Tumulte pour Homme

Well, don't know why I've had this for 2 years now and have never written about it. Perhaps because I got this at such low price I didn't give it what it deserved. Tumulte is a linear composition that fulfills the room with cedar and cedar. It is strikingly well composed as it never loses strength and unlike what you may think of its cedar-centered structure, it is so modern and not boring at all. I haven't used it as much as I thought I'd do mainly because I felt it delivered a bit of a mature guy vibe, too serious, too plain. Well... I was again in the wrong side of the town. Today I dared to go for it again and it did not disappoint one bit. It is so smoky... lingering for ages and with such class! I wouldn't recommend it for teens but after, say, 25... this is a winner! I feel like a sexy lumberjack but not cutting any tree... that wouldn't please me. A rebel lumberjack! I wonder why such luxurious bottle plus such beautiful juice faded into oblivion. My guess is lack of marketing... the kind of hype that makes everyone seem to die for such a standard perfume like Aventus and dismiss this at 1/10 of the price. I don't dislike Aventus but come on... I sampled it 3 times this month (from different batches, if you want me to join the paranoid game)and I had to try so hard to come up with ideas for explaining the hype behind it whereas there is no single friend who hasn't complimented me for Tumulte... Anyway... I don't doubt nor criticize the taste of Aventus fans... just feel upset great perfumes get sometimes discontinued by our own lack of support. A big thumbs up for this cedar tale.

No doubt a very similar beast to CdG Kyoto, of which I also have a bottle. For that reason, I considered stopping at the 10ml sample I got, but common sense was lost in the wind when I found a 50ml bottle on eBay for half of what Kyoto cost. The price and the fact that, with a wrist to wrist test, there is still plenty to distinguish the two from one another, saw the Buy It Now button stomped on! I love cedar and I love incense. Tumulte Pour Homme delivers on both in spectacular fashion. Combine that with juniper berries, geranium, sandalwood, patchouli and a touch of bay leaf, all notes I adore, and I'm on a total winner. More cedar and less incense than Kyoto is part of what separates the two and the accompanying notes in Tumulte do the rest to set them apart. It is as strong as most EDP's, so despite being an EDT, you get mega bang for your buck too. Oh, and the dry down? Swoon worthy my friends! It's got me totally beat that this could be a discontinued fragrance from a house that went to the wall. It's got everything. Class, exceptional performance and at a great price. One can only assume that the marketing folk were asleep at the wheel, because with a designer label on it (Gucci Rush for instance?), it would be on every second person's shelf. I guess in an arse backwards way, that's a good thing, because wearing this, you're unlikely to smell like anyone else in your immediate universe! If you can find this stuff, snap it up!

I just received a bottle of Tumulte today through the mail, I ordered it through Fragrancenet.com at a reasonable price 28euros/50ml. Thanks to the raving reviews here, I made this blind buy as this fragrance is totally unknown in the stores over here in Greece. Lovely cedar notes conquered my wrist upon just a single spray. Oh my, that's one strong fragrance, destined to invade the cold winter nights of the ladies who would happen to pass near me! It's quite linear in structure and development but it never gets boring, thanks to a very balanced and modest use of the woody and aromatic notes, it's not very spicy either. What I love about this fragrance is that it does not resort to some overwhelmingly sweet aromatic or robust woody result, in fact the aromatic - floral - spicy notes support and complement the basic cedar character. A fascinating and irresistible result that you should remember that no matter how much you like it, you'd better avoid using it during summertime, it's just too strong for hot climates! A new hit for wintertime:-) My overall rating: 8/10

As one might expect for such a wonderful, exquisite fragrance, this has been discontinued...obviously it just doesn't appeal to the lowest common denominator who needs to have their nose filled with citrus, marine and cucumber to be happy. Well let me tell you, they are really missing out BIG TIME! This is without doubt one of the loveliest, authentically woody fragrances around....a delightful rich sweet wood conjuring up images of sweet pine shavings on a sawmill floor or wood pencil shavings in a classroom. It has some similarities to Arran Aromatics "Driftwood" but in the case of the latter the woodiness is dry mineralic oakmoss whereas in Tumulte it is a superb blend of cedar, sandalwood and labdanum....with just a HINT of floral sweetness to soften and mellow it. Do yourselves a favour: scour ebay, amazon, gumtree or ANYWHERE for remaining bottles of this and stock up now or you will be missing possibly Lacroix's finest ever fragrance!

What is better than a story that ends happily I remember a very close relative of mine had this and I used to spritz some on me every now and then Later on the bottle disappeared and I was hesitant to ask him about it so I forgot about it for a really long time Saw it for a good price in one of the vintage resellers so I had to get it It’s truly mesmerizing the incense in this one is very hard to match with a very good performance and a bottle that is fit to be displayed in a museum I can’t stress enough how wonderful it is I’m not sure if others can relate but this one is probably the last bottle of my history that I had to get after all those years of hunting Vintage wise in my own history I got everything I wished for all those past years