Tremendous

Since fragrantica editors seem more interested in posting reviews of niche scents that have been released for 6+ years yet have never been carried in any store or sold on any website and have no user reviews, opposed to keeping the database of actively released scents on the market up to date, I will unfortunately need to post a review for a different scent here as it’s the only listing by this brand. This is a review for Tremendous parfum de flore - the navy box scent that fills every ad on the page for this perfume. The notes on my carded sample are the same as the reviewer below. Parfum de Flore opens smelling orange flower centric like so many common designer perfume scents (I’m mostly thinking of the newer Valentino and Armani frags here). Then 30 minutes later it dries down to a 90%+ dupe for YSL Libre. I get jasmine, lavender, and musk. No lavender listed on the notes, yet to me I ONLY smell and can think of Libre. I assumed this was made by a dupe house, but when I googled, these bottles are selling for $75+! For that price, just buy Libre. I wouldn’t spend more than $40 for a FB of this personally.

I don’t think this is the same one I am reviewing. ** My sample card says Tremendous Parfum de Flore. This pink bottle as pictured here is the only female fragrance in Fragrantica database which lists no accords (as of 12/29/2023). Flore is sweet, fruity floral with vanilla and musk. The pyramid on sample card for * Flore lists: Top: litchi, cassis, mandarin orange Middle: peony, water lily, jasmine Base: ambroxan, praline, musk, oak moss

Okay, people, I feel like a heel. I really wanted to love this stuff since I won it on Free Perfume Friday for the first review I wrote. "These people are sweet!", said I to myself, "Hope the perfume does them justice!" Alas...the first danger sign was when I opened the box. That bottle...a cheap ripoff of the Rochas Femme bottle (stylized woman's hips/flower) tinted with a ghastly fuchsia that only belongs on the head of a 1982 London Punkette or the plastic flamingo in front of Divine's trailer in John Waters' film. (I love that guy) The juice...did the marketing department name this stuff in a cocaine-induced orgy of 1970's Hollywood style delusions of grandeur? This stuff has all of the synthetics (Geraniol, Linalool, Citronellol, Farnesol, Benzyl Salicylate.) used to create a properly nondescript floral accord. I can smell some Muguet and powdery rose in there. There's a lemon(Citral) note up top, like lemon poppyseed muffins, that lasts all of forty-five seconds. Now, great perfumes use all of these synthetics, too. (Angel, for example, I checked the boxes.) But this stuff lacks any real sense of identity or personality. There's a faint vanillic drydown; it's like hearing the last words of a dying anorexic moaning "Shalimar...oh God, Shalimar..." It's not actively bad or offensive (I'll save my review of Puma for that!); it just made me want to spray on some Angel so I'd stay awake. Now THAT'S a PERFUME. In the final analysis, Tremendous is safe, nice, and easy, and as Tina Turner said, "We don't do NUTHIN' nice and easy!"

Pretty scent with vanilla, citrus and sandalwood floral notes, very like Hanae Mori. I like it, but this kind of thing is not my style. Very easy to wear and office-friendly, but the sugary vanilla combined with citrus has always been a bit of anathema to me. Will work well on ladies who can wear that combination.

Robert, this is a TREMENDOUS review!!! I laughed my sides off!!! The Shalimar drydown just finished me off!!!!!!!!!:))))