Comments on: Dana Tabu ~ perfume review

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:02:19 +0000

You truly found your signature scent. Gosh, it sounds like it smells heavenly on you, and perfect for this chilly weather. There’s a reason Tabu has been so popular for so many years. The delicious way it smells on you is proof!

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:00:50 +0000

I can’t believe people are counterfeiting Tabu! That’s horrible.

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:00:24 +0000

It’s around for a good price at yard sales everywhere!

By: TabuForever

TabuForever — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:20:31 +0000

There’s been a lot of fake Tabu out there. I’ve returned two orders to reputable sellers, and saw a review on Amazon the other day that what was being sold was fake. Don’t take substitutes. I found Dana Classics a while back, and now they don’t have Tabu in stock, told me to go find it elsewhere. We need to DEMAND the real thing.

By: TabuForever

TabuForever — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:17:56 +0000

Any perfume or cologne works with your body chemistry. Many of them make me itch. I am now 61 and have worn Tabu since I was 14. My husband loves it and so do I. I got stopped by two college boys last year in the parking lot of my office. They loved the smell. One of them even said it smelled like everything good. On me it smells like cinnamon and maybe a little apple pie. It goes on strong, then fades, and come back up again when I heat up, which may be why my husband likes it. I wore Youth Dew for a while before it started smelling like tomatoes. It was sickening sweet. If Tabu was created for whores, just remember how many men have patronized them in the past. I bet they made more money than I ever have.

By: Subhuman

Subhuman — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:14:50 +0000

The current Tabu smells like spray-on root beer to me – sweet, thin, and fleeting. What I wouldn’t give to smell the vintage edition! It sounds like a riot.

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:10:08 +0000

I can easily imagine Tabu being a favorite of drag performers. I treasure my bottle, too, although like you I don’t wear it much.

By: L'Homme Vert

L'Homme Vert — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:55:31 +0000

Greetings,
I knew a couple Drag Queens in my younger years and they always looked fabulous and smelled divine, Absolutely !
One wore ‘Private Collection’ and the other ‘Je Reviens’, in parfum concentration of course. The louder the better, well it was the 80′s.
As for ‘Tabu’ this much maligned gem of perfumery has earned the right to take it’s place along with the other all time greats, it was created by Jean Carles and in fact was one of the most expensive top sellers of the mid twentieth century and is still in production. No mean feat, while countless head turners of the era will never see the light of day again. Sure this power ‘frag’ has been around the block quite a few times and is a little outdated in this world of synthetic fruity cocktails but it does endure in it’s own right while keeping as close to the original as possible.
I have several bottles of this high octane juice in ‘Parfum’ or extract from the 30′s & 40′s, when the house of Dana was founded in France and some are still sealed with the baudruchage membrane and black & white silk cording.
This original version is one of the first modern complex orientals and even though I would never consider wearing this out I certainly do admire the perfumer’s art regarding this olfactive wonder.
‘Tabu’ contained practically every floral absolute and essence available at that time including specially prepared bases that are today not in use and forever lost to the ether. The civet tincture used in these earlier preparations was of exquisite quality.
I admire this perfume for what it was, the more recent incarnations of this fragrance pale in comparison, search for the vintage you may be pleasantly surprised.
A great point of reference for most of todays floral Orientals !
Regards . . . .

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:28:28 +0000

Great description!

By: DannyAngel

DannyAngel — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:04:36 +0000

just got this yesyerday fot ten bucks at cvs! smells like nag champa incense and clove cigarettes, needless to say, i love it!