Fragrance Notes
Addict
Dior Addict Eau de Parfum is one of the few women's fragrances of the early 2000s that still sells on its own reputation rather than on nostalgia.
Three materials carry it, and the way they are stacked is the point. Orange blossom comes first, creamy and honeyed with a green edge to keep it from cloying. Sambac jasmine sits on top of it, which is the heavier and more animal kind of jasmine, sweet and slightly overripe in a way that gives the fragrance its nerve. Vanilla underneath is dense rather than fluffy, closer to the pod than to icing, and it takes the two flowers somewhere dark.
That is a short list for a fragrance with this much presence, and the lesson in it is that three strong materials in the right proportion will outperform fifteen weak ones. There is little development to follow: it arrives fully formed and then simply deepens as the vanilla warms, which is why it reads as confident rather than complicated.
Christian Dussoulier and Thierry Wasser are credited with it and it dates from 2002. As an eau de parfum it is long lasting and carries well, eight hours or more with real reach in the first two, so a light hand is advisable: one spray is often enough and two is the sensible limit. Evenings and cold weather suit it best, and it is sold to women.
Dior's perfume and cosmetics arm is today an LVMH maison. Christian Dior showed his first couture collection in February 1947 and launched Miss Dior alongside it, composed by Paul Vacher to the brief that it should smell of love; Dior described himself as a couturier-perfumer. The house is known above all for Miss Dior, Eau Sauvage, Fahrenheit, Dune, Poison, J'adore and Sauvage.
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