Tubereuse by L Artisan Parfumeur

Kittycat63

I haven't actually smelled this perfume but, judging by the negative reviews here, it sounds like it's yet another vastly overpriced but very mediocre perfume! Supposedly Demi Moore and Madonna adore this perfume but I'm guessing it's really nothing special and there are countless other perfumes available out there which cost a tiny fraction of the price of this one yet which are, undoubtedly, a million times better. I would never waste a lot of money on crap like this!

Mellyhelly

I'm shocked at the bad reviews for this perfume. It doesn't smell so crap to me! It actually smells a pleasant plain tuberouse with a coconut edge, which I see is very common in tuberouse scents. It maybe a way to give strenght to a chemical tuberouse?
Anyway I like L'artisan Tuberouse more than other tuberouse scents, because it is simpler and a little tamed compared let's say By Kilian Beyond Love (love!). I have no idea if it is chemical or not. L'Artisan claims to be natural based (more or less IMO).
The problem is that tuberouse is difficult in itself and it can provoke repulsion in many people. It's a flower that you either love or hate it. I also smell the buttery edge but it is so faint and mingles nicely with the flower.
It smells to me like a fragment of Givenchy Amarige, as if someone took away a piece from Amarige's puzzle and put it apart to make a separate perfume. Amarige also has a weird edge that many people describe as rotten fruit or vegetable, but I don't smell this edge on me.
All in all it is a very wearable tuberouse, joyful and sunny white, slightly soapy in the drydown and quite longlasting. Chemistry must be the trick here.

doctormod

In Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, the protagonist is enslaved in a world of religious fanaticism where all cosmetics and fragrances are banned for everyone but the wives of the ruling elite. As her skin begins cracking from the lack of any sort of moisturizer, the protagonist steals pats of butter from the dinner table to soothe her discomfort. I remembered this novel when, nearly twenty years ago, this California girl found out very quickly what a short walk outside without gloves in sub-freezing temperature could do to one's hands--mere hours before an important dinner party. My skin became so painful that I slipped a pat of butter under the table and rubbed it all over my hands. It worked wonders but smelled awfully, awfully funky and I just hoped no one else at the table would detect the scent...

On another fragrance website, virtually all of the reviews of Tubereuse mention the smell of butter. When I sampled it today--and with my usual flair for testing used the entire sample vial--I smelled something very, very strange that evoked an odd memory. Though I readily detected the floral element--and thought this was the most unpleasant tuberose fragrance I'd ever smelled--there was also something else that dominated in the top notes that was decidedly unfloral. What was it?? I'd never encountered it in a perfume. Then I remembered that long-ago dinner party in Toronto...

Now, after reading the notes, I can only assume it was the coconut milk that set my nerves jangling--though it surely didn't come off smelling like coconut. Like my Dutch ancestors, I just love butter in or on food, but I surely don't want to wear it. Even when the top notes faded, I could still smell something butter-like. And, I might add, it didn't exactly smell like fresh butter--the word "rancid" came to mind. The butter smell took over five hours to fade and completely overwhelmed anything floral for most of that time.

Previous reviewers have noted a rotting or stale vegetable scent. We are probably smelling the same thing, just calling it different names. The dry-down didn't improve it. It just faded into something less vivid that is neither attractive nor offensive.

Spring25

I liked the first initial burst of coconut with the powerful tuberose note, and I am not much of a coconut fan. I just thought the combination of coconut and tuberose was a good one. At first, it reminded me a little of my visit to Hawaii. I didn't really like the drydown though. That reminded me more of stale vegetables. The fragrance lasted only a couple hours for me.

Aur-ha-kadosh

i liked it but oh god it is so synthetic not natural at all !!!! it smells like a body cream with cocnut and vanilla , things like that !!! it was so agressive and unnatural that i reacted physically with an instinctive move of repulsion, but i want to be fair, long time after the dry down it smells good but its not natural while im looking for a very natural smell of tuberose !

fragrancefiend

I generally like tuberose fragrances, especially those that combine it with coconut. I also like almost all l'Artisan scents I have tried so I was really looking forward to this sample. It is one of my least favorite tuberose scents - almost smells like rotting vegetation. I thought it would get better after the dry-down, and it did, but still was not anything I would want to try again.