Serge Lutens’ Daim Blond is quite a weird sweet perfume, however, since Lutens is famous for the weirdness, I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that something considered as white sweets would smell rather not like any real sweets.
The beginning of Daim Blond is rather odd, somewhat striking in between being repulsive and being interesting. It smells of slightly leathery goods trapped in a plastic container for a while and you just opened it up. Soon there is this slightly roasted nutty aspect being added in, which brings up the sweetness; while meanwhile a rather muted sweet powdery aspect has always been in the background which reminds me of the flour on freshly baked pastry. As the scent develops, what I can smell is something like a slightly burnt, woodiness-infused almoretti biscuit.
The very dry down appears to be rather cosy to my nose, it is fuzzier in the sweet dry woods aspect while the pastry aspect of Daim Blond gets aged in a nice, elegant, powdery and a bit nostalgic way, like when you get out a Chrismas biscuits tin and happily discovered that there is some biscuits left from last year, of course you wouldn’t eat it, but the merry memory might all of a sudden make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
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| Image of an almond biscuit, or almoretti |
Daim Blond is quite a wearable (after the initial blast of top notes), sweet scent without overdo of vanilla of edible elements, but maintains rather delicious. A wonderful skin scent! Highly recommend to someone who fancies a grown-up vanilla-y-themed gourmand scent which knows how to be subtle and elegant.
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