Fracas (for women)

anava33

Fracas is an amazing and extraordinary perfume, in which Classic femininity and contemporary sensibility run into this luxuriant white floral scent.
The power of seduction of tuberose, the white jasmine, jonquil, gardenia, rose of Bulgaria and orange flower in a profusion of delicate white flowers, with base of sandalwood, vetiver and musk. Fracas is a perfume that makes the difference when we are wearing it.

litldove7

This is a very sophisticated and creamy jasmine. Unfortunately, it does clashes with my skin chemistry. I was hoping it would work nicely because in the bottle, it's superb ...

Fracas belongs to a woman of beauty, elegance, sturdy self-confidence, and enchanting femininity. Though it doesn't work well with me, it certainly has my respect. It IS vintage after all, and MOST vintages deserve no less than awe. One spritz and this perfume creates a veil of rich, silky, and aromatic flowers on you. Once you get to the base, the silk veil unfolds gently, slowly...revealing a soft amber cardigan woven amidst the finest woodsy & earthy notes known to man.

This is coming from someone who usually runs away from Jasmine...but if I could wear it, I would, and I would wear it on proudly.

Trinity

I am a bit scared of "Fracas" I must confess. She is so utterly beautiful and perfect that, while wearing her, she makes me sometimes painfully aware of my flaws…...

"Fracas" belongs on the red carpet….paparazzi taking her picture and she stunning, beautifully dressed up with a big smile. She IS all Tuberose and she knows exactly how beautiful she is……

I only wear "Fracas" while I am feeling absolute fabulous and confident of myself - nicely dressed-up with perfect hair and make-up. Otherwise, I could not take up with her….it is like standing next to a gorgeous super-model. If you are not completely self-confident you will disappear next to her and no one will ever take notice of you….

"Fracas" is therefore not easy to handle! As with all beautiful women, she can be quite demanding and obnoxious….if you cannot cope with her strong scent, she will walk all over you …she will wear you instead the other way round!

But, if she likes you….loves your skin chemistry, she will be the best friend you will ever have….she will generously share the limelight and will lend some of her beauty to you!

How to make friends with her? Flatter her, take her seriously and treat her with respect….take her out to the most beautiful places, but be strict! Only let a few drops of this heavenly jus touch your skin….otherwise she will be too much to bear!

weegee

Fracas. I wanted to love it. Really, I wanted to love it.

Fracas is a lonely walk in a dense, tropical forest heavy with humidity and crowded with... green. Everything is green. Bark and earth alike are slick with moss and mold, all green. The air itself is green and nearly too thick to breathe. There is no breeze, just wet heat and the sharp blades of sunlight that cut through the haze that shimmers in tune with the pulsing heartbeats of every creature here both seen and unseen, the silent and the heard.

Suddenly something shifts among the boughs and branches,in the twining nets of vines. Ahead, behind, above and all around thousands of gardenia buds unfurl in a mass blooming explosion of creamy white petals weeping a torrent of syrupy fragrant tears that fall on acres of tuberose, their own tall flower stalks popping into full bloom in a fast-forward frenzy.

Gardenia & tuberose, tuberose & gardenia... everywhere. No other scents exist anymore and the air becomes more and more saturated with GARDENIA and TUBEROSE. Birds take flight and all manner of insect, mammal and amphibian burst from their hiding places to flee, to escape this wall of GARDENIA and TUBEROSE!! Make it stop!!!!!

I wanted to love it, really I did. But this is just too cloying, too thick and nauseatingly, tropically sweet. This much gardenia & tuberose should not exist in one place. Truly awful, noxious juice.

Cherub573

Well I have respect for this fragrance as being a classic. I hesitate to call this a fresh floral and it hardly reminds me of fresh blooms though it is creamy and quite unique.
It is strong and gives off a lot of sillage, definitely for a woman who loves luxury, which is why I went out of my way to introduce it to my mother, who loves it. And I love it on her. She also likes to wear Michael by Michael Kors, which I think smells very different, but they both share a tuberose heart.

Mellyhelly

Intense white floral with incredible creaminess, daring but never gross, Fracas is the essence of happiness! When I wear my little drops of Fracas I feel like entering in a different world of pleasure, poetry, softness and love! First notes encourage me to go on, like a promise, "go on, there's much more". Like a sweet explosion of white flowers flying around my head like not- so-innocent fairies, tentalizing, they bring a ray of sun each weaving a web of golden light.
Fracas is not a scent for rush hours. No running into the city, no crowded places. Fracas is a multi-faceted cloud of tuberouse creaminess that deserves slow times to enjoy. It conjures images of intimacy, sensual happiness: think of a big white bed with silk linen, early summer, a window open over the bed with early sun passing through playing reflections with the white wall, bed linen and happy skins of two happy bodies. I see a hugging couple waking up in the summer light after a night of love . She's tender and beautiful, he's dreamy in love. They know each other spiritually and sexually and the more they do the more they feel love. No one is around... maybe a cat, maybe singing birds in the silence of a flowering garden outside. They smile knowing, no word needed. One minute or a hour? Who knows? Time is sooo slow and all around the light of gold envelops the whole scene. What will they do? Tea for two? A walk in the garden? The incredible plentyful happiness of the heart is there. Fracas is there: love, golden love, untouchable.

guest_enia

I never believed in love at first sight, Fracas changed my mind..:-)

Perfumedsecrets

If every other fragrance you own disappears within a few hours, this is your perfume. It lives on well into the night. It's one of the most powerful and beautiful perfumes ever created. It's a woman... and you only need one spray on the wrist. On the neck, could be very intense. This is best in other places, so you get the scent of it without being overwhelmed.

essija

I do deserve Fracas even though I am No Diva. My skin loves this. It is unlike anything I have ever smelt and it must be the Violet I'm getting the most of. To me this smells like Ripe Grapes off the vine ready to make a suculent devine wine. Ohh how this is not really white floral on me at all, it's deep red wine... Love you Fracas!

Spring25

Wow, this scent is wonderful! It's the best tuberose I've tried since Estee Lauder Private Collection. It's very long lasting to boot. I can't say enough good things about it! This is a must try, especially for tuberose fans.
Oh yeah, great name too!

Emeraude

hace unos 10 años use este perfume...recuerdo el aroma a tuberosa mas que el de otra flor en el...
(tuberose most of all,nice perfume,but strong...)

Mals86

Fracas is the reason some people believe they hate Big White Florals. (Just like Opium is the reason that for years I believed I hated Orientals... as it turns out, I hate patchouli and adore Orientals with no patchouli in them!) Fracas is the reason that every time I brought home a white-floral fragrance as a teenager, my mother made me take it back.

Fracas is a diva of a scent, with a personality as big as that of Maria Callas. I love her, but I do not really deserve her. She demands six dozen red roses in her dressing room, diamond and ruby jewelry, chilled champagne, evening gowns, and six pairs of Manolos to choose from, before getting into her stretch limo to go out.

My lifestyle includes jeans, twill pants, turtlenecks, and sensible mules. It includes three children, a dog, and a cat... when I wear Fracas, I feel like an imposter. She is too enormously gorgeous for my life.

When that changes, she will be my new best friend. Watch out: we will b*^$h-slap you with huge bouquets of tuberose at the grocery store. And you will adore us.

Tarida

Hmm, i am quite curious about this fragrance. Although it seems to be too floral for my personal tastes. I prefer the more gourmand types. I heard Madonna is a big big fan of Fracas.

pimentosugars

Fracas belongs on a diva's dressing table - the kind that has a diamond necklace draped over the mirror, a powder puff of rare scented talc below and letters from the fans strewn everywhere!

At first, I felt a bit - the words came to me in embarrassment - stately, wearing this perfume down the street. I felt too young and sharp for it. It does have a very traditional floral bouquet, with top notes that are clean and powdery, fresh without being medicinial...then as it settled and warmed another word for it came into my mind; ravishing.

The soapiness gave way to a luscious blend of orange flowers and tuberose - in fact, every other tuberose perfume I've tried pales into insignificance beside this rich creamy beauty. Sensual. Delicious.

Amythyst

Love at first sniff, I am definetely going to get a bottle of this in the very near future. Worth every penny...

lote

A blond fragrance for a brunette.

When I wear Fracas I suddenly feel like noir star Veronica Lake but dripping in jewels.
It is a flower unapologetic in it's voluptuousness.
I was behind a woman wearing it like a rain coat in a coffee shop. I felt that sacrilegious and does the magical perfume a great disservice.
It calls for delicate layering from out of the bath to anointing lightly with it's holy tuberose.
It deserves cashmere or light evening gown and perfectly applied lipstick.

Not for the faint of heart. Fracas is serious business.

karolwf

This is my absolute favorite fragrance. I travel quite a bit and I am always receiving compliments of the scent. Once when I was returning from Europe after a 12 hour flight I was complimented on the cologne and I raved that if I could still "smell" nice after that long a flight than the parfum had to be good. Wearing it makes me smile as it is really a head turner. I just adore the floral fresh scent as it is definitely feminine, romantic, and seductive. Although vintage it is still a first. I feel naked without it. It is the icing on the cake.

Ester

There are just a few perfumes in the world, which are able to tell the story, to create a mood. Fracas is definitely one of them. When I tried Fracas, I saw a woman. She is Parisian courtesan. She still looks young and innocent, but her tongue and her mind are dirty. She has a lot of makeup and she is wearing black dress with pink ribbons. Her flowery perfume mixes with the smell of her body, creating heavy and lustful aroma.

katyas

I have the tiny Parfume Extrait and have used it only sparingly because of the exorbitant cost to get more. This is a lovely, floral scent with a bit of spice lurking in the background, waiting for the unwary to wander by. I was very glad to find a good deal so I have even a small bottle of this lovely fragrance.

Robert White

This is, as they say, the shit. I love tuberose, and this is the big one. I know this stuff is feminine as all hell, but it's just too good for me to give a damn. When I want to wear it secretly, I dab a little under my nose so I can smell it all day. Then other times I throw caution to the winds and shpritz it on. Then men move away from me on the subway and women look confused. It's big, sexy, and slutty, just like I like my lady friends. Although I can't stand her, I'm not surprised in the least that Courtney Love wears this.

cdawnn1

This scent smells great! It reminds me of old Hollywood glamour. I actually heard that Marilyn Monroe wore Fracas, besides Chanel no.5. I never cared for no.5, but I have been searching for another timeless, sophisticated scent and Fracas is it! I love tuberose fragrances too, and Fracas falls into that category. So lovely.

honeydays

My signature fragrance for the last year. I agree that it's strong, but I wear it every day. Makes me feel like a lady. I shop around and in the past year nothing has impressed me like Fracas. Luckily, my bf likes it as much as I do.

Nuppu

For years I have been reading and dreaming of Fracas, it did sound so good with opulent tuberose and everything else nice, maybe even my ultimate favourite candidate. So when I at last did get my sample, I was in great suspence.

And what a heaven Fracas is! It's even better than I did imagine it. So soft, velvety, creamy, ultra feminine. I do get loads of nice orange blossom at first, then arrive smoothest, most creamy tuberose of possible. Sweet but not sugary. I do not find Fracas too strong or overpowering on me at all.

Love it!

BlackAmberMoon

Fracas is an absolute must try fragrance. Even if you dislike it, it is a classic in the truest sense, and should be experienced at least once. I would never wear it personally (not a big floral lover), but the tuberose in this is so buttery, round, and lush, that it transports me to the tropics. It is gorgeous, even if it's not the perfume for me. Wear it with a light hand. :)

PR

Very elegant, rich fragrance. I like strange warminess of the scent, and then there is something in composition that surrounds you with its aura, and you just can't resist. The composition itself is not something that can be understood by notes, its too complicated, it just have to be percieved. One of the most intriguing scents I came accross so far. After initial burst of warmness some soapy strange note starts emerging, I can't say if it annoys me or pleases, but I couldn't resist but spray Fracas on my wrist( which I don't do at all). After an hour I understood it is familiar to me! Can't say from where, but someone appearantly was using it from my environment..and I can't balme myself for not noticing it as a perfume, because it strangely blends into person, becomes his second skin, his things, and I can't blame the staying power either, which simply can't be competed with.. stayed as fresh on the wrist for hours and hours and hours.. as fresh, just more lingering and slightly softer.. and sweeter..on the next day. Amazing perfume.

NebraskaLovesScent

Fracas is a gorgeous, heavy, loud floral. I didn't care for it at first, as I thought it was too overpowering. The strong tuberose aroma can be a bit offputting--it almost has a rubbery smell at first, but it gradually mellows on your skin to a softer floral. Fans of true floral scents will enjoy this one.

moccabannana

One of the sexiest & femminine fragrances ever created. A beautiful blend of rich, thick flowes and assertive base notes. Not a chioce of silly girls but of confident, strong, up on their own, women.

mihailo_vukoicic

utterly feminine. like a cloak of invisibility. it's protecting me from the negative energy we are surrounded on a daily basis.
more sumptuous than Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier 'Tubereuse', richer than FM 'Carnal Flower' and way better than any of the designer fragrances which gravitate towards jasmine, tuberose, rose and orange blossom. I am a 28 year old man and I loooove wearing Fracas. do you think I care what people think about my obsession w/ this fragrance?

PerfumeEmpress

I love Fracas. And like all old-fashioned perfumes, it lasts forever! :):):) This is not for the faint of heart. But it underscores my assertion that new frangrances don't last anything. And no, it's not my skin. Fracas, Opium, KL (Karl Lagerfeld), Serge Lutens, Michael Kors, and others like them last for ever on me. It's just some of the new ones. Bummer.

Aeternitas

It's a sexy, voluptuous floral that every woman should at least try. It definitely has a vintage feel, but however it is not outdated. I love it very much, it exudes the beauty of women; very effeminate. Awesome quality, too! It makes me think of pale pink lingerie with ruffles, oddly enough ;p. Tuberose is the note that I remember the most from when I tried it.

guest_Sweet

I adore Fracas. It is glamorous, feminine
and seductive. Even though it is vintage, it still manages to smell modern, yet original.

guest_Kali

My sister wears this. I don't like it, but she loves it. I think it is obnoxious. I would never wear this, even if it were the last fragrance on earth.