Mid of Summer seems like the right time for heady white florals. And tuberose is a queen of them all (or so I heard).
Saturday Question #271:
What Is Your Favorite Tuberose Perfume?
Do you wear it just in summer or all-year-long?
My Answer
I do not like tuberose, in any form – be that a flower itself, perfumes or body products. I do not mind it in a supporting role, but there is no currently a single tuberose-centric perfume that would work for me.
I still have a travel spray of Carnal Flower that I bought by mistake many years ago. And year after year I keep trying it. Still no. But I plan to make the next attempt tomorrow while reading your responses.
How about you?
Undina's Looking Glass 
Well, it’s been ages since I’ve been here. Life Happened. I hope everyone is doing well!
Delighted to return to a tuberose question. I freakin’ adore tuberose. My parents garden had tuberose all along the path to the doorway and it was MAGIC. I’m sad to hear you don’t like it :(
And being obsessed with Lutens, I’d have to say Tuberose Criminelle is my absolute favourite. I only ever had a small vial of the original which I think was a genius formulation. I did buy a bottle of reformulated TC and I think it’s pretty special too. I don’t really think of it as tuberose-centric though. I feel jasmine and tuberose are almost impossible to capture in a perfume.
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Hi Jyotsna, great to ‘see’ you. Yes, life happens😉
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OOOHHHH! Love Tuberose Undina,
Favourite? GAH!
Freaky green: Tubereuse Couture 17 by Pierre Guillaume
Feral tropical: Blonde by Versace
80s powerhouse: Amarige by Givenchy
Tuber-Amber: Truth or Dare by Madonna
I know that doesn’t help, and that two are Dcd.
Sorry,
Portia xx
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Hi Portia, VB and ToD are great loves of mine too, but I don’t get the amber reference in ToD. I get loads of fluffy marshmallow in it though.
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Oh, and the shower gel is in current use.
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Bummer you miss the vanilla/amber in the base of TorD CassieFlower. I love how it starts all BWF and ends cozy warmth, yes I get a little bubble gum/marshmallow through it too. What a fabulous winner of a fragrance it is.
I think I’ve used all my TorD shower gels. WAAAHHHHH
Portia xx
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This is impossible, so many beauties. I’m a big fan of this flower. I’m going to have to pick Annick Goutal Tubereuse (spelling?) It was the very first tuberose I tried and I was sucker-punched by it and can still remember that first sniff.
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Cassieflower beat me to it-the AG Tubereuse was my gateway to tuberose:) It had a menthol like opening. I also liked the Fragonard version of Giorgio in high school. Today I wear Songes and Tubereuse Criminelle, but neither is fully tuberose. I do wear Carnal Flower but there’s nothing carnal about it-it just smells good. But had I known the AG was going to be discontinued I would have bought a back up bottle, and stopped trying to find a better tuberose.
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I’m another TorD fan & love the bath goo. I need to stock up again, I only have 3 unopened tubes left!
Poison was my entry into tuberose but I still don’t think of it as “tuberose”. Poison smells of itself & is impossible for me to parse.
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Tuberose isn’t really for me in perfume either, and the only one I can think of that I own is a vintage bottle of Poison. Then again, that smells more like grapes to me.
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I find tuberose an intriguing ingredient when combined with notes like saffron and spices, but I don’t intentionally seek out tuberose-specific perfumes. There have only been a few tuberose perfumes that I can say were enjoyable when tuberose was part of the recipe. Ambre Gris by Balmain, Pure Mariposa by Ramón Monegal, Do Son by Diptyque, Cèdre by Serge Lutens, and Musc Tonkin by Parfum d’Empire are among them. While I do own Ambre Gris, Pure Mariposa and Musc Tonkin, there are two other tuberose-heavy perfumes I own and adore for their strange and unusual use of tuberose.
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I’m not keen on tuberose in perfume. The only tuberose fragrances I enjoy are Moon bloom by Hiram Green and Rozy by Vero Profumo. I don’t reach for them often, so a sample is enough.
To my surprise I love L’eau Scandaleuse by Anatole le Breton. It’s the only tuberose forward fragrance in my collection.
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My favorite tuberose is Wild Tuberose by Manis Gerakinis. It has a lovely green, bright opening, beautiful tuberose heart notes and a wonderful warm base of frankincense, woods and patchouli. A warm full bodied scent that is just perfect to my nose.
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Manos Gerakinis.😊
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My favourite, by far, Tuberose is Eshal! A tuberose that is different to any other tuberoses I know. A big splash but so worth the investment.
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I need to retry this. I adore Neela Vermeire perfumes and I love tuberose, so I expected to go into orbit with this. Instead, I was kind of meh. My day can influence my reactions to perfume though, so I will try again. I can’t believe I don’t want it, although at that price, I should be happy for small favors!
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I need to retry this. I adore Neela Vermeire perfumes and I love tuberose, so I expected to go into orbit with this. Instead, I was kind of meh. My day can influence my reactions to perfume though, so I will try again. I can’t believe I don’t want it, although at that price, I should be happy for small favors!
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I’m sorry you don’t like tuberose, Undina. Although I have to be in a mood for it, I adore it. I lived in Jakarta and Singapore for several years, and we would vacation in Bali before it became so crazy commercialized, as it was just an hour flight away. Walking into the beautiful hotels with lobbies full of vases of melam melam (tuberose) was a heady and swoony sensation. Anyway, I’m not at my home in the moment to try to gather all my many tuberose perfumes together, so I’ll have to go from memory:
I have too many others, including Madonna’s Truth or Dare, but these are the ones that jump to mind as I have reached for them recently.
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Mona di Orio Tubéreuse, which I wore a lot this summer is possibly my favourite. I would love to try Tubéreuse Criminelle again, which I’ve only smelt once and was really taken with. Dior New Look 1947 is another nice take on the note.
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