Tom Ford is famous for his expensive fragrances loved by celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and Drake.
The American fashion designer’s eponymous brand produces strong fragrances that can be controversial, and this one is, but for a surprising reason.
Lost Cherry started going viral on TikTok after people said it smelled like a specific embalming fluid, just as cherries were declared the spiciest scent of winter.
stanford senior Anna Ryb21, made a video explaining, “I once tried this Tom Ford perfume and fell in love with it,” but “even a travel size was over $100 and they were sold out.”
Anna ended up saving up and buying the expensive perfume in Hong Kong, but a week later, a mortician on her ‘For You’ page on TikTok ‘said it smelled exactly like PACKING FLUID.’
Tom Ford is famous for his expensive fragrances loved by celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and Drake.
Lost Cherry started going viral on TikTok after people said it smelled like a specific embalming fluid, just as cherries were declared the hottest scent of winter.
Embalming fluid is composed of chemicals that preserve and slow decay, including formaldehyde and methanol, as seen above in a funeral home.
Anna captioned the video, which received 985,000 views, “still heartbroken and smelling like embalming fluid.”
Some people said the allegations were not true, while others swore they were true and that they had proof.
‘By the way, when I was working with corpses I always thought: “Who here is wearing Lost Cherry?” and then this happened,’ said one commenter.
“It’s just that death smells like one of the compounds in the perfume, not the embalming fluid itself,” another commenter argued.
“Everyone asks why I don’t wear cherries; they won’t catch me until I’m dead smelling like cherries,” read one popular comment.
“It smells faintly like that, yes, but the perfume has a richer aroma than embalming fluid,” one commenter clarified.
Embalming fluid is composed of chemicals that preserve and slow decomposition, including formaldehyde and methanol.
“To me, it smells like those cherry lip balms from the early 2000s that smelled like cherry but like… in a sinister way… in a waxy, incredibly artificial way… and I love it for that, but I don’t have $395,” said another TikTok user. .
‘Lost Cherry was my wedding perfume and it’s the scent I get the most compliments on lol. “So I guess a lot of us like the smell of embalming fluid,” one commenter quickly responded.
Portia Freeman attended the Tom Ford Lost Cherry launch and the store’s first anniversary in London in 2018, as seen above.
Some people said the allegations weren’t true, while others swore they were and that they had proof, while other commenters gave advice on similar fragrances to buy for less money.
Some women gave tips to make it smell different, like pairing it with a cherry-scented lotion or trying one of the many dupes, like Dossier’s Amber Cherry for $49, or Kayli Lovest, which costs $100, and Room 1015’s Cherry Punk for $31.
According to the fragrance description, the full-bodied warm and spicy perfume, which costs between $255 and $400, combines bitter almond, Turkish rose, jasmine and cherry liqueur.
A New York-based makeup artist with the username Ohuprettythings, who had previously done makeup on a dead body, decided instagram to clear up the rumors.
She wrote: ‘Corpses (that are embalmed) have a sickly sweet smell… If you smell the synthetic notes of Lost Cherry, it can be quite sweet if you ignore all the other layers.
‘Now I think Lost Cherry really smells like a corpse?’ No, but like I said… I see how she drew the parallels.’
In redditsome users clarified beauty lovers’ confusion, with one writing: “Anyway, no one except people who use that specific embalming fluid would know what it smelled like.”