Tuca Tuca

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!!!

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.

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!;)

Usually not fond of dark or heady scents, I find this addictive and sultry in a dirty way. The first few minutes upon applying, it made me smell like a heavy smoker and gave me a bit of a headache. But after the drydown, the powdery, smoky, woody smell kept me sniffing at my wrists unconsciously. I do agree with a lot of reviews in saying that it feels wintry, and I would probably only use this at night. EDIT: I can't get over how intoxicating this scent is to me. I have just been able to put my finger on where I have smelt it before, and it's from Lush's Tramp shower gel (I have been in love with the woody smell of the product for years, but have not been able to purchase it for a while in my area). I always thought of the gel as a summer smell, but the perfume completely proved me wrong. If you are a fan of the product or into woody unisex scent, I highly recommend this perfume.

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.

Oh Tuca Tuca, how I love thee :) I grew up eating Parma Violets and so I have a special love for violet scented anything. This so far is my favorite violet perfume. It has the right amount of sweet vanilla and powder. It's not as cloying as Insolence, and not as green and fresh as Love in Black. It's just right to me. I also have the massage bar (sadly, discontinued) and it smells like heaven. I keep it in my underwear drawer. I'm afraid to use it up! I only have a 10 mL spray of this but after rediscovering it after a couple years, now I realize why I bought it in the first place. It's just yummy and the sillage is perfect. It's not overbearing. If you can find a better sweet vanilla violet, let me know, but for now, this is the best one I can possibly imagine.

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!

I think this smells best in the "Don't Rain on my Parade" shower gel, as it seems to mellow all the parts out. The solid is my follow up, as it seems sweeter, quieter, and less harsh than the spray, even if the spray lasts longer. And, oddly, the spray is bright orange...and stains. Learned that the hard way. RIP white blouse! I like this, but I feel it needs a touch of something bitter, which is why I pair it with my Lolita Lempicka Minuit Noir. The patchouli in it seems to tame the sweetness a little better than the violet leaf and vetiver manage. The ylangylang and sandalwood make the vanilla-sweetness much more interesting. I don't get any mimosa in this.

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.

No other violet fragrance has ever come close to my beloved Tuca Tuca, not through lack of searching. I have a few precious drops left in the pen vial they used to sell and half of a push-up solid perfume. Starts as a fresh, sweet burst of violet, mimosa, cassis, vanilla. The earthy, woodier notes come forward, predominantly violet leaf, supported by the lingering sweetness of the initial spray. Within an hour, the sweet and fresh has morphed into a strong, dark, seductive, intoxicating, gothic violet ❤️ I mourn the fact this beautiful scent was discontinued and regularly check to see if it's been resurrected. I can dream...

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE TUCA TUCA! Yet when it was first released, i hated it the first few days i wore it.... But after the second day, i was hooked! It opens with a very smokey vetiver and screechy violet note, but after an hour it starts to dry down into the skin with a buttery vanilla sweetness with a violet cream accord. It's a warm, intoxicating and seriously sexy scent. HANDS DOWN the BEST LUSH FRAGRANCE! Also, as all 'Gorilla Perfumes at Lush' fragrances are made with a high essential oil content, the juice in most will NOT be clear like synthetic juices. DO NOT spray on clothes or sheets - perfume is for the skin.

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!

Tuca Tuca is way underestimated. It's got soul. It's not a "Hey, smell me over here!" kind of fragrance. It's modest, not overpowering, sexy, feminine, and soft. I have it in the solid perfume and love it. I often put in on and a little goes a long way. It's no offensive and it's not in your face either. Tuca Tuca is probably a real summertime fragrance but I think it would work any season, any time of day and it would smell great on a man.

Strong violet, good sillage. Starts off as quite sweet violet but dries down to a more woody violet. I don't find this particularly powdery (I love a powdery violet) its there but subtle, smoky, woodyness takes over more than the powder. I also disagree that this is light and flirty it feels like a darker sexier violet in comparison to the lighter, greener kerbside violet.

LUSH describe this as playful and I do get that from this scent. But it's not playful in a childlike, innocent way. Remember that scene in the film "Live and Let Die", with the funeral parade through New Orleans? That is Tuca Tuca! A voodoo priestess at Mardi Gras, and I love it!

Solid perfume, loved this and not in Lush au anymore :( Think musty cabin mixed with incense and dried flowers. I get a real gypsy caravan / witches wardrobe vibes. Sweetness balanced by out by powder and smokeyness. ⛤⛤⛤⛤

I was obesessed with my little solid perfume of Tuca Tuca. Unforgettable scent. I just ordered a dupe from PerfumepeopleLtd on Etsy. It's an oil roll-on called Tucker - The Quirky Line.

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 :).

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 love this perfume its so dark, intimate and gritty. Im very sad its not continued, ive only a little left on the stick.

I'm hoping to buy a bottle of this. Please message me if you'd like to sell one.

If you'd asked if there were any notes that could never be the foundation for a unisex perfume I'd have said violet because it is just so feminine. And I'd have been completely wrong, because Tuca Tuca is basically violets without the Guerlain Meteorites and granny's violet pastilles vibe. A truly unisex violet scent. This opens with a violet and 'LUSH store' fragrance. You know how LUSH stores are essentially the worst place to test perfumes because everything is drowned out by a fragrance + soap cacophony? This perfume starts like that. Then it loses the violet and just smells of soaps, with a sort of plasticky smell too, but the violet is just waiting in the wings for its next scene. The soap screech dies down and the vetiver peeks through giving this a nice sweet woody note. It's got vanilla and the violet reappears, but it's 'peppery' somehow. In the end it's definitely violet, but not like any other violet scent I have smelled. And it lasts. Forever... If you spray this on at 9:00AM it will still be hanging around at least until 8:30PM. And not much changed, this settles into its violet, vanilla and vetiver sweet groove and stays there, even seeming to gain power if you wear it on a hot enough day. It's a bit cloying in hot weather actually because it has the same sort of vibe as Lolita Lempika- sweet, a bit tarry, a bit heavy, a bit powdery and a bit perplexing. People say that that one is enchanted or ethereal, and this is the same. Picture the elves in Lord Of The Rings- they'd probably smell a like this. A guy could definitely wear this, as could any woman, but it's not a conventionally masculine or feminine scent. I also think this will be a bit of a love it or hate it kind of frag, I like it, but it can make me feel a bit sick (like a lot of sweeter perfumes can) if I overdo it, and it isn't hard to overdo it. Also the juice is orange? I wouldn't suggest heavily spraying this on fabric because 1) it will stick around forever (as most LUSH scents do) and 2) the juice will probably stain.

This is a weird one. I bought the solid perfume stick off of the UK site because it wasn't available in any local Lush stores in my country and I can definitely tell you it's because of that. It's weird and kooky and would not fly with the local tastes here in Kuwait. I got it because of my love for violet and said weirdness. I didn't expect to be what it turned out to be. If I remember correctly, I think there was a banana note in Tuca Tuca on Lush's website which isn't listed here. It is, for better or worse, very present along with the powdery violets. While it is cloying a, as several reviewers have commented, and somewhat acrid and harsh, it does need some patience and getting used to. When I first got it I couldn't stand it, but, after applying my strategy of using up every perfume I dislike as quickly as possible via throwing it into my work purse, I began to "get it" a little bit. It's whimsical, if I have to describe it in one word. Not a good thing at times, but, hey, it is what it is. Overall, I don't love it, but I appreciate its uniqueness (even if it's not always a good thing).

Tuca tuca was my first Lush perfume, for the longest time it was VERY overwhelming for me. It sits on top of your skin and screams I SMELL GOOD!! I had to do the old "spay it in the air and run through it" trick. Then the Sillage became tolerable. On me Tuca Tuca smells powdery and sweet, the violets soften and complicate the vanilla in a way that is oh so Lush. After a few minutes a spicy almost cinnamon type note comes out but only very close to my skin. I think this perfume is fun to smell but I can't wear it. Tuca Tuca is packed with summer notes but wears like a winter scent for sure, when you miss the pool and flowers and sunshine spritz this one on. It will envelop you in a sweater of thick scent.

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)

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:)

I have the solid perfume, I think it suits an intimate night occasion. It is playful in a dark moodyish way. Maybe like helena bonhem carter's character in Fight Club, that kind of dark playful. I don't recon i can pull this one off in the light of day, it's highly sensual.

Good staying power, moderate sillage. Violet and some vanilla, I like it, regardless it didn't age very well. When I use it, I get lots of compliments, as it's very feminine.

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

This is the smell of something from my childhood. Maybe scented paper blocks, the one with the pink cat (IYKYK)?

The solid perfume stick is soo much nicer than the spray! Try ii and you'll smell the difference.

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

I like it but alot of people are allergic to it so its hard to wear...

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.

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 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

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 wasn't expecting the explosion of violets and sugar I got when I sprayed this - a bold opening! 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 it's LOUD. You wear it, or it wears you.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Absolutely vile. Like stale flowers rotting in rancid water thats been left in a bucket for weeks.

Tuca tuca is strong and dark... in a really boring way. Is just an static violet. Not for me...

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.

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.

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 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.

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.