Together with gardenia and ylang-ylang, tuberose constitutes
the Holy Trinity of Creamy White Florals. In addition to some unique molecules, the ratio of two lactones in particular are responsible for tuberose's scent profile:
jasmin lactone, which as its name suggests, has a jasmine-like floralcy, as
well a peachy-apricot fruitiness; and δ-dodecalactone, whose odour is a tad
fresher, even metallic.
Le Galion’s Tubéreuse is pretty much a textbook example of a
tuberose perfume: a mélange of fruity floral and salicylate notes suspended in a voluptuous, creamy-fatty
mix that’s sweetened perhaps with a touch of vanillin and/or tonka-coumarin.
The fragrance is much less daring than, say, Christopher
Sheldrake’s Tubéreuse Criminelle (Serge Lutens, 1999), with its enlarged dose
of wintergreen (methyl salicylate), but at the same time, easier to wear.
Nose: Thomas Fontaine (after Paul Vacher)
House: Le Galion
Release date: 2014 (reissue, 1937 original)
Notes (per Fragrantica): mandarin orange, galbanum, pink
pepper, pear, tuberose, rose, orange blossom, raspberry, cedar, amber, musk.
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