Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali
101 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The fruit salad hits immediately—ripe apricot and peach dominate with almost jammy intensity, whilst pineapple provides a tart counterattack. Within minutes, the composition feels entirely fruity and summery, with barely a hint of what's coming below the surface.
As the top notes collapse (rapidly, it must be said), the florals assert themselves with unexpected powdery diffidence. Jasmine and lily of the valley create a creamy, slightly soapy milieu, whilst tagetes adds a curious green whisper that makes the composition feel less purely feminine, more genuinely unisex.
Lychee lingers briefly before vanilla and tonka bean transform the fragrance into a soft, creamy embrace. Amber and musk provide structure, but the base is short-lived—by the fourth hour, Dalissime becomes a skin scent, barely perceptible even to the wearer.
Dalissime arrives as a fruity confection that doesn't pretend to sophistication—and therein lies its peculiar charm. Mark Buxton constructs something deliberately candy-like, where the apricot and peach open with an almost candied density, their stone-fruit sweetness immediately undercut by pineapple's tart brightness. It's the olfactory equivalent of a tin of luxury sweets from 1994, when surrealism met maximalism in both art and fragrance.
The floral heart emerges with jasmine and lily of the valley creating a creamy, almost soapy landscape, though the tagetes adds an unexpected green, slightly herbaceous counterpoint that prevents the composition from dissolving into pure saccharine. Rose and narcissus float through this sweetened garden like half-remembered dreams, contributing powdery texture rather than true florality. There's something distinctly nostalgic here—not vintage in the classical sense, but rather evoking a specific cultural moment when Franco-American sweetness dominated niche fragrance.
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