Deci Delà is the fragrance Nina Ricci launched in 1994 to rejuvenate its image, signed by Jean Guichard. This fruity chypre opens on raspberry, peach and apricot, moves through rose and sweet pea and rests on oakmoss, sandalwood and patchouli. Its pink and gold bottle was designed by Élisabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti. It is no longer made.
Gaia Fishler (The Non-Blonde, 2011) finds it less accomplished than Yvresse, loaded with fruit to the point of artifice, but saved by its chypre base and a charm that has become rare.
Olfastory’s review
The Non-Blonde, June 2011
On June 2, 2011, Gaia Fishler recalls finding the packaging hideous at launch. Revisiting it sixteen years later, she describes a thick, red opening in which the fruit compote drowns all the announced flowers.
She relaxes when the woods, resins and oakmoss come into play: in her view, this chypre foundation sets it apart from more recent fruity florals and would make it seem dated to a young audience.
She judges it less well made than Yvresse or Ungaro’s Diva, so loaded with fruit that it becomes blatantly synthetic, but grants it a charm no longer found in fragrances aimed at the young.