A Timid Twinkling Golden Star

[zankoku_zen]

Tuberose and sweet amber.

[ghoulnextdoor]

A dusty, honeyed wistful, sepia-tinted floral; the olfactory representation of the concept of "dés-vu", or the awareness that this moment will become a memory.

[RoseThornAndOak]

Yep, that's a tuberose. Almost a single note. Sweet amber is one of my favorites, so I hope it comes out more with age. This has a 1920s-1940s classic feel.

 

It's a beautiful, vintage, voluptuous, night time floral. Makes me think of film noirs, like maybe Laura would wear this.

[samanare]

Almost a tuberose one note for me as well. Strong and heady. The amber may be there for all I know, the tuberose note is strong and almost heady.

[tinyvulture]

I really wanted to try this to get a sense of what tuberose is like as a single note. It’s sooooo pretty, such a lovely sweet floral. I’ll be on the lookout for it in blends now. As others have noted, this definitely has a vintage, film noir vibe. Going on my big bottle list now.

[myla.mouse.n.di]

I may be the only one who is getting a weird afternote, so sad ?? I was hoping to get what all the other reviews are saying, I get the most pretty, voluptuous but not indolic Tuberose, except there is this slight sour almost bitter amber (at least I think it’s the amber since it’s the only other note ) that persists throughout drydown. So sad!! 

Edited January 2, 2024 by myla.mouse.n.di

[MonBon]

I generally love a plush, narcotic tuberose and celebrated seeing it without it's loud companion in an obnoxious tropical print shirt: gardenia. Unfortunately, the sweet amber is pulling this into a strange place, like a green banana skin dipped in Ouzo, milky sweet and anise-like but also high-pitched & alcoholic. I'll hang on to my sample and retest before it leaves, currently not planning a FS. 

[Brianna Gemini]

Fracas. My fave commercial tuberose.  TTGS  evokes  Fracas on me in the best way and I'm here for it.

 

I mean you gotta love tuberose because she's prima ballerina in this act, the sweet amber definitely keeps this light & bright.  

 

[puellacaerulea]

I love the heady, indolic smell of fresh tuberose (a flower vendor at my local farmers market always has it in late summer, and the smell of tuberose in my house is one of the only things that can redeem swampy midwestern Augusts for me). In the bottle, I get that particular kind of tuberose (and without gardenia butting in, as mentioned above), while the sweet amber isn't much of a presence. Unfortunately, on my skin the sweet amber takes over and does some very weird things, going vaguely plasticky and dusty while the tuberose retreats into the background. Going to chalk this one up to a skin chemistry fail and continue the search for my perfect tuberose 'fume.

[Assimbya]

I picked up a decant of this in the hopes of better understanding and recognizing tuberose, and it certainly is serving that purpose for me. This is a very soft, gentle amber, just supporting the tuberose which is which is rich, lush, and buttery, sister scent to gardenia but without gardenia's perfumey sharpness; I think it's a little less complex than gardenia or jasmine as well. It is strong and unmistakable here, and it is absolutely helping me make sense of all the other blends in which it plays a more supporting role. At the start the butteriness is a little much for me, though the scent is beautiful; over time the butteriness calms down a little and it becomes a much more wearable, elegant perfume. I am very glad to have this and will most definitely wear and enjoy it, though I don't feel the need to seek out a bottle.