Description
Tornade Blonde is irresistible, irrepressible. Opening with fresh green notes of cassis and Italian bergamot surrounding an addictive Bulgarian rose, it is enchantingly feminine, adventurous and full of passion.
“I wanted to celebrate a 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: rhubarb, violet leaves, ambrette signature, cassis.
– Middle: Bulgarian rose, jasmine sambac absolut, orange flower petals, firnat, gardenia from Brazil.
– Base: ambergris, cedarwood, Australian sandalwood, patchouli.
Tornade Blonde was launched in 2016.
ice1682 – :
I cannot understand the large amount of dislikes for this fragrance. It is a pleasing, simple white floral. Tornade Blonde is spring in a bottle. It reminds me of the first days of spring when floral bushes are starting to bloom and you get a delightful whiff of jasmine and gardenia in the breeze. In fact the gardenia is what stands out in this scent. Is Tornade Blonde mind blowing? No. Is it ground breaking? No. It is unobtrusive and pretty. Simply put. I will say that longevity is poor on this one.
jrcjxk – :
Expensive fragrance for me but worth it.
First of all I love Christian Louboutin shoes especially their high heels. Chic and elegant. Like this perfume. This is a formal ‘dress up’ perfume to wear at a wedding either as the bride of bridesmaid. She is sedate and lady-like, floral, mature, confident and intellectual. Normally I don’t care for heavy florals and this fragrance lacks the fruitiness around the florals I go for but it’s a gorgeous complex scent. Smells like an Italian garden in the late afternoon or sunset time, white flowers in the summer breeze. Paints a pretty picture with fragrant gardenia, rose, orange blossom and violet. The flowers are noticeable and are pretty powerful so the lightest application is all you need to smell good.
The dry down is woodsy and green with cedar, sandalwood and patchouli. The aromatic herbal patchouli stands out as the big green note here, like leaves wrapping around white flowers on a tree. Sweet but not cloying or sugary, feminine without being powdery or a make-up and lipstick scent. She is no nonsense, she means business, she has her life together. This perfume has a vintage air but I can’t quite make out what vintage perfume it smells like. Finally I would like to say that this perfume is more of an evening perfume but it can work just as well in the day time.
E202KX – :
Today I’m wearing the second of the three Loboutin sample perfumes I have. I’m testing Tornado Blonde.
Tornado Blond opens with notes of rhubarb and cassis, made sweet with violet. And I do mean sweet, it’s like a sugared rhubarb or too sweet cassis cocktail with candied violet as a garnish.
Cool rose does appear, slightly tempering the sweetness, but not enough to call this a rose perfume or even a floral.
And there it stays. I keep waiting for it to deepen, for new flowers to bloom or for the patchouli or sandlewood to take over and darken the fragrance, turn it more oriental. But it stays on my skin as a sugared, fruity, rhubarb pie. At final dry down, I can get a teeny but of cedar, but no others, and not enough to make this fragrance mysterious or interesting. It is just a very sweet perfume anchored by cedar, like many available.
Strike two for me and Louboutin perfumes. I’m starting to wonder if the samples I have may not be giving me the real experience, because so far, the two I’ve tested have fallen flat.
The bottle is interesting. Of course, I can see the obvious references to feminine anatomy, but I can also see a shoe. The bottle appears to me to be a high heel shoe as a woman walks away.
andiv – :
A nice, not sharp rosey perfume…that’s about it!
propro05 – :
For a house as dramatic as Christian Louboutin, I was expecting an equally dark and dramatic scent, but Tornade Blonde actually reminds me of L’eau d’Issey by Issey Miyake. Or Chloe. It has the same clean, light floral quality about it. Rose (a fresh, tart rose) takes the forefront here. To me, the patchouli and woods are faint. I like this scent, but 1) it pushes no new ground, and 2) to me it’s just incongruous with the Louboutin “look.” I feel like this juice belongs in a pretty, modern, floral bottle.
Guinplen – :
This is kind of a grown up big floral,lots of white flowers, with a dominant rose and jasmin, then orange blossom, smells rather nice..why it is called blond tornado, I am not sure,this scent is rather formal, office friendly, pretty but not overly exciting…seems the Louboutin creativity was spent on the names rather than the juice itself..my nose tries very hard to detect all the notes, maybe a hint of cassis and rhubard, so slightly..Nothing wrong with it,I personally like it, very feminine, except the price.!
My favorite of the 3..smells like quality!! like an Estee Lauder perfume in a way!
AYG_neodim – :
Fragrance Review For Tornade Blonde
Louboutin
Top Notes
Rhubarb Violet Leaf Ambrette Cassis
Middle Notes
Bulgarian Rose Jasmine Sambac Orange Blossom Gardenia
Base Notes
Ambergris Patchouli Cedar Sandalwood
A pleasant but not striking Oriental or Floral Oriental.
I have countless Louboutin shoes so I still see this designer as being a shoemaker and not a perfumer. Only now has this designer turned to the world of fragrance with about 3 fragrances total – Bikini Questa Sera & Trouble In Heaven are the other 2.
For me this is not as good as Trouble In Heaven which is superb as an Oriental but this is a close second and it has some good things in it.
The opening note that most comes through is violet and cassis which remind me of the violet leaf in Violet Blonde by Tom Ford.
While not an exact dupe, it does have something of that “blonde smelling of violets in her hair” type of scent. This is an elegant very expensive smell of violet and a cassis wine.
It reminds me of some of my older female friends who are blonde socialites. Something motherly about it, elegant and even glamorous.
This perfume is definitely designed for experienced perfumistas. Not a youthful girly girl scent in the least.
The floral heart is brazen with gardenia, Bulgarian rose and jasmine.
The white florals are quite potent but never turn into a Giorgio Beverly Hills for lacking a tuberose. This is mainly gardenia on me. The middle stage of the fragrance is floral and very pleasant, soapy, sweet.
The dry down is an Oriental body of patchouli leaves and sandalwood. Very aromatic and unisex.
This perfume and Trouble In Heaven can easily pass for men’s colognes or women’s Oriental so for me this is totally unisex and I’m sure the designer is aware that it’s unisex.
Confident, intellectual and my type of modern perfume.
One can wear this with evening wear and it wafts up into the air nicely indoors in hallways. People will get a whiff of your perfume and will be intrigued.
Kimberly_fromAF – :
This is the wrong picture.. and the bottles turned out to be quite clumsy/cheap feeling, almost like plastic
art_sah – :
Unfortunately the 3 Louboutin fragrances are cheap and generic fragrances sold for the price of niche (€275).
The white floral one is a bit more edgy, but you can find at Sephora ten or twenty similar fragrances five times cheaper. It’s a shame Mister Louboutin!
Meovm452InsuffBooni – :
Tornade Blonde is much more rose-oriented than I was expecting. The centerpiece of the fragrance is a fresh, dewy rose bolstered by the sharp fruitiness of rhubarb and cassis. Underneath this there is a white floralcy, which is not specifically prominent but serves as structure for the rose note. The base is also well-done, with salty ambergris, earthy ambrette, and soft patchouli.
I like Tornade Blonde. It is romantic and feminine but still contemporary and stylish. I think it fits the Louboutin brand very well.
I still don’t know how I feel about the bottle, though. It looks better in person than it does in the photos, but I’m still not crazy about it. And let’s just say that the design of the bottle makes a Georgia O’Keefe painting look subtle.
kiohy – :
I think the keyhole is supposed to be the sole of the shoe seen from bellow. He has that symbol in red on the bags as well.