Miss Dior 2021, Sauvage Elixir, Vanilla Diorama Reviews – Francois Demachy; 2021

The world’s oldest spinster has just had another facelift. Miss Dior, which started life as a leathery-green chypre soon after WWII, now comes to us in yet another version, with a slightly tweaked bottle and a new ad campaign (which, in a merciful nod to continuity, still features Natalie Portman). The fragrance was the subject of a recent episode of Love At First Scent over on YouTube, which also featured reviews of the new Dior Sauvage Elixir and the latest addition to the Collection Privee, Dior Vanilla Diorama. Here’s a link to the video: Dior Miss Dior 2021, Sauvage Elixir, Vanilla Diorama reviews. For a few more thoughts on the scents, keep scrolling.

Sauvage Elixir is retains the original’s essence of a desperate, testosterone-fuelled, board meeting, albeit with slightly less terrible suits: a modicum of wool has been allowed to creep into the polyester. But no more than a modicum, mind. On the other hand, Vanilla Diorama is all oak panelling and plush velvet seating in a tastefully-lit room deep within some private club. As far as gourmands go, it’s one of the better ones we’ve had in recent years, contrasting its sweetness with decorous boozy-wood notes.

Although it’s by no means the best of today’s trio, the new Miss Dior edp is perhaps the one most worthy of a discussion, specifically in relation to the issue of brands releasing entirely new compositions under old names. Viewers of the YouTube video had a great deal to say on this, so if you watch the episode, I’d urge to switch on the live chat and read all the contributions. Putting aside this thorny, complicated matter, all that’s left to say about Miss Dior 2021 is that it’s a pleasant enough floral, surrounded in a haze of Day-Glo pink that probably looks more attractive when viewed from afar rather than close-up. We await the next injection of Botox… but perhaps not with bated breath.

Persolaise

[Dior reviews based on samples provided by the brand in 2021.]

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