Tabu Perfume Review - The Fragrance That Scented The Obsession For Ancient Egypt in The 30's

[@finleyevans4775]

Wonderful. I love that you take just as much, if not more, care, thought and time talking about a perfume that costs 18 as you do about one that costs 300, proving it doesn't matter. A great perfume is great, no matter the cost. I love the connections you make here to the Mummy, and also remembering your recollections about Boris and all he went through for that film. It's extraordinary. I also LOVE that you have every frame of this film as still photos and recognize them as art. It's so moving, and poetic. Thank you, all the way back to 1932, and back.

[@D-bow288]

Absolutely 💯

[@baby.nay.]

Exactly Finley !!!art is art !

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you so much Finley 🥰🙏🏻🌅💖

[@marissaortega1386]

Yay!! I’m so happy you’re doing this full fledged review thank you so much I’ve adored this for years!

[@redcupidbowlips3793]

Wow, your way with words is pure poetry and so beautiful to listen to. You’re one in a million xoxo Thanks Dacob 🤗♥️🙏🏼

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you so much redcupidbowlips 🙏🏻🥰💖

[@GEORGIA385]

The first scent I ever wore and loved such a powerhouse scent

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

🥰🥰💖

[@Robbie_LeMeow]

Thank you for reviewing this. I love TABU, as my mother wore it when I was a kid. I love the bottle that is shaped like a cello (viola, violin...sometimes you find those). I also love the vintage ad that depicts a late 19th century man sweeping a lady into his arms, kissing her. You can feel the swish and rustle of her gown. ❤ I always keep a small spray bottle of either this or Chantilly in my bag. ❤ To me, this old fragrance is elegant.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you for sharing your Tabu history with us Robbie 🥰🙏🏻💖 loved reading the description of the different bottles and ad. 💖🌅

[@supernovaslight]

Me and my two Tabu bottles were watching your video, Dacob :) - oh what a wonderful journey you took us on! It is like 360 degrees of ASMR, if i can express it this way - listening to your wonderful story while listening to Tabu scent, feeling the bottle glass(and playing with the plastic cap(made in US version) after you compared it to Egyptian headwear :)) in my hands, having all the wonderful visuals from your video and having it all tied in with history and art of movies and design, simply beautiful! Thank you for this experience, Dacob :)

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you so much supernovaslight 🥹🙏🏻🌅💖 I am happy you enjoyed my video and story. Tabu was a delight for me to review. It keeps telling me stories each time I wear it. 🥰

[@shirleycantoni3152]

I love Tabu , even today’s reformulation. Thanks Dacob. If this was a new niche perfume of today , the world would go nuts for it.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Shirley 🥰🙏🏻💖

[@lisafox1001]

I love how you wore gold eyeshadow to match this theme! What a fantastic review with all of your research and interpretation.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Lisafox 🥰🌅💖

[@annoleary387]

I was transported back in time with this video. Love hearing the history of vintage fragrance❤

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you annoleary 🥰🙏🏻💖 Glad you enjoyed my video 🥰💖🌅

[@AmyBatt]

I love this Dacob! I am a huge fan of Emeraude! Another oldie but goodie! I love my Chanel, my Tom Ford. I love that you show the classics love! Just because they are sold in mass market stores, doesn't mean they are bad fragrances. These oldies are classics!!!

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you dear! I highly agree! 🥰🙏🏻💖🌅

[@michelledavison6581]

After this beautiful review, I'm going to pick up a bottle of Tabu. Thank you for this. ❤

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Its a bit of history in a bottle 🥰🌅

[@susanjamison]

One of my favorite perfumers, Sophia Grojsman, was hired by Dana to work on the reformulation of Tabu in 2001. You are smelling her work in the current bottle.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

How fabulous. I still to this day adore her Eternity 🥰🌈🌅🤍🤍🤍

[@iwoww562a9]

It should be labeled unisex it doesn't smell girly at all. I wear it daily and I'm a guy and get compliments

[@nickyb7185]

Love Tabu it’s gorgeous and sexy af. Smells a bit like the morning after a romp in the sheets. I have a vintage 70s-80s that I got for like $20. Love the review as always.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Delicious 🥰💖

[@PolverediViole]

Ciao Tesoro, you are a true fragrance lover, the prove is that you talk about Chanel perfume as well as not expensive perfumes, with the same authentic passion ! Bravo. I loved your suggestion which links Tabu to the 30’s Movie, it’s the power of the perfumes, make us dream through time and space ✨ I had the same experience with Arpege by Lanvin ( which I believe you might LOVE ) that I link to Sunset Boulevard movie by Blilly Wilder ❤ Un abbraccio 🤗

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you dear 💖 I usually have a perfume in mind when I watch a movie and often also a movie in mind when I smell a perfume. Haha.

[@LiaAndrews]

Thank you for honoring all types of perfumes. I haven't smelled the current version, but the vintage is a warm sweet oriental with an interesting citronella note. To me the animalic notes are more of a purr than a growl. Wonderful to know it is still in good shape.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

I honor very perfume I love 🥰🥰💖💖💖🌅

[@algebraist1997]

The civet and oakmoss are not the issue with reformulating Tabu - nowadays we have very convincing civet replacements within a composition. Oakmoss was also not crucial to a lot of perfumes, fixative effect aside. (For example, from the 70s onwards, it was common in most chypres with some exceptions of course, to use a trace of oakmoss absolute with evernyl.) To maintain the character of this fragrance is thankfully still possible today, I would just imagine the perceptible quality has diminished, especially from the likely lower concentrations of floral oils and absolutes, but also the fact these are extracted in a different manner to the 1930s. Many of the impurities of products from that time added a different and often desirable quality to materials, including patchouli. Today, it is very difficult to imitate the patchouli of decades ago which has affected among other perfumes, like the Guerlain classics like Shalimar where we find some 4%. The timing of this video is rather coincidental for me, as I've just ordered a bottle of the Youth Dew bath oil, current formulation from the Estee Lauder website. Youth Dew can be said to have been inspired partly by Tabu, though it still stands as a highly original creation. I would recommend as part of your perfume archaeology journey to explore Fidji from Guy Laroche because knowing the vintage, the current formulation is fantastic.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you dear. What a wonderful comment. I love Fidji by the way. Just have not come around to reviewing it yet 💖💖💖

[@DIYTRUTH]

Oh and thank you for the Mummy movie suggestion, hubby and I like watching the old classics but yet we hadn't seen this one yet so we looked it up and it was amazing!

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Tee Pal 🙏🏻🥰💖 So happy you and hubby enjoyed the movie. Its a beauty 🥰💖🌅🌅🌅

[@michelledavison6581]

I am so thrilled you are doing this review! I was just thinking about you doing review on this fragrance. It’s telepathy! Weewooweewoo! 😮 My grandmother wore this and Windsong. I have a fond memory of these and was thinking about getting a bottle of it.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

I always say everything is holistic in this universe 💖🥰🌅🤍

[@AmyBatt]

Your reviews of fragrances are so thought provoking. The Chanel Scarab is gorgeous! What a beautiful story of the Heart Scarab. I love this channel!!!

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you so much 🥰🙏🏻💖

[@Niamhdm7871]

My third job was home health aid. My precious, Latino, male patient gifted me a bottle of it in '99. It was so strong than, sure I'd love it now. But, I'd prefer older version vs newer hahahaha. 😂 Tree Moss vs Oak moss, exactly! 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤

[@despinalikomitrou2873]

Amazing Review!❤❤❤

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Despina 🥹🙏🏻🥰💖

[@DIYTRUTH]

I went to the Dana website and bought a few original goodies plus the TABU! Memories are tied to smells and when I received my bottle of Tabu in the mail I was immediately reminded of many memories from my young adulthood. Thank you for reviewing Tabu and reminding us that perfumes are not always purchased to wear but to stimulate our memories evoking beautiful moments from the past into the mind. Sentiments abound with this one and I am living for it!!!!

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Teepal for such a wonderful comment 🥹🥹🥹💖💖💖

[@FilipeJacon]

Tabu is one of my favorites perfumes of all times, I'm really lucky that in my country Brazil 🇧🇷 the price of it is extremely cheap, a bottle o 60ml cost around U$1,60 ... That's insane, isn't it ? That's why I love this, I can have liters of it for an extremely affordable price ! Beautiful review as always 🥰

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Filipe 🥰💖🌅 wow what a great price for a bottle. 😳

[@D-bow288]

The brooch is stunning

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you 🥹💖

[@chxrryyyyy]

Please, more vintage cheapie reviews !

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

I have reviewed quite a few on my channel in case you wish to watch them. I even made a top cheapie perfume video a while ago. Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHvWoZumoKuol9Efeature=shared

[@felixwei1425]

Wonderful review of Tabu. I highly appreciate the effort and toughts you put in your videos! Thank you!

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you very much! I respect this perfume and its history very much so I worked hard to give it the proper time and presentation 🥹💖🎉

[@albertqhumperdinck]

You just sold me on this perfume at many different intellectual and emotional levels. Thank you!

[@heavenj7]

Love this classic! And it’s so wonderful to see someone younger appreciate these classics! 💕 oddly I feel like they’re not listing some notes? I remember some spice!? But I’ve not smelled this since, around 1980? I was ten my granny had this one, so I need to pick up the newest formulation! Very curious! 👀 Loved hearing some of the Dana history! And how luxury doesn’t equal $$! Funny perfume journey story..being that my name was Heaven, my mom would buy me Heaven Scent every flipping year! I didn’t like it!! 😢😢 it gave me a horrible headache! But Tabu, I actually loved. Anything cinnamon or clove I’m in! Loved hearing about the history of this time as well as the movies! Another great review, Dacob 💕

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Heaven 🥰🙏🏻🌅💖

[@lisafox1001]

This is interesting…when I tried Tabu in cool, dry (no humidity) weather, I smelled a heavy, musty perfume… i.e., only the base notes. It is usual for me to smell mostly base notes as soon as I apply a fragrance, which could be due to my body temperature (?). Today though, in 88F weather with humidity, I sprayed Tabu and I smelled a very different perfume…beautiful cinnamon & clove (not listed in the notes printed on the box) some rose, and incense (also not listed). This one is an enigma. Then, I rewatched your video and saw that you also got cinnamon and clove. And again Dacob, your review of this perfume, with all of the research and analysis you did, and the connections you made is what is really interesting (genius thought and such poetry).

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Lisa 🥰🌅💖 glad you gave Tabu another go.

[@marcellobresaola]

Beautiful review! 🪲💚

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you! 🤗

[@MrJakeup101]

Amazing video!! So thoughtful, informative, and moving!!! TY Dacob!

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you MrJakeup 🥰🙏🏻💖

[@Alterspark120]

Great video! Loved it!

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you 🥰💖🌈

[@Lure420]

I admire your way with words ♥️

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Iure 🙏🏻💖🌈

[@pamelabrown8467]

Thanks for sharing your video take care 😇

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

🥰💖

[@LjiljanaMercier-dy8kf]

Thanks,mug is Grogu. Some people call him baby Yoda from Disney show"Mandalorian" (Star Wars universe)❤

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Baby Yoda foreverrr 💖🎉🎉🎉

[@LjiljanaMercier-dy8kf]

Blast from the past ,I wish you could review Chantilly by Houbigant.Can you imagine having money to do Egyptian living room.I read some place Cher has such room.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Ancient Egyptian style living room would be a dream for me 🥰🥰🥰🥹

[@Robbie_LeMeow]

I love Chantilly too!

[@kari8088]

Beautiful review. Thank you! I just ordered a bottle.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Kari 🥰🙏🏻💖

[@Slivings911]

I love Tabu. I have a couple of vintage bottles, but someone said that this most recent version was reformulated by Sophia Grosjman (!), which I can’t verify, but I do think it has been improved over prior reformulations. I bought this one that you’re featuring in the video at Walmart for $13 and change. And I think it’s really good.

[@Slivings911]

p.s. I like the ancient Egyptian associations. 🙂

[@lisafox1001]

Dacob, I’ve smelled Tabu on women before, many years ago…typically they had over-sprayed it. It could have also been a stronger formulation. I did not like it. After watching your fascinating review, I was very, very curious (as we perfume nerds are) to smell it from the bottle and on my skin. So, I went to a department store today and purchased a bottle. A spray on my wrist confirms my memories of it, however, I think if dosed right, this perfume could be good to wear when having a craving for something of this genre (Opium, Obsession, Coco, etc.). It’s definitely a unique scent with a nod to ancient times. Thanks.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Overs-praying Tabu can be detrimental to the actual beauty if this perfume in my opinion. Small doses go a long way with this one in my opinion. 💖

[@jameslongmore3830]

Hello dacob thank you for the review im surprised how many of my female friends hate this fragrance and some use it in there toilets there shocked I like the smell one girlfriend saying oh james it's a cheap moles fragrance and should be used as a air freshner in the toilets. I said each to there own enough said .loveing your shirt today dacob ❤😉

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you James. Your friends seem to be a little too harsh maybe towards Tabu. It can be a bit overwhelming when not dosed correctly but when dosed properly, it can be such a beautiful warm delight in my opinion 🥰🌅💖

[@JaneDaly]

Ok now I can't stop thinking about Dior Poison Eau de cologne light

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

It was a delicate beauty 🥰💖

[@bobperricone2216]

When I saw this pop up I grabbed my older bottle (16074A) to join you.. My mom had a huge bottle(kind of looked like a gallon of fragrance..lol..My uncle brought it back from Japan after serving there in service..id say in the "40s"..it looked like a presentation bottle in a dept store..lol..........it was flilled w/fragrance not the display type bottle..In any case i just joined you to play w/this fragrance It truly smells exotic and a dry/aromatic i get alot of ylang ylang, civet/patch/ and spices..and that touch of narcissus increases the animalistic toudh..somehow i do get a bitter note that blankets the entire fragrance.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Its beautiful how perfumes have the strength to evoke such strong memories and emotions from our past… they can also project us into the future I believe…

[@bobperricone2216]

yes i can still "see" that old huge bottle of Tabu at the top of her perfume shelves in the bathroom and aside from that it brings back memories of the heavy black satin kimono brought back from Japan.. highly raised embroidered dragons and flowers and temples in rich colors..against the black..A-Mazing. Its in a cedar trunk in the basement..i really should pull it out and lucite frame it with a bamboo rod going thru the shoulders...ahh yes

[@michelledavison6581]

Your background reminds me of Queen Victoria’s vacation Palace in Brighton, England.

[@brookegardner4748]

Tabu brings back memories of being a child in the 70s and 80s!! I also remember not really liking it (not a patchouli fan) but I loved Poison.

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Poison is more wet in its plum vibe while Tabu is quite dry.

[@RosannaNavarro]

I’ll make a trip to that skin care/perfumerie shop. Will try to hunt for Giorgio and Shalimar.😊

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

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[@RosannaNavarro]

@@essence-tiallydacob9611Dacob!😂 I meant to comment under your TOP 5 summer! But what a coinkidink it landed on your Tabu video! I a.m recently awed by some experiences of a fantastic group in the great pyramid last year. I think what they discovered has set Egyptologists to a new path. Another perfume for me check in that shop! I a.m intrigued to try this out. Those winners in the past…. I a.m not very convinced as we are findings out, hearing from people that what the winners wrote down were not the truth of that event, situation …. Love this video! The Mummy is in the recess Ed of My childhood memories…. The pining for love, Oh what pain.😊 ❤

[@BrighterThanYours]

If you can find Tetro Alla Scala by Krizia you’d love it. It’s like Tabu and vintage Opium had a baby who looked similar to her favorite cousin Coco edp in the 80s.

[@wildpat24]

AFFORDABLE AND GOES FAST WHEREVER YOU FIND IT AND A SUSCESS SINCE 1932 ALL WORLD..MAKE A SCHOOL AND CHLOE NARCISE IS A COPUCAT OF IT COST MUCH MORE ..DANA MADE IT AND WILL KEEP FOREVER.

[@cocoamourrr]

Hey Dacob! It is also said that Tabu was inspired for the woman of the night Un Parfum De Puta 🤣😘

[@korrigan]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you! More magic

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

🥰💖♥️🙏🏻

[@ohthankg-dforthebourgeoisi9800]

I personally like new and more current formulations. Civet always smelled like a cat box to me. Modern formulations smell lighter and fresher to me. I think you are trying to describe lost sense of romance or mystery, …magic perhaps?

[@shopqueen]

People should not be called oriental. However things can be. Its not derogatory. Oriental rug. Re: fragrance it a genre. Its not negative. It has to do with a style or scent profile used. People are not things thus why its offensive to use it to call a person. Oriental rugs and fragrances are beautiful and often considered luxurious

[@Mahora.]

👏👏👏

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

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[@Anderson_Martins]

OMG OMG OMG

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

😳😳😳😉😘🌈

[@juliaf4837]

💙💙💙💙

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

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[@iwoww562a9]

I wear it and i am a guy it doesn't smell to girly

[@helenefrench4275]

2nd :) xx

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

🥰💖🌅

[@LobisAnthony]

I love this perfume… for some reason I have it with my bottles of shalimar , jicky and obsession a little bit a musc ravageur… that’s creamy ambery pissy smell the amazing floral smell … I feel a little bit of the civet and the inspiration of the Frederic malle . Great review Dacob 🫶🏻

[@essence-tiallydacob9611]

Thank you Anthony 🙏🏻💖

[@Hollycre8iveintentions]

Hello Dacob. This was brilliant! I love the connection to ancient Egypt and 1932. Gorgeous backdrop too. I am a new subscriber. I have been binge watching your videos. 🫶 Your fragrance descriptions are informative and very poetic. I am waiting to receive Tabu. I've never tried it myself, but I have enjoyed the scent when worn by others. I was wondering if you've ever reviewed the edp Fancy Nights by Jessica Simpson? I personally love patchouli perfume, and it also has papyrus listed in the notes. ❤🤗

[@Hollycre8iveintentions]

I received my bottle of Tabu a few days ago and I love it! My bottle is different in that there is just a singular D instead of the interlocking D’s you showed on your fragrance cap. The word Tabu doesn’t have the registration trademark.There also wasn’t the cologne notes printed on the back of the box. I’m guessing I have older stock. What a wonderful cool weather fragrance. ❤❤❤

[@Mitra-et-le-Parfum]

Absolutely adore you reviews. You take us on a journey in the history and it is so whimsical. Love you. Sent you a pm on insta

[@RachelleLove81]

Ah yes... the fragrance responsible for making me hate civit. 😂🩵

[@michelledavison6581]

I am so thrilled you are doing this review! I was just thinking about you doing review on this fragrance. It’s telepathy! Weewooweewoo! 😮 My grandmother wore this and Windsong. I have a fond memory of these and was thinking about getting a bottle of it.