Rêve d'Infini (2015) is the floral counterpart to Living Lalique, signed by the same nose, Richard Ibanez. Lychee and bergamot open onto a heart of freesia and rose absolute that peach satins and cedar straightens up. A base of musk, vanilla and sandalwood makes it a musky woody floral of classic construction.
The opening is short and frankly fruity. Bergamot brightens a lychee whose tangy flesh already carries a hint of rose: it is from this facet that the impression of flower comes in the first minutes, even before the flower itself truly settles in. The duo does not last long. It serves as a threshold, not as the subject.
The heart is the true body of the perfume. Freesia enters first, frank and slightly green, then rose absolute settles in, satined by a peach that strips it of any sharpness. Cedar straightens it and keeps it from turning jammy, while jasmine thickens the flower without making it more fragrant. After about fifteen minutes a powdery, buttery iris surfaces, very close to the one structuring Living Lalique, released the same year and by the same hand.
The base is where the perfume takes its side. Musk, vanilla and sandalwood make up a soft, silky base, deliberately low in contrast. It is this base that gives the sillage its persistence and its cottony grain, and it is also this base that decides how the perfume is received.
For Rêve d'Infini is a musky woody floral of classic construction, without break or roughness. Those who like it find in it a discreet elegance and honest longevity; those who do not fault it for a soapy sweetness that erases the fruits announced up top. Both impressions describe the same perfume: the question is not whether it is soft, but whether one is looking for that particular softness.