BDK Parfums · Cécile Matton

Tubéreuse Impériale

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

VersionEau de Parfum

Pink pepper and geranium over sunny tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang and iris, settling into sandalwood, vanilla, incense and benzoin.

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The drawn Tubéreuse Impériale bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Tubéreuse Impériale’s scent picture, a draft: pink pepper, geranium, tuberose, ylang-ylang, jasmine, iris drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Tubéreuse Impériale, when you spray it: Pink pepper, Geranium, Citral (lemon)

As it settlesheart notes

Tubéreuse Impériale, as it settles: Tuberose, Ylang-ylang, Jasmine, Iris

What staysdry-down notes

Tubéreuse Impériale, what stays: Cashmeran (cashmere wood), Sandalwood, Frankincense, Vanilla, Patchouli, Benzoin, Cypress

What’s inside it

What the label names

11 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender5 florals2 spices1 powder

5 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Cap CamaratMemo Paris · shares pink pepper, ylang-ylang, jasmine, Cashmeran and 4 moreabout $285 for 75 ml
RawdahMaison Origine Paris · shares pink pepper, ylang-ylang, jasmine, Cashmeran and 4 more$316 for 100 ml
Epic 56 WomanAmouage · shares pink pepper, geranium (rose geranium), jasmine, orris and 4 more$550 for 100 ml · about twice Tubéreuse Impériale’s about $252
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.