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тороид – :
Nothing totally special. A natural, uninspired tuberose. The type I wouldn’t normally go for. Beautiful, but not exactly fabulous or interesting. Sorry. You can get the same thing in a $30 fragrance. Sort of reminds me of Chloé (original, Karl Largerfeld version)
A bit skanky, a bit powdery.
roman_lsd – :
I’m very sorry, this is just my opinion.
This smells like a bargain fragrance, but it has a high price tag.
I’m sure no flowers were harmed in the making of this perfume.
rasist – :
A happy, bright, and more wearable take on the “big white floral” fragrance.
If you love tuberose and gardenia, you should give this a try. The marigold greens and “bitters” it up just a bit, and the frangipani adds something sunny and tropical.
I love big white florals. If I had to pick between Flor y Canto and Fracas, I’d have a hard time deciding. My choice would be both. Fracas for evening, and Flor y Canto for daytime.
Sillage is medium-strong, and longevity is good. It’s definitely a splurge fragrance, but I think worth the expense if tuberose is your thing.
yuora59 – :
An enormous blast of tuberose, gardenia, and sambac jasmine. A very sunny, heady, indolic white floral; borderline sweaty at times, but mostly about its floral side.
A must-try if you like big white florals, but there isn’t much of a twist here, either. Your appreciation of Flor will depend on how much you enjoy those three notes.
Yanoffsky – :
I got this through Scentbird, and I like it quite a bit.
The opening has a green, leafy, herbal quality to it, which gradually slides into the background (but never fully disappears) as rich, heady white flowers (tuberose, magnolia, plumeria, and perhaps honeysuckle and gardenia) warm up on my skin. The overall effect is a very natural summer garden scent, sweet and creamy, and grounded by a faint green astringency. Lasts for around 7 hours, and isn’t heavy or loud at all.
MelatoninForSleep – :
I received a small vial of this from Scentbird. Luckily they give a large enough sample to try several times. This is such a beautiful and unique floral scent. No musks or sharp anythings at all. Just flowers. The marigold was a great choice for them to give this a little more personality. Very high quality and lasts sooooo long. I put it on one evening and in the morning when I woke up, it was still noticeably there. None of that “I just slept for 8 hrs” perfume leftover funk or anything. It smelled great! This has quickly become a favorite and a must have in my collection. This perfume is not for everyone but for someone looking for a very pretty floral, this is well worth trying.
oen606speagoessenda – :
My daughter bought this, but decided it was a bit much for her so she gave it to me, as I had been sneaking sprays frequently. I ended up buying L’Etrog from Arquiste for her to compensate. I love tuberose, it is one of my favorite notes, and this is one of the best examples. Beautiful perfume, very interesting. Keeps you sniffing to discover what it will do next. I experimented and layered it with Island Gardenia because I just love that floral combination and was very pleased. It is clear this is a high end fragrance, there are no sharp edges, no out of place notes, nothing more or less than what is needed for perfect composition. A very good experience.
Masyanec – :
Quite an opulent scent, it smells high end quality. I get the Magnolia & Tagetes mostly as top notes, more than the Tuberose, in fact I do not pick up tuberose. There is an underlying tropical flower medley, maybe it’s Tiare and star Jasmine..flowers more along these lines, and the magnolia gives it a humid watery vibe, just enough to capture the equatorial tropical summer in a bottle. My initial spray of this perfume from a tester is I got this honeyed jasmine floral, but now that I have a bottle I no longer get that, not sure what happened?
sann-1964 – :
I have a huge love for tuberose, it being one of my favorite floral scents. Here is a perfume which correctly honors the beauty of tuberose, in all its creamy intoxicating glory. Flor y Canto by Arquiste is not afraid to be unabashedly floral, one that is as natural as picking up a flowering stem and placing it to one’s nose. I must admit, most all of what I could denote from the fragrance’s robust tuberose predominance were subtle facets of the other said included flowers. Magnolia blossom (another of my favorites) seems to be utilized to counterpose the buttery richness of the tuberose, offering a piquant, lemony floral note. Plumeria lends a peachy sweetness, further creating a velvety and suede-like texture to the scent. Lastly, marigold’s bitter and slightly musky, pungent floral note helps to balance the intensely creamy tuberose. This decadent perfume should be worn with caution ladies, as it is surely able to conjure up carnal desires in the opposing sex. (159)
bilbergiya – :
Tuberoooooose!
My first proper introduction to tuberose, having smelled it before in perfumes and not knowing what it was. This is a deep, deep white floral scent with a creamy, almost wax-like thickness -a common feature of Arquiste perfumes.
I agree with the review below that it smells very “prim and proper”. Only a mature, well-to-do lady could pull this off.
tu-154 – :
A scent for women…A scent for ladies who “lunch”. This is beautiful, prim and proper. This is big and bold and the wearer exudes a sense of confidence. She can do anything she wants…be anything she wants to be…go anywhere she wants to go…the sky is the limit!!!
Gorgeous and dripping wet…creamy and lush…You feel like you are standing outside with your face to the heavens smiling at the sun and feeling its warmth on your face!!! I am a child in the grass in a beautiful white sundress with my arms over my head twirling around and laughing without a care in the world.
Beautiful, lush, drenched tuberose!!!
Worth every single last penny!!!!
You are a visionary Señor Flores-Roux!!! Muchisimas Gracias!!!!! xoxo
extrem61rus – :
I loved the opening – rich, creamy tuberose with tropical frangipani and magnolia – simply delightful, it radiated from my wrist and made me very happy, what I loved the most – the marigold greenness and bitterness in the background making this very unique.
What I do not enjoy is the heart part, it stays very linear, marigold is gone and I am left with tuberose soliflore and not my favorite kind – at some points it smells even a bit metallic. The scent at this point stays very close to skin and is not what I expected reading what inspired the fragrance.
As much as I love tuberose, this is not good enough for me.
Might work wonder though if one searches for a crowd-friendly tuberose as it’s silage is so soft that even this big flower might work for offices and such.
botsyk – :
Covered in blood sacrifice the god of the dawn drew back his bow and with eternal ease shot his arrow over the great city of Tenochtitlan. Thus by his grace first rays of the sun once again touched the top of the temple Mayor. Snaking through the city were the aromas of the chocolate brew and maze tortillas that was the morning breakfast. Mothers up before light roused there husbands and children with laughter and songs. It was a new day in the heart of the Aztec empire.
Near the great causeway famers rowed their long boats along the canals to tend their floating flower gardens; they spoke of rumblings from the East. Daily there is news of the approach of strange fair skinned men with four legs who came out of the Eastern Sea. Could they be gods? Or are they demons come to eat alive the inhabitants of the city in the center of the lake? What sacrifice would they demand, flowers or blood?
Such thoughts were forgotten when the farmers were met with the brilliant golden shimmer of the god of the dawn’s blessing upon the canal. There hearts leapt to their throats as they always did at the first sight of the gardens overflowing with the blossoms of the gods. These were sacred flowers grown only for the Emperor and the temple of Xochipilli, the god of love, dance and flowers.
As the famers worked and sang well into the mid-day they were ignorant to idea that these were to be the last days of the flowers of Mexico, the last days of peace, the last days of their world. They only knew this morning the embrace of the thick intoxicating dream educing aromas of the flowers of Xochipilli. How could anything ever change when the gods had blessed them for eternity?
Flor y Canto was created for Carlos Huber, the founder of Arquiste by the brilliant nose Rodrigo Flores-Roux. It was envisioned and created to capture a day in 1400 pre-Colombian Tenochtitlan of the most fragrant Aztec festival of the year. It is a resounding success for this floral is so very reminiscent of the gardens of Mexico I have visited in Guadalajara.
It is very linear and stays true to its opening all the way through. The eau de Parfume opens with a brightly romantic and lovely Mexican Tuberose. This is a soft and enveloping tuberose and not at all overwhelming. There is Frangipani of the Plumeria family to add a generous touch of the exotic. A fleshy rich Magnolia lends strength and presence to the mix and all is bordered by a very green note of golden marigold.
The splendors of this ancient garden are not epic but rather soft and close to the skin. This perfume draws one in close and like a furtive kiss brushes your cheek with the promise of more.
It lasts about four to five hours on my skin and then whispers of memories of that romantic tryst in garden last summer for about another two hours. This is a scent perfect for meetings set outdoors on a warm evening with someone special. Made for a woman it can work on the right man. After all there was no goddess of flowers for the Aztecs, No he was a big sexy tuberose wearing God!
rrq866Diobtetty – :
Beautiful white floral, soft and not over powering. Not always a fan of tuberose on my skin because it always turns into some floral bouquet glade bathroom spray. Will hold on to my sample and try it again in the spring.
avgl – :
Very vivid scent with great radiant aura. “Summer festive occasion!” – said all ladies in my office, not knowing the historical background of the scent. Radiant sillage is bursting first minutes but not shocking: it is like you open the door of a south town hotel, going out, and immediately find yourself in an epicenter of a holiday full of flowers and happy women. Nice fragrance for open veranda party, for evening restaurant terrace and for any day or night summer saunter. The best longevity among all three women’s scents.