Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs
206 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The blackberry arrives with a slight peppery bite, immediately brightened by assertive grapefruit that cuts through with almost citrus-like clarity. This initial salvo is genuinely appealing—tart, uncomplicated, and energising—before the pear softens the edges into something considerably more fruity and dessert-like than the opening promised.
As the citric notes fade, lychee emerges with a delicate, almost translucent character, settling alongside a jasmine that remains frustratingly restrained. The composition enters a plateau here, becoming noticeably sweeter as the coconut water base begins its ascent, creating a slightly creamy, skin-scent quality that some will find comforting and others merely forgettable.
By the fourth hour, Daisy Dream has largely evaporated into a faint musk-and-wood whisper barely perceptible beyond six inches. What remains is less a fragrance than a fragrance memory—pale, generic, indistinguishable from a dozen other contemporary fruity-florals that prioritised commercial accessibility over olfactory substance.
Daisy Dream arrives as something of a paradox—a fragrance that commits fully to its fruity-floral identity whilst never quite achieving the complexity that would elevate it beyond pleasant wallpaper. Alberto Morillas has constructed a composition that feels deliberately approachable, almost calculatedly so, with blackberry and grapefruit creating a tart opening that immediately softens into something considerably more saccharine.
The real intrigue lies in how the lychee-jasmine heart attempts to anchor what could otherwise dissolve into pure confectionery. Lychee, when deployed with restraint, can lend an almost waxy subtlety to florals, and here it does provide some textural interest alongside the jasmine—though the latter remains demure, reluctant to assert itself with any real conviction. There's a dreaminess to this middle phase, certainly, but it's the dreaminess of something half-remembered rather than fully realised.
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