Exotic oceanic experience from Dali

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 'Salvador Dali' fragrance based on his own painting 'Apparition of the Face of Aphrodite of Knidos'. It has a small calligraphic signature that says...

lillamarta 15.12.2007 (23.05.2008) · Read review
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Review of Salvador Dali Laguna

This mania is still going strong...

Advantages: One of a kind, exotic bland, collectible bottle
Disadvantages: Strong apricot - peach note, availability

...Launched: 1999 Group: Oriental INTRODUCTION I discovered the Salvador Dali Parfums perfume house in 1999, the year Dalimania was released as I received it as a gift and got hooked on it. It also sparked my interest in perfumes in general and in the perfume house Parfums Salvador Dali itself which 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 actual development of the fragrances took off in 1985 starting with Dali Eau de Toilette for Women and Dali for Men with 27 fragrances produced to date. THE PACKAGING This great collectible item comes in vitreous orangey-red coloured tall glass bottle that has a nose and lip shaped onto it on both sides. The bottle was designed based on Dali?s own painting ?O Christmas O...

lillamarta 28.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Salvador Dali Dalimania

Ruby lips and faux pas

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 Salvador Dali, 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 Top...

lillamarta 14.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Salvador Dali Rubylips Perfume

Very Salvador Dali

Advantages: Lancome is well known
Disadvantages: none

...I was most intrigued by the design of this bottle, it is reminiscent of Salvalor Dali and I wonder if this was to catch the wearer/user unaware. I like the shape, like the Dali Noe/Lips theme the is Shoulders. The perfume is a pleasant fragrance with subtle hints of citrus and overnotes of saldalwood. A heady perfume with musky overtones, quite fruity with hints of lemon in it I received a sample of this fragrance as a give-away with another Lancome product. I was amazed by the response of my friends and colleagues who felt the fragrance suited me. This normally retails around £20.00 for 30ml but shop around as there are often special offers on and also some of the shops give freebies when you buy two items or more. These freebies can amount up to £30.00 of products. This is especially useful at Christmas where you...

lusks 30.09.2001 · Read review
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São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos

Advantages: Nicely restored tourist friendly old town
Disadvantages: The ladies hunt in packs

...Salvador, in the state of Bahia, north east Brazil (or São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos as it was named in the past) was the first colonial capital city of Brazil and, although power shifted to Rio de Janeiro in the late eighteenth century, then to Brasilia in 1960, it retains much of it's past grandeur and colonial architecture. One of the main reasons to come here, however, is the wonderful mix of cultural influences that make the cuisine, music and lifestyle here so different even to other parts of Brazil. The population of over three million, consists mainly of people with African origins descended from slaves, although there have been many other strong influences through Salvador's history. Salvador is also famous for it's carnival and street parties. The final stop on my extensive two-week tour of Brazil was to Salvador...

AndrewPo 02.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Salvador de Bahia

Dali Demented or Divine

Advantages: Unusual museum,full of surprises
Disadvantages: Possible crowds in season

...dazed by the impact of the place yet on a great high. It was only later, when I thought over all I?d seen, that I realised how my opinion of Dalí had changed. I am now convinced that he is the greatest painter the world has ever known. Websites : www.salvador-dali.org/eng/fmuseus www.freewaresite.com/screensavers/dali (this screensaver is your own moving picture gallery, and really worth a try)....

Schmutzie 27.09.2002 · Read review
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Review of Dali museum - Figueres (Spain)

Dali

Advantages: Fascinating
Disadvantages: Tiring

...Everyone has seen Dali's quirky but incredible skillful paintings. The Dali Universe shows an awful lot more. The entrance is littered with his quotes. Many suggest strongly that he is not in the slightest bit insane but simply portraying a calculated image to set him apart from other artists. Dali certainly succeeded with that. Supposedly, approximately one hour is the average time it takes to stroll around this fascinating collection. How anyone can devote only one hour is beyond me. I could spend this gazing at the many statues present by themselves while ignoring completely all of the watercolours and collages. These would take at least another hour or two. Be prepared for an entralling afternoon Be warned that it will also be tiring as there were only three chairs on route. Unfortunately, there is such a poor excuse...

Timphil 18.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Dali Universe (London)

Warm summer nights......

Advantages:
Disadvantages: Not easy to find in the high street

...My first smell of Salvador Dali was as a free sample from a womens magazine. It was only a tiny vial and I was hooked from the first sniff. It has a spicy yet sweet smell which evokes memories of warm summer nights sitting in the garden at dusk, listening to nature's sounds. This unique aroma would be well suited to a slightly more mature woman and the design of the bottle looks wonderful on the dressing table!! It can usualy be bought in airport shops but I can't seem to find it quite so easily in the high street. There are other fragrances in the range so, as I am going on holiday soon, I intend to treat myself!...

sandral 27.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Salvador Dali Salvador Dali

UPDATE - BIG JOHN IS BACK

Advantages: See opinion
Disadvantages: See opinion

..., went out and scored an opening round of 69. He followed this up with further rounds of 67-69-71. ~ ~ Here was the fellow that American professional golf had been praying for, to take over the mantle of its aging and fading superstars on the world stage. Or so everyone thought at the time. But their new hero turned out to have feet of clay, with a weakness that no one at the time even suspected, and nothing to do with his golf game. (more later) ~ ~ John Daly was quite literally astounding. He had a golf swing that featured so long a backswing that the club head nearly touched the ground, and when asked in interviews his golfing philosophy his reply was simple and straightforward, “Grip it and rip it.” And this is just what he did, hitting the golf ball so hard and so far that people could hardly credit what they were...

the_mad_cabbie 07.06.2001 (03.09.2001) · Read review
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Review of John Daly

a little surreal, but worth a visit.

Advantages: visually stunning, will keep you entertained for hours
Disadvantages: none

...shaped, well , eggs. Surrounded by well trimmed hedges and tall confiers of some sort it certainly makes a statement. Welcome to the Teatre-Museu Dali. Salvador Dali was a surrealist. Surrealism is an art movement in which the mind is supposedly liberated and so the unconsious mind can be used along with the dreamlike state gained in order to create images etc that are truer than reality or more than real. So some of the works of art may look a little strange and you have to use your imagination. The Teatre-Museu Dali is certainly unlike any other museum I've ever visited, which was what Dali was aiming for when he stared designing it in the 1960's. It was a project he became devoted to and he wanted to create an atmosphere in which the visitor saw the museum, not as a storehouse for his works of art, but as an experience in which...

Amy_Coppock 02.08.2006 · Read review
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