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VlaedimirZorin – :
This just smells off to me. Maybe my decant is off but I have never smelt a Tuberose this bad. I got it with along with decant of ‘Tuberose in Blue’which is sublime.
jony_74rus – :
Simple, elegant tuberose. It definitely smells like a soliflore to me. The flower is lush but soft and creamy with a touch of spice.
I’m amazed at the wildly different reviews, because to my nose this is a crowd pleaser. It’s “easier” on the nose than Sotto la Luna Gardenia (which I also love), and therefore easy to wear.
I deeply hope Hr. Tauer continues this series.
EDIT: At the one hour mark, the sillage became a warm spiced chai. The tuberose remained on the skin for another two hours before the entire scent turned into pure Tauerade.
As for the Sotto la Luna series as a whole: If you want weird and unique, go for Gardenia. If you want smooth and elegant, go for Tuberose.
Nightfire – :
I had to review because there are so many negative reviews! Maybe I like this fragrance because I’m not a fan of tuberose in general, but it definitely smells like tuberose to me. Nothing dirty or musty about this fragrance.
To me, it smells like a dry tuberose on a background of cloves and Jasmine. There isn’t the extreme waxy, sweet note that I associate with pure tuberose and dislike. It starts off strongly dry with spices and dries down to a light tuberose and Amber base. I think this is fantastic.
I love all of Andy Tauer’s perfumes and I think this is definitely worth a try!
jennyqtb – :
Andy Tauer and I seem to have very different ideas about tuberoses. I like my tuberose hypnotic, but fresh and creamy, and both Tauer tuberoses I tried (this and Tauerville Tuberose Flash) show tuberose in resinous, smokey and spicy surroundings. I think Sotto La Luna Tuberose is even more difficult than Tuberose Flash for me. They have their similarities, but they’re not the same.
Sotto La Luna Tuberose starts out straight up weird on my skin. At first it’s green and bitter-prickly, and then it becomes something that I can’t describe other than with this clumsy picture: Imagine the cold stone walls of a basement full of musty cardboxes filled with button mushrooms, but with a faint hint of a sweet tuberose perfume someone sprayed on all the boxes back in the 80s.
It stays like that for hours. Surprisingly, I don’t feel like I have to scrub it, but as you can imagine, I’m not a fan either.
Over the time I smell some incense, and then it slowly becomes softer, warmer, more traditional floral and spicy. In the end, it calms down to buttery tuberose and dry cinnamon, which is nice enough. But nothing I would wait for 4 or 5 hours in a basement full of champignons.
The lasting power is tremendous, the final phase lasts a whole day including the night on me.
beatapolansca – :
Sotto la Luna Tuberose is my second encounter with Andy Tauer’s art, and all I can say is that it is even worse than the first one. Sotto la Luna Tuberose opened on me with the same sweetness known from L’Air du Désert Marocain and an enormous amount of dusty spice. I was so naive to assume that this will just be an overture, which will introduce a lush tuberose, but that was not the case. The sweetness took a rest in the background and the dusty spice was joined by lush mushrooms instead. This stage lasted for a while and after that the spice luckily faded away, and was replaced by rubbery/earthy dirt with Tauer’s signature sweetness still lingering in the background until eventually this entire apocalypse ended.
Dmitry.Guk – :
I had expected something called ‘Sotto la luna’ to be creamy and dreamy. However this starts with dry spices – lots of clove and cinnamon without anything to wet the edges; this is dry the way that L’air du désert marocain feels dry.
Comparing the opening to the Sotto La Luna Gardenia and its sweet, boozy, almost fruity top notes, the two scents could not be more different!
However, this dry, dusty note does settle down so that the tuberose can come through. Here, it does feel a little bit like the Tuberose Flash. At this point, it starts to feel more like a “normal” tuberose scent and that creamy, waxy side of the flower comes through.
I’m not sure how I feel about this scent – it feels more like two different perfumes than one. I need to see how smooth I find that transition from dry spices to waxy floral… Jury is out.
gye219Bessinepome – :
Yep, smells like dust to me also :#(
захар – :
a very dry tuberose that has a hint of a gardenia flavor without being sweet; the jasmine and ylang are detectable. It has the Tauer base that is herbal, smokey and almost incense. This gets dryer and dryer like a Chardonnay. I do not get clove and cinnamon in this. I like the description below of dust. YES! It smells like dust when I brush the dirt out of my horse after he rolled. That said, I like it. It’s okay for me. I wouldn’t buy a full bottle though I love Tauer. This along with Lonesome Rider and Vetiver Dance are the three that I don’t lust. AMENDMENT: Hours into it, I love this. It is the creamy sweet Tauer Tuberose that you expect. The dry/herbal nature is gone. Yes, it’s like a softer, powdery, less sweet version of Tuberose Flash or similar to the drydown of Noontide Petals. This is a definite like for me.
GhijowaNataly – :
A sweaty, waxy tuberose and clove abomination that reminds me of the smell of burning rubber.
On the plus side, if you could call it that, this is a sweaty, waxy tuberose and clove abomination with excellent longevity.
lex68 – :
I would have never reached to sniff this by my own initiative because, I thought, I didn’t like tuberose. I know tuberose as heavy and nauseating…but in this composition I met the green, moist, fresh, literally “under the Moon” tuberose…It’s a dreamy “Alice in Wonderland” magic tuberose…
Voveindinia – :
Smelling Sotto la Luna Tuberose feels like digging my naked hands in black, wet soil when I plant my spring bulbs, excited with the anticipation of the flowers to come.
More than the flower, I smell crushed petals, damp stems and earthy roots, all combined in a cloud of dreamy greenness.
Nothing to do with padded shouldered tuberose, just an excellent exercise at mastering this traditional perfumery flowery in a non traditional way. The result is hunmbling and superb at the same time, as always with Andy T.
This fragrance may not be a “like” in the sense of “appropriateness”, “wearability”, “comfortingness” and blah blah blah, but sure it is a masterpiece in olfactory exploration.
Thanks, Andy
kljuewa – :
This has been one of the very best acquisitions of this year for my collection. It is a very unique take on tuberose centred perfumes. Not a realistic representation of the flower but a reinterpretaion of tuberose perfumes which is spicy and creamy, uplifting and bright, not soapy nor too classic, not too heavy but still not an insipid transparent hyper-polite, almost nonexisting one.
A perfect unisex contemporary wearable cinnamon tuberose. Not too sweet, amber and flowers (ylang ylang is present too) are balanced with dark spices and the greener aspects of galbanum and patchouli. Special, comforting in grey autumn and winter days, spectacular on warm skin summer and spring evenings. Much better on skin than on paper or clothes, needs to warm up.
Probably an acquired taste perfume. Good longevity and proper not overwhelming sillage.
My first Tauer, though I’ve been wanting 14 Noontide for a long time…
ingetrien – :
Blech! OML. Because I just discovered Incense Rose (heart!), I ordered it in a Traveler set with two other promising candidates (all are great), and received a complimentary pack with this “Tuberose” (before I go on Andy Tauer has excellent customer service with signed cards, fast delivery, really great experience).
But back to this frightful horror. I rarely–if ever–scrub. I’m a determined “sniffer”–and even if I don’t love, I usually can like or “appreciate.” This smells like damp moldy towels, old cigarette butts, earth, dust, mold, armpits, rank acrid bitterness. Add heaping doses of just awful industrial nastiness. I live in a port city, and we have the usual international shipments coming in/out, and there are nearby warehouses which hold fertilizer. Occasionally, on this toxic drive, as I’m struggling not to breathe in for 5 minutes, I will have to exhale, and, well, you know. This smells like that stretch of road. This is so awful I think I got a bad sample from his lab.
I like mentholated. I don’t get it here. I like tuberose POWER (give me some SL or Fracas or Carnal and a couple of others). I can handle sweet, and love spicy, woods, resins, ambers. NONE of the notes listed above in Fragrantica’s description can I detect. It just smells so rank and bad I will be compelled to go to STC for a different sample just to compare. I can’t believe people would wear this. I sprayed on a tester strip after spritzing myself down, and there, it smells like a crunchy green herbacious something. Not sure what. Better than my arms smell, but still absolutely unwearable.
Be warned: do not blind buy but get a sample! Finally, it really may be a bad batch. The quality of his other perfumes I quite like, or, if I don’t love them (like Lonestar or Lonesome) I at least like them very much with their typical Tauerade!
baron200988 – :
I’m awash in this sweet, spicy heaven of white florals. My first wearing so I have many hours of development to experience, but so far It’s a knock-out. UPDATE: Longevity is great, I could still catch traces more than 16 hours after application. Lovely soft dry down, lots of amber.. Love it.
Notes: Cinnamon, cloves, geranium, galbanum; tuberose, ylang-ylang, jasmine; tuberose, patchouli, amber.
karys35 – :
This is a fresh tuberose & just been picked, as you can smell the roots, the grassy ground, the sand, the dust, the soil and everything related more than the tuberose itself in a full moon night on a grassy cliff in the mountains. This is a scenery, a portrait, a symphony! the more it cools down the more it settles well on skin as it goes quite dusty & creamy with mixed floral.
It it similar to his gardenia but this one is a tuberose, it is to be honest the one that captivates me after allot of tests as this one and the gardenia didn’t captivated me from the first sniff cause both are quite challenging so both needs time to get along with. I see this one and gardenia the best among his lines.
serj0607 – :
This is beautiful and very long lasting,not at all screechy but I have and love the Gardenia from this range and it smells very similar to that so I can’t justify having the two.
Frodo-Max – :
This is a very unusual and original fragrance. I feel a strong personality in this perfum. I agree it is better for women, even if spicy fragrance are very often good for men.
The combination of cloves and tuberose makes the fragrance very sexy, sensual and attractive. Tuberose is the queen of sensuality for me.
After some hours amber keeps the fragrance very sophisticated. Very good.
I prefere for winter.
Сикир – :
This is very beautiful to me, but I don’t get any cinnamon, cloves or patchouli as listed in the notes. Nor do I really smell much of tuberose, just subtle, fleeting glimpses during the first hour then it dries down near identically to Tauer’s Sotto La Luna Gardenia. The signature “Tauerade” is here in full force. It lasts and lasts and lasts, which is typical of Tauer fragrances, and the sillage is mighty. Since I already own and love the gardenia one, I do not need to have this one.
ROMEO007 – :
This must be the first Tauer fragrance I dislike. It’s tuberose and dust, the kind of dust that raises off the road in a dry summer day and makes yellowish suffocating clouds…. it’s a pity because the tuberose is chocking in this dust too… no creaminess that is so typical to this flower, no dew, no charm. I couldn’t even wait for the development, maybe it would have gotten better later, normally I love cinnamon, but I scrubbed it off…
unseboorb – :
Starts off very sharp and dusty with a lot of cloves, cinnamon and tuberose. Has that definite and unmistakable Tauer’s DNA and ever-present boldness.
Then the cloves start to dominate for some time, while the fragrance rounds up and becomes smoother.
No need to talk about the performance, as always with Tauer’s perfumes you will be notices from far away and for a long time.
As a spicy, floral and powdery scent, I think it’s better suitable for women, I don’t see myself wearing this in public.
Likable, good addition to Andy’s family of fragrances.