of truffle. But if it was here, this perfume would lean too masculine. The lasting power leaves much to be desired of.
