Description
The long-awaited perfume from the luxury French fashion brand Louis Vuitton arrives in September 2016. The creation process took over four years, including establishing the creative atelier Les Fontains Parfumées in Grasse with Jacques Cavallier Belletrud in the position of in-house perfumer. The license belongs to the LVMH company. Les Parfums Louis Vuitton transmit journeys of emotions and aromatic adventures.
Seven luxurious fragrances are presented in the collection: Rose des Vents, Matière Noire, Mille Feux, Apogée, Turbulences, Dans la Peau and Contre Moi.The fragrances are feminine and floral, with names that aim to highlight the emotional narrative rather than the ingredients.
“From the airiness of Rose des Vents to the intoxicating Turbulences, the ecstasy of a first night with Dans la Peau to the mindful immersion in nature with Apogée; from the self-revealing Contre Moi to an exploration of a darker side with Matière Noire and the explosion of the senses with Mille Feux… Les parfums Louis Vuitton describe a journey of the emotions.”
Opulent Turbulences contains jasmine from Grasse, tuberose, musk, magnolia, rose and leather.
The face of the campaign is French actress Léa Seydoux.The bottles are designed by Marc Newson, made of heavy glass to look like minimalist versions of apothecary vials with metal caps featuring the LV emblem. The price of each bottle is $240.The fragrances are available in 100 and 200 ml Eau de Parfum, with additional travel spray set of four x 7.5 ml and a limited edition set of all seven miniatures x 10 ml.
vosejoohncol – :
I have a weird skinchemistry, I think. This one does not go along with me, it gets sticky and sharp. Unpleasent. I hade high hopes and was thrilled when I got a sample. Gave it away.
P-A-L85 – :
amazing, classy and unique. the only tubereuse i can wear except from Carnal Flower
Sanich00 – :
This fragrance drove me… literally… crazy.
I was so obsessed with how good this smells but so torn about the price tag.
When I ran out of the sample I got at the store, I bought tuberose bulbs online and planted them in pots on my terrace, just so that I could smell tuberose again.
It took four months but they all blossomed beautifully and at that point I realized I was absolutely bonkers and got out and bought a bottle.
Turbulences is great. Sillage is very moderate after about 1-2 hours but longevity is super potent. I can smell this on myself after a whole day so I’m assuming that others can too.
I feel like this represents me like no other perfume ever. The masculine and feminine counterparts are constantly complimenting each other, a true gender bender.
10/10
negativ0123 – :
I have come to realise in recent years that I really enjoy wearing leather fragrances. I do however prefer a soft leather or suede as opposed to a fragrance that goes overboard with this sometimes tricky note. Louis Vuitton’s Turbulences is one leather scent I truly adore wearing.
Turbulences smells of squeaky clean, shiny leather and creamy tuberose. The perfumer, Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud really plays with the masculine and feminine aspects of this fragrance. In many ways, Turbulences could be considered a unisex white floral. It’s quite an androgynous scent.
Surprisingly on my skin, when smelt from a distance, the white floral blend of jasmine and tuberose is the easiest to detect. However, when sniffed from the skin itself, the crisp leather note is the most dominant accord. The leather in this composition smells exactly like a brand new leather wallet before the leather has been broken in and softened by use.
Turbulences is a fragrance I can only imagine the late Bettie Page wearing. It has a vintage vibe with a touch of naughtiness. I would recommend this fragrance for Autumn and Winter, simply because of the sillage being quite strong and overbearing on warm skin. I would love to own a bottle of Turbulences but may start with a small decant first before spending the big bucks on a rather pricey bottle.
obukvladimir – :
It took me a minute, but I have come to adore Turbulences. In fact, adore almost isn’t a strong enough word. As it becomes springtime in Boston, I’ve recently had a hankering for the pillowy, opulent smoothness of a white floral fragrance that isn’t overbearingly heady or dense. I considered a few options—Fracas, Gardénia, Joy… All nice fragrances with beautiful history, but I truly am a sucker for Louis Vuitton’s poetry of travel and heritage of timeless talismans of French style, so I decided it was time to take the plunge and add Turbulences to my collection.
When I first smelled Turbulences about a year ago, I liked it. I thought it was nice, but a somewhat nondescript tuberose perfume, and therefore not exactly something I felt warranted its price tag. How foolish of me not to give it space and allow it to flourish on its own outside of the boutique, away from all the other fragrances in the line. It was in the intimacy of my own home that I truly fell in love with it. It envelops me in a supremely soothing aura that is rich and potent, yet not so much that it compromises its subtlety, mellowness, or modesty. It to me smells like the naïvety of how a powerhouse white floral (such as Fracas or Joy) would smell in its early adult years, before it becomes a helpless, hopeless romantic that, despite its desperation to love and be loved, is empowered by its own assertiveness and self-assurance. A smooth tuberose-dominated fragrance with subtle insinuations of dewy greenness and dry woodiness. And an unexpected leather accord… Untreated rawhide leather that alludes to the house’s best-known handbags and travel goods.
I am sometimes defiant of, if not skeptical of a fragrance house’s marketing campaigns, as I find that they are often hackneyed, rehashed stories of the same “discovery of oneself” and “fulfilling one’s own dreams” and blah blah blah. It is rare that I really buy into them. In fact, I would say that I haven’t completely relinquished myself to them or let my visions be swayed by them until now. Louis Vuitton’s fragrances for me demonstrate painfully beautiful olfactory poetry that I think many contemporary releases lack. In more ways than one I am taken by surprise by the collection, and perhaps most by Turbulences. My love for it struck me like turbulence on an aircraft in the middle of a journey I was so convinced would go exactly how I expected it to. My love for these tubular roses…unexpected. The one word I think best describes Turbulences. Unexpected.
emkari – :
The odour of tuberose and jasmine are strong and they are mixed with each other quite well. It seems that I can smell of some orange blossom in it though I don’t know how it happens and it is what makes fragrance so interesting.
However I am quite disappointed with its floral scent as it is not complicated and multi-leveled. I ordered the miniatures of dans la peau, mille feux and turbulences online and the only one I like is dans la peau.
The floral scent here is dull and boring and nothing different from other floral scents, or maybe even worse than many of the designer and niche brands. At least in their fragrances, no matter I like that particular floral scent or not, I can find something interesting to make it a successful and ‘good’ perfume. But nothing in this one.
Considering its high price, I would say it is not worth it as you can buy a few bottles of other fragrances with a unique and unforgettable formula with the same amount of money. This one is too mediocre and ordinary at its price. I do not hate it, but I do not like it as well. I believe dupes of a much lower price can be found.
By the way, I want to try rose des vent as well as I love rose perfumes. I hope it won’t let me down. Leather scents are also one of my favourites. Anyone knows which one in this collection consists of a stronger and more obvious leather note?
skorpion22 – :
This smells like a brand new car bringing home a Jasmine plant
dhz272elipseskism – :
I bought it based on the reviews here. I’m not a floral scent fan but as I am reading allthe the comments here I said why not? So I bought it.
Its a yes – no scent for me, I like to smell it on other people but I cant stand wearing it. To me, the scent is like you have been locked in a church and u get out the day after and the aroma of jasmine lingers on your skin. I can’t detect any rose notes here, just pure tuberose and jasmine from top to base notes.
veedoc – :
it is known i love tuberose and jasmine-and this is a dream-sexy big white florals-…i love turberose that is animalistic-i can almost smell the pollen-over ripe, rich,blossoms…..wonderful.
universal perfumes and cosmetics does a spot on EXCELLENT pure perfume oil -aprox $6/3mls-of concentrated heaven….long lasting, great projection-it lasted 8 hours on me-far longer than the sample i have from the company….
scorpions88854 – :
Turbulences
by Louis Vuitton
2016
I went for my new wallet to LV location in Chicago- Michigan Ave and I felled in love with this one.
Next to Rose des Vents these are my fav 🙂
I really like how it blends.
A very delicate and a long lasting.
Powdery/woody/musky, luxurious delicate scent!. . .
If you want me to be 100% honest with you.
The reason I like this one- it’s because reminds a lot- Eau Blanche by Alexander McQueen. They blend so similar.. I would call them close cousins 🙂
Naum44 – :
A substantial take on tuberouse since Frederic Malle’s Carnal Flower. A sauvage tuberouse scent, totally unisex in my opinion. Jacques Cavalier strikes again.
fja607bedyWelty – :
Turbulences by Louis Vuitton. An oriental floral that has an artificial, chemical edge to it. Definitely a scrubber for me. I think that Vuitton doesn’t like my skin chemistry.
Mehta813elipseskism – :
I tested the whole line at my local Vuitton store and thought they were all beautiful and impossibly elegant. The sales associate offered me two samples to take home – Contre Moi and Turbulences. I tested Turbulences yesterday – a tiny spritz on the back of my hand – and went to a restaurant for lunch. This is a big, strong and earthy tuberose scent, and the smell of it filled my car quickly. Good thing I was driving alone, because the sillage may have suffocated any passengers riding with me. Upon arriving at the restaurant, the lady next to me sneezed twice. I strongly suspect it was my fragrance, because we were the only two people in that particular area … quite frankly, it made me a bit self-conscious, but oh well. To be honest, I couldn’t wait to wash it off. On the other hand: the sales associate also sprayed some of Turbulences on a card, and I placed it in one of the back pockets of my pants. A day later, I smelled it again and found it was soaked with the most elegant, gorgeous drydown. I would compare it to the inside of an expensive suede handbag with traces of a floral scent worn by the owner. Unfortunately, the fragrance broke down on my skin and never got to that point (as a chemist, I shouldn’t be saying this, but this is the impression I got). While I intend to purchase one of the scents in this collection, it won’t be this one. I’m still toying with Contre Moi and want to look into Apogee as well. Apogee, specially, seems lighter and better suited to my preferences. Happy sniffing!
Nazar_Igor – :
You are definitely right StellaDiverFlynn, one must love mushroom earthy smell and green fresh soft cheese tuberose but also, and this is important, soft floral and rubbery leather to truly enjoy this one. I do. I disagree on the safety of this composition, on the contrary I can see many people disliking it, I think tuberose leather combination, one of my favourite note combo, isn’t that popular at all. You just need to check other perfumes reviews which tried out leather tuberose combo before Turbulences as for instance Histoires de Parfums Tubereuse 1 Capricieuse.
The mushroom earthyness is there from the beginning up to the drydown, on my skin it is very prominent, tuberose floral notes play a secondary role in the first stages and gets almost lost under the slightly floral, leather and musks blend of the gorgeous drydowm which is not totally a clean one but perfectly controlled. Elegant, chic, a bit difficult, tasteful, sharp and accurate as intelligent people are.
Totally unisex, there is no sweetness in it. Moderate sillage but good longevity. I prefer Turbulences on skin than on clothes and I can see myself using it on spring.
I can see Cuir d’ange fans enjoying this one too.
miladka – :
The mushroom-like scent of the all over dominant tuberose in this flag may explain LV calling it “intoxicating Turbulences” (hope the mushrooms are not toxic, but I survived!), as it takes hours for the other floral notes, the muscs & leather to come. Maybe too much … but definitely ambitious and original.
Among the 7 flags sold in 10cc miniatures by LV, I’m not sure regarding this one (neither BTW about Contre Moi which lacks strength IMHO). All the others are near perfection, even the 2 with clearly fruity notes, so much “a la mode” today.
Many reviews here complain about price, but the 200 cc bottles go for 300€, in my view quite fair when compared to Guelain’s Exclusives (also from LVMH) with similar quality of ingredients. The 7 miniatures allow 3 or 4 thorough testings in different situations & conditions for 250€, so I liked this near zero risk formula before buying the big bottles.
P.S. (added Aug.’17) : the more I use this frag, the more I like it.
Nikolai Malikoff – :
Turbulences opens with a lush tuberose. The tuberose here does not convey anything tropical. Instead, it’s accompanied by a camphorous note, and more surprisingly, an earthy, mushroom-y aroma as well. The later combined with the oily, salty creaminess of tuberose, reminds me instantly of Gorgonzola blue cheese and gardenia. I happen to love this aspect of gardenia in perfumes, and besides JAR Jardenia and Tom Ford Velvet Gardenia, Turbulences is a rare instance where this accord is explicitly showcased on my skin. Needless to say, I’m in an olfactory heaven during the first 3 hours of Turbulences’ development.
Starting from the 4th hour, the mushroom/cheese smell becomes gentler, allowing other notes to shine as well. The terpenic, camphorous greenness and the creamy suavity of tuberose, the bubble-gum sweet undertone of jasmine, and the discreet magnolia and musk mingling with the oily fatty mushroom/cheese, all make a sensuous skin scent which lasts for hours and hours.
The sillage of Turbulences is heavy to moderate, and the longevity can exceed 12 hours on my skin. While I’m mostly indifferent towards the other LV fragrances, I absolutely adore Turbulences. Partly because I love tuberose and gardenia in perfumery, but more importantly, it’s because of the evocative, risk-taking earthy mushroom/blue cheese aroma. Admittedly, Jardenia and Velvet Gardenia are both deeper, darker and more complexe than Turbulences. But Turbulences is the most practical one to procure while preserving this weirdly attractive accord. Therefore, I’d highly recommend giving it a try, especially if you enjoy mushroom/blue cheese nuance in gardenia and tuberose.
flamencomanitas – :
Agree with Jean B Grenouille up to a point.
Longevity is mid range at best but I do get a distinct and slightly pungent and unnerving mushroom tuberose aroma.
No detectable rose or anything else for that matter.
Again as I previously reviewed, re Louis Vuitton,its niceish but nothing outstanding for the asking price and this is the one with the greatest sillage for mine.
Again no sale here.
Luckmansie – :
An earthy, mushroom-like tuberose is complemented by a pairing of petals of Chinese jasmine sambac and grandiflorum from Grasse with a dreamy, luminous may rose. Slightly citrus infused blossoming magnolia and musk provide further creaminess. The heady and mildly animalic florals are bedded on a base of subtle calfskin leather, which offers warmth and comfort.
A very solid offering from Jacques Cavallier that delivers medium strong longevity and average projection but here I prefer the smell on naked skin over the sillage trail – so, for me, its intensity is correctly tuned.
Priced at niche levels it’s not exactly a turbulent ride but nobody really expected bumpy roads or crashing waves here. A thoroughly pleasant, uncomplicated floriental and probably one of the better ones of the lineup.
In comparison with the Hermessence line (and it is well documented how closely LVMH have been monitoring, straining and even obsessing about their great rival) there is less artistic originality here across the range and less playfulness but better strength at EdP concentration.
I am not certain whether LV can make a totally compelling case re olfactory globetrotting even though the range as a whole is well enough made with quality ingredients. The voyage misses two key components to being on tour: excitement and adventure. Instead it’s safe travelling First Class.