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matsur2 – :
Eaudemoiselle bois de Oud more expensive but less good dupe. And putting the name ‘Daringly different’ on an oud perfume is an ‘Ok, get out’ moment.
egorikkrot – :
This is a really lovely delicate and powdery Iris/rose with animalic leather and oud, it smells like the inside of a leather bag that a powder compact broke inside. I am really loving floral powdery notes combined with animalic notes. This one has pretty soft silage for the price tag so I wouldn’t ever invest in a FB and at that price, it IS an investment. For me to shell out that kind of $ this stuff better PROJECT lol
Patron762 – :
after I spritzed “Daringly Different” on about an hour ago the perfume still lingers voluptuously around me. I would say the main scent I smell now is a refined rose, refined but incisive. it definitely is supported by other scents, more or less discernable but also offering a “holistic” image of sophistication, chic and luxe. perhaps there are more outspoken leather scents, oudh scents, iris scents (aqua di parma I find hugely dissatisfying).
the point with these kind of perfumes, and I sampled the initial five 100ml. flacons, is ALSO precisely that you buy the name on the flacon, the exquise design of the “fiols” containing these elixirs, that in a moment I go to work and nobody in the nursinghome of 600 people knows who is/was Diana Vreeland. it gives a boost also to yourself and the expensiveness, ourageousness and over-the-topness is also precisely the appeal with which one wears such perfumes, it is the “Versace factor” contrary to the minimalist or posh niche-vibe. they are all lovely perfumes with a bit of the hegemonial ingredients which were the rigueur then, when DV ruled. still to achieve “Devastatingly Chic” from my nurses’ salary and I feel whole again. so this is my point. the perfumes are high class too (in my opinion) but the advertisement is as infotainment as daring, exactly what DV stood for, and we inject our furniture with patchouli.
ira14 – :
I sampled the whole Diana Vreeland line at the Houston Galleria Neiman Marcus. It was the first line that caught my eye because, well, just look at those bottles! Candy for the eyes! They are stunning and hefty and seemingly where the brand sunk most of their money. As many have reported, this line is staggeringly underwhelming. At $185/50 ml and DV’s name on the line, my expectations were high. I didn’t have a lot of time to sample and I was rushed enough that I actually quickly looked for a sampler set that I was on-the-spot ready to buy unsniffed if they had it. Major marketing miss, right there. So I took out white card after card and spritzed them, sniffed them, then laid them down in from to their bottles and went through them over and over for the next few minutes. To my horror, they were quick to fade. However, the combination of the sprayed fragrances was starting to work it’s magic on me. Alas, I was being hurried by my hosts and I had a few other counters to stop at, so I quickly scooped the sampled cards into my handbag and rushed on.
Back at home, I perused the line on the Neiman Marcus website. My cards at hand, they were so sadly faded and tainted by another Nuclear Power Musk sample (see my review for Givenchy Ambre Tigré) that I could barely discern any different scent – except for Extravagance Russe, which fought the good fight. I’ve since procured a 5 ml sample of this one and this is definitely the one I should have purchased.
That gorgeous smokey violet bottle was calling me. Notes of oud and iris flirted with me, though I didn’t remember smelling this on. (Turns out I didn’t as it was added after the initial collection was released). So I blind bought this one.
First of all violet is missing from the listed notes. I know it is listed in the description on Neiman’s website. This violet so far has blocked me from smelling any semblance of iris. If they had used orris root, it could have outshone the shy violet and brought greater weight to the leather note. The rose then dominated both and it becomes a feather-light rose-oud fragrance for its short life on my skin. I’m not a huge oud fan, but I had a feeling I wouldn’t have to worry about any kind of oily, meaty, authentic Middle Eastern aoud. I was right. This is the synthetic balsamic oud that has been tamed in a laboratory, stripped and polished until is shines like a sliver of moonstone. That ethereal too. Despite leather and oud – there is no *weight* to this fragrance (or to *any* of the fragrances in the line for that matter). If you’re looking at tonka bean for help, it’s just shrugging and saying it’s here to keep things from teetering over too much into strictly masculine territory.
All that being said, I was in love with all of the fragrances combined when I sprayed them. I would love to try layering them. And if I had a set of 15ml/ea travel sprays, I would be all over that in a heartbeat. Or maybe is they had combined all these into one fragrance, I would have ponied up $185 in an instant. Instead they had to follow the “niche” trend of unleashing five on us at once, followed almost immediately by two more.
As disgusted as I am with my purchase, I am not ready to swap or put it on eBay. It’s not an awful perfume, just disappointing, especially for the price. If this had been a typical $65-75/50 ml mainstream purchase, I doubt I would be feeling this cheated. I’m going to try layering it with some other fragrances in my wardrobe and see if I can make it work.