Ombré Leather Versions Compared: EDP, Parfum, Eau d'Ombré, Reserve

Ombré Leather first appeared in 2016 as Ombré Leather 16, a limited Private Blend that Tom Ford made to go with his autumn and winter runway collection, at $225 for 50 ml (Kafkaesque). In 2018 it came back in his Signature line at $125 for 50 ml, and it has grown into a family of four that Tom Ford still sells: the 2018 Eau de Parfum, the 2021 Parfum, the 2024 Eau d'Ombré Leather and the 2026 Ombré Leather Reserve. The short answer: the Eau de Parfum is the classic floral leather. The Parfum is smoother and greener and lasts longer. Eau d'Ombré Leather is the lighter, sweeter, spicier one. Reserve swaps the flowers for juniper and woods.

Ombré Leather Eau de Parfum (2018): the original

Fragrantica credits Sonia Constant, who also made Noir Extreme for the house. Tom Ford set it in the desert of the American West, and its own line for the scent is "Dust on wind, skin on skin." When it returned in 2018, Fragrantica's launch report could not say whether the formula had changed from the 2016 version; commenters there found it essentially the same scent at a lower price. Barneys New York took the first preorders that June, and Nordstrom and other stores followed soon after.

Tom Ford lists black leather textured with patchouli and vetiver, jasmine sambac for the floral side, and amber and moss underneath; Fragrantica adds cardamom on top. The Candy Perfume Boy, who calls himself wary of leather scents, found it creamy and buttery, with fruit and flowers keeping the leather soft, and the more comforting of it and Tuscan Leather. Fragrantica's Elena Knezevic, comparing it with the Parfum, found the Eau de Parfum the more realistic leather: rougher, drier, mossier and spicier.

Choose it for the Ombré Leather most people mean, and for the lowest price per ml in the family. Tom Ford sells it at $165 for 50 ml, $240 for 100 ml and $280 for 150 ml.

Ombré Leather Parfum (2021): smoother and greener

The Parfum arrived in August 2021, first on Tom Ford's site and at Macy's (Fragrantica), and Fragrantica credits Sonia Constant again. Tom Ford describes it as the original's leather made richer, with violet leaf absolute, cedarwood and a hint of green tobacco added.

Elena Knezevic compared the two for Fragrantica in November 2021. She found the Parfum lighter and more floral in the heart, with violet leaf, jasmine and more iris, and smoother and more transparent overall. It also held better: it stayed close to the skin for a very long time, while the Eau de Parfum's leather thinned out in the late stages. She judged the Parfum the more versatile of the two.

Choose it if you want Ombré Leather cleaner, greener and longer-lasting. Tom Ford sells it at $205 for 50 ml and $300 for 100 ml, $40 to $60 more than the Eau de Parfum.

Eau d'Ombré Leather (2024): lighter and spicier

Eau d'Ombré Leather reached Sephora in July 2024 (Now Smell This), ahead of Tom Ford's official launch that September (Fragrantica). Fragrantica credits Sonia Constant; The Candy Perfume Boy credits her with Olivier Gillotin. The house moved the picture from desert heat to dawn, describing a new day rising over the American West.

Fresh ginger, coriander and cardamom open it, then vanilla tincture and a softer leather, with amber and honeyed woods underneath. Fragrantica's launch note calls the leather smoother and milder. The Candy Perfume Boy treated it as a new fragrance rather than a lighter version, and found its leather closer to sleek black vinyl than to raw hide, set against a creamy warmth.

Choose it if the original reads too heavy or too animalic, or if you like vanilla and spice more than leather. Tom Ford sells it as an Eau de Toilette at $140 for 50 ml and $200 for 100 ml, the least expensive bottle in the family.

Ombré Leather Reserve (2026): woody, green and darker

Reserve launched in the US in August 2026, after Now Smell This announced it on July 31, and Now Smell This credits Sonia Constant once more. The new idea is a plant: silver juniper from the Chisos Mountains of West Texas, which Tom Ford captured with its ScentTrek headspace method; the house says the note moves from fresh and aromatic to resinous, with a hint of myrrh. The house also built a deeper black leather accord, which it calls an amplification of the original's leather. Reserve is a Parfum and sits in the Signature line.

Juniper, cypress and black pepper open it crisp and piney, violet leaf and pinyon wood follow, and the leather comes through dry and a little smoky, softened by sandalwood and moss. Where the 2018 original uses jasmine to soften its leather, Reserve uses woods and conifers, so it reads greener and more rugged. Attitude's Joshua Graham found it the most refined of the line and wore it past eight hours. Early Parfumo voters also rate its longevity well, though reviews are still few.

Choose it if you like Ombré Leather but want it drier and woodier, or if florals in a leather scent have never suited you. Tom Ford sells it at $205 for 50 ml and $300 for 100 ml, the same as the Parfum.

Which Ombré Leather to choose

For the classic, at the best price per ml, the 2018 Eau de Parfum. For the same character made smoother and longer-lasting, the Parfum. For a lighter, sweeter take built on spice and vanilla, Eau d'Ombré Leather. For a green, woody leather without the jasmine, Reserve.

The Parfum and Reserve cost the same, so the choice between them is pure taste: violet leaf and iris against juniper and pine. Both reward a full day of wear before you decide, because the differences show most after the first hour, when the leather takes over. A small decant of each settles it faster than a paper strip at a counter.

If none of the four feels leathery enough, the next step is Tuscan Leather, Tom Ford's 2007 Private Blend: raspberry and saffron over a drier, smokier leather that Kafkaesque found lasting at least 11 hours. The Candy Perfume Boy set the two side by side in 2018 and found Ombré Leather the softer, more comforting one. Tuscan Leather costs $300 for 50 ml and $460 for 100 ml.