Comments on: Salvador Dali Laguna ~ fragrance review

By: Bela

Bela — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:54:09 +0000

See my comment above. I made the mistake of sniffing it somewhere. I recoiled in horror.

By: Bela

Bela — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:52:49 +0000

Stay away from the reformulated Salvador Dali: it’s dreadful – sharp, sour, blech. I used to wear it too and loved it. All the wonderfully warmth is gone from it now.

By: platinum14

platinum14 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:58:20 +0000

I’m a big fan and long time wearer of the original Salvador Dali Pour Homme, but after the first 2 released (the original Dali for woman and the one for man) the compagny released mostly forgetable generic stuff.
Of course, if i come across Laguna I will give it a try…. just in case.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:06:58 +0000

Erin…very true!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:06:13 +0000

I have NO idea why that came out of my “mouth”…It must have been because I had just heard about Tom Ford and his Isherwood project/movie. But “Little Ashes” is the movie that I was thinking of: the trailer looked awful, but who knows! I think Lagerfeld directed “Little Ashes” with a screenplay by Ricky Martin and Narciso Rodriguez? And didn’t John Galliano produce? HAHA!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:11:39 +0000

Tom Ford?! It’s the “Little Ashes” movie referred to by Blimunda below, and I guess the director is Paul Morrison (?). At least the actor playing Lorca — Javier Beltrán — is Spanish/Catalan. I added it to my bottomless Netflix queue.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:05:05 +0000

Interesting reveiw, Kevin. Weirdly, I have a sample of this in my purse right now, courtesy of SF/scentself, and I have “Dorian Grey” syndrome with it. No, it’s not that I spray it and stay young forever – that’s just the phrase my hubby uses to describe something which was original and groundbreaking in its day, which you cannot give its proper due because you experienced all the endless imitators first, and so the original seemed a disappointment by the time you got it.

By: Blimunda

Blimunda — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:32:08 +0000

Hmmmm – i would have associated something like Muscs Koublai Kahn with Dali. Not a fruity floral.

BTW – did anyone see the recent film, Little Ashes? Any good?!?

By: pyramus

pyramus — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:39:04 +0000

Dalissime is enchanting–a gorgeous, wonderful fruity floral oriental, created before that category become so inescapable and hateful. I adore it.

Laguna, not so much. I kind of hate it, actually. My experience of it is not at all like Kevin’s description, or anyone else’s.

The original Dali, though: I started wearing it in 1984, when it was launched, and 25 years later am still not tired of it. It was the scent that made me realize I wasn’t restricted to the men’s side of the aisle. I bought a mini of it a couple of years ago and, amazingly, it hasn’t changed a bit: they didn’t reformulate it, and it’s as potent as it ever was. Rich oriental, but with a little swirl of wood smoke to keep it from ever getting cloying. Just fantastic.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:53:10 +0000

IMAV: I was surprised I liked it so much!