14 Noontide Petals

This is a fresh sparkly take on a classic aldehyde perfume , as for example chanel 22, a powdery, soapy, clean burst of aldehydes with sparkling top notes of lemon and fizzzz. Its elegant and classy but has a modern twist and a Tauer signature so to speak. The warm woody sandalwood comes through after a few minutes and this fragrance starts to bloom into a warm powdery balsamic wonder. Like Sun rays making its way through a forest , or like Christainne said , a fizzy carbonated drink with a squeeze of lemon in it. Another thing that comes to mind is ; Traubenzucker English translation would be GRAPESUGAR . I had these white Traubenzucker brick candies when I grew up in Europe , we where given them when mountain climbing in Austria and Switzerland. I loved them and I can't find them here in Canada , its a natural type of glucose sugar with grape juice or from grape juice , its powdery and orangey citrus tasting . Also there are those fizzy vitamin C tablets . You put them in water which creates a fizz and adds vitamins to the water. Also the water smells like noontide. The tablets are like a GRAPESUGAR bricks. ,,,,,, Its fresh yet warm its sparkling yet powdery its creamy sandalwood and iris , it fills all my needs !!!

This is a fascinating scent. I can't even tell if I like it or not, but I keep going back to my tester because it's so unique. (I definitely don't dislike it!) I am not typically a fan of tuberose, so this perfume throws me for a bit of a loop, but like all other Tauer scents I've smelled, it tells a wonderful story. It starts with a burst of sparkling aldehydes, very clean and bright. Like you've just gotten out of the shower - a little soapy from the tuberose, but awakened and refreshed by the aldehydes and bergamot. As it develops, the aldehydes gradually go away and the tuberose and ylang-ylang turn into a cozy blanket that hovers around you delicately, but with intent. I imagine drying off after aforementioned shower, putting on some creamy lotion, and sitting down in a huge, comfy chair and reading a good book while the sun shines in through the window. This scent is invigorating yet calming. A wonderful mixture of unique feelings, and one that simply must be experienced. EDIT: I have completely fallen in love with this scent. It has become my ultimate comfort scent and I just purchased a full bottle. It is truly lovely.

Oh my, such a fizzy, wondrous, floral delight! It is like carbonated perfume....so much bubbly aldehydes I am surprised it doesn't spew when you spray it! The most effervescent fragrance I have ever smelled. The dry down is absolutely heavenly...still fizzy but a more gentle version compared to the larger than life opening. I am sniffing myself so much my nose is probably going to end up smushed. Has the signature Tauerade in the base....and while very different from the other Tauer creations, there is no mistaking this is Tauer. Noontide Petals is so lively and delightful, it is impossible not to smile while wearing it. I think if worn regularly, it could reduce caffeine usage and even cure depression. :) Happiness in a bottle! One of my favorite fragrances of all time. Noontide Petals is pure heavenly bliss!

This fragrance sings of summer: to me, it's the delicate scented air in a field of flowers and sweet hay. From start to finish, this fragrance delights with the allusions to the warmth of the sun and the softness of the air. Many mention the abundance of aldehydes creating a bright sparkle at the opening, but on my skin the sparkle seems muted, and the bergamot briskness is most obvious to my nose. That soon gives way to the soft florals, well blended, creating a pretty tapestry of scent that continues throughout the development. Soft warm dry down. I think this is gorgeous. Very long lasting for an EDT (8-9 hours) and moderate silage. Perfect fragrance for creating memories. Thanks, Andy Tauer!

A fizzing, popping, powdered rose incense. I adore this fragrance! Tauer strikes again with his innovative approach to ingredients - making incense bubble is nothing short of magic. And letting styrax, rose and patchouli dance softly around the smoky cauldron gives my nose the impression that this is nothing short of a modern masterpiece, a beautiful redirection of classic aldehyde usage. Nothing stuffy or close here, this perfumes buzzes, breathes and moves. I don't get a lot of the references I see in other reviews here, sorry, to me this smells like a very modern witch's brew of sweet living magic. Delightful!

On my skin, Noontide Petals is a bright feminine scent with 8 hour longevity from 1 large dab or two small sprays. As mentioned in other reviews, it has a vintage feel due to the aldehydes. But in Tauer's creation, the aldehydes are a sparkling uplifting mechanism that results in the composition having a feeling of sunshine. The artistry is that the aldehydes do not make me feel like I've been attacked with a can of AquaNet hairspray, as the creations of the midcentury scents did. Smells divine and expensive (which it is). PS I don't get anything woody in this scent.

My new scent obsession: liquid sunshine. This is an almost effervescent sherbet lemon hovering over creamy ylang ylang. As it develops, other flowers emerge, but it keeps that bright, aldehydic sparkle. It reminds me of the happiest days of summer, where you're enjoying the bright light from an air-conditioned room with a cold fizzy drink and you haven't got a care in the world. Even better, this perfume lasts all day and never gets too soapy or sweet. It's close to perfection and it was pure serendipity that I decided to give it a try. Now I want a bottle!

I got a sample of this perfume from one of my friends and after smelling this i really regret that this is discontinued It smelling very nice and i think all of Tauer Perfumes is master piece This house really different from other houses to me I love it this little sample i just going to use it in very nice meeting in spring So nice

Imagine: it's spring and the sun is shining and you're drinking a gin tonic and everything it's perfect, no worries or troubles will get you! that's about it, and it's awesome!!

adore; wonderful like a sweet softer less incense Lonestar Memories with hint of floral; less harsh and powdery; warm and rich, creamy even

This really is all about the sparkly aldehydes! Powdery iris and sparkly citrusy aldehydes... For me the brightness of the aldehydes lingers a long time, far into the drydown, though ever fainter. The final drydown is a bit generic, a powdery woody vanilla. No patchouli on me... Over all I like this a lot, I love the iris, the aldehydes are bright and shining, the drydown is pleasant... but it just isn't my thing. It's beautiful and brings to mind a sunny summer wedding, lots of champagne, the bride's glittering gown and her bouquet of perfect flowers... But like that perfect wedding there is just too much sunny perfection in this scent... I suspect that the bride at this wedding is marrying for money and status and not for love... There is too much perfect image and too little intriguing depth.

80) Très joli en ouverture, un classique revisité. Beaucoup moins convainquant dans l'évolution, il y a une sorte de touche Tauer (de Tauerade?) qui revient trop souvent dans ces compositions(L'Air, les roses, les Penta...) et qui me gène énormément- un ambre(gris?) horriblement synthétique. Heureusement c'est plus léger ici, un aldéhydé très Channel sur un fond ambré-épicé identique à l'Air du désert. Unisexe, très agréable à porter, tenue et sillage normal.

This is a really pretty floral aldehyde with some sparkle. I think it would be a widely wearable fragrance, and for me the most wearable of the Tauer perfumes I've tried. I respect his work but most of it is too heavy for me so I like that he's provided something a little lighter too.

If a fragrance could sparkle like a fizzy drink, this would be it! Andy Tauer strikes again. Took a whiff of this and was blown away. It is a classic aldehyde fragrance and demonstrates what can be done with a bit of imagination. Sparkle, dazzle, zesty magic!

Too much old-lady type of smell in this one, to be fair though, my friends love this, because they think it smells like vintage scents.

This is different from what I would normally wear but I quite like it. A well-done floral-aldehydes composition. Inoffensive.

Love this type of aldehyde but I don't need this. Selling my bottle only sprayed 2ce.

Put simply, this unique composition is a spicy floral soda pop in a bottle.

My boyfriend thinks this smells straight up cardamom. I think I agree.

There's a song from Jesus Christ Superstar called "I Don't Know How to Love Him" and I feel that way about this perfume. Probably not the rest of the lyrics, but the title sums it up. I adore Tauer perfumes and I save them for weekends and occasions because I never want to sully them with the mundane, day to day trivialities of life. But this one? No. I just cannot do it. I return again and again to try to understand and like it even just a little bit, but every time I wear it I'm left confused. Aldehydes? No. Incense? Nada. Bergamot? Nothing. i just get an overwhelming old lady powder and iris concoction. But I don't have to love everything Andy does and there's so many of his creations that make my heart sing.

This scent reminds me of some lovely classics in the topnotes, such as Je Reviens and L'Air du Temps. Very nice in the topnotes and middle notes, and then as the drydown starts my love affair with this scent ends. The heavy patchouli, frankincense, styrax and vetiver are too much for the florals. This ends up smelling in the drydown like a headshop with incense burning. Andy Tauer is very talented and this could have been beautiful but he needs to walk away from all the spice and patchouli and vetiver nonsense. That does not work in every perfume and definitely does not work with delicate white florals. Quelle dommage!

This opens with citrusy aldehydes, fresh and sparkling. 15 to 30 minutes later the floral aspects come out, wrapped in a cloud of olibanum. The olibanum is pretty heavy, it balances out the sweetness of the florals. It's the basic component in all of Tauer's creations, some sort of incense or resin to add a masculine element to otherwise feminine ingredients. Interesting, but not my cup of tea. Sillage is moderate, longevity is excellent 6+ hours. Can be worn year round, but especially nice for fall and spring.

I swear this is the citrus note from Une Rose Chypree. I have no idea what it is, but it's so distinctive. Unfortunately, that's the only note I get no matter how long I wear the scent. That's unfortunate: I was looking forward to smelling a Tauer version of aldehydes. Maybe I'll be able to try it on someone else someday.

Sorry but I intensely dislike this. It's loud, harsh, the flowers have a chemical touch. Besides this is no way unisex. This is a caricature of a feminine flavour.

The aldehydic floral perfume is iconic. Jean Patou Joy is remembered by many as the greatest perfume of the 20th century, and Chanel No 5 is the definition of perfume to generations. The mythology of the aldehyde is somewhere between urban legend and factoid thanks to No 5: someone dumped buckets of aldehydes into a floral base and the baby Jesus was born. But the floral aldehyde does have its risks. At one end of the spectrum is the punch in the face, Estée Lauder Lauder White Linen, and at the other, the limp handshake, Guerlain Chant d'Aromes. Granted, this leaves a large middle ground for success, but in that middle ground is another risk: the nondescript perfume. Throngs of faceless perfumes led entire generations to think of aldehydic perfumes as soapy and nondescript. But look at the successful perfumes. The aldehyde serves as an important modifier, but because it seems to work differently in each perfume, it comes off as a wildcard to the perfume wearer. To Van Cleef and Arpels First, it gives backbone. It allows the perfume to hold together green, animalic and bright white tones without flying apart. In Robert Piguet Baghari, the aldehyde gives that electric shock, like someone's just grabbed your ass. To No 5, aldehydes lend a specificity, an unspeakable clarity. It's hard to put words to it, but you'd never mistake No 5 for anything else. It Noontide Petals, the rush of aldehydes at the opening of the fragrance gives a tremendous feeling of acceleration. In one nose-full you're carried straight to the center of the fragrance. Once you’re up to speed, you recognize parts of the aldehyde package. The sparkle, the cleanliness, the smile. In Noontide Petals, the aldehyde does exactly what it was intended to do. It focuses your attention on the flowers. The buoyancy of the aldehyde makes the rose appear hyperrealistic at first, but with time I realize the aldehyde and the rose are just perfectly balanced. And here is aldehyde's specific gift to this perfume. Noontide Petals is a study in tenderness. It shows that tenderness is grounded and deliberate. It’s an attribute, not a lack of deficits. Tenderness leads to consideration and reflection, two states I find myself in when I wear Noontide Petals. There are perfumes that are the well-considered products of thoughtful perfumers. But there aren't many that consistently prompt a state of thoughtfulness. from scenthurdle.com

This is the time of year when (weather permitting) the massive magnolia blooms or delicate, ragged magnolia stellata are so heavy with their waxy scent, they weigh the boughs down just enough for me to plunge my eager nose into. After months of grey skies and dour faces, such is the shock of these voluptous tepals that the scent is head swimmingly loud and enticing to every living thing. This is almost Noontide Petals, but not quite, for there is one more thing, which has taken me two days to figure out. There was something old, some memory from long ago, which this brilliant, sparkling fragrance reminded me of, and it was this. Scented Satins sweets. Stop. Remember those beautiful little pastel pearlescent pyramids in their white paper bag from the sweet shop, remember putting your little nose into the bag, inhaling and trying to figure out which sweet was scented with what. Noontide Petals, sparkling, fizzy, smooth as sugared satins - evocative of glamour and sticky little fingers. There is one more evocation - this bears more than a passing resemblance to Revlon Flex conditioner which used to come in those big bottles in the late 70s/80s. Possibly the best smelling hair treatment in the world. The only mystery left now is why it took me so long to discover it. Scrummy, and the early bees are following me up the street, so they think so too.

Sophisticated floral scent based on glamorous, classic aldehydes in the Chanel, Caleche or Lanvin vein: an almost chemical burst, some describe as "breath of fresh air", others as soapy, entirely distinctive (and divisive!). Unlike these however, the aldehydes are more subtle and less sneeze-inducing! The floral is modern, light and semi-sweet, giving way to a warm, savoury, patchouli powderiness - I wouldn't go so far as to say woody though, this is no Bois des Iles: nor do I get any exotics - leather, spice, whisky or suchlike; head to Penhaligons for that. Nothing of the haunting Guerlainade undertone either - this is quite straightforward, nothing too challenging here. Throughout there remains the aura of smart, vintage (won't say old-fashioned, that implies something altogether different!) glamour, but don't expect Chanel No 22 - no lipstick or violet here, this is crisp, veering towards the chypre, more suggestive of L'air de Temps or Rive Gauche. Very very lovely. A modern classic. Off for another dab!

This one just kills me! I sprayed it in a paper tester first, and it was absolutely sublime... it had this wonderful, sort of furry (aldehydes I guess) but amazing near-floral scent. I had my nose glued to the card and was super excited to try it on my skin. And, of course, it was murdered by my skin chemistry. I know aldehydes can go horribly wrong on me but wow, if this wasn't a perfect example of it. My skin actually noticeably soured it. And not in a good way. If only it smelled like it does on paper! It would be a knockout in a good way. But no, it smells like sour skittles crossed with old lady on my skin. And like a heavenly archetype of some velvety flower that never existed, but really should, on paper. Sadness!

Noontime Petals' perfume pyramid reads like the who's who of our vintage classics' olfactory notes. Yet it combines in an utterly avantgarde and unexpected way. It comes out like nothing you'd expect just by perusing the notes. Forget traditional aldehydic openings that evoke the Belle Époque or the older lady trope. NP comes out with hyperrealistic sparkles of real fizzy aldehydes underlain by a buttery, unctuous ylang. The opening is my favourite part of the fragrance. It soon settles down into a macho-guapo sort of olibanum on rocket fuel with the barest hints of florals. If there's anyone who can give the aldehydic-floral genre an Uber-masculine twist, it's gotta be Andy Tauer.

When I sniffed it for the first time it was 'OMG I know this thing"... and it really gets you back in time to as Andy said 'glittering age of perfumery'. This is something so classic that there is not even attempt to make it more modern and innovative. From the other side having in mind that most of old fragrances are reformulated so much that is hard to relate them to their ancestors with the same name they have on the bottle people who are looking for old good perfumes will find this fragrance to be real treasure as a 'new old thing'.

Styrax is a common ingredient (even when Tauer doesn't list it) and a dead give-away that this is a Tauer composition, so if you are a fan of his work I suspect that you like it as I do. Thanks to patchouli and vetiver, this turns into a powdery incense base once the olibanum quiets down. The iris, ylang and rose notes take a back seat to everything else, I can't really feel them. As expected, great performance and silage: I was complimented 3x within the first hour of after applying. Another one on my long wish list.

This is different as most of Tauer Perfumes. Little bit of everything but on the end, definitely Floral-aldehydic. Smells like some fresh green-floral mixed with 7 UP or Ginger ale. I am not too sure about this one - it's a little crazy, little chemical, summery, fresh, but on the end - young and charming with Avant-garde meets classic vibe. Definitely for the people who like out of the box fragrances. I appreciate it as an art and applaud Tauer for pushing the boundaries in a fragrance world.

I put a light spritz of this on today from a free sample I received from the generous folks over at Now Smell This....a few minutes later, the hubby walked in, sniffed the air, looked at me and said, "patchouli!" That's pretty much what it smells like on me...patchouli with a light touch of floral. I like patchouli, but prefer something a little more balanced.

one word:velveting. A bed of incense that substain a pillow of flowers.That's in the end. At first,we find pumping aldeides that give to this perfume a demode' air,vintage mood,a strange face of 50'. Wearable in wintertime for the hot brights of musk and incense game.But fit perfectly in springtime for the veleveting flowers. Nice work.

There is something about this fragrance that makes me think of perfumes of early- to mid-twentieth century. The glamour of the vanity table is invoked with a nice powdery quality. The aldehydes are on full display and make a great show of it. If you're someone who loves aldehydes, you really should not miss this one.

هذا العطر لن راحة خشبية ولكن اول ماتشم هو رائحة الالدهيدات باختصار عطر فريش صابوني وقوي نوعا ما يصلح في الشتاء اذا كنت من محبي نمبر 5 فسيعجبك هذا العطر يشبة عطر نمبر 5 وخاصة في الحمضيات ورائحة الالدهيدات، عطر كلاسيكي عصري بامتياز تقيمي للعطر جمال الرائحة 7.5/10 الفوحان 9/10 الثبات 9/10

Very similar to Iris Poudre on me with a higher dose of aldehydes and a lower dose of iris. The drydown is more floral in this one and the vanilla note is missing which makes the Iris Poudre a little warmer and rounder.

An explosion of flowers, elegant and discreet, that is littered in a spicy spicy agruma. Then the freshly-colored citrus grooves in a bouquet of roses wrapped with a dry incense.

Initial blast of scent seemed so familiar. I realized it smells like what orange tic tacs taste like. Not a fan.

OMG ,this is a crazy scent very classic and elegant and lasts for hours,this is what I am looking for

Hi! Can anyone tell me where I can purchase this Fragrance. I cantfind it would

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