Tuca Tuca Lush for women

I recently purchased a sample due to my intense love for violets and vanilla. I am not disappointed, once again, with LUSH. Beautiful, lush violets, vetivert gives I slight dry grassiness, the vanilla and ylang ylang are perfect, making the scent slightly sweet and spicy. If you truly love natural violets, you will love this perfume. LUSH perfumes are so beautifully natural and non synthetic...I am totally hooked...

This is very warm and dark for a violet scent. I usually prefer my violets cooler, Insolence Eau Glacee probably my favorite. The heart of this composition has a warmth and sweetness that is difficult to put my finger on -- probably a combination of the vanilla, mimose, ylang ylang. The sandalwood is quite lovely in the dry down as well. I think I would like this composition better with less vetiver, it seems to clash with the rest of the notes. The violets just don't stick around long enough to make me think of this as a violet fragrance, it's more of a yellow floral, it certainly has the sweetness of one. I think it is definitely unisex, if you're a man who likes florals this one could work for you.

I like this. I bought it because one of my favorite things to do is go into a lush store and go on an olfatory journey. Just loove holding the bathbombs smelling them, watching them glisten in the light when they have little sparkles. This is a kind of therapy for me, so very relaxing....and if there is a quintesential Lush smellis the Tucca, Tucca. Is the stuff you smell when you go infront of a Lush store and makes you walk in! This smell is kind of strong, soapy clean, but pleasnt to me. I think it soothes me because it transports me to the leasurely moments I spend walking around a lush store smelling all the little treats as if time didnt exist...

I however don't wear this often. As much as I like this I find the smell is too strong and kind of annoying or umplesant to those closest to me. They say hey Mangotea, you smell like that weird soapy store. Thus I wear it sparingly, because I like those people close and because I do recognize that there are some dresses that look better on a hanger than on your body. I think this fragrance is a little like this. If it was a paint color this wouldnt blend like a watercolor but coat like a wall paint, regardless of your body chemistry. I wear this more on the occasional weekend when I come out of the gym, after a long, strong workout and looooonnnng shower.

This is Juliette smoking and listening to "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division

First it has an sticky, dark dollish sweetness to it like a Barbie mixed with petrol. After a while it turns into a sweet, violetty almost rubbery kind of scent. It's a quite sharp, sweet dark heavy fragrance. I don't know if I like it or not.... If I spray it on clothes it seems to be much more refined and delicate, maybe that's what I have to do :))

I'll try it on for a while and come back to edit...!!

Edit: I've decided that I like the smell, it turned into an amazing powdery violettyfloral smell on me after a while. Well done again, Lush!!


Först uppstår en väldigt skarp "Barbie" doft uppblandat med bensin!! Inget jag alls uppskattar.... har till och med svårt att utröna några som helst noter då doften är mycket skarp och "frätande". Den tonar ner sig efter ett tag men är fortfarande ganska gummiliknande i doften med noter av sötma och viol. Har svårt att avgöra om jag tycker om den eller inte.... När jag sprayar den på mina kläder framstår den mycket mer raffinerande och delikat...

Jag kommer att använda den ett tag för att sedan återkomma och redigera...!!

Edit: Jag har bestämt mig för att jag tycker om doften, den förvandlas till en fantastisk, pudrig, violettblommig doft på mig efter ett tag. Bra gjort igen..... Lush!!!

Contrary to the gushing notes above, Tuca Tuca certainly did not start with a "blast of fresh summer air" on me - it started with a big burst of stale cigarette smoke and vetiver. I loved it from the start! as I love the smell of stale cigarette smoke IN PERFUMES, but not in real life. I got not even a hint of violet or any other notes really except perhaps a little bit of ylang-ylang and smoked vanilla. On the whole this is a semi-sweet, deep smoky perfume with a difference and a bit of a departure from Lush's mainstream offerings. Worth a try if you are into campfire smells.

I love violets, but this is too sweet, too strong and too linear. It's great at first, like eating a handful of candy, but after too many violet creams you start to feel a bit sick.

very nice violet's perfume,very sugary ,sweet mimosa and sandal.
and very strong ,persistent,with good silage.I'll buy it cos it was love from the first sniff :).

The one thing that I like about this perfume is that it smells like my mom's lipstick that I would borrow from her purse when I was a kid. That's it. It smells like lipstick for an hour, then on my skin turns into something obnoxious, kind of like mothballs mixed with hairspray mixed with some kind of pee. Not great.

I tried the Lush solid perfumes and this one turned out the nicest on my skin. When I got home I asked my mum to smell my wrist and she said "mm is that Guerlain". :)I suppose it smells expensive on me. I actually tried on a violet perfume by Guerlain once, but it didn't quite sit with my skin as nicely as this does.

The silage is quite good but not in an overpowering way. It smells yummy.I love that it has Ylang Ylang and vanilla in it as well as the violets.

I am grateful to the attendant at Lush who told me to wait 15m for the perfume to develop. I am used to alcohol based perfumes so I wasn't aware of how long it would take, and on first sniff I wasn't quite as crazy about it. Will become my everyday becasue of the great ingredients and due to the fact I can carry it in my handbag.

When I first had this, I loved it. It was amazing powdery sweet floral smell to me.
But then it changed. I don´t know what happened, but now it smells sour to me, like expired joghurt.
Very dissapointing...

Tuca Tuca reminds me of Lust because they both have that sticky, dark syrupy sweetness. Both contain a generous portion of ylang ylang (it's that distinct spicy floral note) and they both turn kinda stuffy/powdery in the drydown. But where Lust goes all green tea & jasmine on you, Tuca Tuca turns purple, violetty, lipsticky, and almost rubbery. I can also smell the musty roots of iris here...

Now, being a fan of dark/spicy/heavy fragrances I love them both, but I waited longer to test Tuca Tuca because of the misdirected advertising. The name is too silly for this dark beauty; all that fun and dancy stuff simply doesn't suit its mood. This is the most sensual dark floral heavy on violets, there's nothing careless or modern about it. They should have named it 'danger danger' because that's the vibe I'm getting, but in the best possible sense. ;) But just like with other good quality heavy fragrances, anything more than a drop will be an overload, so spray with caution.

Lush TUCA TUCA is another rather gooey and gunky creation from this house, in this case with more of a dark purplish, almost black character. There is a somewhat rubbery and burnt scent to the opening, which smells to my nose similar to the pot liquor at the end of an organic chemistry experiment. It does lighten up a bit as it dries down, but it always remains quite dense. I would compare this to the result one might obtain by boiling away most of the solvent from Lolita Lempicka or maybe Guerlain INSOLENCE. TUCA TUCA is not nearly so sweet as those perfumes however. I would say that this is more of a masculine violet scent.

The hue of the liquid is empirically indistinguishable from that of red food coloring, but it appears to be imparted by acacia, which is listed among the ingredients, along with several other inviting-sounding essences. I don't know about this one. It's an interesting concept, but I feel that it needs to be infused with something to make it diffuse into layers. As it sits on my skin, TUCA TUCA seems pretty impenetrable and monolithic.

I think that Miss K (see below) is on to something with the comparison to cigarettes, but I'm not finding TUCA TUCA all that appealing as a stand-alone fragrance. It's not repulsive, but it's not compelling either. It seems to me like the rough draft of a perfume.

The first time I tested Tuca Tuca, I really enjoyed it. I got spicy-green violet leaf, creamy ylang, and warm vetiver and clove. It was a lovely sweet-spicy experience. Pleasantly smoky and exotic, with a "campfire" undertone.

Having tested it again, I get a similar unpleasant experience to what others have described below. It is waxy, heavily powdery, sweetly synthetic, cloying, and has a distinctively stale, "old cigarette" smell. Very disappointing.

I have to admit that I've put off testing my sample of Tuca Tuca for almost a year now. I first smelled the fragrance in the matching massage bar in a Lush store and I visibly recoiled - just not for me.

Today, having forgotten what it was I didn't like about the scent in the first place, I finally steeled myself and dabbed on some Tuca Tuca. And I have to say, it's not as unpleasant as I was expecting. Wet on my skin, the violet leaf and sandalwood come to the forefront. I also get something a little spicy, like black pepper, even though that's not in the notes. The violet leaf and ylang ylang offer a little lift to what is otherwise a heavy scent - the sandalwood and vetiver keeps it dark and a little smoky. It dries down into a powdery incense sweetened with a bit of vanilla.

Overall, this is definitely a try-before-you-buy fragrance. I don't hate it, but I wouldn't buy it either. There's not enough warmth or lift to this fragrance. The best analogy I have for this is painting: Tuca Tuca is a little like paint straight from the tube - when you push it out, it's dark and murky and you eye it in disbelief ("that's supposed to be purple?"). It's only when you add a little bit of white that the color really opens up. Tuca Tuca smells a little like that dark paint looks, the color still folded in on itself, missing that crucial component that will let the fragrance really sing.

Simply love it!

If Tuca Tuca is your favourite night time perfume then Mitsouko by Guerlain would be it's day time equivilant :)

I grew up eating Parma Violets, so I think that's why I have such a place for violet in my heart. I think it smells so yummy. This reminds me of those candies as well. It kinda smells like the Vanillary perfume but with lots and lots of violet. It's ALMOST a violet overload, but not quite if you go really easy on it. Lush's perfumes are quite strong, and this one is no exception. It's really yummy, just very strong!

Edit:
I tried layering this with Lush's Vanillary and I liked it even more! The vanilla subdued the intense violet and made it more approachable. This combination is what I expected from Guerlain's Insolence, but didn't get.

When you first spray you think of a strong chemical cleaner that gets up your nose. It then morphs to parma violets with an added hint of ylang ylang. After about an 30 mins/ hour it morphs to a lovely mysterious incence smell. It smells powdery, sweet, ylang ylangy with a hint of violet and a faint hint of basir du dragon.

Definately a winter's night perfume. But to be worn on a night when you want to create a mysterious you, that keeps people guessing.

I can imagine wearing this whilst wearing rock chic stuff and killer heels:) This perfume reminds me of a sexy, sultry, rock chic (but only when fully evolved)

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.

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.

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.