Sotto La Luna Tuberose

This is by far the most interesting tuberose I know. Saying this will be controversal, but I like Sotto La Luna Tuberose better than Carnal Flower, not because it is more beautiful per se, but because it has so much character. Sotto La Luna Tuberose starts off with two very distinct notes; one is a sandstorm of dry, dry spices, the other is a lazy tuberose lounging in the background. After some time, the sandstorm catches up on the tuberose, whirls it around and almost destroys it. At this stage, this perfume is not pleasant at all. To me, it smells like this: a very fruity, bubblygummy chewing gum that fell on a dusty floor, that I picked up and put in my mouth again. The thing is, that even at its most unpleasant point, this fragrance remains interesting. While I do not think that these spices and the tuberose harmonise - ever - at all, what comes after is beautiful. As soon as all the dust has settled down, which will last about two hours, what you get is a clear-cut, wonderful tuberose in multiple stages. At first it's a green flower that has developed the core characteristics of its profile, but smells almost coy given her nature. Within the next hours, it turns into a self-confident, meaty, intoxicating beauty - at this point this is hands down the best tuberose I have ever smelt - that ripens more and more until it's all creamy, buttery and indolent. Just when it is on the cusp of rotting, it becomes lighter and lighter and melts into nothingness. Sotto La Luna Tuberose is a unisex fragrance that might be best for people with experience and maybe an age from 30 onwards. It is a very experimental, fun fragrance; one of the kind that you do not wear for others. With 12 hours+, it has an insane longevity and the sillage is also huge, as two spritzes of this juice filled my whole apartment for a day. While it is probably the least blind-buy-save fragrance I have ever encountered, to me this is a complete "love" and I recommed every tuberose-lover to sample it. Even it you won't like it, its very worth the experience. Also, I would really like for Mr. Tauer to continue his Sotto La Luna series. There are many flowers that come to mind that would fit perfectly into this concept. TL;DR: perfect tuberose in a sandstorm

With every sniff of Tuberose Sotto la Luna a physiological 'aaaaaaah' of pleasure escapes me. I feel like my feet are in a green, flowery and nocturnal garden. Around me, the open and fresh air is pleasant on a late spring night. Now many fragrant petals arrive. A genuine and unchaste breath keeps me awake by caressing my sense of smell. I find it very portable or at least there is something that fits me a lot. It is elegant with a persistence that accompanies you until dawn. At first I got a weird snout. The Tauers say they are complicated. At least for me who has recently entered this world, certainly. Yet I'm always coming back. I read a lot of negative comments, mold and worst miasma felt in the comments on it. I wonder if I have smelled the same Tuberose Sotto la Luna. From this square we declares amber, while Tauer specifies that he used 'dark ambergris', not amber, which also intrigues me a lot on this animalic note.

Tuberose on incense. It’s amazing how the superposition works in this perfume, like a book, one page tuberose, next page incense, one page tuberose and so on until a whole novel is written. It’s hard to describe it, but what Tauer is easy... It’s creamy and in the same time green and sweet but not indolic, it’s airy and in the same time present and deep. This is not Fracas or Poison, it can be a tuberose almost for those not fully into tuberose but in the same time I think one needs to like and know other tuberoses to come to appreciate fully the depth and complexity of this one. For me it’s a superb one and more complex when I compare with the wonderful but more gourmand and sweet Sotto la Luna Gardenia.

One of Tauer's easiest-to-wear-anytime-anywhere frags. I don't like super-sweet, strong white flower scents, and thought that (if anyone could do it) he could put together a fragrance that offers a fresh take on the cloyingly sweet note of tuberose. If you're looking for tuberose nirvana, you won't find it here; Tauer's spices and earthy base notes bring this sweet note down to earth.An elegant, understated addition to his marvelously creative repertoire. Perfectly unisex, leaning ever-so slightly masculine as it develops.

One of those many-faced fragrances that can smell very different depending on the day and that develop in distinct stages. Wear it if complexity and development are your thing - you'll be smelling your wrist a lot. The top is strong white flowers, with a definite undercurrent of fresh laundry - if you've ever experienced the smell of starched linen, this is it. It's also strongly reminiscent of paper. Some 4 hours into wearing it I noticed that it turned very inky - I use several fountain pens on a daily basis and I thought one of them must've leaked, that's how intense the inkyness got. It's one of my favourite smells in the world - heavy and slightly sweet, almost vanilla-like - and in this fragrance I think it comes from the combo of jasmine with the patchouli that really comes out later on. The drydown is uneventful but really pleasant - slightly sweet and powdery. On some days I think I can smell some iso e-super on it.