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cogrerveron – :
The parfum version (in a black bottle) is far better.
This one is beautiful, of course, but it has less resin notes and more aldehydes. While the black lips is more about visiting art galleries, theatres and so forth, this is more for outdoor wearing, like wandering around the town.
The longevity and sillage are awesome.
alexi61 – :
This Dali fragrance arrived in a lot of vintage perfume. The bottle is striking, even without a label one can see this has to be Dali. A number of Dali frags are in lip shaped bottles, some have nose shaped stoppers.
The stuff inside the lips is remarkable: warm and loaded with sweet and sharp spices. Cloves and myrhh dominate. Sillage and longevity could be better, this is the type of perfume to experience up close. The scent is very unisex, very wearable. It’s well blended, high quality stuff!
I’m a big fan of warm, spicy scents like Youth Dew and Cinnabar. This Dali fragrance is a very nice addition to my collection of spicies!
hotboy – :
I have love-hate relation with this perfume. Ten years ago I labeled it an “olfactoric” version of “Burning Giraffe”. It smelled to me like putrifying lilies + moth balls = a very bad breath. Strong, churchy, retro.
But now Dali Parfum reminds me honey extraction and childhood.
I have beekeepers in my family. I remember many honey extractions, it was always the big fest. I remember scent of honey mixed with incense used to remove bees. And even resinous odor of dead wasps flying around – something like honeydew honey and sunflower leaves (they really smell like myrrh!).
This is a very autumnal / late summer perfume. Aldehydic, sweet, with note of cognac and prominent myrrh. It bears some distant resemblance with Chanel No 5 – I even think it is “Dali’s” interpretation of it.
VKmiki – :
I blind bought a bottle of this from Fragrancenet, it’s a Parfum de Toilette, but def not a vintage juice.
Yeah, that bottle is hilarious. Also heavy and huge in the 100ml.
The scent… for me it’s all a very very creamy waxy sweet powder. And I love it. The balsamic, spice, woods, and green all support the scent, but it’s a WARM classic sweet powder to my nose. I haven’t worn it proper (on skin) these were two separate tests- one on tissue, one on my pillow. Very comforting in cold weather, sweet and full, great sillage/potency. I agree that it smells like a makeup counter! It’s a creamy old fashioned makeup powder, not baby powder.
My next day drydown is a nice spicy musk/woods/powder. Although this is dated, and prob not something I’d wear socially, it’s ideal as a comfort homey scent.
I don’t have anything that smells quite like this. But if you enjoy Obsession, Bijan, Halston, and other warm ambers/spicys of the 70s/80s– you will prob enjoy this.
demydenko – :
Hyper spicy, hyper resins, hyper white flowers, some tropical side, lot of sandal, a souffle of orris, gardenia/monoi, green notes to calm down the bomb cocktail, those so-Chanel aldehydes.
It make me think to an occidental woman who have a souspicious business in Manila or Shanghai, could be Cuba or Brazil also.
A sort of Tropical Oriental French perfume.
The drydown make me think to a dirthy Samsara.
Also find similarity with Nuit de Noel, K de Krizia, Versace, la Nuit de Paco Rabanne, Histoire d’Amour by Abusson.
I like a lot, sensual, Chic and Dangerous.
Attention can give headhache.
spartak75 – :
At first, it seemed like a gorgeous soapy scent, but after few hours passed, it just turned into a weird synthetyc mess, and I couldn’t even wash it off.. so bad it’s not compatible with my chemistry I guess :/
igor444 – :
OK, now we are talking about some classic PERFUME!
Delirious aldehydes, fleshy narcissus, opulent benzoin and incense, lily, jasmine, tuberose, oakmoss, wow! Just a gorgeous over-the-top oriental with a chypre feel (oakmoss).
If Maison Martin Margiela did one of their Replica scents and called it “Behind the 1980’s Cosmetics Counter” it would smell like this. All the good stuff rolled into one. Reminds me of Byzance from back in the day, another Alberto Morillas creation. I have not smelled everything Mr. Morillas ever created (so I can’t really judge), but this could easily be his masterpiece.
Salvador Dali EDP makes me feel settled, confident, and rich, like walking into a room with dark wood coffered paneling. Could easily be a signature scent.
dubro66 – :
This can be in my opinion an unisex.
Had a sample of it. Really complex perfume, everything is here, an old style kind of a scent. Aldehydes are 1 of dominant, I really cant stand incence, thank God here is not that much of it. Warm and cold, like a dry wine as well it is.
From 80ites, says a lot about this scent, but 20 years later it still KEEPING THIS SMELL! STILL GOOD! DID NOT GO BAD,DID NOT AGED AT ALL.
It is a suggestion to current producers – make scents that will smell the same in 20 years. Stop making bad ones that after 2 or 3 years change smell and are not nice perfumes any more. Q U A L I T Y !
RYUJIN – :
“Classy, Warm,Smooky (as it is properly spelled) rich,Gorgeous,Powerful,Lush, Feminine, Romantic and Nostalgic.”
aquila_2009 got it right.
This is an 80’s bomb, anchored by a “Broadshouldered Moss” and typified by a Fireworks Display of Sweet Floral and a healthy plonk of billowing Musk.
Enormously Feminine and Grand.
Draws me back, nostalgically to, my head buried in the ample cleavage of my 80’s girl.
Again, many thanks to Tesse for this sample.
bumer – :
Below is my review from last year some time (slightly edited)…apologies, but I’d put it under the wrong fragrance…mine is the SD Parfum de Toilette, not SD Parfum with the black bottle (the pictures used to be more similar which was confusing), so I’ve moved my review and removed it from the Parfum page. Anyway, my review stands, it’s still a divine fragrance! I wore it last night and was again certain I could smell ginger. Does anyone else get that vibe??…….
Straight off the bat I want to send out a big and very grateful thank you to my lovely fragrantican swap parter, anitaoolong, who sent me a bottle of this totally divine juice (along with some other lovely treasures), which I was finally able to try for the first time this afternoon. Like a kid under the Xmas tree made crazy with anticipation, I could barely get it out of its box fast enough!
This is one of those fragrances that has been taunting me since I came to know if it’s existence, albeit not that long ago. By now, I’m an old hand at the blind buy and thoroughly aware of the element of pot-luck that goes hand in hand with such a random activity, despite the arduous research that goes into it – reading copious reviews, internet searches and scrutinizing the perfume pyramid above. But as we all know, there’s no substitute for the actual juice meeting your actual nose!
Once out of the box, I spritzed it onto the back of my hand – not too much, just a single squirt. First off I was amazed and delighted with the potency of it. She’s STRONG people! Excellent, just how I like it. Next, I was thrilled with the spiciness that was floating up into the welcoming arms of my olfactory system. I was absolutely convinced I could smell ginger, and not just in the first fleeting seconds. I thought I could smell ginger straight from the bottle and for ages after I spritzed. There was a very warm and lovely spicy aroma happening, but when I had a look at the perfume pyramid above (again) I was shocked not to find any ginger or pepper or something along those lines. I know there is clove, and I’m fairly familiar with clove now, but that wasn’t what I thought I could smell at that stage. Anyway, eventually, the incense wafted in along with the sandalwood creating a more oriental-type fusion…and after a while I began to realise the comparison with another beloved scent of mine, Youth Dew. There’s also an element of Opium here too. Oddly enough however, in the first 15 minutes the only scent that came to my mind was Coco Chanel, although I’ve not smelled her for a long time now. So I’m not sure if that’s an accurate memory or not.
In any case, this was absolutely love at first sniff. No ifs buts or maybes. No polite appreciation only to later rescind it after realising shoddy longevity or sillage, or discovering it has a nasty dry down. No, this one is PERFECT. And to be perfectly honest, it’s been a very long while (and now I’m scratching my brain to recall if ever there was an occasion) since I was instantly and unequivocally floored by a scent the second I smelled it. I mean, I absolutely love my Youth Dew and many others which I hold in highest esteem. But I don’t recall a reaction of this kind before.
As I’ve said many times in other reviews, I’m rubbish at detecting notes or accords other than the most obvious ones. But honestly, detecting notes isn’t really what it’s all about for me. Discovering a perfume that sends sparks flying through my senses is what it’s about. Finding a fragrance that makes me FEEL something, this is what it’s all about for me. And this one does it with bells on!!
BTW, that single squirt I applied was about 4 1/2 hours ago now, and I can still smell it clearly on my hand. It’s not super strong anymore but all that spicy, incensey goodness is still there.
This is a classy, gorgeous oriental floral, although I don’t know how much floral I can detect, but if its spicy you want, this is the ticket.
SeletiumBobi8_3 – :
I love it, creamy and soft yet packs a punch in the best way possible. On me it can be worn in they day as well as evening. I brought it in the early 90s because I loved the bottle. But I started to use it habitually at work as its scent soothed the angry nerves of my badass boss who didn’t really take to me and I think would have given me the sack…if it wasn’t for the fact she used to like the smell of this perfume on me…
ChelentanoA – :
To me this is soapy at first blast. But, not the cheap kind of soapy. The super expensive soap bought in a fancy store kind of soapy. Not sure if it’s the aldehydes or the balsamics, but it’s very powdery / soapy but also very complex. It does smell niche. Makes you feel super squeaky clean. It’s pretty powerful I think a little goes a long way to smell clean and not overpowering.
*Drydown smells a little cheaper soapy.
I do love this bottle it’s so beautiful!
Orefeania – :
This scared me a lot at first. I’m pretty hit or miss with 80’s scents, and this smelled like Elizabeth Taylor’s Passion to me at first, which was a nightmare on my skin.
But I gave it a half hour, and voila! It’s powdery, woody, and a little floral. I think this is perfect for midnight walks. It’s quite a soft, soothing fragrance. It has a similar vibe to Moonlight Path from B&BW but they don’t smell alike.
One of the few 80’s scents I’ve tried and liked.
bkd801intitytek – :
I have a new one with box for swap it was a gift I like it ,but I know some one will appreciate more then me . Thanks
Verradlilia – :
SALVADOR DALI
Salvador Dali
Nose
Alberto Morillas
Year
1985
Inspired By:
Apparition of The Face of Aphrodite of Knidos
I wore this beautiful fragrance with the signature woman’s lips shaped bottle in 1987. Dali adorned my dresser table in an apartment that I was very proud of, as it was my first SoHo apartment & I felt like I had moved on up to Greenwich Village. On the wall of my bedroom where I kept the perfume was the aforementioned Dali painting which is a modern work of art with a woman’s eyes nose & lips (sight, smell & taste). The packaging of the bottle matches with the painting. As for the scent, I don’t find it to be as sweet, sexy or feminine as one would imagine Aphrodite the Goddess of Love to smell like. The fragrance is itself a unisex Oriental chypre. There are similarities to Paloma Picasso & Opium; but most like Paloma Picasso which would make sense since both are Oriental perfumes & both associated with artists.
The opening is slightly & briefly reminiscent of the opening to Chanel’s Coco Eau de Parfum. There is a fresh aldehyde & citrus (mandarin orange & bergamot). Sweet & fresh, but not necessarily a summery citrus. The orange flavor fades fast & the scent turns suddenly spicy. It has a sweetness (from nondescript fruit notes) and the florals that can come off as sweet like rose, tuberose, jasmine, narcissus, mimosa, orange blossom & lily, but the cloves, basil, styrax, & incense take over before you can call this a fruity floral which it most certainly is not.
A hardcore Oriental fragrance, this is a unisex incense bomb on me. The incense is the major note for me. It smells of all the classic Oriental ingredients: incense smoke, myrrh, benzoin, patchouli, green notes, sandalwood, and moss. It doubles as a chypre because of the woods. The incense & patchouli are very similar to Opium by Yves Saint Laurent, while smelling like an entirely different perfume at the same time. I would call this one the less intense version of other intense Orientals; but it can still be strong too. It’s more straight forward as an aldehyde, as an Oriental and as a chypre.
Firstly, if you don’t like aldehydes or Orientals, you should not be looking into this perfume nor reading this review. Secondly, this is a 1980’s fragrance and you know what that means. Brace yourself! This is a bomb that detonates when you spray and it’s an aromatic fragrance of power & prestige. Luxurious, glamorous & dark, like I like my perfumes!
Smells like Paloma Picasso & Salvador Dali got together in another dimension in the afterlife & are hosting a grand gallery exhibition of art by Dali the living have never nor will ever see. Can you imagine the great art he could produce if he could still work after death?! The notes are redolent with spices, resins, incense, cloves, woods, moss, myrrh. It’s a Middle Eastern Arabic Persian scent, but it can be subtle & discreet and even powdery depending on how you use it or how much of it you use.
I used to douse myself in this scent before heading out to dinners and the theater, the symphony, opera, ballet, soirees, dinner parties, galas, black tie affairs or even funerals/Church. But it smells of the night & formal wear.
It’s also very much a perfume of winter time. It’s warm & smoky and would not smell as nice in hot weather or cool spring weather. This is not as musky as Paloma Picasso but it is even “hot” with myrrh. Just cries winter wardrobe.
This is an evening cologne. Nothing day wear about it. She asks you to wear her with expensive furs, coats, or bold evening gowns backless, showing one leg, sequins, or even suits, all the powerful feminine attire of the 80’s. I still wear the original (not reformulation toilette) because again unlike actual clothes perfume is an invisible outfit that never becomes passe nor old fashioned.
Everything old is new again!
Love this perfume.
pleomax1 – :
I’ve already written a review (far below), but wanted to add a few words. I decided to try the recent formulation (now re-named, simply, ‘Dali’) and spent the better part of a day comparing it to the juice of my old 1990 bottle. It retains most of the original idea, but is noticeably “thinner” in complexity: there are now some elements missing in the base, making it not as rich and smokey as the vintage. In the heart also, the floral-accord has been toyed with: where once there were several, lush naturals, there are now replacements that seem to my nose to be single-faceted and “flat”. Still, the new one is well-balanced and, to anyone curious about this fragrance, would still function as an adequate gateway before investing the time and money to find a vintage flacon.
weteGedyPaw – :
This scent is almost perfect.. strong, feminine, spicy but just enough, not harsh.. beautiful!
Toirmawargo – :
I smell honey,vanilla, flowers and human poo in it a bit – in a weird good way . I love it, one of my favourites, very warm, soft, but hypre in the background.
Yamahin – :
This is wonderful. It reminds me of the original Chloe, before they started messing around with the formula, and no wonder, because they share so many of the same notes. This, however is spicier than Chloe. I’ll happily wear this any time of the year, but when I wear it in winter, it makes me feel warm and cosy – it puts me in mind of fireplaces and spiced hot chocolate and curling up under a soft snuggly blanket. Straight off, I get the sandalwood and the amber. Once it dries down, the honeysuckle and the orange blossom start to pop out. I get the vanilla, which seems to weave in and out of the incense and the patchouli – there one second, then gone, then back again. On me, I don’t get the bergamot or fruit, but I do get a faint hit of the basil. A beautifully crafted fragrance, which lasts really well and stays true to its ingredients – it smells the same, only softer, after eight hours of wear. Definitely a keeper!
АК47 – :
Il y a deux ans jours pour jours j’écrivais un commentaire sur ce parfum. Et c’est vrai que j’avais eu la dent dure à son égard.
Tout d’abord sa tenue. Elle est irréprochable en fait !
Je ne me souviens pas pourquoi en juillet 2014 ma peau n’avait pas imprimé les notes de ce parfum.
Les notes justement : deux ans plus tard il ressort un oriental/floral très chic. L’ambre que j’adore se marie merveilleusement bien au narcisse et cette mousse de chêne est excellente.
En deux ans ma peau a peut-être changé. En tout cas il n’ ya que les imbéciles qui ne changent pas d’avis..hahahahaha… OUf je suis sauvée…hahahaha
mixamsv – :
I have already written a review but I am a bit curious to know if anyone has noticed how many perfumes these days have a soapy scent?
I love the classic Salvador Dalí fragrance, it is one of my favorites, but I do notice a distinct difference between the perfume de toilette that I bought last year compared to the one I had almost 10 years ago. The new one is nice but it has a very soapy scent which makes it smell a bit “cheap”.
My former perfume de toilette had an amazing depth and character which made it extremely elegant and therefore one of the best perfumes I have ever had, but now something has happened. I wrote an e-mail to Salvador Dalí’s costumer service but I have not recieved an answer yet……
Invonoume – :
What a discovery! Such a wonderful deep perfume with excellent longevity and quality…and the colour looks like some mystical elixir…The lily and myrrh combination throughout the composition reminds me of the smell present in Russian orthodox churches…
boophiree – :
After searching up and down for this I finally found it for something like $25.50 for a 3.4 oz tester. I am not sure this is the original, though. The bottle is the same. The scent is a little lighter, not quite as oriental as I remember it, not so spicy. So I probably got a blasted reformulation.
However, I can’t afford the original at the prices it’s going for now. So for $25 I’ll just enjoy this for what it is.
I still am adamantly against reformulation, and will continue to condemn that scam for as long as I live.
fonya777 – :
When I close my eyes to inhale this fragrance I’m transported into Dali’s painting Persistance of Memory with the melting clocks and the bizarre landscape. I imagine that the oxygen in that planet smells like this perfume. This is a rather unusual, rare exotic fragrance that casts a spell on whomever wears it. I find it appropriate to wear to art galleries and museums in winter time (think of the Louvre in Paris in February) with my coats. It’s a warm, wintery fragrance made up of woods namely sandalwood and incense. You would like this if you have enjoyed and experienced scents like Paloma Picasso or Paco Rabane’s La Nuit. It’s smoky, rich, dark, sultry, heady and ah just smells so good. This is a chypre Oriental so you have to like spicy woodsy and aromatic fragrance and you have to be familiar with scents with the notes in this perfume: an opening of citrus fruits, a white floral heart of jasmine and tuberose and a base of smoky frankincense and myrrh, patchouli, cedar woods and oak moss. It’s definitely a heavy hitter and more of a unisex evening cologne. Men can also wear this and it would smell just like their men’s colognes. I have the vintage splash bottle. One splash on my collar and I’m ready to hit the museums that welcome this fragrance: the Metropolitan Museum in New York where I live, the Louvre in Paris, the Prado in Spain, the Ufizzi Gallery in Rome, and the British Museum in London. This is a fragrance that immediately makes you feel like the most elegant art patron and art lover, like you’d spend millions on a Baroque or Rococo painting auctioned off at Sothebys by some guy you’ve never heard of. This is such a beautiful fragrance. Love it to death.
paumeledrem – :
I’m not quite sure about this one. It smells rather old-fashioned, but not in a dated way. I am not sure how old the bottle I got my hands on is, but I get an initial splash of aldehydes and the only thing I sense on the drydown is rose incense. Not a hit on my skin I’d say, but I don’t hate it.
Sveta-dyplet – :
I don’t recall now where I got this at, but I rarely used it, even though I liked it. I was entranced by the bottle, I guess I was saving it and didn’t want to use the perfume.But have since changed my mind. I really love the scent of this. It starts out a bit grassy and flowery, but once it is set..the dry down is subtle, but very soft, smelling strongly of a powdery sandalwood, musk and a touch of oak moss and jasmine.
It’s something you just want to stop and sniff every so often. It’s a classic scent and a little more mature which is up my alley since I’m over 60..but doesn’t smell like an old woman’s perfume either. It has a somewhat sensuous, seductive scent to it..not really sweet but not acrid or green at all. Actually I think it would be a nice unisex fragrance if it smells different of each person.
aeg473Negeltzex – :
Reminds me of Armani original, L’Arte Gucci, Leonard de Leonard, etc. Green 80s powerhouse.
qwm058elipseskism – :
Liked this 10 years ago, and gave it another try today, bought a 30 ml bottle. And how could i forget about this lovely perfume. Its heavy But Light. White flowers make the balance.This one is great for winter and fall.
pistic – :
It’s not shocking that an artistic genius like Salvador Dali could also produce a magnificent perfume too. This is my third perfume from his line and at first I was chuckling and thinking his perfumes would be edgy, a little frightful, but NO, not at all, in fact Dali fragrances are quite classy. Salvador Dali is a warm, rich, smooth, smoky, white floral oriental. I really love the aromatic blend of benzoin, myrrh and amber along with tuberose, narcissus, jasmine and clove that seem to weave together with my skin’s chemistry. I can see myself wearing this often.
Viktor007 – :
Lamu,Kenya, 1986. Working as a summer Intern with the United Nations in Nairobi, I have the opportunity to travel to Lamu. We finally reach the Arabic influenced place. Our guide says we are to rest under the white flowering trees in the little plaza. It is late afternoon. Our guide says that there is a man selling the finest spices and herbs in the plaza also. We go around the dusty, stone corner. He is there, and on a tapestry are bags upon bags of spices and herbs. He calls me over and holds out a Jasmin flower to me. The guide says he is asking me to smell the flower. Leather, smoke, patchouli, woods, vanilla, benzoin and sweet amber eminate from his brown weathered hands. And within it all, yet still centrally, I smell the white blooms.
sterrliidd – :
One of the best ever; long lasting and unique. Compliments will follow the day you wear this winter fragrance.
Takes me back to a simpler, younger time.
Absolutely wonderful!
Look on eBay for great prices!
каварная тигрица – :
One of the best perfumes ever made. I always have a bottle of this perfume at home.
I really love classy and feminine fragrances and this classic beauty from Salvador Dali is one of the best.
In my personal opinion there are only a few of Salvador Dalis fragrances that really stand out, and this is one of them.
I also wish they would bring back Le Roy Soleil, another gem from this perfume house.
AssassinSako – :
Fragrantlife’s review below is spot on, I think. The current version of Salvador Dali has certainly changed. I have an old(er) bottle which has listed ‘oakmoss extract’ on the back of the box. The new box does not. I have tried old and new side by side and I think that, given all the restrictions in the industry nowadays, the reformulation is well done.
The current version has more flowers, no oakmoss, but it also lacks the somewhat colognish or soapy smell that appears in the older composition (which may be a good thing, for some, I understand). Sillage and longevity are better in the older formula, that lasts like forever. But they are good enough in the current one. I agree with Fragrantlife that the reformulation is worth trying out. For vintage lovers, I may need to add that I never wore Dali back in the nineties, because I was already hooked on Gucci 3 and Armani. So it is not a fragrance I come back to. But I love wearing it now.
L3g1on – :
I have a vintage ab. 1.5 ml left in a 1.7 original splash tester Parfum de Toilette in the nose & lips package for exchange in the UK. Please PM me
olenka3322 – :
Such an unusual scent! Initial spray hits with strong spiciness – I mostly smell cinnamon in initially – and I was afraid it would be too strong, but it’s not. It sits on the skin and only someone very close will smell it. A few hours later the scent transforms into a soft floral with no trace of spices. I’m impressed with the magic, and love the bottle.
Tisha_13 – :
Update
I finally received my new bottle. I forgot how gorgeous it looks!
As for the juice… It is somewhat different from what I remember. The Salvador Dali of my youth was a rich, warm oriental. My nose was not very sophisticated in those days, but I am positive there were no discernible flowers. Fast forward to today… I got a burst of indolic tuberose and jasmine with whispers of benzoin, myrrh and amber in the background. For the first hour, it is all about indoles, faintly supported by resins.
Then, the oriental character emerges slowly. It is not as affirmed and rich as it used to be. It seems somewhat thinned down. I also detect some chemicality (I just made that word up, but it works, doesn’t it ;-)).
Now, bear in mind that the last time I wore it was over 20 years ago. Moreover, my skin chemistry may have changed as well.
In any event, Salvador Dali is still a beautiful, classic perfume, that escaped the butcher bloc. It just has evolved with the times: a bit more flowers, a bit less resins and patchouli. It is not a drastic change, but certainly noticeable in the first hour. Still a powerful nose kick for modern sensibilities, but more muted for those who lived the in-your-face ’80’s.
A great perfume to revisit or discover.
holmes_chel – :
Funny how everyone says this is a perfume for mature women. I used to wear it between the ages of 19 and 23. Along with Chanel no19 and Jardin de bagatelle. And nobody thought it was for a mature audience. Then again, my friends in their late teens were wearing Poison, Paris, Ysatis, Opium and Chloe (the original) — in the classroom. And the boys were splashed with Polo and Azzaro. Yet, nobody complained about ‘fume overload, nor made a distinction about young and mature perfumes. Well, this was in France, so maybe the culture was different.
As for Salvador Dali, what a beauty! I plan to revisit it soon.
Станислав Карбанович – :
Salvador Dali is an iconic smoky-spicy full-structured oriental, as good and remarkable as Opium, Habanita and Sonia Rykiel La Parfum. Its complicated and cognacy smooth, extravagant and enveloping, this is the one that you can rely on forever and ever in complicated situations when you need a shoulder-smell.
Salvador is so confident and warm, full of good quality of amber, benzoin and myrhh. On me its a real oriental rather than an oriental-floral with its plentiful of clove and incense vibe.
I am very surprised ppl can smell aldehydes here – I don’t. And very surprised they call it “dated” since no one call “dated” Ambre Sultan.
We’ve got horrible wind-storms here in Scotland, you just want to hide yourself in such evenings in a big chair, somewhere near the fireplace, with ancient book, blanket around the shoulders and Salvador Dali on that blanket. To reconstruct that haunting atmosphere of “The Woman In Black”.
5 from 5 from me.
berlog – :
Fragrances that have boisterous, spicy openings or mega-aldehydic openings end up having the most lovely drydowns on my skin (i.e. Versace by Gianni Versace 1981 version). Salvador Dali scared the crap out of me at first, so I waited, knowing it could turn awesome.
It opens with a blast of masculine spice; clove oil in particular, and orange – the oils of the peel, not the sweet juice. This becomes very feminine very quickly! I immediately detected an abundance of resin and sandalwood and some gentle flowers amongst the spice. Right before I deemed this a very woody and spicy fragrance, vanilla appeared, and being the good taming agent she is, coaxed the lot of initial notes into a calm state.
The drydown is “smooth” spice and vanilla on my skin. It is perfect for chilly holdays. The woods and resins move back to dance the chorus and work the support of the show, instead of zinging around front and center. Salvador Dali lasts for eons in its beautiful drydown state.
The bottle is art, too! Win!
stress – :
This one was a gift, my aunt had it for years and years, and could not throw it in the bin.
She loved the bottle so much, but not the juice.
As she knew I started to collect perfumes she gave it to me. And she mentioned me; horrible and heavy.
The juice what a beautifull brown and dark color, it’s the old formula for sure.
(Aunt bought it in Spain in the ’80 just for the bottle and as souvenir.)
A wiff at the cap; myrrh is strong, yes indeed raisin/myrrh blast so warm and comforting.
Amber is smoothing the whole compilation of notes. The inscence provides an enchanting feel when sprayed on.
Right away a classic masterpiece, longlasting on my skin last for 12 hours.
Powdery but spicy al the way.
I told my aunt how much I love this one and she was so happy for me. And said I check my closet if there’s more stuff 🙂 jipie
halyf – :
Another amazing perfume disappearing slowly from the shelves. I love this exotic, rich oriental! I can feel the 90’s in it, and brings back such memories!
Jashur – :
Bring it back. Please bring it back. Pretty please? Unreformulated, of course.
nikolai68 – :
A master piece by Alberto Morillas. That perfect blend of citrus notes, the woody accord and white flowers makes this perfume a ground-breaking creation back in the 80s. You just can’t stop smelling it. Truly feminine, mysterious, enigmatic, suitable for a woman in full, who knows what she wants and how to get it. Classy, refined, elegant, glamorous, opulent and lush. What else could a woman ask for from a perfume? Just to have the personality to fit in this remarkable fragrance. I call it the sacred monster of perfumery.
zarjagen – :
Very strong classic feminine scent. Not bad at all compared to the other classics. Still, not my taste, because I am not a big fan of the classics.
It surprised me with it’s deep rich scent. I thought it’s somhow low in quality, but I can’t say that.
Strong, aldehytic scent with lots of amber and sandalwood. So many notes, that my nose gets confused. Also enormous sillage and longevity.
I think it’s a little masculine.
Svetlana23 – :
This rich, long lasting fragrance takes me right back to the late ’80’s…. Early 90’s…. Very evocative of a different time. Always receive compliments and questions…it is available on eBay, don’t give up if it is a favorite!
polivak2008 – :
Sympa mais sans plus.
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