VANILLA SEX - TOM FORD
🔴 VANILLA SEX – TOM FORD
Launch Year: 2023
Olfactive Family: Oriental Vanilla
Concentration: Eau de Parfum
Source: GCMS Club by Archives Gilbert Bendoni
Number of Ingredients: 32
Sin Dressed as Skin. Vanilla with a Safe Word.
Vanilla Sex is Tom Ford at his most distilled: the taste for the forbidden, the pleasure of the synthetic, the illusion of depth. The name promises scandal. The formula delivers precision.
The backbone is clean, sensual, and linear — a Hedione HC + DPG + Musk T skeleton that clings to the skin like satin sheets. Iso E Super and Polysantol provide a woody blur, but they whisper rather than shout.
And then comes the vanilla: Vanillin + Ethyl Vanillin in overdose, textured by traces of Ultravanil and Ethyl Maltol, glazed with Maltol. It's sugar, but not comfort — think hot wax, not frosting.
Around this center:
- Heliotropin and Zingerone evoke warmth and skin.
- p-Cresyl Phenyl Acetate adds the faintest animalic moan.
- Methyl Laitone and Cetalox lend depth without heaviness.
- Myrrh, Labdanum, and Benzaldehyde keep it resinous and adult.
There’s no fruit, no flower — only suggestion.
Even the Cedarwood and Sandela feel like background noise to something carnal.
🔥 Vanilla Sex is not gourmand. It’s not even perfume in the traditional sense.
It’s a body in scent form: clean, dirty, and disturbingly programmable.
✅ Full editable Excel formula
✅ GC-MS based interpretation
✅ A study in synthetic sensuality