Dazzling Silver Estée Lauder for women

I had a bottle of Dazzling once. Whenever I wore it, I would get a remark ' hey, what are u wearing , you smell so nice'. This is one of my EL fav. Its not too overpowering, totally unique and in its own league.
I agree with JB78, I don't understand why they stopped it. Its such a shame.

Estee Lauder's Dazzling Silver was one of my favorite florals on the market. Why in the world they discontinued it puzzles me. Lauder hardly ever discontinues anything, so I found it surprising. Silver was a metallic, fresh, sheer white floral with notes of lily, rose and orchid standing out the most. Had a nice woody base, maybe sandalwood. It was semi sweet, but not cloying. It's been sometime since I've smelled it, but that is how I recall it. It came out in one of my favorite years, 1998, so it's all that more special to me. Maybe one day I'll find it again.

Cold,hypnotic, weird with a massive scent throw. The world stopped the first time I smelt Dazzling Silver. It smells so good on me that I actually feel sinful and nervous wearing it. Most people hate it. I do believe this sent was made for me alone. If I could buy 100 bottles and store it safely in a time warp I would. Since it has been discontinued I miss the look on peoples faces when I enter a room and they smell the impossible to resist soury air around me. I need my Dazzling Silver to feel like myself again.

Cold, metallic, and gorgeous. Reminds me of a snow queen.

I think Dazzling Silver is successful for the same reason that No 5 is. They both play with the notion of a flower or a bouquet of flowers using floral references, then add something else entirely. For No 5, these references are famously from actual botanicals, ie. Chanel’s own rose & jasmine harvests. For DS, I image the floral references are more chemically derived. To this floral understructure, they both then add heavy doses of aromachemicals that are recognizable more for their specific nose-tones or qualities rather than for their floral reference. No 5’s famous aldehydes, DS’s helional. In both cases, floral is the start, not the goal.

I don't like this at all, it gives me headache and nauseating kind of feeling. It's so strong and sharp and I seriously can't stand it.

It is long lasting and the sillage is great but oh no, that's not what I wanted it to be. to say dislike may be too mild, so the bottom line is that I really really hate Dazzling Silver.

I am totally with iluvsmelies on this one.

This perfume makes me feel nauseous the instant I sniff it. I need say no more, she says it all below.

I am fully with the thumbs down brigade on this one. This one catches in my throat. It is overpoweringly metallic and, well, just overpowering.

I can't distinguish any particular notes, I just can't find anything in this beyond that overbearing, sharp, sense-jarring helional. Maybe it's like the aldehydes aversion that many people have, mine is definitely this stuff.

This is the only perfume I have ever found so far that I really REALLY don't like.

Apologies to the DS lovers out there, this is my opinion and my review, no offence to anyone intended.

This has to be the worst ever from the EL line. It smells absolutely retched! It's way too sharp & harsh. My nose crinkled from the heaviness. I got this as a gift and never used it. How this has continued in production is beyond comprehension. Just awful!!

After trying Dazzling Gold I thought maybe Silver might be lighter. I was wrong.... Dazzling Silver is so concentrated with Cedar and Iris' or some sort of wet petal business it reminds me of Beyond Paradise by EL which is a terrible perfume. Again, another scent that comes across like a bowl of random flower petals and rubbing alcohol was left in the sun to ferment for weeks and then bottled. It gave me a headache.

After having tried most of the classic Lauders over the years and not liking any of them, I tried this recent concoction to see if Lauder had toned down their fragrances....nope, this is right up there in your face, way too strong for me with a greenish metallic note which wrinkled my nose.

Sorry, Sherapop, but I can't find any similarity to Cheap & Chic, which is an old favourite.

I simply love it. This perfume smells great on me. I feel special, and sexy, and simply gorgeous.
And it really stays on, I apply a bit in the morning, and for the rest of the day, the air around me smells like heaven.
The fragrance gets better and better by the hour. In the evening, when my pulse is calmer, the sweet notes of the perfume are suggesting that's time for love and tenderness.

I finally mustered up the courage to test the various unused Estee Lauder purse sprays and perfume minis in my collection (having suffered a revulsive Pavlovian experience with INTUITION now quite some time ago...), and DAZZLING SILVER is first in line.

To my great surprise, DAZZLING SILVER (1998) is very similar to Moschino CHEAP & CHIC (1995). I'm not saying that Evelyn intentionally plagiarized, but the similarities are patent. Both have a fairly big opening reminiscent of BULGARI POUR FEMME, and both culminate in a pleasant, wearable powdery floral drydown. In the case of DAZZLING SILVER, magnolia, orchid, and rose are all present.

It looks as though DAZZLING SILVER is still in production--though I haven't seen any advertisements in years--but it's quite a bit more expensive than the Moschino, so if I decide one day that I'd like to add this particular scent to my wardrobe, I'll buy the Moschino instead. For now, it's not very compelling. Nor, however, is it a scrubber, which I have found cannot generally be taken for granted. DAZZLING SILVER, like CHEAP & CHIC, seems to be a very synthetic composition, so it's just a matter of personal chemistry that I am not in this particular case driven to the bath...

I tried the gold and the Silver and purchased the two minatures at thrift shop of all places. Im glad I bought the minatures and not the full bottles sight unseen (which I have a bad habit of doing all the time) because Im not too keen of either of these scents. Estee Lauder is not one of my favorite designers in the least im finding as time goes on.

Very pleasant fragrance that is ideal for work, fresh and elegant with soft dry-down like those of Calvin Klein's Truth...Dazzling Gold with its typical Lauder notes, but very moderately, while Dazzling Silver can surprise you as it is outside Lauder range. But I love it. Not looking for the perfect perfume, because it is really difficult to single out only the one.This perfume would be among my top 20.

i never tried it b4...but dis evening my customer came to d shop n purchase dis one perfume...in a blink of n eye..d moment she know we had dis fragrances she immideatly say.."ok..i want to purchase dis"...she like it very much...to bad we dont have the tester...we only have the stock...

I love this one on paper, but on, is another story. I don't know if it is the cedar or green notes, but it is just pungent and bitter on me. I have tried several times to like it and I can't get past it. Dazzling Gold is much better.

In my opinion this is one of the lost great lauders. it's definitely one of the most weird and gorgeous you can find on the counter, and as a bonus never became very popular so you won't smell it in everyone in the crowd. I t starts deliciously green and piercing. Then the floral part unfolds and it's one of the most unusual i've ever encountered. It's simply fantastic. Unusual, sweet and heady. The drydown is a fresh berry-vanilla, but not of the guerlain-ish french manner, more of the all-american crisp cotton shirt, lauder-style!BRAVO!

I adore this one! I read a review that referred to it as lilies scrubbed in a stainless steel sink, make that a silver sink and I'll agree with you. Opulent and clean and a little cold, Dazzling Silver fills the air with a complex bouquet centered on lilies but spiked with muguet and lotus with just enough sandalwood to put a woody pedestal under all those flowers in sterling.

Gorgeous, gorgeous. The only think I might tamp down is the aldehydes in the opening, but the overall effect is grand

Well...I can't really stand this one. My Mom has it and I tried it once. It's just too much for my nose. The sharp green notes I can't even describe. Too 'dazzling', not for me.