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From aromatic woods to musky notes, The Private Blend collection by Tom Ford Beauty encourages Faye Tsui and Edwin Pun to walk down memory lane
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a familiar scent is likely to leave you speechless; there’s nothing quite like an intoxicating smell to make you feel nostalgic for a person, a place, a feeling.
Edwin Pun agrees, waxing lyrical about the scents that remind him of his former home and happy place, New York. “It’s sultry and steamy”, the 35-year-old director of Keyestone Group back reminisces. “There’s definitely that smell of old leather and wood, as the city has a lot of old buildings and history to it.”
Faye Tsui holds firm to the belief that an air of luxury can be conjured by a simple scent. The stylist and fashion blogger is drawn to fragrances that express her personality, combining “a gentle side” with an air of the “wild and sensual.” Her sentiments are shared by Pun. “There’s more than just one side to me,” he explains, “so there should be a complexity to [my fragrance], too.”
Watch the video below to learn more about Faye and Edwin's favourite fragrances:
It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, that after exploring the new fragrances in Tom Ford Beauty’s latest collection, they gravitated to some of its boldest scents—Tsui to the elegant, musky undertones and saffron spiced scent of White Suede, and Pun to more heady combinations of smoky woods and the sultry scents of amber and cardamom in Oud Wood. After all, Pun says, “When it comes to fragrance, more is more.”
The Private Blend collection, a unique, carefully curated range Ford has labelled his ‘scent laboratory’, consists of 16 luxurious fragrances that develop over time, transforming from a singular scent to reveal complex undertones that defy convention. Tom Ford's latest fragrance, Tubereuse Nue, evokes the intense scent of night-blooming tubereuse and jasmine, peppered with spiced Akigalawood and Timut pepper to create a full-bodied, amorous scent.
