L'Eau Scandaleuse
Anatole Lebreton (2014)

This opens up with a promising dirty tuberose, oily, languorous, and eyebrow-raising, naughty even. I also discern medicinal, camphorous undertones similar to that of Tuberose Criminelle. Soon thereafter, I am reminded of Bal a Versailles and the scent of that starchy cotton that would be stuffed into a bottle of Flintstones vitamins. This dissipates into a more chalky, glue-y, pasty, feel—perhaps the cypriol, and an animalic knock-your-kickers off leather.

It does eventually mellow into a more polite floral leather and mossy woods. Nice stuff!

I was looking for a wild combination of tuberose and leather, then I found this.

At first I imagined it to be a "beauty and beast" kind of floral-animalic perfume, but it's not what I expected.

The opening tuberose blast like firework to your face, possibly sweetened by fruity notes, along with subtle inky tone. But this is not a floral perfume, it quickly transition into a dry, slightly salty leather base.

If the flower lure you in, the leather is what make you stay. Sometimes I can perceive a charred cacao or even chocolate edge in the leather. Although the castoreum is listed, luckily it doesn't muddle things up. As time goes by it only makes the leather richer and thicker, it almost developed a gourmand aspect with the tuberose.

Overall, a perfume worth having.

This is stunning, polished, balanced and utterly beautiful. It opens on my skin with a strong animal tuberose, with a kaleidoscope of gorgeous floral nuances and a deep chypre oakmoss. This is first class!! It then unfolds into the richest tuberose that is fatty buttery and rich. It last for ages and eventually the drydown is a soft rich tuberose. Five stars for this beauty, most perfumers just don't make this quality of fragrance for the price, anymore. Ordered a full bottle straightaway.........a classic!!!