Dalimix Black

I had no idea what to expect having only smelled one Dali in high school which was a longer time ago than I care for now! I really like it! There's a realistic pear, bolstered by cedar and oak moss. It isn't a watery pear (not keen), it's a juicy, real pear, rendered more serious by the cedar and the oak moss. These were the notes I got sniffing blind, but on reading the notes now I can also get a sense of peach. It reminds me of How Doth The Little Crocodile by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab in it's wood aspects, only that doesn't have fruit. I think cedar is a note my skin wears well since She Wolf by Smell Bent is also one I love on me. It feels like I know it. It seems like a perfume my younger self would have chosen and worn as a signature. I definitely would like to try others of this house now, hopefully the quality is similar, for the money I am very happy.

Well,now this is an "odd bird"....!!! Unique scent....yeah....different...yeah....weird/quirky......yeah. Do I love it...??.....well.....yeah ! I get a bergamot/mossy opening.....then odd semi-fruitiness. Peach Moss....IMO....earthy undertones.........throw in bergamot/iris-y vibes....and...a mossy sandalwood. Pear....??...raspberry...watermelon....??? Confusing...but maybe "blended" in notes that don't scream out. Somewhat fruity....but not the "main" vibe here. Aquatic...???...IMO...not very. I am finding this hard to explain/describe....just like Salvador Dali the man....and his art. The dry down gives off a more "vintage" type scent...IMO. So different..and unique....and I love it !! Very niche...IMO. And...probably...a "not for everyone" type scent. The performance so far is pretty decent...on my skin.

It's a wonderful mixture of tropical coctail fruits , blended with precious powdery iris and creamy dusty cyclamen, structered up with classy oakmoss and exquisite virgina cedar, and a soft touch of rose to blend it all well, this latter ultimately tempting combination renders this evocative fragrance its core DNA from 80s and flashes the news that it's a definitively "Keep out of reach of children" type of gourmand floral. As I first smelled it, I thought "that's totally emotive" all that blasting fruits with those inflammatory blossoming precious flowers could lead to nothing but one goal I thought: the ultimate sensuousness, I bought the full bottle right after I tried it, and I am sinsiterly waiting ever since for the right moment to spray it on to get there.

I purchased this dark, 'luxe jewel on FragranceNet and as a result, have become enamored with the House of Dali. Wear it when you feel like a Goth princess. It is the antidote to boredom when spinning straw into gold and dancing with sugar plum fairies is not enough. This is heady, mysterious, and intoxicating. It delivers the decadent brilliance that Lady Gaga's Fame prommised, but deferred. Wearing it, I became aware that it pefectly captures that moment before a storm. That is the scent I had just written about elsewhere on this site! I don't mean spring showers, or their aftermath, but the foreboding, sensuous moment when the elements converge. The air is charged with heat, rain, and earth...as the woods beckon.

Dark, brooding berries- like sipping aged, fruit wine in a dark and perfumed room. I like this one very much. Although the odor of fruit is prominent, I would not classify this- like many others are- as a "day" fragrance, rather, it has a mysterious evening edge, and forms a combination- as a whole- unlike any other I've ever experienced. Well, except for certain rose-oudh attars... it reminds me of them- and has excellent balance. Wonderful woods emerge from the low-end of the heart on the drydown; musk isn't listed, but it works in tandem with sandalwood here to form a solid foundation. Definitely a unisex despite the florals in the upper heart, and my favorite of the three Dalimixes. I wear it with dark purples.