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Looking for a new perfume for Spring, Kikidoll got this email from a fellow fumie friend in Paris:

Dear Kiki,

I am in the Galerie de Valois in Palais Royal and just bought this amazing scent by Serge Lutens called Tubéreuse Criminelle.

You have to smell this–it’s like sitting at night in our lanai back home in Waikiki. Costs a bomb–110 Euros for 75 ml.–  but you gotta have it!  Will give up eating my daily crepe just to buy it for you.

Yours,  Smellarella

Kikidoll wrote back:

Dear Smella,

Yes, heard of it, but can’t buy it here and they won’t ship to US–it’s exclusive in Europe. I googled it and it says it has tuberose alright, but also jasmine and something else…spicey?

Why don’t you just come home and sit in your lanai?  Hawaii’s air is already so perfumed it’s practically criminal.

Save your Euros. And enjoy your crepe au chocolat!

Ever your sistah,  K

Ah, criminal tuberose, like a night thief!

Kikidoll read on:

The lingering, wafting scents of  tuberose, jasmine, orange blossom and hyacinth are laced with spicey nutmeg, clove and vanilla and levelled off with musk for mystery. Developed for Serge Lutens Perfumes by Chris Sheldrake it was first released in 1999 and by now it is well-ensconced as a classic, no, great, tuberose fragrance that’ll steal your heart and wallet.

Nothing prepares you for the ‘ta-dah’ opening  blast it gives. Tubéreuse Criminelle has at times been compared to everything from’ sewer gas to moth balls to Vick’s Vapo-rub.’

Eventually during the dry down once the top notes fade the tuberose left behind is enveloped in a lush, velvety spice bath. Not creamy and dreamy like the tuberose so prominent in Fracas, another heady tuberose perfume that like Tubéreuse Criminelle has its fans swooning and squeeing its delights. Take Fracas as the girlier version; Tubéreuse Criminelle, although not masculine, could cross-dress it can be so seductive. And chilly. And dangerous.  (All props to Now Smell This)

Smella confirmed Kikidoll’s fear that Tubéreuse Criminelle is only available if, like Smella, you are in Paris (or the EC). Eating crepes. Giving up your pocket money just  to own this mysterious, dangerous, cat burglar of a scent.

Or, you could just go to Hawaii and smell the flowers in the air!

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