Description
Laguna for men was launched in 2001, 10 years after Laguna for women. Laguna embodies peace and harmony, it is a fairy tale nook of the Universe infused with sun. Laguna is addressed to romantic men and it is recommended for holidays, especially at the seaside.
A refreshing, tropical, light and fruity composition invokes the picture of endless sandy beaches and the smell of a peaceful, green sea water. The fresh notes of mandarin and tangy bark of tropical Quinquine interwine with the sparkling freshness of lime and rich bergamot note. In the heart, the balsam notes of sandalwood are spiced by the dry aroma of cedar and white tobacco. Honey jasmine brings a floral and sweet nuance into the rich bouquet of the middle notes. The base is made of salvia absolute and Tonka bean in harmony with creamy vanilla. Labdanum and musk end this composition.
The designer of this fragrance is Henry Bergia. The nose behind this fragrance is Henri Bergia.
UttennyProrge – :
A very pleasant surprise. Blind bought on Notino, because of cheap price and was not disappointed. I do not get the cheap or loud notes mentioned by other reviewers, and, unfortunately, don’t get the longevity either. This fragrance reminds me a lot of Arpege Pour Homme. They share the same alcoholic initial burst and the powdery dry down. That being said, Laguna is it’s own scent. A mellow, masculine concoction..while it lasts…
PelmeNka – :
It’s a mild mannered oriental that does not scream for all to smell, better yet it whispers. Nice for dates and cozying up with that special someone. The blue bottle probably hurt this one from gaining any popularity but overall I find it enjoyable and not at all dated. I do wish it had a little more oomph to it but nevertheless it’s good as is.
baga25 – :
it’s chemical. a little bit synthetic. some people may find it cloying. but i love it. it’s sweet, cool, yet warm at the same time. cozy, en calming. unique, not for everyone maybe.it’s linear at my skin. long lasting…can’t stop sniffing my wrist, love it !
Dronishe – :
Tried a sample of this yesterday, put the whole thing on.
Have to say even though it’s not my cup of tea it is an impressive scent, lasted very long for me, I put it on on before leaving for work and i could still smell it by the end of the working day.
It does seem a bit intense at first but mellows out quite quickly.As others have stated, is not an aquatic but a calming scent.
I’ll get a bottle if I ever see it at a good price, It’s good to have different things.
Good stuff 🙂
aansoseeij – :
just to add something…2 months of using it the silver around the sprayer peeled off…so it means it’s cheap made, BUT the scent is still great
Greexenna – :
this is good, very good, it’s not a citrus at all…it’s so warm and cozy and has the aura of fall and winter, don’t know why this is called laguna but i assure you that this is not oceanic, citrus or watery smell, maybe for summer nights but not a beach scent (you can wear it to the beach if you like it, i would)….
the bottle is ugly in the picture but in real life looks cool, manly and super thin, i got the one with the silver lid and i think that it could be better done, the sprayer is tiny and although it’s not manly to say but it’s kinda cute…lol…..all in all the bottle is pretty cool….
the moment you spray it, and after that on the sprayer, it smells exactly like honey, i didn’t recognize it a first but after that it just hit me HONEY, i know it’s not listed but that’s what i get..and then it develops into some herb, maybe sage, and then it dips to the aaaaaaaaahhhhh faze, after that it gets closer to skin and vanilla hugs your arm softly…the bottle and the scent and the name have nothing in common but you DO want this in your collection, one of my favorites for fall hangouts right now, it’s not offensive or in you face, it’s perfect if you sit close to people, they will love you, it leaves a trace behind you but only playfully for a short time just to intrigue the noses around so their brains ask “who smells so nice”
dali’s team did a good job on the scent, it stays for a while on skin, like 6 hours, but on clothes maybe 12+
as always i assign a perfume to a legend and a divinity 🙂
CLARK GABLE would pick up chicks with this for sure
i think this is the smell of ATLAS, strong and yet vulnerable
xoxo 😛
Vitus47 – :
First, I believe the original formulation comes in the box without the silver rectangle on the front. I’m not sure if there was a bad reformulation but some people seem to think this is the case. Secondly, I can see how some would say this is similar to the one marketed to women, as there seems to be one accord they share, as well as mild wood notes in common, but they are distinct enough to own both (and I think of both as unisex). If you have tried Minotaure/Nikos Sculpture type scents, this one is in that general range, though this is a bit softer in the drydown. It takes a while for everything to come together, perhaps half an hour, but then it is really nice, with a kind of sparkling though creamy quality. It’s not too sweet and the tobacco is quite mild – the balance is excellent, and it certainly doesn’t seem “cheap.”
den756 – :
When I took the first spray from my bottle, I sighed and thought “Oh, gosh- yet another tonka/coumarin-heavy frag…” and set it aside. Like many others, I found the absence of calone or any seaweed notes at first perplexing- especially in conjunction with the beautiful blue bottle.
But today, out of curiosity, I decided to examine it further. Upon drydown, the sandalwood, cedar, and sage creates a beautiful, “cool and yet warm” serenity to balance the sweetness of the vanilla-like tonka bean (coumarin) paired with the cyclamen-honeyed tobacco. And about an hour after application, I noticed a prominent note not mentioned before: frankincense/olibanum.
Though it does indeed have some similarities to ‘Laguna’ (pour femme) which I also wear, Laguna Homme is definitely more woody, more coumarin-heavy, the fruitiness is toned down, the florals and citrus are subtle. It is an unusual juxtaposition of notes, for sure- and somehow it works splendidly to transcribe a light breeze and sunlight from a shaded spot on the sand.
Performance is pretty excellent because of its solid structure. While I can’t say I “love” Laguna Homme, I really can’t help but like it!
162126nik – :
Sold this….very disappointing. A mild vanilla/tonka and very non-descript. Shame
paladincshik88 – :
Don’t let the blue bottle fool you…this isn’t an aquatic.
A pleasant and quiet scent…but it’s missing something. The “kick” that other Dali perfumes share isn’t here. It’s another fragrance where one note doesn’t really stand out. You’d think the vanilla/tonka/coumarin combo would push this into something overly-sweet but it doesn’t..the wood notes balance it. I would have liked the floral notes to be a little more in the mix.
A heavy-handed spray does make this too chemical and acidic.
saxon4408 – :
very aromatic and fresh, I dont really see that similarity some speaks about with female,s version, what I get here is a totally masculine scentsuitable for every purpose, the bottle and box are great…love blue sea and silver colors on it
MrSmart – :
I blind bought this. And lost the gamble. I guess I’m one of those that detects only the chemical note in this perfume. On my skin it smells exactly like a brand new Tupperware container. You know, that rubbery, plasticky smell.
moseykov – :
Un aroma muy muy rico, parecido sin duda al laguna de mujer. Una mezcla de fragancias que lo hacen reconocible a cualquier persona y distancia. Durable entre 4 hs y 6 hs, se puede decir que es un excelente perfume para la primavera, tanto de dia como de noche. Lo volveria a tener. Calificacion General 7.5/10
ilgizvvs – :
Laguna has a sweet semi-synthetic opening and an incense/vanilla/tonka drydown. The name makes you think of aqua or marine notes BUT it’s nothing like that at all – the name is misleading. I can detect a connection with this and Aura (Jacomo) which isn’t surprising because the same perfumier developed both. This is a sort of smoother, warmer bur softer version of Aura with more vanilla though. The drydown, incidentally, is quite like Altamir but much softer. Longevity is only moderate and so is sillage. I was disappointed by this one, I’ll use this up for work and I won’t buy more. Just sold this in a car boot sale, Laguna is not for me.
9sejourcapitaln – :
I do like scent but I care more about human values and personal stance in life. And although I did not read the whole perfume guide but quite a few reviews which are freely available in book selling sites on the internet, as well as the first and the last chapters of the book, the comment the authors make about this scent did attract my attention. My remarks here are not about his comments on the scent but about his comments on Moscow taxidrivers. Having read quite a few reviews as well as the first chapters I can certainly say that this book is not about scent but about scent fashion. I would like to ask the authors what do they know about Moscow taxi drivers which make them think that they are of lesser value than themselves as for certain personality traits. They should know, but what I read suggests to me that they don’t, that human beings are not all the same and certainly each person is unique and that is what is great about being a person. I cannot think of anything Moscow taxidrivers in Moscow have in common other than driving a taxi in Moscow. There is a word to refer to the belief that all people of a certain group share certain characteristics that are not stated in the adjective they are refered to by, like for example in the imaginary case that someone believes something about all chinese people other than the fact that they are all chinese, even because whatever I believe they all have in common is never going to be true, and that word is prejudice. The authors might possibly be referring to something as frivolous and inoucuous as the scense of style but I can also certainly say without any doubt that nothing shows so genuine a sense of style as being yourself independently of what other people think you should like or behave like. The whole perspective of the book is from my viewpoint deeply flawed and that starts showing in the introductory chapters. It is said something like Tocade is considered better than addict not for some other reason (which is mentioned but I do not remember the exact wording but is not important for what I am saying), but because it is more beautiful. And while I do like Tocade better than Addict, and do believe that many people like Tocade better than Addict, I would never say that Tocade is more beautiful than addict because I am sure there are people who think the opposite, and beauty, as even the least literate English speaker (even if not their first language, as it is my case, for whom English is a foreign language) certainly heard, is in the eyes of the beholder, meaning by that that it is entirely subjective. More correct would be to say that more people find Tocade more beautiful. I can easily imagine two chidren (adults I find it hard to imagine) arguing about which colour is more beautiful, red or blue, and asking one adult who is right. Or arguing about who owns the most beautiful cap or whatever. That is the stance taken by the authors of the book, with the difference that there is no dialogue there. Well, being one of the authors a renowned scientist (so I am lead to believe) he should know that even scientific statements and theories are only valid in relation to a certain mind frame, tecnological resources and even biological structure of the knower. Truth is an entirely relative matter, according to the certainly predominant view of science and knowledge today. Anyone anyway can realize that scientific statements are changing all the time and being continuously discarded and replaced. Well, if that applies for scientific statements, what is one to think of the subjectivity of the sense of beauty? The only possible framework in which anyone can make any kind of judgement or even any simple analysis of anything, and I am not only referring to beauty, but to anything, is to start by setting out a list of criteria against which the analysis is to be carried out and then conclude about the extent to which whatever object is being judged or analysed does match them. Otherwise, that work is absolutely of no value whatsoever. No one knows better than each person what is better for that person and one of the greatest personal qualities anyone can display is for me, as I am sure it is for lots of other people, not to let other people impose on you what is better for you or what you should find beutiful or enjoy. Then one is really showing sense of style in a way which has certainly a much deeper human value. I do not question the value of the book as a fashion quide, in the most frivoulus way, which anyway is probably what it intends to be and I cannot imagine it to be otherwise. As for the scent, which after all this I do not even feel as commenting on, seems to me to smell of aldehyds and citrus in the opening, and I can also sense a cinnamonish smell, similar to the one I find in Dior Addict, and which I think comes from the tonka bean molecules. The quite intense vanilla scent gets more pronounced as time goes by. I find the scent very recognizable and unique. It is totally different from other orientals, all very much alike, like Jaipur, Le mâle, Hypnôse, Pi, etc. Laguna shares the same oriental spices and vanilla background, but is smells citirc in a to me very very appealing way. Also, it does smell much more complex than any of those scents, fidgety and ethereal, on the top of its deep oriental base.It is one of the masculine scents I like best. The bottle is very pretty and the name is really inspiring, makes me really think of a beautiful natural place.
polar – :
it’s like i’m in the sea water, surrounded by white flowers, drinking some beer. Yes i do get that beer stuff and i find it beautiful!
Hindenburg – :
It basically smells lika a really sweet orange. Very similar to the feminine version
snor3 – :
Got it cheap! Was on my wishlist a while .
Vertigo nailed it in her review! I cannot describe it better
Complex scent with a big WOW factor as its very bi directional in a way its a warm glowy summer night scent for romantic men but also a bit feminine & strange and powerfull. I think to describe it as not classical but more neo futuristic in a sci-fi scene ( ehhh im losing it?) But i agree people will be put off on its metallic like apeal. Its funny that the cap of this beautiful bottle is blue metallic too 🙂
I wear it now and worn it on work days and projects well and longevity is superb for 9 hours
If you like the stranger type of scents a bit on the sweet and extravert spicy side will digg this as i am.
Im glad i got it.
*Update : Gets boring if the smell gets known and almost cloying and thats too bad but thats my taste.
As Luca Turin stated in his a-z guide im not sure what he ‘s talking about maybe you can imagine a small room like a car with a man with bad hygene not washing himself for days riding around all night picking up hookers and party people… but again its not nice to say…
toy – :
Tangerine+Cedar+Tonka bean+Vanilla and the result is a pretty warm cinnamony concoction. Laguna H smells nice and quite sweet, but to me it is a bit too synthetic to fully like it.
The powdery cinnamon feeling I get from it reminds me a bit of Armand Basi Armand Basi Homme.
I agree it is not flat, and a bit metallic even (probably because of cedar) and has a decent projection and longevity about 5 hours.
Is it a unisex? Maybe, but not for me.
It’s just an option for everyday occasions, not a fragrance you would wear for a big event.
InfelsomsVemo – :
Hazardous Material. This is a very strong, sharp chemical that I bought twice and gave away twice. It smells good on others, but I can’t stand its company for longer than a few minutes on myself. Death by synthetic vanilla laced with something powerfully acidic.
ruslansmol – :
To me, Laguna Homme bears strong resemblance to the original Laguna for women.
Amazing fragrance!
Complex, multidimensional, multifarious …
It’s simultaneously cold and warm, distant and cozy, bittersweet, fruity with light woods, flowers, citruses…
A unique composition.
It can’t be percepted on just one plane.
A truly TRANSCENDANT perfume in an ordinary bottle, found on a lowest shelf in the perfumery …
sliddiluple – :
This to me is JOOP! Jump in all but name and in a cooler bottle to boot (forget the usual Dali weirdo nonsense: “Universe infused with sun…” blah, blah, blah) – and therefore IMHO it has to be recommended as one of the nicest, warmest & most sensual casual male fragrances around.
UPDATE: Shockingly cheap price for a quality fragrance. Wonderfully versatile too with all-year round appeal both for day and night time use. Perhaps a tad sharper than JOOP! Jump but still excellent. Sillage is good for the first three hours and longevity is better, being easily detectable on my skin after 7 hours.
woomeopaypows – :
Not aquatic AT ALL.
Don’t be mistaken by it’s color and name.
Laguna is a very sweet sexy fragrance.
The lemon opening quickly turns down to a sweet jasmine/tobaco/vanilla special smell.
The sillage is simply awesome. No kiddin, it lasts about 8-10 hours.
Great fragrance!
kibertron – :
Bought this for my husband, because I like the woman version very much. Thisone smells very good on him!
LEK – :
One of my favs, my wife 2 be loves this one as well.sweet,mellow,long lasting
serb – :
A very longlasting perfume and isn’t soft. That should appeal to those who like louder scents. Despite being sweet and having noticeable jasmine and vanilla notes, it’s very very masculine, as some have noted.
Laguna feels tropical because of the metallic fruity cocktail accord. That, in my perception, evokes beach. And warmth is evoked by its sweetness and the well-dosed flower notes. Like flowers whose smell you usually don’t notice, but get noticeable when it’s hot. Well, this is my imagery of it.
Anyway, it’s not a scent to make you fit into hot days by the beach, but rather a hot summer day by the beach translated into a scent. Thus, I personally think it’s appropriate to wear Laguna in Fall and Winter. In Summer it can be suffocating.
Last, Laguna feels much more expensive than it actually is, and that is, bien sûr, good. And it’s a kind of scent that many people do enjoy and wear, so what I don’t understand is the fact that I don’t notice it being used more often. Isn’t that good too, since wearing a non-hit helps making you stand out?
evgenii_bull – :
This came to me as a sample, and I didn’t like it from the first smell. Strange mixture, and there is something about the sweetness that is disturbing to me. Reminds me, somehow, Versace The Dreamer.
georgii_fishuk – :
really weird, something acid-sweet-fruity smell there, longevity really powerful but in a sick way, no identity or concept in the aroma, just an awful combo of fruits.
npanty – :
Wow, a yummy summery-beachy scent… This is a good example of expert blending – bright citruses, sweet florals, aromatic tobacco, confectionery sweetness, dry woods and coconut creaminess all together, without smelling weird or cloying. Absolutely wonderful feel-good scent with a touch of the tropics.
dbotkalu – :
Salvador Dali has surprised me with its fragrances. I have this and I have Agua Verde and both are very good and with a very good lasting power. In this case here, the fragrance is awesome: hot, sweet, masculine and strong. The manufacturer’s description says that this cologne is dedicated to romantic men and I agree.
Despite the citric output with lemon, lime, bergamot, verbena and mandarin orange, this scent lacks that touch of citric summer that many people may think, because of its notes. These notes open up the aroma in a lighter shape, but are immediately relieved for quieter notes of cyclamen, cedar, sandalwood and a jasmine with creamy nuances, almost syrup. Finally, the secret of the fragrance that, surely, lies in its base: coumarin, labdanum, tonka bean and a stunning vanilla, which gives a “come closer” aspect to it.
I simply adore this cologne and the result is a vanilla-floral orange that looks great for cooler days.
There is a Brazilian cologne, called Água Imperial, that resembles to this one, by Salvador Dali.
Andrej1 – :
Very musculine scent,is a perfume that reflects actitude, man with personality.