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Byredo La Tulipe ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 26 March 2010 38 Comments

Byredo Tulipe perfume

Byredo has launched La Tulipe, a new fragrance "built around the idea of the tulip":

A clean, fresh floral with top notes of rhubarb, cyclamen and freesia and a heart note of tulip. Green base notes of blond woods and vetyver round out the scent.

Byredo La Tulipe is available in 100 ml Eau de Parfum, and can be found now at Barneys for $195. (first quote via blog.madisonperfumery, second quote via barneys)

Update: read a review of Byredo La Tulipe.

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  1. Haunani says:
    26 March 2010 at 10:33 am

    Sounds very pretty! I need to figure out what cyclamen smells like.

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    • ScentScelf says:
      26 March 2010 at 10:49 am

      Me, too. I grow it and I don’t know. Hmmm. ;)

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      • miss kitty v. says:
        26 March 2010 at 11:04 am

        I know. I was going to say, the cyclamen I have doesn’t have a smell. :)

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        • Zazie says:
          26 March 2010 at 11:21 am

          Smelly Cyclamens are difficult to find!
          The best are the tiny wild ones, and they are very fragrant indeed.

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          • HikerChickNH says:
            26 March 2010 at 11:49 am

            There is a beautiful swath of cyclamen in a garden along the Philosopher’s Walk in Heidelberg. They were in full bloom when we were there, and the effect was like a school of lavender fish leaping out of a rippling green pond. They definitely didn’t send up a noticeable aroma, though, and I did give them a whiff. I’m guessing they were the horticultural variety instead of wild. Darn.

          • Zazie says:
            26 March 2010 at 12:02 pm

            HikerChick, to find the wild ones you usually have to go up in altitude where they grow spontaneously: you find lots of them in the mountains (At least you find them in the Alps, if you don’t climb too high!).

          • HikerChickNH says:
            26 March 2010 at 2:05 pm

            Oh Zazie, don’t! I’m already pining for Vevey, and looking forward to our next trip to Switzerland. But it’s going to be years, YEARS, before we can go back! So I’m re-reading The Magic Mountain to tide me over…You have to tell me where you’ve seen and smelled that cyclamen, because I WILL find it!

      • Tommasina says:
        26 March 2010 at 11:12 am

        http://www.paghat.com/cyclamenpurp.html

        :0)

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        • Daisy says:
          26 March 2010 at 12:37 pm

          thank you! I have the perfect spot for some of those!!

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    • Haunani says:
      26 March 2010 at 3:45 pm

      Lots of cyclamen info. Thanks!

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  2. miss kitty v. says:
    26 March 2010 at 11:04 am

    Rhubarb! Ooooh!! Will need to try this!

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    • boojum says:
      26 March 2010 at 11:05 am

      Ha, that was my reaction too…followed by “hope it’s better than Blanche!”

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      • norjunma1 says:
        26 March 2010 at 11:08 am

        Ditto. Blanche left me bleh. But Pulp is so wonderful. I feel like it’s feast or famine with them.

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    • Robin says:
      26 March 2010 at 11:15 am

      Clean + fresh pretty much took care of my lemming….

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      • March says:
        26 March 2010 at 1:24 pm

        …. words right out of my mouth. Also I thought, hmmmm, most cyclamen don’t smell like much of anything. And then I thought, so … they’re perfect for this scent! (As far as I know, most tulips don’t smell much either — lots of flowers just have a vague, green/vegetal scent…)

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        • Joe says:
          26 March 2010 at 9:08 pm

          I’m still holding out hope. I don’t know why, but I’m getting me some from Patty. LOL

          Some varieties of cyclamen are fragrant. Tulip, I’m not so sure, but maybe there are different, smelly varieties of those too.

          In any case, I’m curious. I still like Byredo. Maybe it’s my Swedophilia.

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          • Daisy says:
            28 March 2010 at 6:03 pm

            I have several varieties of tulips in my flower beds that smell quite nice….none of them are really “strong” smelling but still clearly fragrant…..just depends upon variety, like any other flowering plant.

  3. HikerChickNH says:
    26 March 2010 at 11:52 am

    Tulip is so hard to capture, but the rhubarb/vetiver combination is an inspired idea, and just might come close if there isn’t too much rhubarb. Or vetiver.

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    • Robin says:
      26 March 2010 at 12:59 pm

      Doubt it is going for verisimilitude.

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      • HikerChickNH says:
        26 March 2010 at 2:06 pm

        That’s ok; I’d settle for impressionism

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  4. Tara says:
    26 March 2010 at 12:51 pm

    Tulips are my favorite flower, but I have to say I don’t recall them having a fragrance. Maybe the ones that grow in the Northeast, or least the ones I grow, do not have a fragrance.

    What does a tulip smell like?

    I can’t wait to try this..It sounds lovely!!

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    • Robin says:
      26 March 2010 at 12:58 pm

      It’s built around the idea of a tulip, mind you. Some varieties of tulip are fragrance, but most aren’t.

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    • asuperlongusername says:
      26 March 2010 at 1:23 pm

      I recently tried sniffing some tulips (store-bought) and was surprised by the aroma, especially after hearing that tulips didn’t have any aroma. As Robin points out, it must be very few varieties that do.

      When I sniffed (going from memory here) it smelled like honey and something hard to describe, like vegetarian musk (like soy meat but for those against animal extractions), sort of animalistic/vegetal weirdness that calls to mind patchouli but without the nose-searing bigness.

      La Tulipe sounds pretty close but don’t know if it’ll have the same sweetness.

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      • Robin says:
        26 March 2010 at 2:00 pm

        Again, it really doesn’t sound like they’re trying to make this smell real — they’re just going for the idea of a spring floral, IMO.

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        • asuperlongusername says:
          26 March 2010 at 5:16 pm

          Yeah, it’s a shame.

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  5. nozknoz says:
    26 March 2010 at 1:13 pm

    I like the IDEA of a tulip fragrance, based on what tulips look like: fresh colors, bold shapes and casual grace. I’m interested to sample and see if Byredo had the same idea.

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    • Robin says:
      26 March 2010 at 2:01 pm

      Maybe!

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    • Haunani says:
      26 March 2010 at 3:44 pm

      Same here!

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  6. Jemimagold says:
    26 March 2010 at 3:09 pm

    The “idea of a tulip”. How precious…

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    • Robin says:
      26 March 2010 at 7:06 pm

      :-)

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  7. Joe says:
    26 March 2010 at 9:11 pm

    Also not the first tulip inspired scent: Hilde Soliani’s Il Tuo Tulipano was quite nice.

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    • Robin says:
      27 March 2010 at 4:21 pm

      Right.

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  8. Stephen says:
    31 March 2010 at 5:58 pm

    I smelled it… and rather like it… Smells like Easter….

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 9:24 pm

      How interesting, thanks!

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  9. Stephen says:
    1 April 2010 at 5:29 pm

    Why thank you =)…. It was the first thing to pop into my head.. When I think of Spring i think of Easter and Flowers, especially tulips!! My mom brings in tulips a few days before Easter, so it just kind of enticed me in that sense…

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    • Robin says:
      1 April 2010 at 6:18 pm

      I bring in tulips too…have some pretty purple ones on my table right now. Sounds like you might need to get your Mom a bottle!

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  10. quinncreative says:
    3 April 2010 at 6:42 pm

    I just came home with a bottle. It’s perfect to me–it has to be to spend that kind of money. In my head, it smells like walking into an expensive florist shop, opening the cooler and inhaling. It is not powerful, it is fresh and spring like, and not too sweet, and green and lovely. Barney’s also carries body creams now, and while Tulipe is not available yet, Green is, and I bought that too, and wore them together. Heaven is Spring!

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    • Robin says:
      3 April 2010 at 10:01 pm

      So glad it’s nice! I *must* go try the Pulp body lotion, although doubt I’d be willing to pay for it.

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