Fernqueen

A far cry from the stifling white florals of decades past, Joyeuse Tubéreuse is a soft and airy floral tastefully caressed by green vines. This and a sparkling nectarous note that continues to bloom on the skin keep it fresh and timeless. The result is elegant but not dowdy, refined but not artificial. It's neither the olfactive cacophony of the jungle nor the generic perfume of an envased flower, rather more like smelling freshly opened blooms in the greenhouse. What more could you want a "simple" floral to be?

Sillage is very intimate and unfortunately it doesn't seem to linger more than a few hours on me, which is unfortunate at this price point and makes me begrudge wanting more than just a decant of this.

Didn't know about the marketing for this one. Loved this in the store so bought the travel size on a whim. (And I will say it was the only Phlur fragrance I tested that I felt any way about at all — all the others were very uninspired and thin/flat, so I will probably not bother with this brand in the future.) I returned it after wearing it once. The sparkly, juicy floral aroma dissipates in less than an hour, and this is the only component with any projection, apparently. After that, it was just very, very candylike. And not a juicy, gummy candy, more like a powdery candy your grandparents used to eat (can't remember any names atm but like those little dots that come on sticker sheets, for example or those wax soda bottles). I didn't get the patchouli at all, either — I was surprised to see it in the notes!

I'm not much of a fan of TF's other "dark" scents except for Oud Wood (too much tobacco/leather, I think), but I'm absolutely bewitched by this one! To me it smells like my favorite woody incenses. Mysterious, alluring, and sexy. It's my go-to for nights out, either alone or layered with a white floral for a softer vibe. It lasts absolutely forever (seriously, I wore it to a party last Friday and can still smell it on the clothes I wore as of today, Wednesday) and has the perfect sillage imo (people will notice you entering a room but not all the way at the other end of the bar). I think it's extremely unisex and am confused by the consensus it's more masculine! Maybe I'm biased because I favor woody, spicy scents but to me it's so easy to see it as an exotic femme fatale kind of scent, like a sorceress luring you into her sumptuously adorned home. There's something that feels sort of sacred and magical, spellbinding!, about it.

I find most of the Replica offerings underwhelming, reminiscent of an overpriced B&BW spray or a Yankee candle (which is to say, simplistic and yet non-specific). This is the big exception. It's still quite a straightforward scent and I'm sure pales in comparison to similar designer scents, but it's definitely one of the most interesting and unique fragrances I've found at this price point. It smells mostly like tomato leaves, sticky green and slightly sharp. So if that's not your jam, then this isn't for you. There's a quiet floral base, in the same way that all gardens have that slightly floral background note. I don't get any "dirt" (earthy, dank) at all, maybe a whisper of soil (fresh, wet) but that could very well be an associative note and not something contained within the perfume itself. This is a fabulous summer scent for me, there's definitely a sense memory experience that reminds me of working in the garden — from burying tomato stems in May to lunches of bruschetta and then the final hopeful harvest in September, collecting those exquisite slow ripeners for the most gorgeous tomato sauce to send off the season, wondering how you'll last the winter without fresh garden tomatoes. So yeah, it's definitely for tomato lovers, especially those who relish getting soil under their nails in pursuit of that love.