Deliria

I am usually attracted to strange "things".... Or people..... Or places .... Well... Given that all the reviews that seem to be heading , one way or another, towards the label "weird ", I decided to blind buy this perfume, despite the price tag. First of all, the packaging is beautiful. Secondly, I own Amour Nocturne from the same series and I just love it ! Is that one strange? Absolutely! So how could this one be, after a number of reviewers called it " grotesques" , " weird", "ville ", etc ? Well, to my sheer surprise I find it totally wearable ... With springlike notes, fresh, sweet, youthful , in an unconventional way. The cotton candy is the dominating note according to my nose. It's mixed with musc and some undefinable fruits, not necessarily Apple. The boozy note makes it more mature. The metallic notes aforementioned are not heading towards the stale blood scent as in Secretions Magnifiques at all.... Conversely, they are giving more of a cold feeling.... A cooling sensation that almost makes me think "mentholated ", even though there is no mint in the composition. The silage is very soft on my skin, lasting power average. The scent dries down to a skin scent that is vanillic clean , edible, without the initial sweetness . If it wasn't for the unusual combination of rum with the other ingredients, I would call this a spring scent... But it does have a kinky , dirty little facet. Overall, I wish it was a bit stronger, since it's an edp. But I love it just the way it is. So my conclusion here is that no matter how the reviewers are describing a scent , it should still be tested on your own skin before dismissing . You never know what gem you might discover .

OMG This scent is out of this world! I've never smelled any perfume that smells or resembles anything like this. Many reviews are right at describing Deliria: frosty, metallic, super sweet, cotton candyish(a lot IMO), bubblegummy(watermelon/cottoncandy flavoured)... I would also add: boozy and dizzy! But what's with the dislikes? This is perfection! There's no scent like this, I swear. I bet this kinda scent will be more "mainstream" in say 10-20 years. Very futuristic scent. The box is so beautiful and cool. It looks like some monster with long claws tried to open the box and left it's mark on the side. Somehow because of the style of this scent I would imagine the fluid to be neon green or neon purple... It is really amazing how this not only works as an amazing perfume that is sensual and intoxicating - so delirious, Deliriating, but it also reminds you of a place. Just like Dzing reminds me of circus. Place that comes to mind for me from Deliria is an amusement park or a fairground. Also this brings an image of drugs. And I've never used cocaine or LSD, extasy or stuff like that but I'd imagine them to be smelling like Deliria. Because when I smell this scent, especially in the beginning it really is a rollercoaster ride and a "dizzying cloud" just like it says in the official description of the scent. A Masterpiece 10+! Most unique scent I've ever smelled. Sillage is very close to skin but has an amazing longevity almost 10 hours on my skin. So the scent is pretty strong when you smell it by sniffing your arm where you've sprayed it but the scent won't spread and fill the room no matter how much you spray it on yourself.

OK, so... I read the reviews and bought it blind anyway. It's discontinued but I managed to find a new bottle and bought from a private seller on eBay (who had probably scored it at a ridiculously low price at TKMaxx, but - what can you do?). Deliria is very very strange. Not for nothing are there no comparisons in the "this reminds me of" box. Oddly, the metallic note only appears when I first spray it. It does not smell like blood to me - more like the "taste" of cold steel. There is also a sweet pineapple note - and I have a glass of fresh pineapple juice next to me, so can compare the two; pineapple juice also has a slightly metallic twang. After five minutes or so, the metallic twang eases and leaves an ozonic or aquatic freshness behind - it reminds me a little of the smell of a hot printer. That makes it sound awful, but it's not; I work in a school library and the printer is immediately adjacent to where I sit. It gets a lot of use by students and I am not fond of that smell at all. Deliria just has a hint of that ozone. On the drydown, the cold note remains, which stops the fragrance being cloyingly sweet. I have a feeling this will be refreshing during the muggy summers we have in the SE of England. Not sure about sillage or longevity yet, as I only sprayed this about an hour ago. It is just so very strange, I needed to write down my thoughts immediately. ETA. I have been wearing this for several hours now, and - I love it. It has somehow bonded with my skin, so it no longer smells like perfume, but as my skin SHOULD smell. I have never experienced this with a fragrance before. Bertrand Duchaufour is a genius.

I love it when reading what people think of a scent makes you realize most of them share something with your own experience and this is again the case with Deliria (which by they way was sold as Sautes d'humeur at one point so I couldn't trace it till recently). I agree Deliria is a bit weird like a gourmand that fights to be other things as well and ends up getting through random paths. I like it a lot, it is very Etat libre d'orange style (think of Encens et bubblegum and just a tiny drop of Sécretions magnifiques) with a metallic something that creates a very dangerous concoction. Risky because on the first uses you may think it is a fruity bubblegum delight, very sexy and distinctive but then you realize there is a b side that is indeed a bit off, as in rancid or oxidised but yet modern and in my case it made me worry and wound up giving it to a friend. You know when you have had the chewing gum for ages on the mouth and it tastes both as it used to and ready to be in the bin? However, you won't believe how gorgeous it smells on her... fancy, elegant, naughty and truly unique. Surprisingly very citric too. It never tires me when we go to the cinema or else and the metallic part gets a different vibe on her, it smells truly outstanding, what I've expected to find in Encens et bubblegum and have never been able to. Deliria is a safe choice if you get such a wonderful and rounded experience with it but you should try it many times and see if you don't dislike the edgy part. All in all a scent to sample for sure.

I like "different" so it should come as no surprise that occasionally, even frequently, I like my fragrance to telecast that I smell "different". But I also like many common/popular sweet fragrances. I like what I like whether that differs from or aligns with popular opinion - no apologies from me. That said, I really, REALLY love Deliria's difference and sweetness. Deliria's sweetness can be attributed to a fairly common cotton candy note but her metallic notes set her apart with a tang, a zing, of something more than merely sweet... a sharp difference that really does suggest something of an electric spark... a slightly warm dustiness that calls to mind the scent that infiltrates one's house the first time the furnace is turned on when the weather turns cold. But there's also the peculiar amalgam of the scent of a cotton candy vendor next to a candy apple vendor, both situated near the roller coaster at a theme park - fruity, sugary and joltingly electric. I love the gunpowder note in Amour Nocturne so of course I also love the electric/metallic note in Deliria. What surprises and delights me is that both are so very, very wearable. That is to say, they're definitely different from the mainstream but both are readily accepted and praised by those around me when I wear them. If you dislike one you'll likely dislike the other but the reverse is also true: if you enjoy Amour Nocturne you owe it to yourself to try Deliria...and vice versa. A 10 out of 10 for me! (6-8 hour longevity and noticeable sillage.)