Advantages: Collectible, unusual, feminine, long-lasting Disadvantages: From the middle notes onwards it waters down a bit
Launch date: 1991
Group: Fruity floral
Introduction
I'm a fan of Dali's art and perfumes so when the two come together, it's more than one can wish for. I have a rare, original 50ml 1990's bottle in my collection together with a new 8ml pen edition of the fragrance and a one I'm using occasionally. Although not well known, Laguna has been around since its 1991 launch and in my opinion, proved to be a timeless, unusual fragrance that hadn't probably earned as much respect as it deserved.
The bottle
This great collectible item comes in vitrous turquoise coloured lip-formed glass bottle and nose-shaped lid. Dali himself designed the bottle of the first 'SalvadorDali' fragrance based on his own painting 'Apparition of the Face of Aphrodite of Knidos'. It has a small calligraphic signature that says ...
Advantages: Collectible bottle, nice scent Disadvantages: Poor staying power, Dali knows better than this
Launched: 2004
Group: Fruity floral woody
Introduction
I test perfumes as a hobby and have a toiletry bag full of vials to choose from. I've recently found a couple of vials of Rubylips, a 2004 addition to the Dali fragrance arsenal. Parfums SalvadorDali, the perfume house isn't widely known outside France I'd say, it was created and signed by Dali in 1982 to allow worldwide licensing of his works of fragrances and bottles designed by himself in the 1950-60s.
The bottle
The Rubylips Eau de Toilette is recogniseable by their distinctive lip motive and is a representation of Dali's Ruby Lips brooch created in 1949 from ruby coloured crystals and faux pearls. The bottle is a tall and stylish rectangle with five ruby
lips sculpted onto it. The colour is ruby red including the square click-top lid.
The fragrance
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