Tubereuse

Testing from an official sample, sprayed twice to the back of my hand. This opens with a great big fat, rubbery tuberose punch and a liberal helping of pepper, which I think will make those with sensitive noses sneeze - a lot! As it dries down, the perfume becomes creamier and I can smell dried, unsweetened coconut (not a listed note, but I've just noticed it's mentioned in the accompanying notes above); it's also becoming "greener" and slightly powdery. Further into the drydown, this becomes quite woody and vanillic to my nose and also sweetens somewhat, but the pepper remains throughout and there's a slight but persistent rubber smell. I love tuberose scents and this one is no exception. It's not the bold, brash flower of Fracas or Madonna's ToD - and it's not the creamy, ladylike, gourmand flower to be found in Twilly. Mona Di Orio's tuberose occupies a middle ground. I am not sure about longevity or sillage yet, but I suspect both will be better than moderate on me, especially if applied normally (for me - i.e. 2 or 3 sprays to neck/chest, one between both wrists and another 2 on clothing). This is the first Mona di Orio scent I've tested - it's pure class and is worth every penny.

One of the most achingly beautiful and sexy openings for a tuberose scent I've ever experienced. It starts off vey green and just so slightly spicy. The middle is veiled tuberose buried amidst greenery with the tiniest bit of heliotrope that never becomes too sweet or too powdery. All the heady greenery finally gives way to a suggestion of coconut that only serves to lend a more creamy rounded note that seamlessly blends into a tuberose cashmere blanket at the end. Forgive the analogy, but it is the perfume equivalent of passionate sex followed by languid cuddling on a rainy afternoon. Divine!

If there was ever a tuberose fragrance that a man could wear, it's THIS one. Spicy, green and musky, Les Nombres d`Or Tubereuse is beautiful. Mona Do Orio's creations are so natural - this is what I love about her creations. Longevity and sillage are both exceptional. The scent is just magnetizing. I often sniff myself when I wear this - even in public. The only negative thing that I could state is this: When I last received a compliment for wearing this ("Wow. You smell so good!"), I replied with, "I know".

Tried to order this from the company in Amsterdam, and they informed me they have discontinued Tubéreuse. So I ordered from a US boutique instead, the only one carrying this brand. They now have a single bottle left, and it is the last bottle available in North America, so, I'm just sharing this in case you are on the fence about needing this perfume or not. It's time to decide... :)

Profumo stupendo, morbido, verde quanto basta, una tuberosa terrosa, umida, notturna, sognante, segreta. Da provare assolutamente, consigliato a chi non tollera la dolcezza un po' zuccherina di Fracas. Per me insieme a Carnal Flower è la migliore in assoluto.

15th I love tuberoses and I am always ordering samples from different perfumers of their versions. I love creamy, sultry, fruity, non-camphorous types, on the natural smelling end. I cannot deal with Carnal Flower and Fracas, as they seem more synthetic smelling to me and have something in them that many department store perfumes have-which makes me cough and sneeze. I'm always looking for the perfect tuberose to my nose, but I have not smelled the real thing for years. I am on the lookout though of getting my hands on some real tuberoses, so I can compare them to my perfumes and figure out what it is about the real thing that draws me to tuberose scents. Still, I like the different interpretations among the tuberose scents I have and this one is no exception. I generally do not like the weedy stem smell and it's much tamer in this tuberose because of the other supporting notes. What makes this fresh tuberose interesting and worthy of a trial to me is the pepperiness combined with delicate tartness and sweetness. The pepperiness lasts a while, the stems go away, and the tuberose is delicate and dewy. Like others point out, it is rather weak unfortunately for an EDP and price point. More like a cologne or EDT to me and even weaker than some of those, depending on brand. If I could get it for just a little less (maybe 150), I could be convinced :/ I really wish this would be a bit stronger, not obnoxious, but more than just watercolors. It's very fleeting to me, even though I enjoy the composition very much. I feel conflicted because I would buy these $200 lovely watercolors if only it lasted longer and projected more. Perhaps that is the intention of Mona's version of tuberose...fleeting...like life...? 8/10

I agree this is a fresher tuberose, but it's still rich. It's creamy but still green. It's milky but spicy. It's dewey, like after a rain, but not wet or cold. I've had mine a while, I go between loving tuberose and then I'll not wear it for a long time. I've been in a tuberose phase this last year, but this one is a "creation" and by that I mean it isn't a throw it on and go kind of scent. You'll be going throughout your day and suddenly catch a whiff ~ you're thinking about it all over again. Not all of MdO's fragrances are happy, some/most have a darker underbelly or melancholy feel. But not here, it's elegant, it smells amazing but somehow more. You can literally go through your entire life and not smell anything like it even though there are a million tuberoses, that's art and that's special. I knew that they were going to end Mona di Orio as we all knew it, but I was caught off guard that they were closing outright. I don't know how I feel about that. I'm of the mind that if we can preserve it as well as can be done, then preserve. Because even limited, she was an artist that deserves her creations to go on. Acknowledge that they may be tweaked but preserved as well as can be done. Purists will have a different opinion, but it will make prices on the secondary market sky rocket and not a lot of people will be able to experience it due to lack of funds. Not even a travel spray. That's the biggest insult in my opinion. ;(

Pre reform with black cap and wire. Two sprays in the morning. To me this is fairly green, very cold and austere to begin with. I am not so fond of the topnotes. They are a bit sour and a somewhat strange sort of smoky note is present. The sour smoke part hides soon enough to the barely there point and then it actually gives this one a bit of personality. Hubba sneeze from this and a salesperson yesterday cleared her throat several times when I was near and I felt a bit guilty. Was it me? This is not a sillagebomb tho I think. It has moderate sillage and soon becomes fairly close to skin, but whiffs keep coming out. Good longevity, even exeptional. Loooong wear of a non bombastic, non fleshy tuberose, still a bit austere but not cold at this point, very fitted to warm weather. By the evening there still come whiffs of it and by then the tuberose is still there and a very warm almost hot undertone has come forward, almost like a little fire burning, but now without smoke. Perfect when the night comes. I only have to apply it in the morning, and it gives me a long journey through the day, with even sillage, changing subtly. Such performance I find perfect but seldom encounter. I like this very much, love it even, in warm or hot summer days.

Interesting fragrance of Mona di Orio. Opening fresh and green, I also feel a slight animal touch, but the highlight of the opening is a rather spicy and spicy note due to the pink pepper (very realistic) immediately rises the absolute of nard to stay until the end, narcotic, majestic , It is not a garish sparrow, it is quite creamy, it is even soft and warm due to the note of heliotrope that assembles to the nardo effect, it has a rather dairy touch and facets of coconut very of the style of the bronceadores that have that smell, nota Which are noted and lasts a long time, this conjunction of notes will not disappear until the end of drying. Everything is moderately sweetened by benzoin and musks including cashmere (cashmeran) giving it enough body and a certain woody effect, turning off the floral effect of the tuberose. This is a spice of the most unisex I have ever smelled, of modern development, the duration is excellent, good projection and qualities: many of the essences are natural and absolute essential oils, all excellent qualities. Mona calls this nard: "Tuberous Twilight" because it is greener and fresher than most of its counterparts. It just seems cool to me at first, then it gets warm, creamy and stale. Rating: 7

Cashmeran + bergamot + pink pepper creates a cedar accord to my nose: raspy, aromatic, dry and bracing to open. This is the driest, woodiest rendition of tuberose I have encountered. And it's incredibly handsome. Heliotrope combined with benzoin offers a nuttiness that's almost creamy, perhaps a little like a dusting of marzipan -- very subtly almond-like, a touch of powdered makeup yet unisex. There seems to be an undercurrent of toxic, milky plant sap, the type that is bitter and excreted from green leaves. Intriguing, alien-like poisonous wooded tuberose. Carnal but a completely different interpretation of the flower in comparison to Frederic Malle's. This would be utterly fascinating on a man or a woman.

Mona's Tubereuse is a daring composition. An interesting take on tuberose that unfortunately flat lined on me. I actually loved it at first but being familiar with Mona's line, I know that it takes multiple tests to see if I really like the fragrance. After a couple tests, I realized that this wasn't my cup of tea. I get where Mona was going with this one; the idea of a spicy tuberose that was picked fresh from milky soil after a tropical rain. Awesome concept but I personally couldn't handle the milkiness. On my skin it created a soiled spicy milky scent that intrigued me but ultimately turned me off. This is a very unique fragrance but not for me. However, you've got to admire Mona's artistry here.

This is so beautiful! I normally can`t wear anything with white flowers because it gives me nausea, or are way to prominent on my skin. However, this one is perfectly blended. I feel like I`m on a pacific Island after dark. Sitting on the porch, sipping to a glass of good quality red wine. The sounds of the jungle behind me are different from daytime. The creatures of the night is taking over... Mona di Orio: Yo are a true artist!

Fizzy bergamot greeted me on initial spray and pink pepper joined in too. Then after this stage I got the most non screechy, friendlier, easier to wear green tuberose. It's not intense like Carnal flower which I adore, but this feels like a lighter, modern take on tuberose that is a fantastic starter scent for the tuberose shy among us. It's full bottle worthy for me. It's silage isn't huge but longevity is pretty good.

I liked the scent thanks to its soily notes mixed with tubereuse in dew, but without wind to shake those watery drops from the flower onto the ground. The scent lived on me nicely and without all that much of emotion, and not exactly thick, but I felt like the flower came from Slumberland. It was alive, not dried up, not frozen, but sleepy. Or lazy? I don't know. Anyway, it's a fine scent for me to remember.

I'm not sure what I'd call this, but if I were smelling it blind, I wouldn't think "tuberose!". The overall experience is that it's a jumble of smells that don't necessarily connect with each other. A little discordant. The opening is green and earthy, a bit bitter and sour. I sense something like a green rhubarb and/or black currant which can smell like a mash-up of BO and cat pee to me, and it verges on that here. It's also quite green and stemmy, with the dirty roots in there. As that all calms down it ends up smelling suddenly like Big Red gum that's been chewed for a bit, so the spice is more muted. It becomes sweeter- slightly vanillic, with a memory of tuberose at this point, and stays there but gradually just fades. I can see the comparison to LAP Nuit de Tuberose at this point, NdT having a dose of cardamom. Overall it's kinda weird, but not in a compelling way for me. Weird, but also pretty underwhelming ultimately, though not unpleasant. Low sillage.

Several have said it smells green but I have to disagree. It smells very "yellow". This smells like I rubbed the flower pollen on my skin. Smells fine. After about an hour there is a little bit of a plastic afterglow. I can wear this in combo with brighter florals.

Mona di Orio was a wonderful perfumer, RIP. Amyitis is one of a kind, a beautiful green scent unlike any other perfume I smelled, with a unique alkaline touch. Tubereuse I am not as enthusiastic about, but one can smell the quality of the ingredients. I can smell that the tuberose is natural, which is the most important factor for me for whether a tuberose perfume is decent or not. This opens with a brownish green burst, like macerated wood with crushed stems and leaves of the tuberoses. It softens a bit, and the grandeur of sweet tuberose blooms a bit, albeit in the background. Indistinct amber musk dominates from top to bottom, a sweet woodiness and resinous touch taking away from the soliflore potential. I am picky about amber notes, I usually don't want them to dominate, and I often have issues with green perfumes as well. Carnal Flower is one of my signatures, and I like the strange fresh green burst at the opening, but I like it better when it transitions to fresh silky sweet tuberose blooms. This is pleasant, but not at all for my skin. Ambre de Tubereuse might be a better name for it.

This is a very tangy and hyper green tuberose. Personally not my taste but may suit those who love ultra green, crisp and bitter fragrances. The same level of sharpness and verdant ness as Dusita's Le Sillage Blanc. There's very little dramatic changes but I think that's the point of these particular sub-line. Its kind of like a soliflore with surrounding accords built and added to support that major note. I have both the sample of the current version and the older bottle. The older bottle lacks some delineation when it comes to the tuberose note while the current sample has a clearer tuberose accord. Vintage may not necessarily be better (be warned).

A tuberose for people who aren't quite sure they like tuberose. Strong pepper note coupled with significant green, I kind of feel like tuberose is the backup singer and pepper is the star of this one. I went back and forth with whether I liked or disliked this as it is well done and I can appreciate the artistry, but at the end of the day I have no intention of wearing this again and will be giving away the rest of my sample.

Mona di Orio Tubereuse has a green, spicy and creamy blast at first which makes me think of how this could work very well as a unisex tuberose. As time passes and the scent develops on my skin, i sense green coconuts or coconut water, a gentle reminder of balmy summer days drinking these straight from the fruit. It gets even warmer though as I detect a hint of sunscreen, which I quite like and find surprising in one of Mona di Orio's perfumes. I imagine the rest of her line to be refined and classic like Musc, so colour me confused when I find a scent familiarly modern! As the perfume wears on, I also feel more pink pepper, not my all-time favourite note but I suppose that I can handle it here. Pink pepper is present during the whole duration, a spicy kick to awaken the senses and handle the creaminess from the coconut and sunscreen accord. The dry down is warm, musky and fuzzy in texture from the coconut, amber, heliotrope and white floral ensemble. This is no big white floral bouquet, it is a tuberose plant on holiday, somewhere tropical and humid with fresh coconuts and sunscreen. I recommend Mona di Orio's Tubereuse for men and women, due to the spiciness from the pink pepper and this deters the composition from being too girly and pretentious. This is the only tuberose scent I own that I would declare it undoubtedly unisex! Perfectly appropriate for any relaxed occasion, try it for yourself.

Thanks to generous samples provided by two different emporia, I have been able to wear Mona di Orio Les Nombres d'Or Tubéreuse several times. On each occasion, I have been struck by the woody quality of this composition, which seems strange because nothing approaching wood is listed among the notes--beyond cashmeran. This will sound odd, but to me the strong wood quality evokes memories of redwood splinters. Perhaps I am perceiving a unique epiphenomenal sensation created by the combination of pink pepper and cashmeran, because really this smells like neither to me! The tuberose itself is somewhat green and not quite sharp but definitely not soft and wilted, like the vague hothouse-scented tuberose perfumes I've smelled. I do not find this scent vegetal, à la Frédéric Malle Carnal Flower. Nor, on the other hand, is this anything like Robert Piguet Fracas. Mona di Orio's composition is wild smelling, less polished than Fracas and more earthy, without, however, smelling animalic (as in Versace Blonde). I believe that men could wear this scent well because of the woody-earthy quality and the decided lack of a big white flower bouquet demeanor. I find this perfume to be unique among the many contenders in the tuberose category, and I like it a lot, though I have to admit that it took some getting used to.

Tubereuse - Les Nombres D'Or This tuberose fragrance from the late Mona Di Orio is a gorgeous, refreshing take on the tuberose. Orio called this a "twilight tuberose." The first spray is fresh, green with bergamot. I sense pink peppercorn, the bergamot is still faintly present. The tuberose comes through, ahhh, a bright radiant airy tuberose with a tinge of coconut underneath. The heliotrope softens the overall fragrance. The tuberose is warmed by the delicate spices, cashmeran, soft benzoin-vanilla accord. Instead of being assaulted by the tuberose, you will be dainty enveloped by a seductive and elegant tuberose glow. I think that this is a versatile yet complex tuberose fragrance, easy for anyone to wear all year around. (Notes taken from Luckyscents- Pink pepper, bergamot from Calabria, green leaves, Indian tuberose absolute, Siamese benzoin, heliotrope, Amber, coconut milk, musk)

The initial phase of this perfume is very much an impression of earthy Tuberose, I smell greenery and the earth, a little mentholated..breifly. Yet the sweet Tuberose is distant or rather it falls quite "flat" on my skin, though it is still sweet, pretty and natural. I do not pick up any spicy/pepper nuance, though i do pick up a sweet musc..gently in the background. After this "fresh green' phase, it turns out to be a sweet and quite an indolic Jasmine scent left on my skin, very natural, though it is no longer a tuberose perfume, or at least the kind I like...but it is Jasmine! quite unexpected. A Lovely perfume none the less, sample first..no blind buys here.

To my weird nose (or brain, whichever is the one making sense of this), this is HOT. Nope, not in the I-want-to-lick-you-all-over hot. More like two-rabbits-exercising-in-a-wool-sock hot. Which is a relief, because the thought of cold, clammy, always-smells-like-rot-to-me-tuberose is seriously not my thing. But here I am, contradicting myself and my "I hate tuberose" perpetual line with a 100ml bottle that went straight on my "have" shelf. Mona, you rascal.

I got a decant sample of this awhile ago and finally tried it. I thought it must have been a chypre but when I checked the details on it, I guess that is the woody/green... I don't know what is going on with my nose on this one but regardless I really loved it! It's definitely a deeper floral - more like summer nights or even a winter fragrance than a light spring summer flowery one.

Greeny lime tuberose with a very slight pinch of pepper with a slight of sweetness and wooden touch. As it cools down the jasmine comes up with it's slight rancidity. This is a slight sweet fresh green tuberose. fun to try if you like green & tuberose.

Now this is interesting. At first, it smells like bitter-green-spicy milk. Unsual for a fragrance, almost medicinal scent The dry-down is more floral; pleasant tuberose and coconut, and light trail of spice I like it.

I love tuberose, it's my favorite flower but this was a literal scrubber on me. It is way too green for me, and there is a metallic scent here that is so strong it makes my teeth hurt. Weird, I know.

cant wait to test it! sound like the perfect powdery, peppery combo, if there is not too much coconut