Description
Bikini Questa Sera is a sumptuous parfum that evokes the heat of the day on the skin as the sun slips and the cool of the night awakens. Heady tuberose and opulent jasmine create a deeply sensuous, voluptuous parfum.
“I wanted to celebrate woman and her desires. I wanted these fragrances to enhance an aspect of her personality, or perhaps reveal something about her that no one knew before, maybe not even her, tell a secret, a story. In a way creating these fragrances is like being a film director, some directors want to control the acting process, others want to reveal the power of character and personality. This is what I try to evoke with shoes and now with the alchemy of fragrance. I want to give women the means to express themselves and to delight in their femininity.” —Christian Louboutin
Notes:
– Top: paradisone, green nectars.
– Middle: jasmin absolut, tuberose absolut.
– Base: Austrailian sandalwood, Haitian vetiver, ambergris
Bikini Questa Sera was launched in 2016.
darker – :
This scent has a lovely fresh, juicy opening. It’s the green notes with the tuberose. I wish that part of the timeline lasted much longer.
It settles down to tuberose with lots of green note, Vetiver, sandalwood and Amber gris. Very lovely indeed. It makes it very easy to wear. I could see this accompanying me to warm and tropical places.
It’s essentially tuberose with lots of fresh greenery and backed with wood notes. I would not have guessed Vetiver was present as it is very soft. It probably just bolsters the green aspect of this scent. The sandalwood is very low key to.
I get good longevity but it retracts to arm length sillage quite quickly.
I really like it but blimey it’s pricey. The bottle is a bit different to.
yura57 – :
This one reminds me so much of Natori Josie Exotic Petals…the tart/tangy opening followed by white florals and ambergris. I think I prefer Exotic Petals. This is too green/fresh for me. I like my white florals warm and creamy, I don’t get buttery tuberose here at all. It’s very lovely but just not for me.
sha-man8 – :
I loved this when I tried this.
I still love it now that I own a bottle of it.
I LOVE IT. I love tuberose and this is a BEAUTIFUL tuberose.
so delightful and fresh it makes you want to run, be active and have fun!
Edit: after getting to meet more tuberose perfumes like carnal flower, simply divine and Jasmine rouge. I am letting this one go. I still find it to be delightful but, it does break down fast. It does not progress and it is short lived. I need something stronger. More drama to the sweetness. My white flower/tuberose quest continues.
AdmiralTITAN – :
10s across the board. This is a great floral scent! Very realistic, no synthetics, not cloying. Smells like a Hawaiian lei.
kuzzma84 – :
I know there are lots of bad reviews for this.. Well, more disappointment then outright bad, but I love this perfume so much. I can 100% say this is the best tuberose ive ever tried. Very buttery, creamy, and balmy.
There are no tricks or twists, its just plain old tuberose, and thats where I think a lot of the disappointment comes in. If you want -more- this isn’t for you. If you want a great tuberose soliflore, look no further because BQS is the one!
This perfume never fails to get me compliments. It definitely smells it’s big pricetag. I say that because it’s just so effortlessly gorgeous and smooth.. It seems to just glide onto my skin and meld with it wonderfully. The sprayer is so easy to spritz, it just feels luxurious.
Sillage is actually pretty huge. Its easy to overspray this because at first its like.. “huh, its so creamy and soft” but 10 minutes later you can suffocate yourself and those around you in a beautiful white floral bomb, so 1-4 sprays and you’re set. Lasts all day.
This DOES remind me of byredo’s flowerhead, but less sweet and more buttery. AllieJ, thank you so much for sending me a FULL 80ML bottle of this a pretty long while ago! It’s by far one of the best fragrances ive ever smelt.
1987Tanushka1987 – :
Like many, I got a sample of three Louboutin fragrances. Bikini Questa Sera is the first one I tried.
As a floral lover, of course, I cannot do anything but like the scent of this perfume. Straight out is Jasmine and next Tuberose, but not a heavy, headache inducing tuberose like so many. It’s light, fresh and feminine, tuberose done right.
And….that’s it.
I don’t get green until the drydown, and even then, not much. Which is fine with me, it’s the flowers I love. This perfume is a floral and only a floral. I would probably be in love with it if it had more to give. There is no intensity, no staying power. Nobody will know you are wearing it but you. And application would be endless if this was in your collection, as least if you had similar skin chemistry as me. Don’t buy it without a spray bottle on the side.
It’s too bad. It smells beautiful, but that’s not enough. Many perfumes smell beautiful. It needs to smell beautiful to others, and leave a trail of gentle petals falling behind as you walk. It should be insouciant, like the red bottom of a shoe. It should be unique. It is not. It reminds me of something, and I could not figure out what. Then I realized it was every jasmine/tuberose perfume ever, yet with flash missing.
As perfume smells like colors to me, then I will say that this is a very watery purple. Perhaps a ripple of pale blue, but no lavender, pink, no green, and nothing sparkling. Just lLight purple. It’s an impressionistic watercolor, so watery that one cannot see what the picture is.
This perfume would be lovely before bed so you can go to sleep dreaming of a jasmine scented garden with twinkly lights. Your man may like it. It will last until slumber. But sadly, it is not enough for more.
If I was given a bottle, I would be happy. I don’t dislike it, I find it a humble, pretty and simple floral. It is adult, not childish. I could wear this in those places you are not supposed to wear perfume.(Marc Jacobs Daisy Dreams suits that purpose now)
Perhaps the tiny tester I got is not enough, if I see it in a store, I will try again. I so want to love it. But as it stands, I would not spend money on this when there are many lovely jasmine/tuberose fragrances who give more.
It’s funny. I enjoy it’s gentleness and delicateness and pure flowers. It almost hurts to write this, But for the price, I apparently need a bit more. After an hour it was almost gone, and no sillage st all.
It is a pretty shoe, with a plain bottom.
The girl in the ad above? She does not look like what this perfume smells like.
wtkbcfd – :
A truly gorgeous tuberose fragrance. I agree completely with the previous reviewer. I do smell Simply Divine in this one, but I much prefer Bikini Questa Sera over SD. SD had too many green notes after the floral notes faded. In this one, I barely smell the green notes on my skin, which is what I prefer. Sadly, this turns into a wrist scent after the first hour.
arman123 – :
This should be the brown ombre bottle.
It’s actually my favorite of the three; never mind one-dimensional or unoriginal, it’s just very pleasant to wear. Reminded me of Simply Divine (Diana V), but after comparison, found this one much creamier with a nice green tea vibe. Unfortunately it does fall apart after a couple of hrs, not to mention the faux-niche price.
Dka0074 – :
I like it, .nice tropical tuberose, bright, happy scent, reminds me of being on a warm tropical island..pretty much a summer suntan type of a scent, but nicely done..still, it is pretty linear, but it is fresh and feminine..soft jasmine comes into play…lovely..but poor longevity..seems to fade so fast..but I wouldnt pay that much, plus the bottle looks rather ugly.!
vtnhf123 – :
Sampled this fragrance and thought it smelled like one of the Creed fragrances, can’t remember which one. There are notes that read like a Creed, especially ambergris. It seems to be more about the white florals and the base of vetiver/sandalwood which come off as soapy, and masculine. There is also something reminiscent of Alien by Thierry Mugler, not sure if it’s the jasmine. The green notes smell like subdued patchouli and this scent seems to open with that. It’s not my kind of scent but I wish I could own one of the Louboutins. They seem to be more complex and more like a mature fragrance for expert/mature veteran perfumistas. I wanted to like this scent but it is a bit too much for me. I’m not there yet. Maybe one day.
Conndar – :
An uninventive, not particularly rich smelling white floral with a suntan lotion vibe, without the coconut. Not my thing anyway, but you can do far better in that category (Bronze Goddess, Terracotta, Nuxe etc.) for a lot less $. I’m not a fan of the bottles. I think they look better in photos. In person, they looked kind of cheap and tacky. I might expect to see these as a celebuscent “exotic vacation” series lined up on a tester shelf at a drug store. I’m really blown away by the $275 price tag for 80ml. Highly aspirational. If I were going to spend that much, it wouldn’t be here.
Numuttegobort – :
I don’t have much to say about Bikini Questa Sera, I’m mostly reviewing it just for the sake of completeness, since I reviewed and thoroughly enjoyed the other two scents in the Louboutin collection: Trouble in Heaven and Tornade Blonde.
Unfortunately, Bikini Questa Sera is the dud out of the three. It is a flat, unrefined white floral scent that has been done a million times over, and this isn’t a particularly good execution of it anyway. There is a clumsy accord of grassy green notes with vetiver added over the white florals to provide freshness, but it fails and instead just smells stale and damp. Due to the high price of this fragrance, I’m sure that there is at least some pure tuberose absolute and jasmine absolute in the formula, but there is no finesse or polish to the overall fragrance. I am a huge lover of white florals but I am so unexcited and unimpressed by this.
The other two fragrances in the Louboutin line are fabulous. Spend your time and/or money on those two, and skip over this one.