Le Labo · 2006 · Alberto Morillas

Tubéreuse 40

VersionEau de Parfum

Le Labo says

You’ll smell tuberose, bergamot, tangerine, orange flower, cedar, sandalwood, oak moss, musks and ambrette absolute.

The house’s page

The drawn Tubéreuse 40 bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Tubéreuse 40’s scent picture, a draft: tuberose, bergamot, mandarin, orange flower, cedar, sandalwood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Tubéreuse 40, top notes: Bergamot, Mandarin, Orange flower, Sweet orange, Lemon, Lavender

Heartthe first hours

Tubéreuse 40, heart: Musks, Jasmine, Rose

Dry-downhours later

Tubéreuse 40, dry-down: tuberose, Cedar, Sandalwood, Oakmoss, ambrette, virginia-cedar, Vanillin

On the label

What’s inside it

22 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

5 citrus5 herbs & lavender8 florals2 woods1 sweet1 spices

Citrus5

LimoneneBitter orange oilBergamot oilLemon oilCitral

Herbs & lavender5

Lavender oilCamphorLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals8

Neroli oilJasmineRose oilGeraniolFarnesolHydroxycitronellalCitronellolGeranyl acetate

Woods2

Cedarwood oilSantalol

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Spices1

Eugenol

Not in Ingredients yet6

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha terpinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetCarvone, not in Ingredients yetBenzoic acid, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcohol

Named by Le Labo, never on a label

TuberoseTangerineSandalwoodOak mossMusks, not in Ingredients yetAmbrette absolute

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

Our match of the labels

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Counted from the printed lists: 22 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.