La Tulipe Byredo 2010 Eau de Parfum

I feel like a joyful smiling nurse, with my white freshly washed - ironed uniform, ready to kindly serve and take care of my patients, always with devotion,
pure intentions and heartfelt joy.
Oh no, I am not a nurse in real life, in fact I don't even fancy hospitals or clinics, la tulipe gives me the feeling of a sterilized but bright joyful person who's on a mission,
determined to carry out her/his duty, making others happy
with her pretty perfume trail.

You know when you walk into a florist (a real florist, not one of those boutiquey places that pretend) and you get hit by the scent of chopped off stems, a bunch of florals and a little bit of damp?
That's La Tulipe.
The florals aren't overwhelming, in fact for me the green-ness of it came out the most.

This is my absolute favorite floral perfume. It's green and crisp and mature and has a sweet depth to it that develops as it sits. I love the green, stemmy floral note and the crisp and tart rhubarb. Upon the initial spray, it can smell sort of sharp or astringent but you have to let it mellow out for a bit. I have both the hair perfume and the eau de parfum and I think the scent lasts a fair amount of time. The hair perfume allows for an extra scent bubble around my head/nose so I would definitely recommend.

One of my favourites and my parfum of choice during spring. It's flowery, green and watery. Very photorealistic freshly cut tulips, you can smell the creamy flower and the greenness of the cut stems. Lovely during rainy days, as it has some acuatic notes. A very clean, fresh and happy scent. It's absolutely lovely in spring but a tad heavy for me during the day at the warmest point of the summer.

The opening is a very wet and almost melon-like green floral, it smells like digging your fingernail into a fresh tulip petal. Then things get a little bit creamier while staying green, the floral scent sort of reminds me of hyacinths. I get a little bit of spice from the cyclamen and a bright bitterness from the rhubarb. It smells like sweet and thick nectar, but is still so fresh and natural. It really reminds me of standing in the floral section at a supermarket. The scent is mature, but still girlish and flirty.

After an hour, it stays very green and is still floral, but less sweet. The scent now reminds me of wet dewy lilacs on a cold spring morning. People will say tulips don’t really have a scent. I think they definitely do, it’s just a very faint scent. This smells close to a tulip, and I can picture the tulip in my mind, but I think it also smells equally like lilac. It gets creamier as the next couple hours go on, the greenness and creaminess sort of similar to the qualities of tuberose, but much lighter and delicate. I’d say it still predominantly smells like lilac to me, but very green and almost rubbery. I don’t notice too much woodiness in the base, there’s just a clean brightness from the vetiver and a slightly sweet nutty and airy atmospheric quality. By the 3-4 hour mark it becomes very faint and is only detectable to the wearer.