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.)

I forgot I even owned a decant of this one and decided to wear it the other day when I found it in the bottom of my beach bag. Really addictive and unusual take on a candy-scented gourmand. The metallic notes breathe fresh cool air into thin layers of crystaline sugar and warm rum. The character of the fragrance is shocking pink but electrified and lit from within like neon tube lights. It's very synthetic-smelling but reminds me that sometimes boldly synthetic smells can be attractive and soothing like certain laundry detergents or shampoos. It definitely feels like it was spawned from the same train of thought that BD began with Amour Nocturne and Skin on Skin. All 3 (my faves from this collection) have tiny overlap with each other and all 3 are unapologetically synthetic-smelling to great effect. This one has the same alcoholic warmth and sweetness (like Sake) that works so well with the saffron and suede of Skin on Skin. My only gripe is how wrong L'Artisan got the presentation with the "Explosions" series (too fussy and too many scents). The only reason these are in bargain bins now is they missed the opportunity to launch the best ones, one at a time, unique from one another with a highlight on what they smell like instead of how they tie into some artsy theme like Explosions d'Emotions.

I've blind bought it. According to notes I was really really interested. But according to comments I was a bit confused. But I purchased it anyways and I adore it. It is very unique, but definitely not unwearable. It is not that strange someone should feel weird wearing it. Actually, I got a few compliments from people and all of them were in style "what a nice scent". Nothing weird or overwhelming. At first, it is a bit boozy and maybe too sharp, but this lasts for about 10mins on my skin. Then, it is just comforting, sweet and very, very special. It is hard to find sweet perfumes that are special. They always remind you of some other perfume or they are simply too girly or sticky. This one isn't. Yes, it smells like cotton candy or maybe more like bubblegum, which drives me back to my childhood, but in a very beautiful and sincere way. It has metallic, maybe a bit bloody note as well, so it tones the sweetness down and makes it alive and unique. Like you're wearing an event from your childhood. It makes me happy. I know there are many people who would find this perfume repulsive on their skin. But I don't think it is offensive towards others if you are wearing it + i love it so much, that I really don't care if I'm the only one who likes it.

Update: This is one of those fragrances that you keep going back to the sample asking yourself 'what is it with this perfume??!!'....I bought a decant from the Court when they had a sale and started wearing it...and surprise I fell in love with it. I find that not everyone can smell the metallic note...and although its and odd note its compelling to me for some unknown reason. My mom thinks it smells like baking 'but not in a sickening way' (she does not like perfume as a rule and HATES overly gourmand scents) I had someone ask if I was drinking white hot chocolate when I was wearing it and my husband thought he smelled watermelon (!?) when I first sprayed it on....its sweet but not overly so in my opinion. Found it for a STEAL on Ebay and purchased it for myself for christmas...it was half price and I could not pass it up. Bubblegum...and I guess the metallic? although its not REALLY metallic its almost like a skin scent...I like this one its ODD and I'd like to have it but NOT for $280! I like it but i'm not obsessed with it.

After reading the reviews for this fragrance, I felt like it was my mission to try it. It was the “coldness” everyone was talking about that really intrigued me. I bought a small sample online. The very first time I sprayed it, I couldn’t stand it. The smell was so overpowering and strange that it made me feel sick. However, I kept trying it and once I got to know it, I fell completely in love! I can’t stop smelling myself. So I bought a full 4.2 oz bottle. For me, the metallic scent dominates, but it’s not cold at all. It really is like heated metal, with sticky sweet candy in the background. I don’t get pineapple no matter how hard I try to detect it, as other reviewers have. I do get bubblegum and toffee, but they aren’t overwhelmingly sweet, so they blend nicely with the metallic note. It’s exhilarating yet comforting and fades to a warm, clean skin scent. It feels like a part of me.

Oooh! Woow! This perfume really surprised me ... it is an unexpected but brilliant fusion of metallic notes and cotton candy and candied apple. I really like the rum that is present in the distance..there,enveloping scent tossing toward a vortex of "crazy"of fun,roller coasters,and fun. This scent is a very well done, do not agree on how the reviews say, this is not bad. I mean that is very well balanced, unusual "strange" but that can give you joy and take you back to your childhood, according me suitable for the cold months, especially winter,during of Christmas. This can not go unnoticed... may sound weird me this is its real strength. It'a unique parfum and complex, but at the same time beautiful. I think it does for me, I really like!!! The sillage is soft,and longevity is good. Great work B.Duchaufour. Sillage: 6/10 Longevity: 8/10 Scent: 9/10 Overall: 9./10

Deliria...aptly named. Exaggerated, off-kilter, intoxicating, and contradictory. I love this. Not typically being a fan of sweet fragrances, but a lover of the strange, I wasn’t sure I would even like this. Words fail me in attempting to describe this...it’s a bit weird. I can’t quite wrap my head around the metallic notes. It is very salty as well, and that in combination with the metallic notes might be reminiscent of blood but isn’t. Intellectually, it reminds one of blood but not in the olfactory sense. The idea, the illusion and allusion of blood without the underlying reality, a sensory delerium all on its own. It takes a real genius to create something in which the beautiful and the repellent are so perfectly balanced. That’s what makes this so interesting. It makes me feel I can’t quite trust my senses. Deliria.

I heard or read somewhere that this is to emulate a carnival/fair experience, and I’d say that’s accurate. Even the bottle resembles the shape and proportions of a circus tent or carousel. This resembles the smell or metal railings/corrals you get on your hands while while going through lines for carnival rides, there’s the strong smell of candied apples with wafts of cotton candy coming from near by food carts. The opening is bright and sparkly which gives the effect of flashing lights. They nailed it. I love this one. Performance: Longevity 6-8 hours Projection is big for the first hour, really jumps off the skin. Then this stays within an arms length for a few more hours. Skin scent after 5ish hours. Sillage lingers in the air as you walk by.

Wow. Just wow. I blind bought about 100ml of this left in a 125ml bottle, having read the notes and reviews here and boy, what a strange baby this is. It starts with a pineapple for sure - maybe toffee+apple+rum equals pineapple? Whatever it is, it's a slightly carmelised, slightly boozy pineapple to my nose. Then metallic notes appear. Yes, metallic, which leads to obvious associations with blood (fresh blood) and for me also conveys a strong marine note - a harbour marine, not a 'postcard beach marine'. I like it, but it's pretty strong. Not Secerctions Magnifique strong, but strong nevertheless. As the time progresses, this gets cooler, cold even, and weaker, while a smoky thread emerges. Disturbing. Not everyday. Lovely. But not everyday.

Very happy, go lucky scent. Not weird. Not bloody. Just a sweet, non-offensive perfume perfect for any sex, and really any age. To me the rum comes across as a little cinnamon-y but not in a bad way at all. Kinda in a fall/autumn way. I have never smelled a “metallic” perfume but I don’t notice anything different in this than any other gourmand I own no note stands out to make me say “wow! This is what metallic smells like”! Price wise I got a full tester for $68 and it’s over 4 oz so very reasonable. I get apple and a candy sweetness but not a full blown cotton candy which works fine for me. If your on the fence due to negative reviews go for it. I will definitely use this up during the cooler months

Bertrand D. Is wonderfully insane - I feel like he is my new favourite perfumer and I shall be testing everything I can get my hands on from his creations. I have to say for the first time I can really smell most of the notes in a perfume - albeit not many of them in this fragrance! As someone said below, it has a serious metallic dry down but not in an awful way,but rather in a ‘lick a metal swing’s legs when it’s -20C’ kinda way (maybe I’m the only one that did it when I was a kid). The cotton candy and juicy fruits are there too, so this combo brings me nothing but good memories of my well forgotten childhood!

Love at first sniff! It must be all in the skin chemistry for this fragrance since it's either love or hate. It's just beautiful on me. A complete trip to a carnival midway. I get the cotton candy, candy apples, the metallic scent of the carnival rides and a little rum in a carnie's flask. This perfume triggers so many scent memories of happy times. I love it. * Oh , for those who think this smells like blood, it doesn't. I work in surgery, I smell blood all the time and this isn't blood. There is a distinct difference between metallic notes and the scent of blood.

This is definitely an unparalleled fragrance from my entire collection of around 450, yet still hard to describe. I would say most of all is a daring fragrance and you need to be sure you want it, to have an enjoyable experience, otherwise it would slap you back in the face or else, to make you feel uncomfortable, and also you need to find the right moment and place where you can pull this off. I am still getting to know it, but is growing on me.

got this one in a discovery pack and keep coming back to it. the steel note is bizarre, alluring and keeps surprising me. layered with chanel 31 rue de cambon -- took the tried and true and lifted it. alone, there is a slight sweaty note creeping in after 9 hrs or so. i can smell it a good 24 hrs later. truly odd, memorable, keeps me mentally alert and thinking

Sucking on Lovehearts during a thunderstorm. Sweet, cold smelling ozone. The metal note adds difference, the sweetness makes it beautiful. I am really loving this stuff, I can't get enough of it. Industrial indeed....hubba bubba stuck on scaffolding. P.S Ninevah by Penhaligan's is exactly the same juice

I bought this as a blind buy and did not like it at all. But right now, I'm currently obsessed with layering it - the rich metallic, gourmand mixes so well with sweet and fruity. I love pairing this with Girl of Now - the rojection of scents mixed together is just to die for 😍😍

If someone is looking for something that feels similar to Deliria and is still on the market, maybe try Age of innocence by Toskovat. It has similar notes and while the scent is a bit different, the feeling and the story it tells is really almost the same for me.

If you like sweet with a twist, this is the one for you. Sweet isn't my favourite(fruity ones aren't for me)But this is exactly how it's described metallic caramel. Wonderfully weird. Very long lasting like all L'artisan range

With its slight metallic feel and a swirling undercurrent of cotton candy, Déliria is the ultimate toffee apple. Yet another masterpiece by the talented perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour which sadly has been discontinued.

Smells just like juicy fruit gum on me and I like it! Wish it lasted longer, perhaps in during colder months it will.

There's something about this that I absolutely love. Cold, sweet and beautiful! Great for winter!

Exactly what it says on the tin actually! Candyfloss, candy apple, hint of rum with those weird metal notes... Funnily enough it does remind me of a fairground, but not the happy childhood ones, it actually reminds me of a book: The Bad Seed by Joanne Harris. In it the evil is characterised often by the description of candyfloss and a 'hot animal reek' and things like a fairground. Of course, there is lots of spilled blood and even a real fairground in the book (all set in the beautiful city of Cambridge, where I once roamed.) The book seems to me to combine all the elements of this perfume, from the sweet candy notes to the metallic scent, reminding me almost of a bloody steel knife and the sinister underbelly of the fairground. Would I wear it to feel sexy? I think not. But for curiosity and to feel dangerous like the characters? Possibly. It's a fun fantasy of a fragrance, definitely closer to art but for the price I'd be perhaps disappointed. Lovely packaging though! Also, the metal notes actually have a hint of coriander for me, is it just me getting this vibe? I just wish I could find this lovely like few lucky people and their magic skin seem to find it but I'm not convinced, sorry Bertrand! Nice longevity and sillage for a L'artisan though, and I must add that the packaging is excellent! Edit: Several months later as the weather is starting to cool I tried this and instead of hunting like a bloodhound for the metal notes and eyeing them suspiciously I focused on the 'aquatic' and/or 'ozonic' feel that others have mentioned and found it a lot more wearable. It was fresh, unusual, cold with a hint of gourmand sweet notes. I'd be interested to try this in spring as it's not Christmasy really. I nabbed Amour Nocturne too and it is equally weird but seems to be better in the cold weather too. Now just to open Skin on Skin and find the love in that bottle too. I'm rather sure I will.

From the notes (and the name, of course) I expected Deliria to be an uninspiring mess of a fragrance: well, the more I try it from my sample the more I’m positively oriented to it, although I do not feel totally convinced (the same thing happened to me with Amour Nocturne from the same series “Explosions d’Emotions” by L'Artisan Parfumeur).. there’s definitely something innovative but also very weird about this scent, I feel it can be considered as an unusual and maybe visionary take on the gourmand thanks to its strange unbalance of warm, a bit childish sweetness (I get the comparison with an olfactory Luna Park made by the previous reviewer) and almost screechy, disenchanted sourness. I’m not fond of liquors and alcoholics in general, but the dominant presence of rum in the opening manages to create an interesting dissonance, like pairing a crispy, refreshing and almost herbaceous note to syrupy hard candies, specifically the citrus-flavored ones: in my native language there’s a funny word to describe the effect given by some bitter fruits (and drinks) to one’s tongue, but that effect is not unpleasant at all to the nose and it makes the composition very.. exciting? In the heart of the fragrance, where I imagined a heavy, overly sticky booziness I found instead a quite delicious blend of sweet rum, candy apple and sugar, very reminiscent of those amazing cakes filled with rum cream.. as it slowly settles on skin, Deliria gets softer and cozy (the candy floss?) but it does never really change or evolve, it just fades away. Deliria definitely has something unique to it, but I think it really needs the right chemistry/wearer to work... probably a someway artistic, unconventional, eccentric personality would totally rock this fragrance.

What is this...On first sniff I instantly want to run back to my good friend Amour Nocturne and talk about the weirdo, Deliria. This fragrance is frozen. It's so strange just how cold and metallic this comes across. It opens surprisingly normal with a strong naturalistic pineapple note, I guess the blend of apple and metal is pineapple.. who would have guessed. Then it becomes colder and colder until there's metallic cotton candy-flavored frostbite on my arm. Often when fragrances have metallic notes it makes one think of blood, but this to me smells much more like the inside of an empty walk in freezer or something. Or maybe the scent of a brand new just-out-of-the-box fridge full of fruity desserts and stacks of nickels? I'm drawing a blank here... Sniffing this resets my nose in such a weird way. When I pull my arm away from my nose something lingers in my nostrils, the slightly chilly air of a place that I can't identify. When I catch wiffs of this I like it, when I focus on it I am kind of revolted. Its so confounding that I want to keep smelling it... I almost want a bottle just to "cool off/torture" my nose. Just for clarification, I don't mean that this smells cold in the same way that a fresh, minty, or transparent summer scent would, Deliria is cold in an absolutely bizzarre inhuman way. It's like a tween-marketed fruity-summer body spray for some strange alien race.. I don't know what Bertrand was smoking when he made this but I want a hit. It performs pretty well in the sillage and longevity department. This is a what..?/10

I bought this from TK maxx for 30 quid, and was already aware of the notes and was therefore expecting a strong smell of metal, which I hoped would be tempered by the candy floss, toffee notes. It sounded really interesting as I am gowing tired of the usual generic perfumes that are being churned out. First spray was a "pineapple note", which quickly disappeared and was followed by an intense smell of metal. Slowly the other notes appeared and sweetend up the fragrance, but that metal note was still prominent and I hated it. However my boyfriend (who was not aware of the notes) really liked it. He said it had a cold ozonic feel to it, and could definitely smell the rum and the sweet notes. He decided to keep it and to be honest it smells gorgeous on him, and sometimes I have a little spray as its quite addicitive.

Toffee apple, yes. Rum, yes. Metal with a trace of blood, yes. The vibe is horror film Carrie at the funfair. Testing from an old half used bottle so maybe that’s why the perfume doesn’t smell as good as it could. An interesting experiment, and strong stuff - one spray has lasted me all day. I may layer this up to see if I can dial down the metal and dial up the sweetness to make it more wearable. The strangest gourmand I’ve ever encountered, but not unlikeable. Update: it’s smelling really great layered with Hypnotic Poison edt! The sweet almonds transform that metal note into something woodier, and the rum and candy no longer fight against the metal, and can now fully reveal themselves 🍎 It’s tipped it over into a very spicy salted caramel tart territory, more my kind of thing.

Like others have pointed out, this is a very odd and unusual fragrance. When I first sprayed it onto my skin, I could definitely smell the apple and rum. After it dries down is when I notice the metallic notes the most on my skin. Before purchasing the sample, I'd imagined this would smell similar to a carnival, but I was shocked to find out the fragrance smelled nothing like I thought it would. Often, I find myself constantly smelling my wrists because it's such an odd fragrance and I find sniffing it to be quite fascinating. I'm not really sure how to describe the scent, the only way you can get an idea of what Deliria smells like is if you smell it yourself. I can't say I've ever smelled anything like this before.

Frosty, cotton-candy-flavored bubble gum. The pink, sugary scent of childhood is what rises to the top immediately. Although, this is a more complex sweetness, it doesn't smell cheap as you might assume from the predominant cotton candy notes. It's a cold sweetness, but I'm not necessarily getting *strong* metallics. There's a hint of apple, but mostly it's all sucrose for me. I can't detect any of the other gourmand notes—no toffee, no rum. Just cold, pink candyfloss. Not for me, by any means, but I could see the right person totally rocking this.

228) Carnival Oh yes, that's certainly a big delirium. Pineapple, metal and all these sweet things found in the fairgrounds. It is not culinary it's closer to a general impression of LunaPark mixed with this very particular smell of fume from fumigants (if that speaks to partygoers and those who have already tried Secretion Magnifique). The composition is very well done, the contrast metallic/sweet plays far as the base, from pineapple to apple and cotton candy, but the overall impression retains a certain freshness. My favorite of the trio.

I really like it. It's a very long lasting fragrance that doesn't have a monster sillage, it's just right. I also can't detect any metallic notes on me. It's all about fun, sweets, childhood and coziness. In a way it is a lunapark in a bottle. Deliria would refer to an overdose of childish, professionally served, that can make you dizzy with abundance of sensations and memories. The warmth and sweetness of the scent reminds me of Loukhoum - it's delicious. Quite original, I know nothing like it.

Not for most people nor is it an easy one to like or love for sure. But in the mild to cold weather this is an absolute winner. When you walk into the warm room from the cold of the outdoors, it becomes a fresh metallic breeze around you: it makes you feel almost like an incapsulated (in a tin box) fresh-boozy-candy-apple... worth a try at least... To me this smells bevithchingly like a Snow Queen when she met Kai and Gerda for the first time❄️

A weird one, but truly distinctive, I have never smelled anything like this before. Deliria is like a knife after cutting caramel cake – it smells sweet and creamy (vanilla, caramel, powder – I smell no apple at all), but with a strong cold metallic note, which stays prominent all the way. I cannot imagine myself wearing it, but testing Deliria was definitely an experience. Staying power and silage are great.

It's a funny fragrance. I think maybe all the dislike it's because the most of you take this fragrance too serious. Just remember your childhood and how you loved the smell of bubble gum. Deliria it's just this, bubble gum and sugar mixed with metallic notes. It's like a journey to a carnival ( there are rollercoasters on the packaging). Not to wear everyday but good to smell sometime (maybe with kids).

Yes , I agree with the comparison to the carousel. You feel like you are a child going to carousel in the winter with a sweet apple candy floss, you try to lick it, but carousel moves and you lick a metal part of it. You tongue stuck as the metal is icy cold and you left bleeding, with metal taste in your mouth and candy floss in your hand. The carousel is speeding up....

This scent is charming AF. Clean, sweet, fresh, and UNIQUE. Apple is one of my favorite notes but in most attempts it is cloying or immature. Here the metal note keeps the sweetness balanced and sophisticated. Smooth from start to finish even though it's complex. Perfectly unisex and interesting. Daylight wear as it's light, refreshing, almost sparkling.

Metal knife soaked in apple juice. Strangely enough the spirit of composition reminds me Gucci Envy (for her), metallic note in particular.

After being thoroughly disappointed by Amour Nocturne from this L'artisan line... (and most other L'artisan scents), I saw the notes of Deliria and was intrigued, but skeptical. The opening of Deliria is noteworthy, unique & feels like a fantasy. It's the exact combination of cotton candy *flavored* bubblegum, with a hint of red apple. It's a memory-lane type of fragrance for me, It goes right back a decade and a half to those multi-colored, weird ass lollipops the pediatric doctor would hand to you after a series of vaccinations. Fruity, sweet, but something *weird* and inedible lurking in the background. That 'something weird' reveals itself here as a lurking, metallic-paper note. Like if you took a bite out of an elementary school papier-maché art project as you were working on it. A creepy "inky" note is how I'd describe the feel of the background of Deliria, like the smell of freshly printed newspapers. The drydown is a disappointing non-descript pile of nothing. A dry fuzziness, a hint of ink, and musk. All of L'artisan's drydowns (or should we call them Let-me-(dry)-downs) fall flat on my skin - so perhaps it's just me. Deliria is not entirely unwearable, it certainly holds it's own in being unlike other fragrances, especially as a novelty. I think the addition of more apple & cotton candy could've saved this for me. I do find it funny though, that from the opening to the drydown, I was taken from childhood innocence and sweets, straight through to boring-adulthood-gray-nothingness.

Super sweet, delicious opening. Dry down is seriously metallic, like when you grab an old railing, jungle gym, or one of those chains on the swing. It really bothered me for some reason but clearly subjective and perhaps based on a negative memory. The metal stays for a long time then you start to smell the rum, which is lovely. I blind bought a full bottle recently. If anyone wants to swap, please message. Wish I could wear this for that caramel and rum, but it won’t be happening. I do fully appreciate the experience and extent of artistry that went into this fragrance.

Deliria is a nice mild weather scent suitable for spring and cool summer evenings. I had hard time testing it as this scent feels quite weird and nauseating. Not a safe scent for blind buy by any means you must try it by yourself. It opens in your face, synthetic to the maximum but smooth. Personally I'm not a fan of cotton candy and the combination with very strong metallic notes made it challenging every time I was trying to smell it on my hand. After that I get a strong alcoholic boozy note, rum. It feels very boozy and harsh. Then comes the toffee and a strong candied apple, slightly sour. The scent feels sweet and boozy. Well, I can't breath with this thing. It feels like a drank scientist spilled chemical liquids on a rusted metallic plate in a laboratory and after that he vomit a cake he ate earlier over the liquids and the rusted metals. Absolutely nauseating for my nose and strong stuff. If there wasn't the metallic note, Deliria could be a nice feminine scent. The metallic notes make it feel unisex. It smells a little better in the air. Do not sniff on the spot, it's not good. The sillage is moderate, the projection is heavy but calms into a moderate after about 30 minutes. Unfortunately for me the longevity is above the average. If you like the Mad Max movie and candies give it a try lol! A female friend of mine says that it smells like ice cream.. different noses I guess..

I am sorry to have to say this, but I find Déliria, from the L'Artisan Parfumeur Explosions d'Emotions trio, quite repulsive. I was shocked immediately upon wiping the gel from my peel-off sample card onto my wrist. What? A fruity-floral? A thick and gooey, very synthetic smelling fruity-floral? In fancy niche perfume packaging? The notes list does not, I am afraid, lie: metal, cotton candy, toffee, rum? No wonder it smells gross! I certainly hope that no poor souls bought a bottle of this blind. It appears that I am not alone in being unpleasantly surprised by this creation. I foresee discontinuation in its not-too-distant future. Perhaps the formula will be picked up for a future celebrity scent. This is a big "no". I wouldn't buy a bottle of this even at a slashed discount price. Désolée.

Oh my, what is this? An odd mix of generic pineapple "bubblegum-style", ripe autumnal fruits, a metallic "coldness" (is that mint?!) - all wrapped together in a blanket of fleeting boozy rum. I don't know what to make out of this. I've kept smelling my wrist, over and over again for the past hours. I'm fascinated, but I'm not sure I like it. It's a new kind of scent but I wouldn't call it groundbreaking. I'm struck by the "scented" appearence - it doesn't meld with my skin AT ALL: Despite 4 hours on my skin it feels strangely external; like I've sprayed an oddly smelling bugspray on my skin; a scent that's neither made for human skin nor human noses. To sum it up: New, metallic, bubblegum-y, boozy, annoying, a little fascinating, wierd.

Uhhhhh...yeah...no! What exactly is this? After I got past the incredibly offensive opening notes, which I imagine are the metallic & rum scents, all I could smell was something akin to a pistol that was removed from an old leather holster. Uggghhhhhh! Awful!!! Throw in the horse's rear-end (a$$) and you'll get the complete picture. WOW!!! Took me several tries to get past the incredibly offensive opening notes. Actually felt nauseated. Gun metal & leather on me. Straight off the horse's sweaty butt. Cotton-candy? Candy apples? Toffee? Sweetness? Where? Got more offensive during its dry-down. Refrained from scrubbing but my-oh-my. Just not for me.

I'm sorry but this is the only fragrance that makes me gag. The combination of apple + metal notes on cotton candy with rum is too much. I'm sure that for some it smells delicious, unfortunately for me Deliria makes my stomach turn. It is a VERY interesting fragrance, nevertheless.

My friend got a sample of this today and OMG more than Deliria it was Delirium tremens..... a big NO NO for me: just reminded me of my teenager bubblegum days :( .... and very potent which made it worse. She had very hard time to get it off LOL

Non riesco ad annusarlo... percepisco dolci mele caramellate ed una nota metallica fredda, gelata, che mi ricorda l'odore del ferro delle vecchie giostre arrugginite. Questa nota m'inquieta. Per me è NO.

A very odd fragrance indeed. At first, it is very sweet and then the metallic notes come through. Not sure what to day about it, only that I didn't like it.