Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Ocean Dream by Giorgio Beverly Hills c1996

Ocean Dream by Giorgio Beverly Hills: launched in 1996 in association with Designer Parfums and Proctor & Gamble. Created by Alberto Morillas. Ocean Dream was inspired by the beach's omnipresence in the southern California consciousness.


"If you come very, very close, you can hear the ocean. Ocean Dream by Giorgio Beverly Hills. Let it take you there," reads the advertising slogan of another new Giorgio scent, which will hit the shelves this month. The perfume is packaged in iridescent pastel glass, giving it the weathered look of a bottle just washed up on a beach.

 who can afford $125 for .5 oz of perfume. At the low end of the scale, the body wash costs $27.50. The line also contains moisturizer and dusting powder, similarly priced to the wash.

Fragrance Composition:


It is classified as a fresh, aquatic fruity floral fragrance for women. Described as 'aquatic-floral', it is composed of ten accords of oceanic and floral notes and is designed to celebrate the lifestyle of southern California. The use of sea elements like pink pearl, seaside heliotrope, aquatic orange blossom, blue sea sandalwood and blue musk gives Ocean Dream a fresh, airy aroma. 
  • Top notes: bergamot, peach, lemon, oceanic accord, freesia
  • Middle notes: pink pearl, aquatic orange blossom, water lily, water heliotrope
  • Base notes: oakmoss, blue sea sandalwood, vanilla, blue musk, cedar and vetiver


New Woman, 1996:
"THE NAME: Ocean Dream. ... The Concept: The glass bottle has a weathered, Coke-bottle-washed-by-the-sea appeal and the ingredients are "olfactory interpretations of feelings inspired by the ocean." The Smell: A fresh fruity-floral, the scent contains "water flowers" like pink pearl, a water lily indigenous to the North China Sea, and seaside heliotrope, a purple flower found in warm Pacific waters."


Bottle:

Step-by-step Graphics, 1996:
"A luxurious look was essential when Maddocks & Company created a signature bottle for Ocean Dream, a new perfume from Giorgio. The bottles were molded one at a time and finished by hand, and the coloring (produced by adding minerals or metal oxides to the molten glass) increased the per-bottle cost dramatically."


Fate of the Fragrance:


 It appears to have been discontinued by 1999 and is no longer made by Giorgio, a company in the United Kingdom (Designer Parfums Ltd.) bought the rights to the name and now produces their version of the fragrance, but according to many reviews online, it just isn't the same. 

1 comment:

  1. The original version contains ambergris and pure essential oils. It has a depth to the base notes like the deep ocean. No substitute for ambergris. The newer one smells sweeter and synthetic.

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