Saturday, November 6 at the ?Beauty Concept? store in Monza, I took part to the event "Focus on tuberose" where participants were able to sniff and discuss dozens of raw materials and perfumes tuberose-focused.First, our host Gian Luca Perris (founder of Perris Monte Carlo, website here) invited us to enjoy a fantastic tuberose absolute, that surprised many for its leathery character, dry, salty, smoky, "bacon", which took more than twenty minutes to show a soft and delicate floral facet, which speaks of flowers in a shy and persuasive way. While the steam distillation collects the lighter, more volatile and fresher notes, the absolute extracts the flower scent in its wholeness, with all its warm, earthy, heavy basenotes. Smelling the tuberose absolute I was struck by the fact this flower seems to work "backwards" compared with other flowers: you generally perceive the first more gentle and floral notes, and only after they get deeper, weightier and become dark and indolic. Tuberous starts with darker notes, leathery, smoky, to become gentler and floral over time. We then explored a range of perfumes kindly offered by the participants in Adjiumi Forum:Piguet's Fracas (we could compare an outstanding vintage with the modern version)Michelle (Balenciaga)Blonde (Versace)Mahora (Guerlain)ChloèTubereuse by L'Artisan Parfumeur, both the first version and the renewed one.On the table we also had Giorgio Beverly Hills, Poison by Dior, Beautif...