Tuca Tuca Lush for women

You’re turning violet, Violet!

These are violets with a sense of humor. My friends, family, and co-workers loathe the days that spritz the Tuca Tuca but some days, like today, I cannot resist. I am in a violet phase and Tuca Tuca is my favorite. My husband-type person told me that I smelled putrefied this morning and that put a smile on my face. I arrived at work and my cubicle neighbor gagged and commented that I was wearing “that” again. I don’t wear it often because it gets such a strong reaction but I must admit that I enjoy some of the strong emotions that this one commands.

Tuca Tuca is syrupy, reminds me French candied violets if they were left out in a humid climate and the sugar began to run and drizzle. I swear the juice looks brown when I squirt it on my wrists; it’s very potent and long lasting. I also have the Tuca Tuca massage bar which I enjoy rubbing on my legs and then the scent wafts up. Good stuff.

Strong violet leaf, mimose and vetyver: a very strong and unpleasant scent to me. I stopped testing Lush scents after my disappointment today. It seems like me and Lush don't agree on what a nice scent is.

I was so excited when my LUSH SA told me about it before it came out. Since then i have tested this multiple times, hoping it will smell different. It may smell like violet leaf, i'm not quite sure how that smells on its own. Alas, i always get too much vanilla and caramel.

And it definitely does not smell like violet flower perfume, aka Parma violet, and that is what i keep hoping for. Parma violet is old-fashioned and smells a bit sugary sweet, but also has an airy cheerful lift and an almost child-like innocence. It doesn't smell like caramelized vanilla, and that's what dominates in Tuca Tuca. I really wish it smelled of violets.

It's just soo cute!:)
I own the EdT and the solid perfume version and I love both of them.:)This scent is "The Lipstick-smell" of my childhood. Every time when I wear it's just makes me smile.:)

The Edp is much more dynamic than the solid perfume, at the beginning violet dominant with vetiver, other notes aren't detectable in the opening. After a few minutes it's settles down to a powdery, semi-bittersweet violet touch, lightly spiced with a pale sigh of vanilla.

The solid perfume is loud too, but it's heavier, stickier, the "hard-core" version of the Edt without the bitterness.
Violet, vanilla,mimosa and ylang played the lead role, the violet leaves just hiding.Slightly sweet, smokey violet drydown with musk ever after.:)

Smokey, dusty, powdery violet scent. I prefer the solid version.:)

Playful, flirty, naughty and insolent fragrance. Strong perfume for girls with strong individuality!;)

The Lush SA who 'helped' me find the store fragrances really pushed Tuca Tuca on me throughout my entire hour-long stay while I was testing all the fragrances. It's his favorite & yeah it does smell good on him, but it did not develop well on me (most of its primary notes do not react well w/my chemistry) & so I had to be firm at saying NO to buying Tuca Tuca. (Instead, I got Vanillary, Dirty & The Smell Of Freedom.) These salespeople can be quite insistent (albeit nice at the same time, which makes it harder to say no, lol) but I do like the variety of scents Lush/Gorilla Perfume has put out.

It took me about 2 hrs to figure out what it is about the scent of Tuca Tuca that doesn't agree w/me - the reminiscence of LEATHER, which doesn't sit well on me. Clearly, that's why Tuca Tuca smelled good on him. Leather is primarily a male scent. There are no animal-based ingredients in Lush products but this blend of notes gives off a somewhat musky-leather aroma on the skin (even in the bottle)...could that be the sandalwood perhaps?

I have tried very hard to like this scent because I like unusual scents. I would say this is too smokey and heady to be worn during the day unless yo work in a Lush store or some other very groovy place. The dirty earthy (and yes, rancid) notes are very overpowering and so it loses I think its floral effect and sadly becomes a very single note fragrance whose one note is a bit offkey. But hey, I got a bottle, so I will use it in some way. I wish I had gotten instead Breath of god, which is a much more interesting scent for Lush.

I thought that my local Lush store only carried soaps and nothing more, however the other day, while browsing, I stumbled across a tiny display of their perfumes and solids. Tuca Tuca caught my eye at once.

I adore this fragrance, yet it's a little difficult to explain why I love it so. There's of course a bucket-load of violets in this fragrance. However, I find these violets less feminine and flowery, and more green, earthy and somewhat dirty. It is a feminine fragrance, but it smells like the essence of a man. I find it quite animalistic.

The first few hours was a very raw blend of green violets, ylang ylang and dusty vanilla, however I was surprised by the development, especially towards the drydown, when it took on a stale cigarette smoke quality.

This was the scent of my heavy smoker boyfriend's shirt. It was the mixture of sweet, soapy laundry detergent mixed with the aroma of a pack a day. I adore it because it smells like him, but I can understand the old man and floor cleaner references made by other reviewers.

For me personally, Tuca Tuca is sexy, in a dirty and musky sense of the word. The longevity is wonderful as is the sillage, which leaves just the slightest trail. I love it and I cannot deny that I probably love it more because it has managed to capture the scent of my lover in a bottle.

I like most of the Lush perfumes.. my favourite is Karma, this is very violetti and I love Violets!!! there you go what more can I say .Oh yes it lasts like most of the Lush perfumes.

I just received this today in the solid-I was a bit worried after reading some of the negative reviews but shouldn't have been:I LOVE this!Honestly the only notes I get are the Violet,Mimosa and Vanilla...it has the typical earthy 'Lush smell' to it and lasts forever.Maybe the liquid is different smelling?This just seems to be mostly a powdery violet to me and it's lovely:)

When my partner offered to buy me something from Lush I knew right away that I was going to snap up Tuca Tuca in solid form! Usually I prefer sickeningly sweet perfumes over floral scents but something about this just rang my bell. I love the way the violets in Tuca Tuca are heavier, almost too much with a soft powdery linger and a tiny hint of sweet that just catches me! I find it very relaxing, long lasting, with an earthy, sexy feel to it. The solid perfume is rather greasy and almost tacky but it does moisturize and lasts for a very long time (which truly surprises me as I've had many others that fade faster). I will definitely be replacing it once its used up!

Went around the little wheel of the perfumes today at the Lush store on the Upper West Side. Most were dull and one dimensional. This was the one that tweaked me, however...I like the Air of Freedom, too...But this was just SEXY to me, earthy, herbally, with a bit of something sweet. Oddly familiar. Then I realized that this was exactly what Tocca Touch used to smell like before it was messed with. Love it. Only problem is, I'm trying to figure out if this is what caused an allergic reaction for me today. It was three perfume shops in a row, this being the second. Wondering if anyone else has had a reaction to Lush fragrances?

Absolutely vile. Like stale flowers rotting in rancid water thats been left in a bucket for weeks.

Violets gone mad - and having changed colour from purple to muddy-grey. This is loud and hurts my sense of smell! I am convinced a gorrilla would turn away from it in disgust - I'd call this cruelty to animals.

For me violet is and important smell in my life. A kind of younger substitute of lavender when I want to smell clean and fresh. I liked violetta di parma (the most famous italian violetta even if not the best) and I expected tuca tuca to be a sugary violet. What a disappointment. This isn't a parfume, its a scented water, nothing more. It disppears immediately. And has no depth. I'll have another try to other gorilla scents anyway.

I tried the solid perfume today and it was really greasy but does smooth and soften my skin. The price was not so bad either, but oh boy! The whole store is so fumey. As for the scent, I got this nice powdery violet and heavy on ylang-ylang and vanilla, and I smelled some spices. It's floral sweet but not sugary. Overall, the perfume is not so bad. I like fresh ylang-ylang, but it can be stinky in perfume and isn't for everyone, so try it before you buy it.

It is with no doubt a love or hate scent... and i love it!!! It reminds me of a fairytale, when you enter a forest... dark, mystirious, woody, so unique which words can not express, you just have to be there and live the moment!
In the beginning i couldnt stand the smell, but then i tried it again and again, so finally i fell inlove. after an hour wearing this the smell is even deeper and refined... do try it a few times before you judge it, it has a modern twist to it which you need to explore slowly.
It lasts for ages on your skin as this is made from the finest natural ingridients!

I would advise anyone contemplating this it test it first; on me it was truly disastrous. I don't know what it smelled like on anyone else, but to me it was absolutely horrible, both in the bottle and on my skin.
I got no notes of violet flowers, or any sweet notes at all in fact, just something vegetal and piercingly unpleasant, making me think of insecticide, or floor cleaner.
Be careful with this one

At first it is shocking but half an hour later I get all the comliments in the world....

I tried the spray in the store. Instant regret. Whether it's the violet, violet leaf, vetyver, or all three of these together, the result on my skin was vile. SAs in the store were surprised by how different it smelled on me, and they were trying to be polite and not say that it smelled awful, but it did. Didn't work for me.

at first when tried the free sample they gave me, i thought it smelt awful. i think i got used to smell on the first sampling to like it now. i was suprised when even my brother said he liked it :/

The solid perfume stick is soo much nicer than the spray! Try ii and you'll smell the difference.

I was shocked how bad it is! horrible scent I can't even describe it.

Oh my this is VILE. I love the smell of violets - pure and unadulterated. In this 'perfume', however, whatever violet there is, is blended with other stuff in such a way that the result is a really REALLY STRONG and unappealing juice that says hello with a punch in the kisser - and just keeps on punching! A minging scrubber for me I'm afraid.

I have to say - I always find that Gorilla/Lush fragrances are really cheap and unimpressive... more like sprays than 'real' perfumes. I wasn't, however expecting the explosion of violets and sugar I got when I sprayed this - a bold opening!

I really liked Tuca2's description here, picturing the juice to be quite fresh and softly sweet. To me, this doesn't give the impression of a childlike, whimsical girl, but they do sum it up well. It's strong, strange, bold and flirtatious. It's fresher and more fun than their other fragrances, but as it's so very loud and saccharine I expect it takes time snd a good situation to wear it.

It's a stand-out scent, for better or worse, & I'm sure I'll be smelling it again.

Pour moi, c'est très bizzare! Yes, you can smell the violet/parma violet in this fragance... but then, ugh! What IS that wierd, like, rotten base-y note that appears, really like, I can't even describe it! Maybe it's because I don't like Parma Violets haha! x

I bought the massage bar and I have to say that I love this scent. It makes me feel light, flirty and ever so relaxed. Yummy!

I agree about it having a more wintry feel, but I actually love this scent. It took a while to get used to, I must admit, as it is intense - but Karma is my all-time favourite so as you can tell, I'm not a fan of subtle perfumes! The violet is the dominant scent in this perfume which I love, it has a hippyish feel, but I've found it to be a 'Marmite' kind of scent, you either love it or hate it. My mum, for example, can't stand this perfume and won't let me spray it in her house!!! It's funny because she loves the other Lush perfumes! I think if the violet was balanced with something else it would have gained a more unanimous praise, but I for one say bravo to Lush for being so ballsy with this one. I would buy it again and alternate between Tuca and Karma to suit my mood.

I was expecting a lush triumph of violets and warm vanilla, but I'm afraid it's a very cloying concotion this time from the usually fab Lush nose Simon Constantine. Subtlety is not the forte of this perfume, but the strength is not counterpointed by mesmerisation. Violet leaf is overwhelming everything else and transforming it into an acrid godzilla leaf. The nod to groovy Raffaella Carra's song doesn't redeem this scent, meant for summer but more akin to a heavy handed winter warmer.