№ 14 - Noontide Petals Tauer Perfumes 2013

№ 14 - Noontide Petals by Tauer Perfumes

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7.5 / 10 136 Ratings

№ 14 - Noontide Petals is a popular perfume by Tauer Perfumes for women and men and was released in 2013. The scent is floral-fresh. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Fresh

Spicy

Citrus

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Bourbon geranium

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Tuberose

Rose

Ylang-ylang

Jasmine

Base Notes

Frankincense

Iris

Sandalwood

Styrax

Vanilla

Patchouli

Vetiver

Perfumer

Andy Tauer

Ratings

Scent

7.5136 Ratings

Longevity

8.1110 Ratings

Sillage

7.5110 Ratings

Bottle

7.4103 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 21.01.2021.

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/04/2013

2.5
Bottle 10
Sillage 5
Longevity 4
Scent

Drseid
819 Reviews

Drseid

Very helpful Review 8

Deja Vu From The House Of Tauer...

Noontide Petals opens on skin with a gargantuan aldehyde assault that melds with a supporting dull orange bergamot before moving to its mid phase. Early in the scent's heart the aldehydes remain as the bergamot is now replaced by very artificial rose yielding a soapy rose overall accord. As the fragrance dries down, the aldehydes and rose recede as it turns somewhat sweet, derived primarily by a sandalwood and slightly powdery vanilla base note tandem with patchouli support. Projection is outstanding and longevity is average at 7-8 hours on skin.

Knowing my prior disappointments with past Andy Tauer compositions, I approached Noontide Petals with great hesitancy while secretly hoping that it would be the first from the highly likable perfumer that I could embrace. Alas, within seconds after the aldehyde onslaught began I knew it was not to be... Noontide Petals strikes me as a very synthetic smelling mix of the aforementioned aldehydes and poor quality rose, yielding a fragrance profile very similar to another Tauer composition I disliked called Une Rose Vermeille (and also Briar Rose by Ineke, come to think of it) which ultimately smells like cheap rose shampoo. To its credit, the fragrance improves significantly late when the aldehydes finally die and the slightly sweet sandalwood and vanilla take over. Alas, by the time you get to this stage it is far too late and had I not forced myself to keep wearing it for this review I would have scrubbed it off long before getting there. I should note that projection fanatics will find plenty to love here, as that performance aspect was amazing from the start. Outstanding performance aside, the bottom line is the "poor" 2 star out of 5 rated Noontide Petals is just another disappointment from the well-regarded house of Tauer and my personal hunt for a composition I can enjoy from it continues.

08/11/2019

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

DonJuanDeCat
657 Reviews

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DonJuanDeCat

Very helpful Review 5

The flowers of noon

Hey hey noses, I'm reporting today on the Noontide Petals fragrance from Tauer Perfumes, a brand that is probably best known for L'Air du Désert Marocain. So, today it's Noontide Petals,... a strange name, because translated it should mean something like noon blossoms. According to the descriptions, the scent should actually give the impression that you are in a dark room, and then you switch on the light, with which everything that is in the room suddenly becomes visible and you perceive the radiant light... of course,... I mean, you also switch on the light, of course everything becomes visible then... :D

Soo... but you know what? I like the thing with the light much better than the name of the fragrance, because the term "Petals" inevitably reminds me of my miserable flower knowledge and my laziness to finally do something about it, for example to know immediately without looking in Google what gardenias or geraniums are, or how freesias look like and something like that :D

Well, "someday" I'll probably learn it already, but as long as I say the typical: "I'll start tomorrow with it", ho ho ho. Anyway, I'm curious about the scent. I haven't had Tauer under my nose for a long time, so let's see how (hopefully great) this fragrance smells here!

The fragrance:

The fragrance begins with aldehydes and roses. You can also quickly smell powdery iris, gentle resinous scents such as incense, flowery and sweet jasmine and the first traces of ylang-ylang.
A little later many top notes weaken, but the aldehydes remain almost unchanged and intense for quite a while. The roses become more intense and thus radiate a flowery and slightly acidic aura. Gradually the Ylang-Ylangs get stronger, too, but don't stay really heavy or even sultry yet, and I hope that this doesn't change much either.
Again later the aldehydes still remain well smellable, the roses weaken a bit, but now you can smell the tuberoses much better. In addition, the fragrance becomes much more resinous and thus warmer and gentler.
Many hours later the aldehydes become weaker, so that the resins come over even more intensively and you can smell the incense much better. In the base, the incense together with sandalwood, iris, a rest of flowers and of course vanilla simply smells beautiful, warm and soft.
Much later, however, the fragrance smells very intensely of incense, which some might find disturbing, as it then really only begins to smell of intense incense, which lasts a few hours before the incense weakens again and the fragrance becomes sweeter again. But all in all a beautiful fragrance.

The Sillage and the shelf life:

I think the Sillage is good, you are wrapped in a larger scent cloud, which others can smell pretty good without having to get very close. And the smell does not disturb from the proximity either, since the smell has generally turned out gently. The durability is very long failed, one can count here loosely on over twelve hours, I would assume even more!

The bottle:

The pentagonal or star-shaped bottle is dark blue and has the tactile brand name on the front. The lid is black and made of wood. The label sticks on the left, upper side, is orange and indicates beside the smell name also the number of the smell. All in all, a very beautifully shaped bottle.

Soo, so I really liked Noontide Petals. It is a beautiful, intensive and warm autumn and winter scent, which could be used both during the day (e.g. at noon, he he...) and in the evening for going out. It's actually unisex, but since you can see too much of flowers and sweet jasmine and tuberose, it's more feminine, but it doesn't become a purely feminine fragrance. The fragrance is very worth testing and should be sniffed at least once for testing.

The late base is, however, as said a little more violent because of the intense incense. That means, after four to six hours I found that the scent for a while then only had the scent of incense (before it became sweeter again afterwards), which also seemed a little exhausting to me every now and then (but which can also be due to the fact that we do not have autumn or winter at the moment). So if you want to test the scent, you have to keep it on your skin longer to "see" all facets of the scent!

Well, that's it again, then. I could actually have a look at some of the flowers and their names and looks... but somehow I've lost the desire to do it... I'll try it tomorrow... maybe! :D

I wish you a nice evening, then, until the next time :)

09/24/2013

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Very helpful Review 6

contemporary floral aldehyde

The aldehydic floral perfume is iconic. Jean Patou Joy is remembered by many as the greatest perfume of the 20th century, and Chanel No 5 is the definition of perfume to generations. The mythology of the aldehyde is somewhere between urban legend and factoid thanks to No 5: someone dumped buckets of aldehydes into a floral base and the baby Jesus was born.

But the floral aldehyde does have its risks. At one end of the spectrum is the punch in the face, Estée Lauder Lauder White Linen, and at the other, the limp handshake, Guerlain Chant d'Aromes. Granted, this leaves a large middle ground for success, but in that middle ground is another risk: the nondescript perfume. Throngs of faceless perfumes led entire generations to think of aldehydic perfumes as soapy and nondescript.

But look at the successful perfumes. The aldehyde serves as an important modifier, but because it seems to work differently in each perfume, it comes off as a wildcard to the perfume wearer. To Van Cleef and Arpels First, it gives backbone. It allows the perfume to hold together green, animalic and bright white tones without flying apart. In Robert Piguet Baghari, the aldehyde gives that electric shock, like someone's just grabbed your ass. To No 5, aldehydes lend a specificity, an unspeakable clarity. It's hard to put words to it, but you'd never mistake No 5 for anything else.

It Noontide Petals, the rush of aldehydes at the opening of the fragrance gives a tremendous feeling of acceleration. In one nose-full you're carried straight to the center of the fragrance. Once you’re up to speed, you recognize parts of the aldehyde package. The sparkle, the cleanliness, the smile. In Noontide Petals, the aldehyde does exactly what it was intended to do. It focuses your attention on the flowers. The buoyancy of the aldehyde makes the rose appear hyperrealistic at first, but with time I realize the aldehyde and the rose are just perfectly balanced.

And here is aldehyde's specific gift to this perfume. Noontide Petals is a study in tenderness. It shows that tenderness is grounded and deliberate. It’s an attribute, not a lack of deficits. Tenderness leads to consideration and reflection, two states I find myself in when I wear Noontide Petals. There are perfumes that are the well-considered products of thoughtful perfumers. But there aren't many that consistently prompt a state of thoughtfulness.

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12/23/2013

2.5
Bottle 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Tnahowru
33 Reviews

Tnahowru

Very helpful Review 3

Love it...

And I hate the imitation rose smell in any perfume, but in this one the good out-ways the bad.
It opens with beautiful clean, bright, lemony, bergamot, and sandalwood notes. Later I catch the vanilla and the rose.

10/10/2017

8
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

EauMySoul
25 Reviews

EauMySoul

Helpful Review 3

Happiness in a bottle!

Such a fizzy, wondrous, floral delight! It is like carbonated perfume....so much bubbly aldehydes I am surprised it doesn't spew when you spray it! The most effervescent fragrance I have ever smelled. The dry down is absolutely heavenly...still fizzy but a more gentle version compared to the larger than life opening. Has the signature Tauerade in the base....and while very different from the other Tauer creations, there is no mistaking this is Tauer. Noontide Petals is so lively and delightful, it is impossible not to smile while wearing it. I think if worn regularly, it could reduce caffeine usage and even cure depression. :) Happiness in a bottle! One of my favorite fragrances. Noontide Petals is pure heavenly bliss!

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