Description
The house of Salvador Dali presented the bold chypre fragrance La Belle et l`Ocelot in 2014. La Belle et l`Ocelot Eau de Toilette, its softer version, is scheduled to come out in the spring of 2016 as a dazzling scent of refined and serene sensuality. La Belle et l`Ocelot Eau de Toilette supposedly symbolizes a new declaration of femininity and the deepest instincts of liberty.
The top is fresh, vital and sparkling thanks to the notes of apple blossom, nashi pear and grapefruit. The heart is made of a velvet and elegant bouquet of flowers that includes iris, Turkish rose and Egyptian jasmine. The light, woody base consists of cedar and musk and provides softness and warmth.
The bottle is kept in the original design; rectangular and made of glass, with the characteristic leopard contour on the sides, but this time colored in soft pink and silver. “The two frosted faces are engraved with a Dalinian feline, walking in a swaying way, following its instinct which will drive it to the Beauty (La Belle). The other parts of the bottle are transparent with a Dali silver signature on the right side. The silver Ocelot is embossed on the silver pack. It is silhouetted against a golden rose territory. The luminous bottle fascinates through its elegance and its movement.”
The fragrance is available as a 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette.
finansist1234 – :
It resembles Chloe EdP – the same vomit-fabric conditioner-dusty-artificial-detergent-quasi rose without any acidity like cough syrup.
Jordan39 – :
I looked forward to trying this fragrance for about a year before I finally had the opportunity to do so. I’d sampled the original EDP version and was disappointed to find that scent distinctly unsuited to my tastes, after I’d already fallen in love with the bottle and the name. I thought this EDT sounded different enough in character from the original EDP to be a safe blind buy (since I did apparently need to own that gorgeous bottle!), and happily, I wasn’t wrong. This is a completely different kind of scent and I’m finding this one to be really nice- definitely my favorite among several others I’ve tried from Salvador Dali and one that’s very wearable, soft, feminine, and pretty, so I don’t at all regret the blind buy. If I’m being honest, however, I should admit that I probably won’t repurchase this now that I have the bottle that drew me in; I like the scent a lot but sadly don’t seem to experience the complexity that it’s supposed to have. I didn’t really get anything but roses from it the first time I smelled it- no fruits, no cedar, no musk, no jasmine, nothing but soft, sweet, powdery roses. (Possibly I can attribute my experience of powder to the iris note?) Now that I’m a little more familiar with it, I get the citrus note, too, but the rose still definitely dominates this for me- roses and more roses! It’s a really nice rose, though, one that doesn’t turn soapy-smelling on my skin like other rose based fragrances I’ve tried, and the scent does go beautifully with the visual presentation of the pale pink liquid behind frosted glass- it smells exactly like it *looks* like it should. It will make a nice alternate to my signature, and I’m happy to have finally acquired it.
dimastiy – :
since I’ve never encountered the edp, this is an honest review without sadness about it being nothing like the edp. The edt is a lovely, kind scent. Flowery,fruity sweet (but not in an annoying way). This makes it sound like any generic perfume that is launched on the market today, but this one is more grown-up. Girly, but adult. Sweet but not sickly. It makes me want to wear a pretty dress and dance. Maybe the eau de perfume is the beast (ocelot), and this eau de toilette is “la belle”?
And of course, the bottle is gorgeous. But then, I love anything cat-like.
katinez – :
Very delicate scent for the ocelot name! I really like it, but after few minutes, I can barely smell it. I’ve expected something wilder, to be honest. However, I must admit that the bottle is absolutely chic and beautiful.
FriendMegan – :
I don’t get it. This is just a very synthetic pear note mixed with jasmine. It aims at spring fragrances, but is not nice in my opinion. Quite ordinary as well, just like any other fragrance on the market.
Bottle is cool, just like EDP’s, but given the good quality of EDP version I expected a great scent, which this one is not. It’s just too ordinary.
WooDS – :
15. March 2016
Thank You for adding this, it has been sold at where i live for a few weeks now and i have managed to try it several times already.
This EDT has nothing to do with the namesake EDP, which is a nice autumn-winter fragrance (a dupe for Coco by Chanel), this EDT is a very nice and safe floral-musky spring-summer scent. It is very well composed and i do like its incomplexity, but multifunctionality. It can be used as an offuce scent, as an everyday scent, as a summer party scent (usable during autumn as well). I smell a nice combo of jasmine, very realistic apple blossom and delicate rose. Later it becomes a light and nice musky-jasmine-woody scent. As i already mentioned – safe and crowd pleaser.
Lasting power is up to 6 hrs and very detectable sillage.
Oh, did i mention a nice bottle? 🙂