Tabu by Dana is a women's fragrance created by French perfumer Jean Carles in 1931.

[1] The House of Dana was a perfumery established in 1932 in Barcelona, Spain by lawyer Javier Serra.

[2] Carles worked for Roure Bertrand, a company associated with fashion houses such as Nina Ricci, Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli and Cristóbal Balenciaga.

[3] Carles used an exceptionally high dose of patchouli (10%), which he combined with clove (carnation), oak moss and benzoin (vanilla effect).

[citation needed] The long-running print advertisement of Dan's Tabu reproduced the 1901 painting The Kreutzer Sonata by René-Xavier Prinet, inspired by the novella of the same title by Leo Tolstoy, showing a violinist, overcome with passion, breaking off his performance to embrace his female accompanist.