Salvador Dali has launched It Is Love, a new fragrance for women, and is re-introducing the perfume line in the United States to coincide with the Dali: Painting and Film exhibit currently at MoMA in New York City.
The floriental fragrance was developed by perfumer Michel Almairac, and features notes of grapefruit, pomegranate pearl, pink pepper, everlasting flower, narcissus, iris, crystal musk, vanilla, sandalwood and sweet amber.
Salvador Dali It Is Love is available in 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette and in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum; there is also an Eau de Toilette Intense, size unknown. In the United States, it is exclusive to Henri Bendel through October. (via wwd)
I love dalimania, and I like Dalissime very much. They r not popular fragrances anymore, but they are still very nice. Dali likes florientals but at least that brand makes em really worth smelling. I hope this one will be a good one too!
Dalissime is enchanting (you may safely ignore Luca Turin's rather dismissive review of it–it's a really good example of the early-nineties fruity floral style, more grownup than the stuff you get nowadays), but the best of all the Dali scents was the original, which is a huge, magnificent floral-oriental of a style not really in fashion any longer. If it's part of the relaunch, then good for them; I hope it can survive in the marketplace, because I sure wouldn't mind smelling it on more people.
I really liked the original Dali, which I was fortunate enough to have as a special mini nose bottle when I was a teenager in the 80's. (It came along with a mini Paloma Mon Parfum and Deneuve perfume…Wow what a combo!) It is hard to find these days, if you can find it at all. Occasionally I see it listed in one of the internet perfume sites, but normally it is out of stock. I do remember it being a very satisfying rich floriental, but I haven't smelled it in years.
Iris, Pyramus, Ann —
I have only tried a few from the line, but do have samples & mean to try more. I've kind of been ignoring them since they weren't officially distributed here, and really glad to see they're going to be easier to find in the future, although I don't know what stores will have them after Bendels — and hope Bendels isn't a sign that they're going to be way more upscale than in the past (although according to WWD, It is Love is pricier than the others in the line).
AnnS, wow, what a great trio of frags! I liked the original Dali too.
This new frag doesn't catch my fancy… less temptation for me!
Yeah, I would find it silly if a brand like Dali was trying to go upscale all of sudden… Not that they aren't a good brand, but they used to have pretty reasonable prices and why everyone has to be luxe nowadays? I do love niche but I also love cheap thrills, niche should keep up being top quality, and mass-market should be attracting by having lower prices and lots of advertisements. That is just a simple order and that's the way it should be. Even though niche doesn't always mean better. But as far as I'm concerned I do respect Dali for the big 90s influence they had on the perfume market, but I certainly would not respect it as a luxe/more expensive brand, no matter what they did.
Yes, I can hardly believe that I was wearing Deneuve to high school! I can't hardly remember it now all these years later, but I've been tempted a number of times to pay waay too much for a special decant from TPC to have it again. Hmm….I remember Paloma most, especially because it is still available. I've never gotten over the early influence of those major scents. I still like a good floriental — applied with some delicacy!!!
Everyone wants to go upscale because there's more expansion in the luxe sector right now than anywhere else, ironically.
Do try them! Turin isn't wrong when he says that too many of them are fairly cheap, and not necessarily in a good way, but there really are some terrific scents among the twenty-odd in the collection. In addition to Salvador Dali (the first one) and Dalissime, there's Eau de Dali, a breathtakingly pretty muguet scent, and the enigmatic love-it-hate-it Salvador Dali Pour Homme. I'm sure there others I haven't tried yet that are also good. (There are also a bunch of duds, of course: Dalimix, for one, is a unisex scent cloned from all the clones of CK One.)
Thanks, I will. Don't think I have a sample of the Eau de Dali but I'll have to see if I can find one…
Im glad that you will have a chance to try them.
I suggest Laguna (female) and Le Roi Soleil (male).
I recently gave Sea and Sun in Cadaques to my best friend as a gift for her birthday, because she wanted “something sunny and floral, but without white flowers!!!” it seemed to do the trick 😉
Figures — don't think I have those 2!
seems like it adds more black ink to the bottom line going luxe. Chanel's new CEO as of early 2008 wanted to take the fragrances out of the department stores and give them a new image. Not sure it's working out, but they know the information is at customers fingertips with all of the fragrances blogs in existence.
I'll bet they've done very well with the Exclusifs.
Love anything with Grapefruit and Pomegranate in it (Jo Malone's Grapefruit and her Pomegranate Noir are two of my FAVE Fragrances!) and this sounds like it will smell sensational. love the juxtaposition of Grapefruit and Pomegranate which is totally fresh and Biting against Sensually sweet and pungent the tempered by Vanilla and Amber. Then Throw Iris into the mix and the really underused Nascissus…. OH BOY! sounds like something i could easily Love (If anyone like me loves Iris in Fragrances you MUST MUST MUST Try Hermes Hiris and The latest Ferre Eau De Parfum which is the most glorious interpretaion of Iris to come along in a Good while!)
Am hoping As well to sample some of the Old Dali Scents too if they are being relaunched, the Original Dali sounds like from your descriptions, Fellow Bloggers, as something straight outta my most fevered dreams! 🙂
Don't know that they're relaunching, think they're just looking for better distribution in the US. For now, sounds like they're only at Bendels.