Tumulte Christian Lacroix for women

Was given as a gift and I think I may have taken this amazing perfume for granted... I crave this scent! The initial spray is a rush that gets my heart in a flutter followed by the dry down which is sweet but not sickly. Very sensual in the way that it makes you want to take risks and believe that anything is possible. Inspirational a real treat.

Sweet creamy lotion-like rose scent. Slightly powdery and citrussy as well.
Extremely likable, heck Roselicious I must say :)!
Agree on "pink type of a rose" reviews - very much so.
There's something sour berries candy like and earthy with drydown (sugar/honey and patchouli).
Totally French :) (since I ordered it directly from France it reminds me of Paris:)
Moderate silage and longevity.
The package is one of my favorites, Oriental Red, yup that sold it too, but content most importantly has complete olfactory appeal for my taste.
*****Best blind purchase so far thanks to excellent reviews!

Tumulte opens up on me with an overly sweet yet dirty burnt cotton candy smell. The opening lasts more than an hour. Finally by hour 2, the sweet rose smell comes shining through. To my nose, it is a sweet pink rose. I love this phase quite a lot. Overall lasting power is only 4-5 hours on me and waiting for the rose to emerge is hard because of that opening smell. A fun scent to keep on testing and getting to know. While I love the bottle, I can't justify a purchase of this due to the opening smell.

@kozeliou yes! it is very sweet! you have to give it a few hours to dry down haha. It's the nice thing about this perfume... it is so surprising and intriguing. the rose is very playful.

When I wear it everybody thinks that is a children perfume.It's too sweet but not only that it's kind of romantic-sexy. Playfull in any case. I like to wear it but I don't know what about the others that they don't

Love, love love! It´s a sweet, warm and soft classic. Very cozy at least on my skin. If you love the sweet ones this is definitely a try and must have.

An absolutely oriental stunning MASTEPIECE.
We have a essence of rose named Flower Water (turning to English directly) that we use it for its medical healthy aspects and scenting the mosques.
I just wonder how F. Caron reaches this Middle Eastern secret while no one yet has recognize the value of the liquid in perfumery.
Tumulte opens just with bold transparent rose essence which I breathe it! Love it so much.
Although the blend opens vivid and young it turns to mature mood in the middle and gets heavier; oriental mark.
This is absolutely perfect but not for everyone; so unique and so powerful.

Oh my, this is so lovely, feminine, yet so tragic. This is a highly sensual fragrance. Best suited for intelligent young women/ladies who are skilled in poetry and the arts, with an aura of mystery and many hidden, tragic secrets. This young woman knows how to seduce men, both through her words and her body. She is always dressed impecabble and always smells like Tumulte. This youthful lady, however, does not live in our time, she is from the distant past. I imagine her living in the Moghul Era in India. And yes, she is a courtesan.
This courtesan only smiles when she is entertaining through her dance, poetry, and song; and of course, when she was with her beloved. There is a sadness inside of her that anyone who meets her can feel right away. She is always calm and cool headed, and never has nor ever will lose her cool. She is highly respected; desired by all men that some have lost their lives fighting over her. She is envied by all women in the land. She is not shy. She has lived in reality, both with riches and without. She is so young, yet understands the true meaning of love and life and conveys it through her actions and words; very mature. This courtesan is so lonely though, not a friend in the world, except her beloved that she has recently lost. She is in the end of the second stage of her life, and is soon entering into the third.
Yes, this soon to be woman is Umrao Jaan.

This is very very very sweet, kinda reminds me of berry jam bubbling away or a berry liquer. I don't get any other notes at all and to me, just a quick glance at the bottle evokes the image of Moulin Rogue (I think it' s the colour of the bottle). Contrary to the review below, in my head the woman who wears this would be a courtisane...nevertheless a classy one. Sorry if anyone is offended. It is a reasonably nice fragrance, suited better for a cold wintry day but I shan't be rushing out to buy a full bottle.

Resurrected from the back of the closet, I forgot I had this cute baby. Scarlet red bottle with Rene Lalique-esque print, it looks sexy, and yes, it is.

If this were a woman, she would be the one thats not sexy 'at first glance', she wouldn't flirt, she wouldnt need to, or show any skin, but you know as soon as you saw her, she would take you to a sensual planet, with just that 'look', that positive stare and nod she gives you.

A behind closed doors sensuality. An innocent rose dripping with lusty pheremones. Slight sweet like Sticky liquer that tacks to your lips. Under-stated, absolutely not for young 'Britneys' or 'girls who follow' Only for women who have 'it' in abundance.

I have a full BIG (3.4 OZ.) bottle of this it´s NEW please contact me.

Just bought my first bottle of Tumulte based on reviews on this site and the fact that I love Christian Lacroix's other perfumes. Wow! I love it! On this crisp winter morning it smells warm and sweet but not sickly - attar of roses and Turkish Delight and a deep comforting glow on drydown - this will be worn all winter long!

* edit - i meant my bro is in Sweden again :)

By the way... how can a fragrance be creamy and tart (sour) at the same time? Tumulte makes it!

You need to know that my younger brother hates nearly all the women's perfumes. He doesn't really likes women to smell perfumery. We shared a flat for a couple of years and he was always telling me to stop using perfume in the house cause it irritates him, while he was spraying himself all the time with nice man's colognes... anyway it is hard to setisfy him on this field.
Last year he went out to Sweden and I asked him to check out the duty free shop at Stockholm Airport and surprise me with something.
He bought me the lovely Tumulte, saying that it is very nice and interesting smelling. I was like "wow my little perfume-hater bro bought me a perfume and saying it is nice..." :)
I was really impressed and loved the smell.
Unique, creamy, flowery, tart-frutiy, def. one of a kind.
Now my bro is in Sweden too... I am waiting for him fingers crossed, ha-ha! :)

I really love it and,though many people would disagree, I find it of a similar 'character' to Absynthe.
The same 'full' flavor, the same 'liquer' like scent.
It's quite heavy but not in a bad way (not like La perla, Jolie Madame and Paloma Picaso who are masculine IMHO), just ...rich.
Its sweetness has nothing to do with sugar itself but it derives from some other source, it reminds me in general of a heavy and very very high quality liquer. I love it!
Green notes, I haven't detected any of them. It's a thick, full and rich perfume...
It's a rather mature scent (not for teens, for sport style, nice for women +25).

I can't agree with Habanita.
In Tumulte is nothing "green and masculine", it's one the most nursing, warm and soft scent I know.

Sweet, sweeter, sweetest. I do like it, but i guess I would have to lose a lot of weight to be able to wear this, as it already is a caloric bomb, delicious tho. The ad says a lot - ton of gold and jewels overwhelming the poor little girl. It is VERY rich. Requires almost minimalistic look, if you don`t want to smell like a pink poodle with a pink lollypop.

Just got my bottle today and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this!!! I went by Lillybee's review and she is absolutely right. This does smell like L'instant except dustier and a little darker. I like it far better than L'instant for these reasons. I do get the honey note, too, which is so captivating even though honey isn't listed. I swear I can smell some kind of beautifully, oiled, aged wood like rosewood but there’s no wood listed here either. Sillage is great and dries down to a powdery, woody, sweetness that is divine! If I didn't know better, I'd think this was a Guerlain. This is my new FAVE!! Mmmm…so edible….I can’t stop smelling my wrists! This was a WONDERFUL blind buy!

It is such a nice "cool lipstic' scent

I liked it when the people around me found it ordinaary

It would have been reeeaaallly good had it been more long-lansting with improved sillage.

Tonka bean and masculine, mossy, earthy tones all the way. 1-10: 2. Beautiful bottle, though!

oh my. Tumult indeed!!! on my skin this is nothing but a mess.

This is like different ingredients forcefully scrammed into a bottle. Sickly sweet. If you think lolita lempicka lolita lempicka is too sweet, you havent seen anyhing yet. This is like a half licked-away red lollipop in the summer heat.

Here, in Tumulte, the tangerine, roses and tonka are a disaster. This is the first case in my perfumista life when i say: give it more patchouly!!! This fragrance does not have dimensions at all!

If you like pink-dressed fluffy dressed women pull each other's hair, give it a try.

Step 1: one liberal spray on my pulses and ... tasting. I felt roses in a sugary, candied way (like rose confiture I had the chance to eat once in my lifetime in an Eastern country); they seemed like rose quintessence with powder sugar glazed all over.
Step 2: then did mandarin and freesia lift the jam feeling and powdery elements from iris and heliotrope settled in. I considered the scent had showed all its power so I did away with it mentally, while leaving it on my skin all the same.
Step 3: by evening time I sensed something warm (tonka and amber) decisevely present where applied and much later there was a cocoa vanilla slightly gourmand leftover which I enjoyed.
Tumulte did not live up to my expectations from the dark rose point of view, but intrigued me instead as a pleasant soft rosey vanilla.
I still cannot figure out how it happened, but I find myself wearing it every day to work. I like oriental and strong perfumes but they can be too much in close encounters so I find Tumulte a good choice for its comfortable feeling and combination of notes. The rose is felt every now and then inside a powdery mix on a bed of warm vanilla tonka notes. It is long lasting and intriguing and on clothes there remains a clean powdery rose I like to sniff. The musk thankfully seems not to be present on my skin, so this is a plus for that reason for me.

I've tried so hard to find to test it and when I found it and it was a good deal, I ordered it online unsniffed.
Last week I was waiting a package as Santa's gift (in red!) and finally I knew this is my new darling.

For me is it nursing, warm scent from the top to the tail. Non-misterious and dark, IMO, but sexy, seductive, a bit reminds me to Nivea cream.If you love freesia and rose, go for it safely!

I came across this perfume while shopping in a duty free shop. As I am looking for a unique smell, this perfume came to be just perfect! Unique, dark, sexy smell. If you are looking for a regular, floral-fruity perfume, this will not be the one for you. This perfume is perfect for a night out in a lounge or banquet event. It gives you a sense of mysteriousness, IMO. That's what make the fragrance so attractive, I haven't smelt this special style of fragrance before, not after many top brands. I am disappointed that Christian Lacroix didn't make it to survive in the fragrance market, so buy this fragrance before its gone! I already have a 100ml backed up :)

GORGEOUS Niche-smelling fragrance for an excellent price. "Tumulte" is an "amped up" dark, naughty outgoing sister to Frederic Malle's "Lipstick Rose". Think "Lipstick Rose" amped up with tons of roses, heliotrope, orris, & musky patchouli darkness. I get loads of powdery violets in the heart (all though this is not listed as a note, it definatley IS present in the heart). Francoise Caron, is the maker of this "Tumulte" of a fragrance. Francoise Caron is also the nose behind work of perfume-art like Acqua di Parma's "Iris Nobile" edp & Jean Charles Brosseau's "Ombre Rose L'Original". So sort of like these 3 fragrances combined. Like a classic gone totally patchouli-wild & darkley exotic. The beutiful perfume-add of this fragrance, with the gorgeous oriental lady *looks like this perfume smells* !! Oh, and the bottle is perfect for this fragrance, and *oh so very very beutiful*. A true Oriental Floral (must have for fans of this olfactive group). You shouldn't miss it. AND, my dear boyfriend never notices a new fragrance on me (can't blame him, check my wardrobe, I'm a fanatic collector). But this made him go *wow this is so seeexy gorgeous Mmmmm* as he burried his nose in my neck. 10/10 stars.

For some reason, this frag starts out mildly green on me...then it slips into the citrusy & rosey notes, ending in a mild tonka beanish, musky scent...Not too bad [on me]...

I mostly feel the heliotrope, iris, tonka bean and patchouli notes in this fragrance. Not light, but not too strong. I don't like this fragrance at all because of the patchouli note in it. It smells too earthy and a little bit dry on me.

In a cold gray winter's day nothing but
sobering colors of different shades of gray Depressing bleak of winter feeling traped and there's no hope until you come across a faint red Orb under the sleet of snow brushing the snow off
your curiosity got the best of you
you gently touched the orb and your
starled by a puff of a Thousand Red Roses falling to the ground you never saw this before bacause you where born
in the darkest Relm where winter never Ends and it's always Gray. and the second time yards of red silk came out
floating and falling on the ground and
melts the snow and relized what she's
done so she with excitement pushed in the orb so many times there came out Red satin walls with Dragon print Luxirous red with Red silk sheets Big red fluffy pillow Red Tassles on the side of the Cannopy Bed And pushed the orb again and Scent of Red Roses came
lingering through the room and Comsumed
by all the roses and all the Luxiourious
Red
Her Pale white skin became Toasty Olive her Platnum Blonde hair Turned Jet Black. Her Gray Eyes became Black as cole her long white flowing gown became a revealing Short red Cheoungsam Dress
with Red Steletto heels. and one last
time the very last time pushed the orb
fire came bursting out and she turned in a dragon. and she was to rule in her firey Relm insted of ice this time is Fire

This Perfume bring warmth in the Cold in winter. if your feeling depressed
drained out because of the weather
coldness or Rain Wear this this will warm your heart.

One look at the bottle of Christian Lacroix's TUMULTE, and it's obvious that this perfume was intended only for Christmastime. Do the contents of the bottle deliver on the promise made by the bright red all covered with fanciful gold graphic designs of eyes, mouths, and what not?

TUMULTE is quite sweet but also flowery, with tonka bean and patchouli dominating. Somehow it resonates with my memories of ADDICT. On the other hand, it also evokes fleeting memories of many other scents as well.

TUMULTE is appropriately named, for it doesn't really know what it wants to be. Indeed, this fragrance seems to be a sort of identity crisis in a bottle. TUMULTE is literally all over the map, to my nose, a more or less incoherent perfume, though certainly not repulsive. I won't throw the bottle away. Nor will I wear it again before, perhaps, next Christmas!

There is a moral to this storybook scent as well: If you try to be all things to all people, you'll end by being nothing to anyone.
(Désolée...)

i never got sa many compliments as when i wore tumulte. on my skin is more green with rose notes, and not so poewr full!!!

Very bad,it reminds me of cake.Not that cake is bad but in a bad way in perfumes..Very disturbing sweet scent that just was very strange made,it felt like i was smelling something edible..blah

I am enjoying this one for the fall!

Tumulte starts off with a very sweet mandarin note, a compote type feel if you will, but matures quickly into a rose, freesia and heliotrope bouquet. It is quite bright and sunny throughout the development. The patchouli comes in with a very light hand and I am betting there is something akin to cedar or orris root in the base.

Overall Tumulte works beautifully with my skin, although I thought the sugary mandarin would spoil it for me. It didn't, but I think it is quite unnecessary and the fragrance would have been better had the opening been less sweet.

That bottle! Simply beyond reproach.

I also love the men's version of Tumulte which is a more incensy affair and more "tumultuous" in it's feel.

AND that lovely drydown lasted ALL day.

Tumulte has a special place in my collection. My husband has said that it is his favorite of my perfumes (so far). Well, i added that "so far" part myself. I'm sure i'll blow him away with some other find someday, right? Anyway, Tumulte is very nice even with its wicked name. It reminds me of a naughty librarian. I can smell the waxed wood of her desk with roses and a bowl of candy nearby. It even has a little mustiness to it that could be old books. I guess the best way to describe Tumulte is ladylike and a little stuffy with some sweetness lurking just beneath the surface. Works for me.

Very nice bottle, but thr scent was dissapointment.

Very hard to come by this one so I'm reviewing the scent from a bottle that's almost completely used up and no replacement :-(. It isn't a floriental on me, more of an oriental woody vanilla but quite dark and insensy. A nice combination of earthy, powdery iris and dusty honey note of the tonka is what I get in the drydown. I can't remember getting a lot of rose from it, the patchouli seems to overshadow it. From the fresh citrus top to the honey -vanillic base it reminds me of L'Instant only Tumulte is darker and dustier. I get a nice sillage too but it isn't overbearing at all. A strong but subtle beauty, for those who like florientals with a dark and dusty edge.

so i finally got it!
ummm it reminds me of barbie dolls scent...i dont love it but i dont hate it either!its the first perfume that puts me into trouble when it comes to reviewing it!!!lol...anyway,its definetely heavy and intense for cold winter nights!what more can i say?i'll try it in the winter,see how many compliments i get and keep you informed!lol!

This perfume has a very peculiar smell!When I first sniffed it I liked it much but after a few years wearing it one day suddenly I didn't feel good,it had something intense that makes me feel unease I don't know whether it's patchouli or tonka bean.Thank God after few hours it transforms really well!!

I find this to be a very elegant floral oriental fragrance. I can't smell doughnut on this or any "eatable" ingredient. It has a baroque style in my opinion. I can identify roses, with an earthy hint... it is a nice evening fragrance.

i just ordered it!never smelled this before but i was pleased by the reviews in here...:-)not a single bad word about this perfume!

yummy! this stuff is great!

It's funny how I got misled by the name and bottle, I simply thought it will be overpowering and noisy like its name would suggest, how wrong.Today I tested it and what a surprise! It is intense but in a goooood way. First some citrus with freesias so nice and sweetish, then more sweet iris and roses which make your nose to stick to your wrist,must be the spicy edge of tonka beans and patchouli which makes me like it so much, otherwise I would not fall for the sweetness itself. After a while all the sweet is gone and subtle floral sent stays, I just wish a bit longer. Lovely perfume for special occasions.

I just don't detect anything edible here. I do however get a lot of rose and patchouli, even upon initial spray. It's nice and warm for sure, but nothing that will blow your mind. Decent lasting power too. *sigh* And how I did want to smell like a doughnut...

In my opinion Tumulte smells exactly like fresh warm doughnut with strawberry jam filling…

Tumulte is sweet and warm, edible fragrance. I wouldn't say it's unique, I smelt a lot of similar fragrances. I will probably buy this one as soon as I finish my Hanae Mori, they both represent the same type of fragrances for me.

The bottle design had me expecting something sexier and spicier. At first spritz Tumulte is very busy, yet not complex. For me this is a “G” rated fragrance from start to finish: it goes on sweet, and dries down to candy. In a side-by-side test (comparing the two red bottled-fragrances from Lacroix) Rouge comes out on top. I like both bottles, but in design as in scent, Tumulte seems to be trying too hard, while Rouge comes across as less garish, more elegant, more adult, more subtle, and for all these reasons, more seductive. Good news if you like Tumulte: it lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts.

I have this perfume, it is very sweet and vanilla-ry when I first put it on but after a while it mellows out beautifully into an intoxicating, more-ish, lushious, sensual, floral and light, yet musky fragrance. I think it goes very well with my natural skin scents and it makes me feel warm, happy, abundant and subtly sexy. I love it! My fiancee adores it and the bottle it divine- so jewel-like and splendid! If you are after understated sexuality with indulent gorgeousness, try this one!

I love this perfume and get compliments pretty much every time I wear it. I highly recommend it! A good evening/night perfume.