Tosca (Eau de Cologne) by Mäurer & Wirtz

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Tosca Mäurer & Wirtz 1921 Eau de Cologne

6.4 / 10 167 Ratings

A perfume by Mäurer & Wirtz for women, released in 1921. The scent is floral-powdery. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Sweet

Spicy

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Bergamot

Neroli

Orange

Lemon

Heart Notes

Narcissus

Jasmine

Lily of the valley Rose

Rose

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Labdanum

Ambergris

Patchouli

Vanilla

Ratings

Scent

6.4167 Ratings

Longevity

6.6137 Ratings

Sillage

6.0130 Ratings

Bottle

6.3142 Ratings

Value for money

8.826 Ratings

Submitted by Parfum1311, last update on 09/30/2025.

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Reviews

24 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/15/2013

7Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

EvaK
31 Reviews

EvaK

Very helpful Review 5

From shock to surprise

This review is for the vintage parfum - I don't know other versions.
The initial opening is extremely sharp and bitter to my nose. The last thing I would have expected from this shock was the metamorphosis into a gentle, elegant powdery-flowery beauty! It settles sweet and classy - not femme fatale like Habanita, but I agree that there are similarities. Vtg. Tosca is not dramatic, makes me think of one of those women with impeccable style - never a loose thread from the ivory suit, never a single stain on her shoes or the matching purse. It's an incredible polite fragrance, yet you're curious to find out what lays behind all this polite elegance. There's something surprising and exciting inside. Love it.

10/30/2013

5.5Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Gold
726 Reviews

Gold

Very helpful Review 3

The long-forgotten Christmas gift-pack

Are you looking for vintage "Tosca"? It's still very easy to find good specimen of this famous German fragrance everywhere on the internet, since nearly every granny who is NOT into perfume seems to be hiding a bottle of "Tosca" somewhere in her closet. I received my recent vintage flacon three weeks ago when my 84-year-old mother-in-law discovered her long-forgotton "Tosca" in the corner of her bedroom-shelf. "Tosca" was and still is the fragrance my own mother would never ever have used or would dream of using today, but then again, she always loved perfumes - and her first fragrance was "Bandit" by Piguet. When I was a teenager and started trying perfumes in department stores etc. I sneered at "Tosca". The image of the scent was extremely old-fashioned and I hated everything about it. It struck me as a sharp, aldehydic scent, unsentimental in spite of the kitschy advertisments broadcast on German television. I'm convinced that millions of German women weren't at all keen on receiving the obligatory "Tosca gift set" their grumpy husbands selected for them at Christmas.
Revisiting the fragrance today, I have to state that I still can't warm up to it. There is nothing pretty about "Tosca". And there is nothing complex or cunning about its formula either, a couple of white flowers against a background of dashes of labdanum and patchouli. I still find it a curiously old-fashioned scent, but not in a good way. Perhaps its attempt at smelling inoffensive is its limitation. Compared to contemporary fruity-florals, vintage "Tosca" might seem quite passable today, but I can't wear it.
As for the new reformulated version I'd better keep my mouth shut, "watered-down" would still sound like a compliment.

09/04/2023

7Scent 4Longevity 5Sillage

Ringtale
133 Reviews

Ringtale

Helpful Review 2

Get the EDT or even better: the EDP!

Tosca...such an underrated and unknown gem! I own the EDC, the EDT and the EDP for which I already wrote a review. (all current versions)
The EDC is a nice, vintage cologne, but fleeting, though less fleeting (and more interesting as a scent) than Echt Kölnisch Wasser Eau de Cologne, but it is a very nice cologne, maybe for bedtime, very soft and spicy.
But ah...the EDT is already something different: aldehydes, done at their best. soapy, spicy, out of the shower-like and cosy but bright. With decent, moderate longevity and sillage, fitting an EDT.
I prefer the EDP. The EDP almost smells like the sum of all my favourite fragrances. Here also aldehydes, sharp and 'fatty' like they used to perform in Estée by Estée Lauder, but the scent of Tosca EDP is more flowery and spicy than that.
Without being similar to those, in the EDP I do get vibes of Ysatis, of Boucheron, of Estée...you name them. Not of Chanel No 5 with which it is compared often. But Chanel No 5 is a scent I absolutely don't like, so don't buy blind, expecting Chanel No 5, I would say.
Longevity and sillage of Tosca EDP are stunning!
I hate the 'old lady' comments in general, but when it comes to Tosca, it really can annoy me...Tosca may have an 'old soul' but she is far too fresh to be associated with 'old ladies'. Nothing 'musty' in Tosca EDP. I think it is easier to get in Europe than in the US, but if you can get your hands on the EDP and don't mind a little 'vintage' and 'soapy', you won't be disappointed.

02/07/2016

6Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

loewenherz
916 Reviews

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Top Review 39

Mom's Crocheted Toilet Paper Roll on the Parcel Shelf

Recently, in the parking lot of a large supermarket, I was loading the contents of my shopping cart into the trunk next to an elderly couple. They seemed to be in their mid-seventies, and the way they lovingly helped each other and interacted was beautiful. They naturally called each other 'Mom' and 'Dad', and when he made a smacking sound while packing a bag of green beans (full of joyful anticipation for the upcoming dinner, undoubtedly a nice piece of bacon would be involved), I would have loved to give them a quick hug.

On the parcel shelf of their car lay something I hadn't seen in years (oh, what am I saying, decades!) - a neatly crocheted roll of toilet paper in muted brown tones - with a frilled decorative edge, it just needed a pom-pom on top. In the 80s - when there was no Sanifair, and a trip to the Costa del Sol could take 48 hours, including trying to convince customs officers that, of course, you had no wine with you - these crocheted toilet rolls were a German family standard. (Often, there was a second roll covered in this way on the guest toilet - from which a Spanish woman playing castanets would emerge.)

The little old man and the little old woman radiated a down-to-earth quality and modesty that seemed touching and outdated - 2016, in the parking lot of this supermarket. You could almost see how used wrapping paper was carefully smoothed out and put away - and whether a threadbare sweater could perhaps still be saved with a new collar. Mom manages the finances with strict leniency, and as long as there are occasionally beans with bacon, Dad has always delivered his earnings to her without complaint - less out of habit, more out of genuine trust.

Conclusion: when the little old woman got into the car (he helped her, even though she wasn't sick, and the space wasn't tight - just to help her), I could see a small bottle lying on the inside of the passenger door. It was Tosca - in the very simple bottle with a label and a blue plastic cap. I then briefly imagined her refreshing herself with a drop of it before meeting old acquaintances (whom you only see sometimes since they moved to Osnabrück). And I thought to myself: it's actually nice that this still exists.

04/19/2018

Duftsucht
137 Reviews

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Top Review 43

Walking down memory lane…

Inspired by Ttfortwo’s wonderful comment on the Tosca perfume, my last lunchtime fragrance hunt led me directly to a specific shelf - and right down to the floor: in the very corner, there they were, the scents of my youth: Tosca and Nonchalance. I had received them as miniatures for my display case (for the younger ones, an explanation: display case = an indispensable dust collector in almost every girl's room in the 70s and possibly still in the early 80s, filled with various trinkets, mostly of subpar quality. Of course, there was also the other variant: lovingly maintained and stocked and regularly dusted - just not in my room…) Now back to the fragrance: my godmother gifted me a lovingly handmade Advent calendar made from matchboxes, filled with all sorts of wonderful miniature things. And as highlights on the Advent Sundays, there were fragrances: 4711, Tosca, Nonchalance (in exactly that order) - and on Christmas Eve as a “real” gift, my first proper perfume. Unfortunately, the bottle was damaged in the mail and leaked - so the perfume was transferred into a beautiful spray bottle, and I will probably never find out what the scent was called back then. I remember that it was a non-sweet, truly elegant fragrance. And if my memory serves me right, it was definitely something I could still enjoy today.
Tosca and Nonchalance landed on my arms without even sniffing the bottle or taking a paper strip. And already in the first hundredth of a second of spraying, I feel catapulted back in time. I am back in my parents' apartment, it is the pre-Christmas season. My sisters and I are all sitting together at the table, spreading the meringue mixture on the cinnamon stars - with small pointed knives, so the snow goes all the way into the corners. Each of us is wearing an apron and has neatly tied back hair. On another tray, butter cookies are waiting to be decorated with small sugar pearls - overall, quite a sticky affair… The Advent wreath stands with burning candles, which were always red, on a small table in the corner because we need the whole kitchen table for our cookies.
As the youngest, I sneak away to my new treasure, which has received a place of honor in the display case. Very carefully, I unscrew the tiny perfume bottle to avoid spilling anything and smell it.
I have no memory of ever really wearing Nonchalance and Tosca back then. The bottles were so tiny, filled with only a few precious drops - and I can well imagine that I really just occasionally smelled them. The memories of that time, when so many things were still so new and unexpected and overwhelming, make me a little nostalgic.
All of this is what these fragrances evoke in me - and as I notice that my eyes have become moist, I decide not to dissect them into top, heart, and base notes and perhaps subject them to a merciless, overly adult evaluation.
They should remain as they are in my memory: scents of a long-gone time, the enchanting fragrances of my childhood.

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