Robert Piguet Fracas Eau de Parfum for Women 100 ml

Product Information

bottles of Amarige? Oh my! I really hope you love it. I’m a bit confused as to what you meant when you said, “I just read what is the difference between the fragrances?” Did you mean that you did read about the difference or are you asking me?

Both Queens have stood the test of time and sit on their thrones, basking in the glory of being the absolute best.

Confirm your age

For all its glory, I would be the very first to say that you should never buy Fracas blind unless you are sure from ahead of time that you love powerful, heady white floral or tuberose scents. Never. One reason is the powerful projection and longevity of Fracas, which really cannot be emphasized enough. Read the comments on Fragrantica; they are uniform. When someone wrote that Fracas lasted through two showers, I believed it fully. When others write that it can induce searing migraines in even small doses to anyone sensitive to perfumes, I believe them too. Cellier infamously dedicated Fracas ~a voluptuous tuberose scent conceived for ‘femmes’~ to the beautiful Edwige Feuillère, while she promised the butcher Bandit to the ‘dykes’.

Cellier was] the creator of a striking style. ‘She transposed Fauvism and Abstractionism into perfume,’ Jeannine Mongin has written. ‘She created in dissonance.’… It is possible that the secret of Fracas (1948) is an equilibrium between the power of Cellier’s style and the power of tuberose.

Instagram

tuberose perfume by Germaine Cellier for Robert Piguet A fragrance vlogger holds up a bottle of Fracas in 2017 As for samples, I’m glad you’re testing out things. Perfume is not like makeup at all. A pink blush will appear pink on you and on me, with perhaps tiny, miniscule differences in terms of shades of pink. But it will still be pink, you know. Perfume is totally different because people’s skin chemistry can change it so much from one person to the next. Fracas, released in 1948, was the third perfume to be released by French Couturier Robert Piguet. Like the two fragrances to proceed it, Bandit and Visa, it was created by Germaine Cellier and is considered by many to be the reference tuberose fragrance, the one that all others attempt to be in someway or another. But none, I repeat none can ever live up to Fracas – the diva of the tuberose world. The tuberose at the heart of Fracas is hot, fleshy, green, sweet and buttery. It doesn’t quite feel as tropical as the stiflingly hot tuberose of L’Artisan Parfumeur’s Nuit de Tubéreuse or as green and stem-like as Frederic Malle’s Carnal Flower or By Kilian’s Beyond Love. The tuberose here is chic, Parisian and beautifully outlandish, it is almost so evocative of nature’s most visceral and erotic white flower that it feels like a parody of itself.

Just to let you know, the smallest size vials (1 ml) would let you put on the perfume twice, depending on how much you use, or possibly 3 times. They are never filled totally to the top and some of the perfumes they will say come in only 1/4 of the vial. Since you’re in India and can’t get these samples delivered to you within a week the way I can in the US, I would recommend trying out larger sizes to make the time and wait worth your while. 2 ml perhaps? That way, it still won’t be expensive for you? (I always worry about making people spend money on things.) But perhaps 4 ml on some that you think would be more to your liking? I have some other perfumes up for testing by Ormonde Jayne, Tom Ford or Chanel that could fit your tastes but I won’t get around to testing them for a while, so for now, read up on the ones I mentioned up above (and which I’ve reviewed here) and see if they intrigue you. Tuberose is one of the most difficult materials to master in a perfume craft. Perhaps, therefore, the brave and determined Germaine Cellier chose it to show all her knowledge, skills and gifts. Fracas is a perfume that will make you love white flowers, even if you previously despised it. That is how deep the genius Miss Cellier is and the power of the Fracas perfume. Although now we do not have the opportunity to smell the vintage version, the new version can still give us a charm of reminiscence of the time when the perfume creation, as well as wearing it – was an art. In the history of perfume, there are a few that rise, like the most effervescent of top notes, to a higher plane than any others. These are the textbook masterpieces, fragrances that are inarguably the best of their kind; timeless scents that have spawned countless copies and even more homages. Dior’s deathless Diorissimo, cited by every perfume expert on the planet as the sine qua non lily-of-the-valley fragrance, is one of them. Robert Piguet’s Fracas, the ultimate tour-de-force tuberose, is another. Cellier, then one of the only women working as a "nose" in formal perfumery, dedicated it to actress Edwige Feuillère, who had been the object of scandal when she appeared nude in the 1935 film Lucrezia Borgia. [1] Fragrance notes [ edit ] Fragrance notes] top notes: bergamot, mandarin, hyacinth, green notes; middle notes: tuberose, jasmine, orange blossom, lily of the valley, iris, rose, violet, coriander, osmanthus, geranium; base notes: oakmoss, vetiver, iris root, sandalwood, cedar, musk, tolu balsam, amber, benzoin.Fracas opens with dazzling bergamot and wonderfully indolic, luminous orange blossom. As much as Fracas may be known for being the Queen of Tuberoses, she could also be considered as an orange blossom too. It’s this coalition of tuberose and orange blossom that sets Fracas apart from the crowd. Yes she’s the Queen of Tuberoses but I think she would also stand a good chance of being crowned Queen of Florals too. bergamot, orange blossom, greens, peach, tuberose, jasmine, violet, iris, lily of the valley, carnation, sandalwood, musk, oakmoss, and cedar.

The freshness of the lily of the valley goes in three directions. First, by using the leaves of a fresh violet that give a green note to this perfume composition; Second, by using methyl anthranilate– a fruit-based substance that refreshes like champagne and the third, by adding synthetic civet, fresh and animal ones – if you can still remember the smell of the old Kouros perfume, then you know what civet is. All this, which is more than one perfume can or should offer, is decorated and embellished with the lower notes of the vetiver and oakmoss, which give the flower composition a darker, more earthy and daring character. I’m hesitant to give one of my usually detailed, hour-by-hour breakdowns for Fracas. Some masterpieces can’t be dissected. And, in all honesty, I couldn’t even hope to sum up its key elements as well as that quote by Chandler Burr just did. But there is also something else: Fracas is such a magnificently blended perfume that the notes often merge together in perfect unity to create a strong, buttery, indolic, narcotically heady “sum total.” It is a symphony of buttery, creamy white, even though there are things that cut through the richness, like the green vetiver and the airy, spring-like, green lily-of-the-valley and hyacinth. At first blast, Fracas is sweet—but not cheap or candy-sweet like the mass perfumes of the last two decades. This is the sweetness of seduction. It has a darkness to it, though it’s not heavy; and the more it develops on skin, the more it feels alive and blooming. Put simply, Fracas is a tuberose bomb—a powerful, lush, heady white floral with a narcotic undertow—but Cellier’s genius was in the way that she couched the polarizing flower in other notes to make it three-dimensional, round, and soft. Bergamot and orange blossom top notes give it a freshness; a whisper of peach makes it creamy; cedar, musk, and sandalwood in the base add warmth. The composition has the effect of being confronted with a bouquet of flowers, but also of pressing your nose against salty skin. The ingredients are simple, but the mystique is undefinable. I’m fortunate not to experience any of that. [CLARIFICATION: again, I’m talking about my 1998, now “vintage” version of Fracas. ] On me, it is predominantly tuberose and gardenia, with a touch of green, a base of creamy earthiness and, yes, a strong feeling of a hot body after sex. (Though never the gardenia and “ bad-idea sex” that one person amusingly called the scent of Fracas.) The rest — the numerous, subtle nuances and undulating waves of notes — I refuse to break down. I won’t dissect Fracas. I suppose I don’t want to dig into why it creates the magic that it does for me. To me, Fracas is the Ode to Joy in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. There are a lot of cadences involved, but some things are just meant to be appreciated as a majestic whole and to try for yourself. [Ideally, in vintage form.] The Piguet House has given us two more perfume classics base on which we measure all the other perfumes in that category: Bandit, the reference leather perfume – all leather perfumes want to be like Bandit when they grow up, and Baghari, the pearl of all floral chypres. There were many attempts to create a new masterpiece based on the old perfumes from the mid-20th century, but unfortunately, none of the heirs of Robert Piguet managed that. We should not complain because at least we have the opportunity to smell and buy these three. The Holy Trinity of the house of Piguet, and perhaps of the whole perfume world.I’m not saying Fracas is easy to wear. It's so glamorous, so ravishing, and has so much presence that there are certain situations when it feels too much; at an intimate dinner, for instance, it might make feel like a pushy uninvited guest. But in a crowd, it’s devastating: Just watch people’s noses twitch and their eyes glaze over dreamily as they try to sniff out the source of that bewitching sillage.