Tiare

If you love Tahitian Tiare Flower which is a star shaped six petal white gardenia this fragrance is for you. I love it but it's rather powerful and I use it as room spray air freshner. It comes off as exotic like an aroma of Tahiti or Hawaii in spring time. The coconut is a big player and gives it that tropical vibe. The other flowers ylangylang and primrose cyclamen are not big players but they harmonize with the tiare flower. There is gardenia in this fragrance that is not listed but there is a real gardenia here which naturally blends with Tiare. The plum note is sweet. This is a fruity floral scent that dries down with a soft base of vanilla and cedar wood. Even so I would not call this a woodsy scent. The vanilla is the strongest of the base notes and in fact I would say this is a gardenia vanilla. It's delicious. It's a gourmand gardenia. However it seems way too strong for me to wear with my clothes sometimes. The gardenia gives it a lift but it pushes the Tiare in the forefront and it's very strong. I wore it all day for 3 days one week and people assumed I had been growing gardenias at home. This is a gorgeous tropical scent and I know many women that love the Tiare flower in this frag. I have sold this fragrance on ebay. I have a friend in Florida that loves this stuff. This is a fragrance for spring and summer in warm weather climates like the Southern States Florida Georgia South Carolina or Southern California. This is really nice but I don't see it as a perfume. This is room spray. Even the bottle looks like an air freshner.

I had the pleasure to visit a boutique in Taormina where they had the whole range of L’ Erbolario and like any brand, they have some hits and some misses. For me, Tiare is a fantastic scent. The most prominent notes for me are tiare, coconut, ylang ylang, vanilla musk and some woods in the deep dry down. Opens a bit rough an artificial but if you give it about 10 minutes it settles nicely and gets where you want it if you love tiare flower. But it’s more complex than just a soliflore. It has the typical supporting tropical notes of coconut and ylang ylang plus some other to give it more depth like cedar, musk and vanilla. That’s all I personally get in here from the multitude of notes listed, but for a 27€ a bottle this scent is a hidden gem. It doesn’t smell artificial throughout the entire duration, just for a few minutes in the opening, so if you love this flower, Tiare is a must have! Like some others mentioned below in the comments, it’s not a really long lasting scent, but on my skin I can smell it after 3 hours. The presentation is cute, nothing luxurious. I would say that it is the budget version of Guerlain Teracotta, which I already have. If you want something more refined and more potent than Tiare, try Teracotta.

This is a real masterpiece. Some perfect eternal white flowers in their poetical soul, at the begin of any summer anywhere, anytime. A clear mossy, light sugary, soft pungent green sorbet, a pure and living jasmin floating in a cottony coconut milk. Enveloping but not stuffy, scratchy, but not so marine, maybe a leaf seaweed there. True joy. At times reminds me of evergreen jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) on summer evenings, sometimes real fat gardenia (as tiare belong to that family). Perfect original composition, a lucky balance, not so typical monoi. Under the name of Guerlain or Patou it would be an international success I believe. If I remember well It was born just as body and hair butter with an hight concentration of monoi, in 2007. And after the success of this intense fragrance for the body L'Erbolario decided to create the edt and other product for the body easiest to wear than the solid butter. Remotely remember me L'Instant de Guerlain and Murmure de Van Cleef & Arpels.

my first impression of tiaré was that it is if monoi (yves rocher) was more floral forward! in humid weather, i’d thought monoi was too sweet, in drier weather it’s more aquatic to me. although i really liked it, there was something that discouraged me from it. tiaré is more floral-forward, but in a less aquatic, therefore creamier, smoother way. the perfect twist for me, it made my heart skip! although they are a different execution of a same scent, tiaré is “softer” and more feminine in my opinion, dinner by the sea on tan skin decorated with a white summerdress, whereas the adjective i would use for monoi is “sporty”, beach volleyball and disposable camera in tote bag. i’m looking forward to this summer!

The summer season has in its deepest essence the citrus scent of sunny citrus groves but mainly the symbolic scent of summer and the tasty and creamy scent of coconut, of fresh white flowers and of wonderful and remote paradisiacal exotic landscapes. Tiaré by L'Erbolario bears the name of the delicate and wonderful flowers of paradise immersed in a sweet and reassuring emulsion of coconut milk, enlivened by a fruity note of Damascus plum, on the dry down sweet vanilla notes and exciting musky notes emerge . Sweet fragrance that evokes wonderful and sunny walks through the flowery and colorful streets of Tahiti.