Tyger Tyger Francesca Bianchi for women and men

Tyger Tyger is another Francesca Bianchi scent that encompasses the DNA of the brand. A bold, leather scent with sweet and animalic nuances, it is a more feminine offering from this house. To my nose, it is primarily sweet, with peach-tinged white florals playing a prominent role, atop a honeyed leather base.

TT opens with the aforementioned syrupy peach, its bold, juicy sweetness paving the way nicely to the honeyed base. There is a slightly camphorous quality to the opening, unexpected, but melding well with the fruity-floral accord. It adds some tropical greenness to the sweet bouquet at the heart of this scent. The while florals unfurl, complementing the sweetness to perfection. I get fruit-tinged magnolia in particular, followed by smooth, creamy tuberose. Powdery heliotrope adds a hazy, almond-tinged edge as it develops, and it is perfection - marrying beautifully with the sweet florals while adding interest.

As it develops, the honeyed amber base slowly comes to the fore, providing the perfect backdrop to the peachy florals. A pinch of patchouli adds a nicely-gauged hint of earthiness, while the woods slowly develop in the background. The leather accord is smooth and slightly dry. The oud note bridges the gap seamlessly between the leather and woods. It remains sweet and smooth - the texture is less sticky than I expected. It becomes powdery with some animalic musk emerging as it dries down. The woods balance things nicely, but it remains richly sweet throughout. It fades to a dry, sweet, musky skin scent. Sillage is strong and longevity is long-lasting. It is a feminine transeasonal scent, but is too rich for summer heat.

Beautifully-balanced throughout, the white florals are complemented to perfection by the honey, woods and amber. I adore a rich, honeyed floral, and TT is one of the best I've encountered. A contender for my favourite Francesca Bianchi - and I find this house consistently excellent. 4.5/5.

An abstract, blurry and faintly animalic fruity-floral which blends a Fracas-style buttery tuberose with sweet and juicy peach notes, incense and a bit of skin-like warmth. This is surprisingly easy to wear and much gentler than many of Bianchi's other perfumes, although it may intensify as the perfume macerates in the sample vial - as has happened to me before with this house. After the initial topnotes fade this tends to come in and out of focus, and I have to smell my wrist to really perceive it - maybe noseblindness kicks in? Very likeable all the same.

strong candied, jammy peach and honey opening, softened by a collection of florals and propped up by gentle woods deep in the base. insurmountably sweet, fruity and syrupy, yet despite the sweetness, it comes off as elegant and mature. it's not over-sugared like more typical "honey and fruit" scents, but instead almost perfectly balanced between too sweet and not sweet enough (erring on the side of too sweet).

the older sister of givenchy l'interdit.

A whole peach de-pitted and filled to the brim with a very oily honey and topped with white flowers.
Like with Bianchi's scents, very strong and loud projection.
This works all year save the dead of summer, much too hot then.
I'd consider a full bottle for this.

Love this honey. Couldn’t really put a finger to the honey 🍯 and could smell the quiet flowers. I love this one! It’s slightly animalic. A change from the other sticky grimey Francesca bianchi. I would be able to enjoy a FB of this

First impression?
The opening is Weird!!
Smells like tiger balm or like an ointment or salve- no honey, peach, florals just herbaceous patchouli and oakmoss. I was hoping for peach jam with some leathery/oud nuances but I’m smelling rubber??
I don’t hate it it’s just odd and I don’t know what to think :)
I’m thankful I have a sample. I’ll keep sniffing and come back to see if my perception changes.

not a fan of Francesca's creations, for me they are too heavy and thick.
but this one is actually very nice!

it is oily and dense but balanced well with flowers (I get jasmine and something powdery. magnolia?). the honey creates a powdery, old makeupy smell.

the base its almost identical with sunshine woman, but much lighter on florals.

Thick, oily, heavy, very sweet to the point of cloying. Demanding attention both from you and those in the same room. A typical Bianchi. Either you like them or then you don't. But with Bianchi you always know what you're gonna get.

I can appreciate this is well made, but it is not for me. There is too much honey, also a persistent medicinal note that I am not knowledgeable enough to identify. Ultimately, it doesn't make me happy to wear it, so I am giving my sample away.

Honeyed jasmin opens the show, remind me of Serge Luten's Fils de Joie, not my favorite Serge. Peach comes forth, it all gets so sickly sweet. I have rubber? Rubber masquerading as suede, not leather. Faint medicinal scent, I'm guessing the oud. All powdery. Unimpressive, a bit of mess.

smells like fermented peach jam, but in a good way. very intoxicating.

The gender votes on this may swing more towards the female side but on my skin this is really masculine. It's wonderful.

I think this is the most beautiful and sexy fragance I have ever smelled, at least for tonight because this brand parfums are different each day I wear them.

This was the first Francesca's I ever tried when I bought the discovery set last Christmas. The opening was one of the most beautiful I have ever experienced (usually I dont like openings), but then it becomes funkier and funkier with the animalitcs and the burnt leather being too strong, it evoques me the part of the poem's girl between the flames in hell lol.

Tonight, in the middle of september when still is hot but not suffocating, I felt adventourous and I tried again. (I like more how fragances usually blend better in my skin during hot weather) .The opening and the funkier phase are still there, but the leather doesnt bother me anymore!

It is basically peach, jasmin (people say Tuberose but normaly I dont like tuberose because it is too banana bublegum to me and I hate that smell) and honey, but blended so well that there is not your typicall peach or honey. (I usually dont like peach when they are the protagonists -I dont mind in chypres like Mitsouko, I love chypres - or fruity parfumes!!! Because this is peach jam, not the tipical fruity peach you find in other fragances). The base is a smoky leather but it is not overwhelming, it gives deepnes and a warm hug (it would be too inocent girly for me without it).

After 2h it gets powedery and more vanille but never vanille into your nose, it is the typical Francesca Bianchi's dna, so if you liked it in other of her fragances, is here too but with that beautiful peach always present. People say it smells dusty and vintage but what can I say? To me is very classic and elegant but I dont feel anything dusty or old at all (I am +30). It has some melancholy perhaps.

It is sweet but in an expensive way (I hate when they are too sugared, the sweetness here comes from the beautiful materials). Fot me this is the perfect sugary point. I have always thought that I cant wear a peach parfume because thats not me at all, but here I have found a fragance that I think is perfectly all I want to transmit about my personality. It is dramatic hehe, it changes a lot at the begginning, playful and never boring with a touch of mistery but warm and confortable at the same time. Most of the "mistery" and gothic fragances usually are too dark to me. Here the peach is light, the smoky leather is darkness.

If I dont run to my usual boutique to buy a full bottle is because people around me feel it too strong and animalic u u If only the rest of the world could smell the beautiful elixir I can smell...

Very nice bottle and packaging. However, the honey and peach are too dominant and overwhelmingly sweet. I am getting neither the leather nor the woody notes. The performance is pretty good (extrait obv) but unfortunately, this perfume is too sweet and nauseous for me.

Really beautiful floral and honey scent with a lovely powderiness to it. It's not quite as big and bombastic as some I've tried from this brand. Not generally something I would personally wear but for a lady, this would be gorgeous.

This is pretty, while wafting in the air it's devine! Not what I expected at all. Very underated. I feel like it's a perfectly blended leathery peachy honey, all notes I adore and make my mouth water fragrance. Very sexy! I can see why only a certain type of person can appreciate it. GRRRR!!!!

I am officially a huge fan of F. Bianchi’s work. I’m too new to understand some of the individual notes but that powdery musk she creates all of her perfumes on top of is just other-worldly and makes life feel poetic and beautiful.

Anyway, Tyger Tyger isn’t for me. It’s too sickly sweet, the fruitiness is very strong to my nose. My first impression was that it smelled like something in my childhood. Flavored lip balm, maybe. I get a lot of peach, and not a lot of leather. The honey is nice, but I would have liked it more if it was a drier honey and not so sugary. So far I’m 0/2 for her sweeter scents, but that’s just my taste. Though if you count The Dark Side as a sweet scent then never mind because it may be the best perfume I have ever smelled in my life.

While I do typically hate leathers in fragrances especially those main notes; Tyger Tyger proves to be one that's just so well layered that the leather and oud don't over-power those more delicate notes within the white florals, peach, and Honey. In the summer, this truly melts into a sweet and carnal syrup on the skin; projecting as it mixes with heated skin and sweat.
It'll be a lot more elegant in the winter, like a lonely woman draped in silk, but for the summer it's a bit over indulgent. And I love it for that. Truly worth being a main stay on my vanity

Whoa the opening is a dead ringer for Delsym grape cough medicine

It’s wonderful, I’m a huge fan of Francesca Bianchi. I own a bottle of almost every perfume in the collection .
This one is my favorite after Under my skin. I love that it just smells better and better as it unfolds. This is a must have in my collection.

Amazing scent, however, not for me.
There is plenty of honey in it, but beeswax (for my nose) is even more prominent. Powder aka "toiletries pouch" is my archnemesis when it comes to perfume, and, unfortunately, there is a lot of it here for my liking. It has that pleasant retro vibe to it. I don't know how to explain, but it is in a good way, it evokes fantasies of how posh ladies used to smell in the 50s.
It is a very nuanced, rich ambery perfume, but a miss for me. I was expecting more peach and less powder, and that is the reason I'm selling it. (UK if anyone interested DM me)

Love the name and concept for this perfume, but found the scent extremely disappointing. Way too heavy on the leather! There's also a kind of old-fashioned, talcum-powdery undertone that- combined with the leather- really, REALLY evokes the scent of a musty old purse. I normally like powder notes, but not this one. It smells exactly like a very old and stale cake of pressed facial powder in a compact, at the bottom of an old and grimy leather purse. Very strong Grandma vibes, and NOT one of feline sensuality or danger at all. And it definitely doesn't smell like an actual cat. Hard pass on this!

Mmmm super photo realistic peach with flowers dominated by powerful heliotrope after that. The scent is amazing however i still have test the longevity and projection

Understated, lovely and deep. I get powder but like how suede smells, not like baby powder baby sweet. Also pick up a bit of the honey. It smells niche - not something you’d find at Sephora but it is still accessible. This doesn’t seem to project much for me (but testing from a dabber not a sprayer). I think the reviewer down thread may be right, this may be best in moderate temperatures not a Midwest winter which is what I have going on today.

This is beautiful. To my nose this opens with the smell of a chocolate filled with a fruity boozy filling, if you're from the UK it seemed similar to the strawberry quality street.
It settles down into a beautiful and soft honey with a leathery backbone, sweet throughout.

Of the FB's i've sampled, this is my favourite smell but i am unsure whether i would wear it enough to justify a full bottle. Just a sample for now..

this starts with an animalic honey with hints of white florals and a fair amount of peach...it has a vintage feel. that is close up. wafting from afar it's all peach and white florals, and now i am noticing leather and oakmoss close up, about 1-2 minutes in. i think you'd have to like peach to enjoy this. dries down to a peachy vanilla that's beautiful.

Si vous êtes bien aguerris et le nez bien entraîné si vous avez senti des milliers de parfums ça ne vas pas vous impressionner cette marque c’est de bon parfum mais déjà vue pour la plupart celui-ci me fait penser à cuir cannage en plus sucrée déjà senti un dizaines de parfums similaires mais ça reste un bon parfum mais aucun tigre ici ou un bébé tigre peu être

I just got a Francesca Bianchi discovery set, and this is my introduction to her perfumes.

On my skin Tyger Tyger opens with a big honey blast, tempered by the peach. Tyger Tyger evolves so much that by the time I get the suede-like Leather note, it has transformed in a powdery and cosy experience. White flowers are listed, but everything blends with the skin, so it's difficult to distinguish them because the whole thing is very consistent.
Then in the deep dry down, the heliotrope dominates giving this "clean" almost "soapy" (to my nose) effect. Beautiful.

Longevity is great on my skin, 10 h plus, with an arm's length sillage. Very unisex.
This is a nice Tyger, like the one from Winnie the Pooh.

From a sample: Just brilliant , sparking notes dance on my skin, next stop by a full bottle, i love the different ways it develops and fires my imagination , this i like very much

Francesca Bianchi takes the title of one of William Blake's most famous poems invoking the dark side (so to speak, given this is the name of another one of her masterpieces) of "burning Bright" as Blake writes. The tiger is dangerous and this scent is powerful, not scary, but the wearer needs to know it is seductive and more than playful. Its notes sink their claws in in ways that produce a unique embrace of notes. It has strong sillage and longevity. Not for office wear, but certainly full bottle worthy.

WOW! I love Francesca Bianchi is a genius! This perfume has a crazy evolution is so sweet and warm that it reminds of a breakfast with peach jam brioches where you decide how much to put! But what you are experiencing is a memory and then at some point you feel the darkest notes, skin and decide to live the present.. The wearer feels transported between old memories and what evades him in the present .. putting it to the test! I love this perfume madlemenete Thank you Francesca!!

The name refers to a tiger more in the sense of what Mary Jane Watson used to call Peter Parker (from "The Amazing Spider-Man") than in the sense of the animals trained by Siegfried & Roy.

This is a seductive, sexy honeyed fragrance with oakmoss and leather; it has a brash opening and a beautiful drydown. I don't find the peach nearly as dominant as the honey.

Francesca Bianchi always has beautiful perfumes.

The dry down of this is beautiful but I don't nessacirly like the smell. Kind of smells like bubble gum.

getting alot of patchouli in the opening , dry down is not so heavy, sweetened guess its the honey

peach, honey, & purple flower overdose. pretty opening. beautiful shiny black leather dry down.

It's sexy, sweet, dramatic, unique, buxom, unpretentious, outrageous, and playful.

It's Jessica Rabbit in a bottle.

it opens very medicinal and smelling like old winter clothes, woollens mostly, that have been stored away with moth balls and then starts to remind me of an old lady with white hair, a sweet old woman, well put together and someone who has seen life and she has an old leather bag and I feel that the lady and the bag together will smell like this - the old woollens, something medicinal and herbal, the old ageing leather bag and old school talcum powder.
then after a while it becomes a white floral with honey, that's it. the dry down is a bit like JPG Scandal, which I really like.
I think there's a difficult tuberose in here which continues to age this perfume. this is an old school smell for a very specific kind of person. I don't see it on me at all. maybe the dry down, that's alright its nice but that beginning is god awful.
reading the notes I expected something a little different.
I absolutely cant wear this and so glad I didn't blind buy. this sample will be put away and forgotten.
this is...not for me.

I loved the messaging and vibe behind this scent so much I HAD to get a sample, but I'm really glad I didn't blind buy. With the tiger theme and what I read from the website, I thought this would be a smokey, dark, animalic scent that carries the sexy-skin Francesca Bianchi signature note. Unfortunately, this is a very powdery, aging concoction to my nose.

At first application the honey and slightly sweet fruit is apparent from a distance of more than a foot or so. Up close, I nearly gagged on the overpowering baby-powder smell. After drying down for a few minutes, I lose the honeyed sweetness and the baby-powder also settles, but it certainly doesn't go away. While less strong, the fragrance seems to wind down to an even more realistic interpretation of baby-powder. Seriously, a dead ringer. It has moderate sillage and a nice trail, but I would not want to be trailing this scent in really any situation. It is not blatantly disgusting, just not altogether pleasant and certainly not my style or enough to buy a bottle.

The vibes give older woman, like my grandmother who uses full body powder to keep sweat and BO down. Disappointed it's not a wild tiger, fierce and dark, but I suppose I'm not sure what a tiger is supposed to smell like.

Does anyone get Joop! Femme vibe? I've sprayed Tyger Tyger on my wrist and let it settled, I love narcotic honeyed white flowers so this is totally up my alley. Suddenly I got wafts of something familiar, I've started to search in my olfactory memory bank and bingo! Definitely a Joop Femme vibe in this one, at least on my skin. You might consider getting Femme just to save your coins

This is a follow-up review, because I first tried this in the dead of winter and it disappeared immediately into a vaguely beeswax-smelling skin scent. But I've been wearing it again this weekend, and it's an entirely different animal (ha!) in this rainy April weather. Now I can smell the honeyed white florals, the leather, oak moss and oud. It's beautiful, unique, and has a classical quality that makes me feel confident and even slightly dangerous. Very sexy, but in a sophisticated way. I agree with those who say it's a bit vintage and 70s-- the animalic accord and the depth of the florals create that, I think. But the honey feels like an update.

This is a reminder to myself to give perfumes a try in different seasons--it really can make a huge difference. I had given up on this one, but based on my experience with it this weekend I just ordered a full bottle.

This is different than I was expecting based on the reviews, but going by the notes alone, I can make sense out of it. Tyger Tyger is not a honey perfume for me. It's not sticky sweet, nor particularly dense. Rather, this is a honeyed floral with peach and soft leather. There's a retro quality, maybe like something you could imagine smelling in the 70's. The peach is dry rather than juicy and the white flowers are not indolic nor hairspray-like. The moss is playing a supporting role behind the leather, which gives it sort of a shoe store quality. I wish I got the feline connotation, but I really don't. This is not a dirty or crazy perfume for me, but it is a little bit quirky, and may really suit the right person. Slightly fem leaning. Tyger Typer is lower on the headache scale for me, I'd say it's neither totally natural nor aromachemical city. Radiates moderately and lasts many hours.

Sticky, sweet, nectary white florals. I find them too sweetened. Smells sort of exotic as the honeyed leather comes through. -

Did not like the white floral note in it, a bit synthetic

I love this fragrance It is such a spiced honey vanilla, almost a bit boozy but not in a vanilla bourbon way more of a scotch type of boozy drink. It’s beautiful perfect for this time of year. It gives me an older fragrance vibe like it’s from the 70”s but NOT old fashion. Definitely strong and lasting. Longevity is amazing and sillage at first is arms length and maybe stronger but after 6 hours it becomes this beautiful creamy skin scent. Now remember each person can be different with this! this is Unisex for sure, very gender neutral! I have to say at first I wasn’t sure I was going to like this, there has been some much hype on YouTube in regards to this house and fragrance. I definitely want to try more from this house. Highly Recommended 10/10

My experience with this fragrance has been confusing. I have a sample without a squirter, which is always frustrating, and I’ve only tried it in cold winter weather. What I get from this is beeswax. It smells exactly like a natural beeswax candle I bought at Colonial Williamsburg as a kid. I love the smell of beeswax, so I enjoy it, but I don’t understand where all the other notes are. I’m thinking it’s just too cold here in the frozen north for this to really develop on my skin. Even though people seem to have this pegged as a winter fragrance, I’m looking forward to revisiting it when it gets warmer!

Unless the white flowers are Indolic Jasmine, nothing about the notes scream animalic. Yes, real Oud can be very animalic but this smells almost like castoreum is in here. But yet it is also very sweet and gourmand. There is a beautiful contrast between the two and in a way, it reminds me of the contrast in Sarah Bakers Loudo but the scent is nothing alike.

This is a sweet and fruity animalic with FB’s signature dustiness. Really a nice scent.

82nd
Last review for this house 6/6 samples. I waited a day to give the last one a chance, but I am disappointed to say that it was not a nice experience for me. I kept getting a similar vibe through most of the samples from this house(except sex and the sea). Stewed mashed flowers and/ or oxidizing fruit juice on skin in most, making me nauseous. The notes in all these sounded promising, but none of them smell appealing or mysterious or delicious to me…This one again had that oxidized fruit juice note with warm skin on opening and goes quickly to bitter moss overdose-smelling like my medicine cabinet. Too bad! 0/10 for these 6 samples from this house for me.

Fruity floral dark chypre. The blend of heavy notes like leather and oud along with soft florals after getting past the sharp exotic pulpy tart fruitiness in the opening, done so well, the vibe of a damp forest with some herbs and tropical jammy fruits around, with the wind pleasantly blowing in, white flowers falling to the ground comes to mind. Heliotrope and patchouli makes this dense and smooth holding together all the other elements, honestly it's hard to pick out individual notes in this one. Modern, potent, complex and likeable at the same time. To me the best from Francesca Bianchi. Must try from the house 9/10

Could not make this one work for me. The honey & florals mingled with the woods & moss are so heavy. It’s a very dense & off putting opening. Every note is competing as the star of the show. I can tell the materials used are of high quality, however these notes together are too much. Not a safe blind buy. You have to really love heavy florals & honey muddled together to enjoy this

When smelling this scent from the bottle it really got my hopes up.
It's an almost masculine scent and quite unique.
Unfortunately, on my skin it doesn't work.

Wowza, what a strong and animalistic leather opening! It's very heavy sillage, and one spray spread across the body might totally suffice! (**but please note, I am not the hugest fan of leather**)

Saying that, once it starts mellowing, it's utterly fascinating! I can smell honey sweetness. I can smell floral depth (magnolia?! I can't tell exactly what flowers they are). I can smell the earthy moss and patchouli. I can smell burnt wood. And, my brain doesn't quite know what to make of it all together.

All I know for sure is that I can't stop smelling myself! (Seriously, I am glad I sprayed this at home, because every minute or so I keep putting my arm up to my face, for another sniff, and probably look like an idiot, haha!)

This has insane longevity, as well! 20 hours later, I can still smell it on my forearm! (I can't smell it anywhere else I had sprayed, but it's a very prominent skin scent on the forearm!)

This is the smell of a cat after laying in the sun among flowers. Literally. Francesca is a genius!

Tyger Tyger is the most interesting from Francesca Bianchi collection. and the easiest to wear. i can't stop smelling my hand. It is unique, balanced, rich and smell expensive. The opening is fantastic and the dry down is nice. projection and longevity is good ( 8 hours).
Must try
9.5/10

Notes from the official website: narcotic flowers, honey, peach jam, patchouli, sandalwood, oakmoss, oud, leather, heliotropin. This is a beautiful modern fruity chypre... slightly indolic white flowers (mostly tuberose), with dripping peaches, and powdery honey. I do get a strange tart note in the opening. It's like unripe tart peaches. But it doesn't last long (5-10 minutes?). STRONG honey/jam notes come through, and the perfume becomes almost syrupy. The base is different kinds of woods, and oud that feels SLIGHTLY dirty and burnt, mild suede-like leather, a tiny amount of 'dirty' patchouli + oakmoss. So, basically, I get lots of candied FRUITY flowers, and soft leathery oud. In the deep drydown, it's perfumey powdery (almost lipstick-y) peachy woods, with a vintage flair, and a brand's signature DNA. The perfumer was inspired by some type of a mysterious and dark post-apocalyptic scenario: "... traces of a highly sophisticated civilization survived in the dark condition of a collapsed world... Attractive from one side... and terrible and scary from the other one... this opposition of beautiful perfection and terror..." Honestly, I do get a lot of beauty, sophistication and refinement... and not a lot of "terror" and darkness. In my mind, vaguely tainted, powdery, honeyed peaches don't really scream "post-apocalyptic"... However, contrast is what makes this fragrance interesting. To my nose, this perfume is slightly similar to Visa by R. Piguet (gourmand-ish peachy suede); it's like Visa's messy/eccentric cousin, who's into weird stuff.
Extrait de parfum (25% oil concentration). I'd say longevity is incredible ~15 hrs +. Projection: super strong for 5-6 hrs; mild after that.

I really wanted to love this, just as I always want to love cat-inspired fragrances, and for the first few seconds, I thought maybe I could. The opening was sweet and beautiful-peaches and white flowers and honey; all the things I was drawn to this fragrance for (besides the name, of course!). Then a strange, sour note started to creep in. Is this the oud? I've never smelled oud before and was curious but a little apprehensive about it. I'm thinking I'm probably not a fan. I also was wary of the oakmoss, patchouli, and leather notes (patchouli in particular has been popping up in several fragrances that have earned dislikes from me), but I'm not sure how much of those I'm getting, or in what proportion. I thought there was about a 50/50 chance of me liking this scent based on the overall note listing. Whatever this strange accord is in here, though, it reminds me of earwax for some reason. I guess this is what's meant by a "dirty" smelling perfume accord, which I haven't really encountered before. I don't think I smell leather at all, but maybe that's part of it; it's just unlike any actual leather I've smelled before. This weird, unpleasant scent thankfully doesn't seem to last too long; it soon evens out into a scent that seems both less sweet than the opening and less sour/dirty than the middle. But at approximately $100 for a 30ml bottle, I would need to love every single second of the experience of this scent to even consider buying it, and after the opening I just don't- either on paper or on my skin. I see that some reviewers have said this scent reminds them of an actual cat, but I don't get that from it at all. I'm admittedly still fairly new to the idea of being challenged by fragrances, but I think this scent might go beyond challenging for me; after the opening, it just turns me off. There's not enough here that attracts me to balance or overcome whatever it is that repels me.

UPDATE: 2/23/22: Decided to give this another chance, and I still don't care for it much. Again, I experienced a brief few seconds of sweetness and beauty that quickly started to fade and morph into something else. The overall impression I got this time after the sweet opening was of the interior of a purse- so I guess I get leather more than earwax now, not that this makes the experience better for me. It's a musty, stale kind of leather scent with a dull kind of sweetness underneath, as of an old purse that once held a compact filled with sweet smelling powder. And it's still a little dirty/grimy smelling too. Nope, this fragrance is definitely not for me.

Wow. This opens very, very sweet and juicy. Your teeth involuntarily sharpen like a vampire, looking for something delicious to puncture. "What is that mouthwatering smell?" Slurp. After a few seconds, the peach-sweet suddenly gets brazenly leathery, woody, mossy. Now, the patchouli is bringing the sunny fruit further back down to earth. Once this rowdy party of rich vibes settles in — oh, my. It's a perfect, never-before-known harmony. A juicy peach bleeding honey onto a bed of smoky, sweet sticks and earthy, mossy leaves. Who thinks to create something like this?! Absolutely stunning. I intentionally tried this sample last because I was convinced the notes would be complete cacophony. I'm not a sweet perfume person, I said. Peach is always dreadfully synthetic in perfumes, I said. Patchouli isn't usually for me, I said. I love being wrong because this is such a stunning surprise.

Of the complete collection, here are the samples I ended up keeping (and will see if they lead to a full bottle):
The Dark Side
Luxe Calme Volupté
Under My Skin
Sex and The Sea
Tyger Tyger

A jungle empress dressed in deep jewel-toned robes sits serenely on her throne as throngs of admirers lay gifts at her feet: jars of honey, preserved peaches and huge bouquets of tropical flowers. Bundles of sandalwood are brought in huge leather baskets warmed by the sun. A light breeze carries in the remnants of incense burning at a temple nearby.

This fragrance is a complex, intoxicating journey from start to finish. It leans feminine but I would love to smell this on a man. The syrupy peachy-floral opening morphs into a mossy, woody soft leather, with a heavenly, delicate powder drydown. 10/10

This is striking! Very sweet and heavy, but with fresh peach and greener notes balancing the leather and making it more elegant. Tyger Tyger feels like something that should be sprayed on underwear before a highly anticipated date... so I keep wavering on whether this is dirty/sexy or bold/elegant. That might be too tenuous for some, but the ambiguity makes this exactly the type of fragrance I want to wear. Not for work or family gatherings though, and as it's super concentrated, 30ml would likely last a lifetime. I'm really intrigued and want to check out her whole line now.

I was excited to sample fragrances from this line since so many people seem to love her creations. I was not blown away w/ either this one or Angels dust. The leather note in this seems out of place w/ all of the sweeter juicy notes and the florals. It just smells odd. My mother was a leather craftsperson so I grew up w/ the smell of leather, in fact it was all over the house. We had hides all over the place. She made beautiful things until arthritis claimed her hands. Anyway leather is a wonderful smell, there is just something about it that creates the feeling of safety and comfort but it is distinctly masculine. I just don't think that note belongs w/ these other notes. I'm sure many will disagree w/ me, heck my husband does, he really liked this one but I will not be wearing it now or in the future. Just not my taste.

Tyger Tyger and Sex and the Sea are my least favorite from Francesca Bianchi. S&S feels odd and disharmonious while Tyger Tyger features a note I find challenging: tuberose.

Tyger Tyger centers on a tuberose and peach accord over the line's characteristic base. Tuberose and fruity floral fans will likely love this.

My nose is not very experienced and I wanted so much to like this after reading the reviews of people I trust here...but...this fragrance is not for me.
I detect the honey, the white flowers enveloped in soft suede, but what this reminds me of is the powerful smell of the hair colouring cream my mum used to buy back in the Eighties. What I like, strange enough, is the note I get after 6 hours: skin in the sun, after a long day at the seaside. No mighty tigers, no Blake for me.
I want to study more and get to appreciate the complexity and beauty of this fragrance because I'm sure it's there.

Tyger Tyger opens with a sweet syrupy honey accord, if you have tried Xerjoff Naxos, the honey accord here is in the same ballpark. The honey accord is immediately joined by a sweet lactonic peach accord and followed by Francesca's signature leather accord with sour powdery Heliotrope. I was expecting the fragrance to be more floral but I couldn't clearly recognise the white florals but the only thing that came to my mind is Magnolia.

Wowsers! This is wonderful.
Utterly delicious from the first spray and it gets better and better as time passes.
I experience this as spiced & honeyed peach segments surrounded by summer flowers in full bloom, while sitting on a soft, plush leather lounge. I get a powdery heliotropic cloud obscuring the sun for just enough time for a whiff of deep, dark forest corruption to waft across my garden, before the heliotropic fruits and flowers reappear.
It's perfectly balanced between the dark and light, the sweet and the pungent, the tame and the barbaric.
I absolutely love it.

Distillation:
luscious, honeyed peach
in a garden of flowers
on a leather couch

Tried my sample of this scent this evening. I'd say she succeeded in creating a scent that captures the essence of the poem. I get the heat and the forest. The wildness. Seems completely unisex. I'd say this is slightly more a night scent, which I expected from the poem, and why I waited until evening to try it. I think could could be worn during the day, but not to the office - at least not my office. It's too wild and dirty (Good dirty. Earthy. Natural forest dirt.) for the office. I wouldn't consider this an everyday scent, but more a scent to wear for the right mood/occasion. I won't use this enough to justify a full bottle, but when this sample runs out I can see buying another one so I can have this scent on hand. Imo, this is a unique scent that on the rare occasions I'll want it, I'll want this exact scent and not some other scent in my collection.

This is my favorite Bianchi composition. In a word, I would describe this as AMBROSIA. Sweet and sticky, honied white florals enveloped by leather. it's amazing. It doesn't project as much as other Bianchi's, but it's by no means purely a skin scent and it has great longevity--> that's fine with me. It is intoxicating, sensual, and has that sexy, buttery leather DNA that FB is famous for, albeit the naughtiness is dialed down here and hence more versatile in my opinion. It is sexy but doesn't smell like sex as do most of her other compositions. I think this is what I had hoped Zoologist Bee would be like, but for some reason, Bee opened with a sour/pungent quality that was very offputting to my nose, and Bee also lacks the nectar-like sweetness of Tyger Tyger.

First impression: whoa a nineties revival in a bottle! Remember iconic scents as boucheron boucheron, van cleef& arpels Van Cleef and Elizabeth Taylor white diamons? I got a strong flashback to those, let's see what happens after a few hours...

I know all of Francesca's perfumes. Some I love, some I don't, but always curious about her creations. I have got a sample. One year later I have got a full bottle. I am in love.
Tyger Tyger is an interesting new work of art, especially in its middle and base notes. Perfect balance, a magical alchemy, changing and developing new notes during twelve hours of glory. Not strong sillage, as other fragrances of FB, but is part of the game. At the end, you can still smell the tuberose at 5 centimetres of your skin, but if you go closer that disappear and you have the wild peach and delicious smoked woods, reminding Oud.

Leather peach...
Moderare projection and sillage

A pass unless you like peach..

The aroma of this perfume has enchanted me although it is much lighter than other fragrances of the brand. It is quite similar to sex & the sea although reducing the intensity and the more animalistic part and changing the pineapple and coconut for the peach. It is a fruity and sweet perfume, soft and easy to wear. The leather is noticeable from the beginning to the bottom but always soft. Honey is remarkable, but it is not a pungent and animalistic honey as in many perfumes, but sweet and very pleasant. The duration is good, more than 10h, although with a very moderate projection.
It seems to me a daily perfume, much more commercial than other perfumes of the brand. The quality of the ingredients is good and natural. I see it unisex although perhaps touching a little more the feminine side.

Scent: 9.5
Longevity: 8.5
Sillage: 6
Versatility: 8
Originality: 8
Overall: 9

Another stunner fragrance created by my favorite indie Francesca. This is absolutely gorgeous! ... the amount of oakmoss perfectly balanced the sweetness. My gosh! I am obsessed.

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Inspired by a poem by William Blake, Tyger Tyger represents a duality between the irresistibly attractive and at the same time terrifying.
It is a fragrance with two incredibly well integrated facets. An outlet of white flowers, with fruit and honey that may seem somewhat more feminine, but, when it begins to dry out, like a tiger that comes out in the middle of the jungle, the notes of sandalwood, leather, moss and all wrapped up emerge. In the creaminess of the accord already known to lovers of Francesca Bianchi del orris.
This fragrance does not take any turn in the line of its creator, but the proposal is a work of perfect alchemy. Fully unisex and easily worn all year round.

Uniqueness: Medium-high
Scent: 8/10
Sillage: Medium
Longevity: 10h
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I can only parrot what others have already said; a classy, vintage leather honey peach scent. Purrfectly unisex with great performance. If the notes sound good to you, then you must try Tyger Tyger.

The only other incite I’ll add is that this is not powdery like Angel’s Dust, in fact Tyger Tyger feels very different to me. Tyger Tyger is sweeter with a prominent leather through all stages.

A pass from me but not a downvote.

I don't get Mitsouko from this (only tried the modern version though), but if I was to compare Tyger Tyger to something I'd say it's got Nacre Blanche by Antonio Allesandro opening, and then transitions to a peachy, very subtle version of Royal Musca by M Micalef. I don't get any 'tiger' here, it's a lovely, soft, smooth, quiet peachy scent. To me, it seems like it's a sister to Angel's Dust, a completely different scent, but somehow similar: if Angel's Dust is a powdery, cool and rosy iris, this is a cheerful, warm and happy scent, so to speak a powdery peach. Have I mentioned peach? Oh yeah, several times :-)

The brand new fragrance by the amazingly talented Francesca Bianchi is a landmark of pure perfume vintage art. Based on the masterpiece of poetry by William Blake this new fragrance is actually liquid poetry in a bottle.

A truly tremendous and powerful fragrance with notes of narcotic flowers, honey, peach jam, patchouli, sandalwood, oakmoss, Oud, leather and heliotropin.

It is fear and beauty captured in an extrait de Parfum that’s ready to twist your mind and senses but at the same time filling you with courage to approach fear in the face of this wondrous tiger ready to reveal a hidden treasure inside her warm loving heart.

I consider Tyger Tyger a true bonafide treat to serious perfume connoisseurs.
A dramatic pleasurable fragrance you discovered in a secret hiding place.
Full of dust and debris you slowly open the cap granting you the power to instantly be fearless.
Tyger Tyger is a gift from Francesca Bianchi to us to end 2020 feeling stronger, bolder and ready for 2021!
Longevity 16 hours +
Sillage enormous
Fragrance rating 10/10 pure vintage.

I have all FB perfumes since I consider Francesca to be an amazing artist. First impressions of TT: a sexy, unisex, mysterious and versatile leather/honey/peach fragrance that definitively has the Francesca Bianchi signature. It is not sirupy or heavy but has a remarkable vintage feel to it. Instant love. I will wear this year round for date nights (IMO seems to be good for any weather).

Beware of the effect of this fragrance on other people. As Under My Skin does, this potion will elevate you to a sexual hero status.

I am a cat person. That is an understatement. Big or small, I love them all. The only people who could top me in the cat love department are the ones you see climbing over fences at the zoo trying to feed cupcakes to lions.

But even when I hear these stories, and my mind immediately thinks “crazy”, there is another voice in my head that says “I get it”, because there is something so alluring and magnificent about these creatures that people will literally risk their lives just to stand near one. That is the dichotomy of the cat — an unparalleled majestic beauty combined with ferocious danger.

But the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake, the inspiration for Tyger Tyger, not only addresses the dark and menacing nature of the beautifully symmetric tiger, it asks why one might create such a terrifying, yet majestic beast in the first place:

“Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?”

Why make something so fearsome yet alluring? It seems very often danger comes in beautiful packages, be it man or beast. We know the risk but we choose it anyway. Kevin Richardson, known as the lion whisperer, spends most of his days rolling around on the ground with lions in Africa. When asked why he would take such a risk, knowing that eventually his life will mostly likely end at the hands and teeth of a lion, he said he is aware of this and has accepted it because the joy it brings him is worth any risk. Imagine such a magnificent creature that people will risk their lives just to be near him. And imagine a creator who would bring such a being into the world. Something to ponder if you haven’t already.

Now imagine a perfume that represents the terror and beauty of such a creation. Because that is precisely the inspiration for Tyger Tyger...the contrasting nature of darkness and beauty. To me, it is obvious that Francesca sees the beauty of the Tyger, and she expresses it with a voluptuous bouquet of narcotic and honeyed white flowers. Tyger Tyger immediately brings to mind big perfumes of the 80s, most notably Dior’s Poison. While it’s not as bombastic as anything like that, it does give a sense of being larger than life. Francesca takes a more restrained approach than she usually does with her Tyger, as she did with Cuir Soyeux, and it feels more posh and elegant than beastly, but it has that contrasting element that is similar in Poison, an alluring but dangerous bouquet of narcotic white flowers and darkness. I find something similar in Memoir by Amouage as well, something dark yet regal and elegant at the same time. Tyger Tyger doesn’t smell like these perfumes but for me it falls in that range to give you an idea of what to expect. There are the honeyed rich white florals combined with a dark juicy peach jam, the fruity aspect isn’t bright, but it’s lush and sweet. In the background is patchouli, sandalwood and oakmoss, countering the florals with darkness, and a sueded and furry leather along with a slight touch of oud giving it a growl. The drydown becomes more powdery and silky, much like the fur and allure of the tiger which can trick you into believing you can reach out and pet him. Something about this perfume has a slight deep blue or even purple feel in the opening to me. I tend to always see or feel a color with perfume and I’m getting some deep purple with brownish tones combined with green and a touch of something golden. For me this represents the fearful darkness of the jungle combined with the regal majesty of the lurking tiger. Francesca has created such a beauty here in her tribute to the Tyger, I fear she may hop a fence, but not with cupcakes...but instead with a beautiful bouquet for this magical beast.

Blake may have questioned the creator of The Tyger, but I don’t question the creator of Tyger Tyger at all....she knows exactly what she’s doing.