Dali pour Homme Salvador Dali 1987 Eau de Toilette

Dali pour Homme (Eau de Toilette) by Salvador Dali

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Dali pour Homme (Eau de Toilette) is a popular perfume by Salvador Dali for men and was released in 1987. The scent is spicy-animal. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by Cofinluxe / Cofci.

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Main accords

Spicy

Animal

Woody

Earthy

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lavender

Tarragon

Aniseed

Basil

Bergamot

Lemon

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Moss

Jasmine

Geranium

Heliotrope

Lily of the valley

Base Notes

Patchouli

Amber

Musk

Vetiver

Vanilla

Perfumer

Thierry Wasser

Ratings

Scent

8.0249 Ratings

Longevity

8.2205 Ratings

Sillage

7.9200 Ratings

Bottle

8.2212 Ratings

Value for money

8.870 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 02.10.2023.

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/02/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Hautgout

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Hautgout

Top Review 23

Surrealistic works outing

If you want to believe the hysterical and equally nerdy comments in national, especially English-speaking forums, then DpH "Vlad the Impaler" shows you how he staggers down his onyx show staircase in handmade beak shoes from Wallachia to go to the toilet. The prostate is pressing. Regardless of his prostate problems, he has powdered himself with Dali pour homme from going to bed so that he (should he encounter the Pasha of Ankara aka Recep Tayip Erdowahn) always smells fine. Well...
The perfumista with a strong tendency to be a drama queen sometimes tends to tell tales. Apparently DpH smells of spoiled rancid fruit, blood and of course pee. So if you want to get into the mood for incontinence. Here you go. Some of you seem to have consumed too much red wine from Amselfeld or have seen too many Tim Burton movies. Nevertheless, DpH is an unusual scent - but with the help of the forum president Can, the scent can be discovered relatively quickly if you don't have that much experience.... It's probably the black base of dark moss and animal musk that makes this unusual fragrance unique. What comes to mind is burnt rubber and because of the dark patchouli the scent has a definite gothic character...This is really interesting and unusual and can't be compared to anything (except some overpriced weird niche scents). Unfortunately the scent doesn't have the power of days gone by and after 2-3 hours it gets quite close to the skin.

So the fragrance is clearly something for pietist Sunday churchgoers, part-time Satanists or aficionados who want to prepare themselves for the threat of incontinence. Not really. At least the one with bed-wetting....

09/25/2018

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

SchatzSucher
107 Reviews

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SchatzSucher

No questions, no answers

Somewhere in a little, a little dim, bar. Time didn't matter.
Actually, there wasn't much going on. The Bloody Mary was well mixed, yet she didn't really want to taste good. The glances wandered around, all around only isolated people, who followed their thoughts, held on to their glasses and listened to the music.
Well, after the next song I'll go, she thought so. Another sip.
The door opened and a breath of cool air came in from outside. Their eyes met. He went purposefully towards the bar, where she sat alone. As if by chance, he stopped right next to her when he ordered a double whisky. Suddenly there was this smell in the room. She'd never smelled anything like it before. Strange, attractive, strong, masculine, bitter, even wild and unruly, somehow the scent had something deep and animal about it. And yet she liked it, even very much.
She sat down and played with her bracelet. Actually, she never wore much jewelry, only this bracelet was her favorite piece. A memory of earlier times.
He cheered at her and she smiled involuntarily. Once again this unbelievable erotic fragrance in itself absorb.
Did she have a closer look at him? In the semi-darkness he seemed tall, manly-edged, strong, he had something mysterious about him, almost something mysterious surrounded him, an almost tangible fascination surrounded him.
Not a word. The glances met again. He took her hand and dragged her with him to the small dance floor where there was no human being. He pulled them tight and they swayed to the slow tempting melody.
And she perceived his scent again. There was a charisma she couldn't escape. She tried to unravel why he had such an almost magical fascination, but she did not succeed.

There was a crackling erotic tension in the air, from its warmth, from its radiance it let itself simply be carried away. They had still not exchanged a single word, but there was an intimate understanding between them that seemed almost scary to her and yet familiar. And she just let it happen, didn't want to ask, didn't want any answers.
They looked at each other again. He took her hand and led her out into the night...

...

She awoke. She was alone. One room, sheets rumpled, clothes scattered all over the floor. She pulled the blanket tighter and there was that wild, bitter scent again. The smell of a night. The crackling tension was still in the air and she felt incredibly comfortable, immersed in the blurry memories of the last hours. Not a word was said. And she knew she'd never see him again.
But she would never forget his unique smell, which could still be felt for hours.

05/31/2015

10
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

GothicHeart
86 Reviews

GothicHeart

Helpful Review 7

A kiss or a whisper...

This is a fragrance foreseen in nightmares.
I have a suspicion that this was what Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now was talking about when quoting "The horror! The horror!" from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".
In a recently discovered letter from Howard Philips Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, in which Lovecraft describes one of his nightmares, the following passage was surely portending the birth of an anomaly like Salvador Dali pour Homme, some 50 years before its coming.

"...I dreamt of a dark pond amidst a desolated garden with long dead rose bushes. Its green, stagnant water was shimmering under an alien moon, emanating an unbearable foreboding of great evil. I was standing mesmerised in front of it, staring at its unfathomable depths, and completely unable to avert my eyes. And then I heard a cacophonous, orgiastic commotion of fifes coming from the ominous line of trees in the distance. And like answering to a call, the water begun to stir, like something unimaginably dreadful was about to emerge any moment. And along with the tumultuousness of the water, there came the smell...Oh dear God, the smell...
With a terrifying feeling that something was standing right behind me, I woke up drenched in sweat, and shaking. The last thing I remember from my dream was a fleeting glimpse of a pair of pitch black lips over my shoulder, whispering "I shall find you..." And although I'm sure that it was my imagination playing tricks on me, I'd swear that for what felt like an eternity, although it was only a few seconds, the smell seemed to have followed me, filling my bedroom.
God have mercy on us all, should this foulest of smells ever finds its way from the world of dreams to the world of the living."

If one and only one creation of every art was to be displayed in a gallery dedicated to art's finest examples, then it should be no other than Salvador Dali pour Homme representing perfumery. I guess it would be redundant to say anything about its bottle, other than it's the most bizarre and surrealistic vessel ever used to contain a fragrance. But since we're talking about Señor Dali, I also guess that this shouldn't come as surprise. I'll just add that this is not a bottle that anyone would like to sleep in the same room with. Perhaps Henry S. Whitehead's short story "The Lips" could give a good reason why. But if the bottle is bizzare one time, what's inside it simply doesn't have anything analogous in the known universe. I simply can't describe how it smells like, because I don't know what I'm smelling. But whatever it is, it is something on a titanic scale. Words like notes, sillage and longevity have absolutely no meaning here. Maybe this is the reason why it took Thierry Wasser 13 years to create another fragrance. Maybe he was someplace hiding, terrified after he realised what he had unleashed upon the world. For this is one of the very few scents, of which when I trace a whiff of them in the air, I wouldn't want to meet the one wearing it. I could swear that the air around me becomes thicker every time I dare to spray a single shot on me. And judging by their body language, I could also swear that it changes people's behaviour towards me when I'm wearing it. It's like they sense an undercurrent of hostility coming in spindrifts. And it makes an otherwise friendly smile looking beguiling in the light of day, and dangerous after dark. It is a scent that defies the senses and all the usual ways of perceiving a scent, and speaks directly to the soul. Or threatens to steal it...

06/05/2018

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Terente
33 Reviews

Terente

Helpful Review 4

Lighting the dark

A very complex fragrance. Unique and distinct. A masterpiece. It's termed horror, dark, ugly etc... Perhaps by the admirers of today's fragrances, when most fragrances resemble each other and excite your salivary glands instead of the olfactory nerves. For them, yes, surely, this sublime SDPH creation is like a thunder in the softness of the head. It requires the education of the olfactory sense, which once made this miracle of perfume can be appreciated at its true value.
This perfume is masculine in excellence, but it is not for today's effeminate males, but for mature, evolved, serious men and self contained. A perfume with sad notes, but not necessarily morbid. No resemblance to urinal Kouros (as some say), SDPH is patchoulic. He's hot in his heart, but with a cool upper dominance wrapping him up. It opens with a symphony of strong flavors, where the citrus, anise, salvia, basil and tarragon (I love tarragon!) feel, and slowly calm down, finally changing his personality with notes of patchouli, vanilla, resin and leather.
The performances are good, with 2-3 hours of force and sillage (on me). It then calms, remaining discreet, but present for up to 16 hours on the skin. Patchouli is his last twinge and feels fine even at 24 hours. A great fragrance for special souls.

01/16/2022

BrianBuchanan
355 Reviews

BrianBuchanan

Eau de Toilet

Distantly related to Jicky, Dali pour Homme is likewise a stinky fougère; one of the most dirty pongs you can find.
Dali, that exuberant showman and professional eccentric - whose day job was
surrealist painter - was driven by his fertile unconscious and a powerful sexuality. These he channeled into his paranoiac-critical method, a way of working that didn't scruple to illustrate his drives with graphic precision.
When he was in his twenties, Dali began an affair with a woman ten years older than him, Gala - the wife of the painter Paul Eluard. It has been said that, when he was
courting her, Dali made up some aftershave using - amongst other things - his own faeces; the original Eau de Toilet ...
If that -really- is the case, this commercialised version is clearly based on Dali's original idea.
It's notable that the perfumer of this - the first male celebrity scent - is Thierry Wasser, [onetime head Nose at Guerlain]. It's hard to imagine such a corporate player dreaming up something as wild as this, it doesn't fit in with the rest of his oeuvre - La Petite Robe Noire etc - and that would support the idea that Dali was the creative force behind the scent.
But, despite the animalic component, this perfume is actually quite conventional; an aromatic fougère with head notes like basil and rosemary which give a contrasting clean smell to the dirty side.
At first it's a strange and very dynamic profile, but with time it becomes clear that the underlying structure owes a lot to Kouros (1981).
Full marks for audacity (if not originality) but - even though it has been subject to
bootlegging (I bought a copy on a flea market once) - this will never be a mainstream scent, it's just too rude for that.

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