Maison 79 of 100 · Beauty & Fragrance
Tom Ford Beauty
The reading
A film director’s idea of a dressing table. The beauty line outlived the fashion house’s independence. Tobacco Vanille taught a generation that a perfume could cost as much as a bag and still be finished in an afternoon.
The house
- Origin
- United States
- Founded
- 2006
- Atelier
- Beauty & Fragrance
- Ownership
- Estée Lauder (the beauty house)
- Signature
- Tobacco Vanille / Black Orchid
- Register note
- Tobacco Vanille as cultural IP This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
How the register places it
Its stablemates here are La Mer and Jo Malone London — three Estée Lauder houses in all. Of the ten houses filed under Beauty & Fragrance, it is the 6th. The register files nine maisons to the United States, the same number it files to the United Kingdom, and this is one of them. It is the 96th-oldest house in the register. Put the other way: ninety of the hundred are filed outside Beauty & Fragrance. The register reaches it after No. 78 Sisley and leaves it for No. 80 Creed.