Top Notes 
Frangipani
Gardenia
Jasmine
Heart Notes 
Cedarwood
Narcissus
Tuberose
White lotus
Base Notes 
Champaca flower
Raw sugar
Vanilla07/03/2025
kittea
56 Reviews
kittea
4
Like being betrayed by someone you love. Et tu-berose?
Oh, this is a rough one. I got a sample of this on a recommendation from a sales assistant after telling her I liked white florals. On the strip, it was lovely. Creamy, almost lactonic jasmine and tuberose. On skin, though...
You know how tuberose has sort of this sour burnt rubber-tire note to it, the kind of underlying hiss that turns the flower from merely pretty into truly compelling? Delirium is just that and only that. I honestly never thought I would be the one to complain about too much tube in my tuberose. But you can have too much of anything, and there is definitely too much of this. The thing is, as much as I love the weird off-notes, they need something to contrast against, and Delirium offers nothing in the way of contrast. The balance is completely off. I feel like if I wore this around a mechanic they would find some way of charging me $200 for it.
Leave it for long enough and it dries down into an inoffensive sweet vanilla. I wonder if the idea was to contrast the two, the way the rose-oud combination works. But the vanilla is so out of its weight class that it only peeks its head in timidly at the end, so you end up with the worst of both worlds.
You know how tuberose has sort of this sour burnt rubber-tire note to it, the kind of underlying hiss that turns the flower from merely pretty into truly compelling? Delirium is just that and only that. I honestly never thought I would be the one to complain about too much tube in my tuberose. But you can have too much of anything, and there is definitely too much of this. The thing is, as much as I love the weird off-notes, they need something to contrast against, and Delirium offers nothing in the way of contrast. The balance is completely off. I feel like if I wore this around a mechanic they would find some way of charging me $200 for it.
Leave it for long enough and it dries down into an inoffensive sweet vanilla. I wonder if the idea was to contrast the two, the way the rose-oud combination works. But the vanilla is so out of its weight class that it only peeks its head in timidly at the end, so you end up with the worst of both worlds.
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