Fragrance Notes
Poison Girl
Choosing between the two concentrations of this fragrance comes down to how much sweetness you want in a day, and Dior Poison Girl Eau de Toilette is the lighter and brighter of them, carrying orange, neroli, vanilla and tonka bean in a 2017 composition by François Demachy.
The opening is where this version gains the most. Orange is fresher and more immediate at toilette strength, juicy rather than candied, and neroli comes through with real clarity, green and clean and faintly honeyed, which gives the fragrance a prettiness the heavier version rather rushes past. Vanilla still runs underneath, though it is softer here, more powdered sugar than syrup, and tonka bean adds the warm faintly bitter dryness that keeps the base from collapsing into sweetness. The result is a fragrance that reads as sweet but wearable, which for a lot of buyers is the difference between a bottle they use and a bottle they admire.
Four materials, a short and legible structure, and a wear life of five or six hours rather than a full day. Spray generously, three or four, and expect to top it up if you are out late. This is the version for daytime, for warmer weather and for the office, where the eau de parfum would be too insistent, and it suits a younger wearer or anyone who finds most sweet fragrances too much by lunchtime.
The company behind it is Dior's perfume and cosmetics division, owned within LVMH. It began with a Paris couturier who put out a fragrance in the same month as his first collection in February 1947 and liked to be described as a couturier-perfumer, and who left a catalogue that still includes Eau Sauvage, Fahrenheit, Dune, J'adore and Sauvage.
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