20 years kept in the dark and cool and still good.
I know we have talked about Daim Blond recently in comments and oddly when I opened the perfume cupboard this AM it was staring me in the face. Last night was chilly, which is perfect for this one. As perfect as one of those ruinously expensive suede shirts they used to sell back in the 90’s: suede so soft it’s almost a whisper. Like satin, only heavier and with less glide to the fabric. One that was ruinously ruined if you dare spill on it. Or sweat in it. Or exist near it.
But Anyway..
As I wrote once before, Daim Blond is one of the SL’s that you need to go steadily with. It’s not the killer-bees-on-crack thing that happens when you go too far with Miel de Bois (which I do not see on the SL site) but it does sort of fang on the rear: the soft suede becomes shrill, with the iris and apricot butter duking it out like two old time movie stars forced to do a TV miniseries together. Luckily you can wait out overapplication for the lovely suede to return. Miel de bois, not so much.
RIP Barneys BH, now Saks
Daim Blond is now only available in the bell jars at $347 (and raising with a certain person’s whim). I purchased mine at Barneys back in the dim, dead days, as you can tell by the bottle. Lasting power is excellent, but mind you this is a 20 year old bottle and what they are selling now may be different with age and reformulation. Of course, Surrender to Chance has samples, so you don’t have to commit..
Images: My iPhone, Pexels.
This one never grabbed me, but since you and I like a lot of the same Serges, I should have paid more attention. It’s wild that SL purchases veer between “only available for $400 at the Palais Royal” and for $60 on, say, Fragrancenet.
I am very glad for fragnet.
Ditto. And FragFlex and Jomashop. They both have higher requirements for free shipping but it can still be worth it.
“Free shipping” gets me every time. If I have to add a Q-tip to get it, I do.
LOL. Same here.
Ha!
That’s a Serge Lutens that I don’t remember the scent of. There’s a good chance I sniffed it at one time, but I don’t remember it. I wish someone local to me carried that line in a brick & mortar store.
These days me too. They were at Luckyscent for a while but I think American distribution I think went away with the sad demise of Barneys.
I think that Daim Blond may not be for me, though the apricot note did get my interest. Cinnamon is probably right about the apricot in SL Rose de Nuit. It may well be one of the reasons it’s so beautiful to me too.
Rose de Nuit is made by that note. It adds and adds to the jammy roses.
Daim Blond, one of the back ups in the export bottle I will never part with.
I was my first introduction into Osmanthus & it’s unique apricot suede accord that it’s a fragrance in its own right. Now if Osmanthus is mentioned I want a sniff.
It really is lovely. I have about that I don’t need a back up. Yet.
I tried this way back and it wasn’t really for me. Which is good due to the price.
As noted in my Paris post I passed by SL in Palais Royale and the door mysteriously opened, as if in Alice in Wonderland. Alas, I had other fish to fry so didn’t go in.
I do love how Lutens uses apricot when other perfumers might use a louder fruit note. You get that in my beloved Rose de Nuit. That too is only in Belle Jar form now and when my juice is gone I will definitely have to take a deep, deep breath and fork out for another bottle.
Wait and see what if anything a reduction in the ridiculous tariffs imposed.
Hey Tom,
I have a bottle of Daim Blond that never gets worn because I can hardly smell it. Yes a whisper, from another room with the door closed. It’s a total bummer.
Portia xx
Oh that stinks! (Or, it doesn’t. As it were..)