Faberge Tigress

Meeoooow! Tigress purrs so beautifully on my skin. This fragrance is one of four I received in a Faberge quartet along with Aphrodisia, Woodhue and Flambeau. It was for Tigress that I sought out this collection. I wore this in 9th grade (almost 30 years ago!). I believe it was a 'modern' reformulation c. 1988 that came in a flat bottle with an emerald colored cap (shaped like the classic Opium flacons). There appears to be no evidence online that this bottle ever existed, and when it did, it was only available on the Australian shelf for about two years (I went through two bottles). And my dear friend Justin loved the way it smelled on my Catholic school wool sweater when I made him hold it one day. So, it's been since 1988 since I have encountered this kitten, and today, it's an even older vintage than I started out with. The bottle I have now is the same as the one pictured above, acquired recently at online auction. To start, Tigress reminds me very much of Tom Ford's Shanghai Lily, but richer, fuller, higher quality and much longer lasting than Ford's Oriental floral. Neither perfume contains true lily to my nose but rather representative of powdery flowers with big, velvety petals, perhaps even bushels of rich carnations. The oakmoss in Tigress provides such a tenacious base that carries the richness all the way through. The spices are warm, full, not sharp, smoothed and simmered by the oakmoss and well balanced aldehyde which is not overt, providing softness and light. The gentle sweetness of the florals and a nuance of pink rose along with vanilla and tonka make something of an incense accord. 1988 was less floral, more amber and I would have classified it as a solid spicy Oriental. This earlier version is just a little more complex than the style of the bold 80's but the shift in balance here presents more aromatic notes. Only a little different. Perhaps take that evaluation lightly as this is purely from my olfactory memory of almost 30 years ago. Do sample Tigress if you get a chance. I would even go so far as to say not to waste your time or money with Shanghai Lily and opt for this fearless, affordable vintage instead. It's one of very few Oriental fougeres for women in the database with its rich warm base and pulsating, aromatic heart. I happen to have two in this genre with Grossmith Phul-Nana being the other. Both are a superb experience in wearing and would not be out of place in your wardrobe today.

There are so many versions of Tigress out there, I think we all must be smelling different things. I have two bottles, each smelling a bit different from the other. My older bottle has a fake fur cap with bold black, white and orange tiger pattern. It's probably from the 70's. The scent in this bottle is gorgeous. Warm and spicy throughout and becomes softer and powdery as it wears. This one is beautiful from start to finish, along the same lines as Youth Dew, Tabu, and the like. The newer bottle is packaged with a gold cap, no fake fur at all, but still says Faberge. I think it's possibly from the 80's. This version is not quite as impressive and not the best example of Tigress. This one opens up a bit harsh, but as the opening notes subside, it develops into a sort of cola and incense scent. I like this one after it settles down but it's not as pretty as the one with the fur cap, and I prefer to smell lovely notes right away instead of waiting for them. Apparently the most beautiful and coveted version of Tigress has the fake fur cap with the muted golden colors. I have not smelled that one but I believe it must be truly gorgeous. Apparently there is a more recent version of of Tigress produced by a company other than Faberge but I don't believe it could possibly be true to the original. Somehow those new versions of old classics are never as good. Even Faberge reformulated Tigress a few times during its approximate 40 years of production, so I doubt a different company would bother going back to the true original. Too bad.

"What's the principal doin' with her? Who's that guy, is he screwing with her? What's her perfume? Tigress by Fabergé It makes me cream my jeans When she's coming my way" - Rough Trade, 'High School Confidential' My first knowledge of Tigress is from the lyrics to this classic song and it added to its mystique. I used to have a splash bottle with the felt tiger-pattern cap which unfortunately slipped from my hands and shattered. Man, was it a glorious smell. I had since replaced it with this pressurized-atomizer spray and what a sweet sensation this hot number is: a real knockout spicy amber that blasts you senseless with aldehydes, and sweet, sexy effervescent white florals soaked in cola! Then there's a carnation POW. It starts off heady and then simmers down to this powdery, furry-musky dry down with heaps of tonka (coumarin). Delectable and sexy.

If you get the actual vintage Tigress you are in for a treat if you like spices. The vintage bottle has that auto spray thing where it sprays for a certain length of time, it's like my vintage Tabu spray bottle. I love how amazingly spicy this scent is. Just thick sweet spice....if this is your thing. The opening right off the bat had me concerned with a sharp amber and aldehyde blast, but after only a few minutes I started getting the heavy spice w/the amber smoothing out and it just keeps transporting me back in time. Oh how I wish I could just snap my fingers and have a true vintage bottle that is full...I will be cherishing what little I do have. Makes me want to put on a pair of bell bottoms, platforms and a risque halter top made of a a silk scarf!

My sister wore this but when I got old enough to buy my own perfume, I opted for other scents like KL and Murasaki and Bakir. Tigress seemed kinda cheesey. But I decided to try it and found a vintage bottle for under $30 on eBay. It arrived today and I sprayed one arm. OMG. What a fantastic frag. Heady is a good word for it. Also sensual, warm and seductive. I can understand why a man might like to smell a woman who smelled like this. Not sure how I'll work it into my perfume wardrobe, but it will definitely fit in somewhere. Maybe when I wear a nice animal print. :-). Oh, and Lola FalanA was the name of the iconic entertainer chosen by Faberge to be the face of Tigress.

My favorite in high school 50 years ago. I used the bath oil as perfume. IMHO one of the loveliest fragrances ever made. Warm and inviting, I wore this for years until it couldn’t be found. I also enjoyed Tigress Musk. Made me feel beautiful, and the men liked it. How I wish they would re-issue some of the older fragrances with the same notes. There was a perfume made in the 50s called Lost Horizon. It was similar to Tigress as far as I can remember. Hope body oil by Francis Denny is also similar. Smelling great wasn’t very expensive back in the old days. ❤️

Love, love, love this fragrance. I remember wearing it at just 12 years old. I would sneak in my parent's bedroom and sample the bottle on my mother's vanity. I'd walk out innocent and she would ask me if I've been in her perfume again - lol! Eventually, she gave it to me when I turned 14. I think I was the only freshman in high school that smelled this rich, beautiful and seductive. I would buy it to wear again (especially to wear for my husband) but it's very hard to find.

Vintage Tabu Bottle that the previous review mentioned is perfect. Love her she's spicy and rich and sweet in an unexpected way. I cherish my full bottle and use on special nostalgia moments only. Love , she is indeed a Tiger. Aldehydes and Tonka are an incredible unexpected move for it's times ! How can a fragrance be so classic but futuristic it surprises me. I feel so fortunate to have her in my collection. She's the gem of the 70's.

I believe the advertising slogan for this in the 1960's was, "Are you daring enough to wear it?" No, I wasn't! Tigress was not for good little girls like me. It was for the woman who knew a thing or two -- or three. Rich with spices, exotic, and filled with heat. Tigress had a lazy, luxurious quality, like a big mama cat lolling around in the sun. Now that I know a thing or two or three I dare to wear it!

Warm, rich and provocative. It's 1969, the Summer of Love. I'm 13, full of raging hormones and in love with Tom Jones. As I unscrew the furry cap and apply Tigress, I feel the womanly, animal power I'm just beginning to wield. There's a sense of danger. I shiver with excitement, not knowing the source, but loving the feeling. That heady juice transformed me into its namesake. Ah Tigress that I was!

Tigress by Fabrege was my first "grown up" fragrance. It was given to me as an 8th grade graduation present. It was spray cologne and dusting powder. I loved it! I loved the animal print! I remember waking up on summer mornings inhaling deeply and getting whiffs of tigress (soft & powdery) I wonder if I would love it today almost 40 years later! ... Thanks for the trip down memory-fragrance lane!

This starts out similarly to Bal à Versailles before something sweet starts popping up. Whatever it is reminds me of cooked plums, but it does a great job of balancing the powdery and citrus notes as well as lending a cozy feeling. I get the feeling that this would be cloying in warm weather, but I wouldn’t mind trying it again then just to see if the aldehydes are more noticeable.

I just picked up a half full bottle of Tigress at the flea market for a dollar... it has the felt print around the cap.. OMG I love it.. a very warm spicy oriental, strong with great sillage.. Luckily I dont get any green (other than the oakmoss which isnt that heavy) or any aldehydes as I dont like them, it may because the bottle is obviously pretty old..

Both of my grandmothers wore Tigress, back in the 70's. When I was little, I remember playing with the fur cap, as others have mentioned. I was really fascinated with the bottle. I even sneaked a couple of drops from time to time. I might order one from the Vermont Country Store, for old time's sake. I remember liking the fragrance a lot.

I am a child of the '60s, and LOVED Tigress. I have found that Emporio Armani smells very very close to Tigress on me. So many wonderful scents from that time, many lost. Lanvin's My Sin, L'air du Temps, Oh! de London; but Tigress was my first love!

soft, powdery aldehyde floral that smells like Liu to me, skin scent that does not last long; nor is it powerful or spicy as many reviews claim

I personally enjoyed this fragrance,back in the day.Body chemistry maybe? It smelled fabulous on me , but Non est ratio gustum.

I was reminded of Tigress yesterday while reading the story about Snooki's perfume release. Something about that cheesy cylindrical animal print bottle seems like a modern twist on the Tigress packaging to me. I couldn't tell you if Tigress was seen as a trashy fragrance in its heyday (too young), but I do know that the vintage juice is much sought after on Ebay these days. The fragrance itself reminds me of Tabu without the root beer note. It even is a bit similar to Bal a Versailles, if you happen to like that sort of thing, which I do. Edited to add: I recently got myself a decant of vintage Tigress from The Perfumed Court. Holy sh*t, now I know why people go crazy for vintage perfume! This stuff is so incredibly smooth and mellow, it's like 20 year old single malt scotch...no broken top notes, either. Highly recommended.

I tested this in a drugstore when I was a university student - men loved it, one man was extremely intrigued with it, he said it suited me. In those days I was described as exotic, sultry and tantalizing. I preferred 'Rive Gauche' and 'Straw Hat', which he hated. I married him anyway, so 'Tigress' holds very special memories for me. Years ago I bought a vintage bottle which had turned slightly. It still brought back those wonderful years. I'm curious, I've seen 'Tigress' in the Vermont Country Store catalague but wasn't sure if it was the original formula. Can anyone who knew the old 'Tigress' tell me if the VCS version is the original?

I was afraid to try Tigress because I thought it might be too opaque and spicy for my tastes. My nose just can't abide a lot of the hard-hitting amber-colored juices. I was quite pleased to find that it smells of refreshing and sparkling cola drink with a spoonful of cinnamon and hamster's wood chips plopped in. It reminds me a bit of a birch twig. As soon as I smell this, I think of Michelle Pfieffer in "Scarface," with that big floppy hat and disco dress. Tigress is very 70s. I like it, but I don't ever reach for it. The version I am reviewing is a vintage cologne concentration in a glass bottle with a gold, metal cylindrical top.

Believe it or not, my grandmother (of all people) had a bottle of it on her dresser which I played with as a child. I also liked the feel of the velvet covered cap. Once when I opened it, I managed to spill some on the dresser and stained the wood. Wooooo did I get a whalloping for that little error!!!! Not even sure why she had it, she certainly never wore it. Maybe she liked the cap too! It was a heady and spicy scent, I liked it. Not for little girls, I was told. Sigh. Course it was way out of fashion by the time I was old enough.

I'm having a lot of fun with vintage lately. Things were so much more interesting before the banning of most materials. Anyway, my newfound bottle of Tigress seems to be from the eighties, Faberge cologne with a stamped batch on the base. It's a lot sweeter than I anticipated, and soapy in that old aldehydes way. There's something that reminds me vaguely of cherry cordials, too. I anticipated a powerhouse so only sprayed lightly and I'm glad I did- I get the feeling Tigress could fill a whole room. Great stuff.

Woo-hoo! This is something special! I found a SEALED UNOPENED bottle going through my Mom's closet. She got it as a gift when my younger brother was born, put it away, and promptly forgot about it. (She's really never been much of frag junkie.) It is heavenly....so warm and inviting....and has stood the test of time. Like I said, she got it when my kid brother was born - in 1959!

There is something so elusive about this fragrance! Usually tonka doesn’t agree with me but here aldehydes and oakmoss peak through the spicy vanilla-tonka-amber fog, countering the more cloying elements at play but only somehow enhancing the coziness of the composition. I like to wear it to bed or just after bathing on a lazy day.

Just curious, does anyone remember a fragrance called Skinny Dip from the 70's? I don't see it listed here. My mother had some, and I loved it. I actually still remember the commercial "When a girl feels pretty---Skinny Dip!" LOL! Very hippy dippy, and probably named for all the streaking etc.

I wore this in the early 70s when I lived in equatorial Africa. It was superb in that heat and lingered for two days and through several baths and showers.

I remember loving this, and so did the boys I dated in college. How can anyone think something that smells good goes out of fashion?

Please tell me about the Tigress Musk Oil version .. Thank you.

Edited: I sprayed a sample vial out of the spray bottle to do a swap and got Tigress all over my hands and now I realize it does have a scent and I actually like it. I just didn't use enough. It's cologne and the scent is very faint, I sprayed so much it made my fingers cold because I was holding a sample vial up to the sprayer. So I got like the equivalent of a dozen sprays or something. Old review appears in parentheses below. (1st impression on one spray: Strong sharp chemical scent, maybe the aldehydes and / or it's lost some of its other scents. Dislike. I'm glad I had a chance to try it though.)

This fragrance really is similar to the first Armani for women, (in black packaging). Perculiar, abstract plasticy smelling like patent shoes or a new patent handbag. It's a sweet fragrance, but somehow cold and alien.

My mom had a bottle in the early 70's. I don't know if she bought it or got it as a gift, but she never used it. She ended up passing it on to me. I think I was 11 or 12? Just starting to play around with makeup and fragrance, unaware that anything related to Brut was to be give a wide berth. I tried to wear it. Big mistake! Normally, I like a fragrance to pack some punch. I loved Poison and Giorgio, back in the 80's. But there is such a thing as too much. And Tigress was definitely too much. It smelled thick, overpowering, cheap, syrupy, and nausea-inducing. Something you wouldn't even want to use as a room spray. It wouldn't go away. It was still on me after I tried to scrub it it off. It clung to my clothes even after they'd been laundered. It would have been good for self defense. Spray an attacker with it and he'd never be able to hide. The cops would smell him and catch him. Other than that, I can't think of a single use for it.

My grandma wore this perfume in the 1970s. I loved my grandma very much, but when she hugged me to her bountiful Tigress-doused bosom, I thought I'd faint or throw up. I'm so glad she finally gave it up -- the perfume, that is. Odious stuff.

Ok, I found something out about Tigress that I don't see mentioned here. It was completely reformulated three different times! The original was from the forties up to the mid-sixties. Then the 2nd, which I have on now and it is awesome was made in the later sixties and through the seventies. It is very much a warm, spicy oriental, but maybe not so aldehydic. The eighties brought us a third, which I have not smelled. And the fourth would be Tigress Musk, also unknown to me. The original had a distinctive fur cap, thick and lush. The markings were actually quite tiger-like. The second had a much flatter fur with a cheesier stripe, then no fur at all, just markings on the cap, and finally they didn't even bother with that, just a black (bakelite?) cap. The third, from photos I have seen had a shiny metal cap, more elongated than the bakelite/plastic cap that was distinctively Faberge. Or a round cap that I can't tell if it is metal or plastic with a metal finish. I know we aren't supposed to shill, but if you wonder where I got the info, google faberge cologne and you should find a very informative site that I can personally recommend (although I have no connection other than having once been a customer). My grandmother had a bottle too, and I would play with the fur cap. Fortunately for me, I didn't ruin anything with it. It was the original, and I didn't really care for the scent. I preferred Mom's Woodhue.

I fell in love with the 1980s formula not knowing that the formula had changed a few times (possibly 3) during the course of its lifetime. The one I am just crazy about smells like sweet dark cola soda pop with some hints of Christian Dior's Poison. It's sweet, dark, fruity and mysterious. If colors had scents to them, I would say that it smells like the color purple if that makes any sense? So I went ahead and ordered a second bottle off an auction site not knowing that there are different versions of this fragrance. I was so excited to get it in the mail but once I used it I really didn't like the smell at all. I was in shock. I bought the fur cap one in a spray. It smelt powdery and cheap. Nothing at all like the Faberge Tigress I had instantly fallen in love with. So buyer beware that there are 3 different formulas of Tigress. They have all been discontinued and are getting hard to find. But the formula of Tigress that I truly love is the rare 1980s one. I actually discovered this fragrance after getting curious about it after hearing it mentioned in a pop song by Canadian band Rough Trade. The song was called 'High School Confidential'. Great song and if you are lucky enough to get the right version of it, it's really a great fragrance too.

Thanks, Care, for that info on the date. For my birthday, I just received the few drops left in my mom’s bottle - she’d thought it a bit sweet and never finished it - along with the accompanying powder. It had been a gift set from my Dad after they found out they were expecting me, and I was born in July 1969. Read on another site that it was released in 1938. Quite a discrepancy. So I’m echoing your request for updated info. 🙂 So far, I just opened the cap and sniffed...... got some absolutely lovely (and hefty - yaay for the old days of fragrance backbone!) amber sweet and spice. Will wait for my actual birthday next week to actually put it on. Maybe will become my new birthday routine.

It was not launched in the 70's (it became very popular with many other products with the scent in the 70's) I have a bottle of it here (acually 3) and one in the box with the "ad" that was put in with it, and it says here 1. Copyright 1964 Faberge Inc. 2. and the back of the ad says... another Faberge masterpiece... new Fabergette de Luxe exclusive purse applicator filled with precious perfume from France encased in elegant golden filigree'd metal and for the first time - refillable APHRODISIA WOODHUE TIGRESS FLAMBEAU Faberge purfumes are made, bottle, sealed in France 27.00 the ounce FA Printed in U.S.A. 3. I know my mom was wearing it before I was 6 (1965).

Tigress was a very popular fragrance from Faberge in the 1960s. It had a wonderful tiger fur topped bottle and wild ads featuring Lola Falana in a tiger leotard. I remember it had a warm exotic scent that was considered very sexy . More so than the other two Faberge favorites, Woodhue and Aphrodisia. It might be considered too strong or heavy in todays world but in the 60s Tigress was hot and sexy. There were many good perfumes in those years but Tigress will always be the one that people really remember. TIGRESS ARE YOU WILD ENOUGH TO WEAR IT ?

I've only recently really gotten into perfumes, and a little vintage bottle of Tigress wasn't a bad place to start. I was looking for a "sexy" perfume to wear at night, and was pointed to this site for ideas. After some research here, I found a 1/3 full splash bottle on ebay for 7 dollars. I just put it on (with a light touch), and whew! That's gorgeous. I can totally see a 1960's "bad girl" wearing this. It's a little sweeter than what I'd normally wear, but I plan on working it into my fragrance wardrobe come heck or high water.

Tigress was a favorite of mine when in my late teens and early 20's, in the late 60's/early 70's. It was a very alluring perfume, guaranteed to attract attention. I loved it, and would so much like to find a scent today that smells just like it, or would be thrilled if some company would bring the 1960's formulation back. Looking at the list on the left labeled: "People who like this also like", and it is so spot on. Many of my favorites listed there: Shalimar, Chantilly, Coco, Emeraude, Tabu, L'Heure Bleue! So accurate!

"Faberge Tigress" is animalic sexy blend. It's sour animalic yet slightly sweet. It's like a delicate sexy version of their original "Brut". After 2 minutes goes quite sharp rosy spices, with oakmoss, vanilla and amber. It has that citrus sourness, & slight greeness but the roses spices sweet are conquering. This in a powdery animalic sexy blend, and truly not for anyone unless u want to unleash the animalic instinct or the BEAST that lies deep within you.

I wore this for YEARS, until it was no more. I remember thinking “Galore” smelled similar, so I wore THAT until it was no more. Vintage Tigress and Galore are mighty expensive on eBay, so I gave the Tigress at The Vermont Country Store a try. I am quite pleased with it. It’s a darn good dupe. Not exact but close enough. And it’s nice and strong. I’m a happy camper!

One of the best fragrances of all time, in my humble opinion! Very striking, and indeed- not for all women. My Mother ore this in the 1960's, and after that it kind of disappeared. She is still with us, and working on her PhD in Psychiatry while in practice as a licensed Counselor. I would like to buy this for her, if it is still around!

Back in the 80's I loved wearing the Tigress Musk and today I found a bottle that I had...for some reason...save. Does Faberge still make any perfumes now or does anyone make a perfume that is suppose to smell like the Tigress Musk? I would love to have some more but I am not paying the $90.00 that they want for it on ebay!!!! Thanks

I remember my mum wearing this when I was a little girl. I tried a few years ago to get hold of some but to no avail. The smell has stayed with me all my life so if there's any kind soul out there that knows where I could get some you would bring my childhood and the smell of my very much loved and missed mum back xxx

I saw this bottle at a thrift store in the mall. I was smelling others that were horrible to my nose however I could sense this one being the far better buy and everyday wear going out about your day. Its very nice and the cologne comes alive when spritzed. I was lucky to find it and buy it so cheap.

I have a question....does anyone know if the Tigress that has been reformulated by "Fragrances of France" has the same smell and ingredients that the original one has by Faberge???? They have it on Fragrance.net, not sure whether to take a chance. Thanks for any information you may post on this.

Tigress was a spicy floriental in the L'Origan/L'Heure Bleue/Hope/Charles of the Ritz/Oscar family. Citrus, carnation and a powdery, musky drydown with sandalwood and vanilla. I don't smell much patchouli in my 1970 bottle. This is the smell of vintage cosmetics.

I ordered it in spring 2013 on-line in US. No spices, no spirit of 70's, no tonka bean...just soapy, nice musk. It was very affordable at f.x, so I don't regret...but really nothing close to be heavy, with cinnamon and spices, sexy, powdery and warm!

The description says that Faberge Tigress was launched in the 1970's. Not accurate. I remember it from the late 1960's, and I have a set that was my sister-in-law's with an advertisement page in it dated 1968. Please update your information.

I have used them both and they are a completely different fragrance. Fragrances of France smells and looks nothing like Tigress. I didn't like Fragrance of France, it smelled like sweet men's aftershave nothing like Tigress. Don't bother.