Daim Blond (for women and men)

mellybee

As a chypre lover I supposed to like the leather note in perfumes and I can say wearing Daim Blond I tend to like it. (I'm already in love with Visa and L'Arte de Gucci which have leather among the basenotes.)
Daim Blond comes off with an apricot jam smell, the home-made apricot jam my mother used to conserve every year. As the leather arrives it brings along some smokiness. This leather is not that raw dry dirty mainly masculin monster but a truly feminine gentle fairy. Rather suide than leather. A pair of suide gloves. The spotted back of a fawn.
The smoky sweetness remains in the end and turns into a cozy chypre with obvious musk underlining it.
Highly recommended as an entrance into the world of leather fragrances.

crisgonc

This fragrance is one of the few Lutens perfumes that has a real poor sillage and long lasting power. What bother me on Daim Blond is that the opposite smells that work on it really disappear (or better are not developed on my skin) and just remains a musky scent with any personality as a niche fragrance.

Robert White

haaa...haaaa, Rebella, this straight guy LOVES Daim Blond...okay, first the story...I am very sad lately(heartbreak) and have poor impulse control...was using the computer at the library to order myself some Sables and Knize Ten from Perfumenetwork.com and I find out that they just ran out...MOTHERFUCKERS!!!! so I go to Luckyscent to order Comme des Garcons Incense Avignon...and my PayPal doesnt work right, I've gotta transfer money...3 to 5 days...go FUCK yourself, PayPal....so I run to the local Barney's New York...where I am trying to get a job or at least an internship at the perfume dept....not to mention I find the manager rather attractive...(Could be my future boss is I am lucky...)...and buy Daim Blond from the nice Serge Lutens guy. Okay, now I am a little behind on my rent, and all of my old friends are calling me on the phone worried that I am going to kill myself...but who cares? This is a GREAT fragrance...I think that the criterion for one is when you get a specific mental image upon smelling the juice...for me, I felt like I was slipping into a suede jacket exactly the color of a sweet potato...time travel to the 1970's...felt like I was sitting in one of those egg shaped chairs and listening to T-Rex...I've never smelled a bad Lutens fragrance...

Malegria

Everything is just perfect in this fragrance, till it comes to the base notes.Musk and suede give a full impression of a leather shoe insole, may be very expenisive but nevertheless.
The creamy start is beautiful and I almost fell in love though.

PR

Very peculiar scent, but I'm immensly surprised it has leather in composition, from what I smelled it have never been even nowhere near leather/suede..unless if it is about velvetry texture.

I was rather wondering if there was pear or some other fruit in it, because it is so very fruity fragrance to me and on the sweet side as well, but with some strange freshness. I don't know why recently so many fragrances have reminded me punch drink, but this luxury frag reminds it as well, though in the best and most elegant way: you would rather get drunk wearing this to refined coctail party than some pub:))

The staying power can't be called legendary, my Chanels holds longer, and Daim Blond would simply 'bite the dust' from Piquet's Fracas longevity.

guest_Osmanthus

A beautiful and unusual composition, very elegant and refined. A must for all soft leather scents lovers.

CountAnubis

The Main note from "Daim Blond" is a very spicy leather accord, its relative dark and deep but however with a very soft and somewhat creamy background thats always present. At the end its a spicy and slightly powdery-cremy but strong Leather note.

Its hard to imagine this scent on a women because it is rather masculine. Its a really great Parfume and you can even imagine the blond leather but for me its a bit to pungent.

07 out of 10 Points.

Vickalena

Aroma of expensive suede in "Daim Blond" is very gentle, and quickly enough fades into the background, giving the way to the slightest creamy sweetness. Feeling of comfort, warmth, cosiness, happiness. Best - for cold weather.

rebella

An amazingly true and realistic suede-fragrance, smells like a soft, luxurios and new suedejacket.

Kind of naughty and nice at the same time. Set me in a mood of sensuality and my husband think it is really sexy. A lot of leather fragrances are a bit masculine or at least androgyn, not this one, this is a pure feminine leather fragrance.

Like it a lot, but not love it. Mostly because it fade away on me really fast, for a perfume of this price I think it is fair to expect longer staying power than about a couple of hours. After 3 hours i hardly notice it any more.

Aiona

I was wanting to try this ever since I saw a review about Daim Blond on MakeUpAlley. Leather and apricots seem to be what everyone else smells. But to me? UGH! Sharp spoiled uni sushi! Just like I get from Montale Black Aoud's opening notes. Surely there's oud in here!? Or is that the leather note everyone refers to? And I can barely smell peaches, what with all the oud smell. It took about 4 hours for the oud smell to fade to tolerable, and I was left with what smelled like jasmine and oud. Still oud! Doesn't anyone else smell it? Or did I get a sample of something from Montale, and not Serge Lutens?