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Christian Dior Poison Girl ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 8 July 2016 20 Comments

Christian Dior Poison Girl

Who else but Camille Rowe could have embodied the alluring and nonchalant femininity of Poison Girl? At twenty-six years of age, and with one hundred and twenty-eight thousand and counting Instagram followers, the model represents a generation of uninhibited, fun-loving, optimistic young women.1

Ah, who else indeed? In case you were wondering how many Instagram followers you might need to front a major youth-oriented fragrance campaign circa 2016, now you know.1 And you know Christian Dior’s latest, Poison Girl, is geared young, because they’re talking up Rowe’s Instagram in the first place, plus she is writhing on a dance floor wearing hotpants and later, strutting around in not even so much as that, whereas Natalie Portman, who fronts the somewhat more “mature” Miss Dior (Ms. Portman is thirty-five), wears Dior couture and smells rose petals and whatnot, plus, she isn’t even on Instagram. (Then again, Charlize Theron, who fronts J’Adore and is now forty years of age, has 1.2 million followers.)

So anyway, Poison Girl is geared young, and not surprisingly, it smells like it…

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Make me a fragrance that smells like love

Posted by Robin on 22 June 2016 Leave a Comment

Natalie Portman talks to François Demachy about roses, for Miss Dior Absolutely Blooming.

Miss Dior Absolutely Blooming ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 22 June 2016 6 Comments

Miss Dior Absolutely Blooming

Christian Dior will launch Miss Dior Absolutely Blooming, a new flanker to 2005 / 2011’s Miss Dior. Miss Dior Absolutely Blooming will be fronted by Natalie Portman…

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Happy 50th, Eau Sauvage

Posted by Robin on 10 June 2016 5 Comments

Edmond Roudnitska's masterpiece, Eau Sauvage, is half a century old. Warning: smoking, and animated, Gruau-inspired nudity.

Chateau de La Colle Noire

Posted by Robin on 23 April 2016 4 Comments

A video from Dior about Château de La Colle Noire, Christian Dior's vacation property in Provence from 1951 until his death in 1957. It was sold in 1958, then the Dior brand purchased it in 2013, and began restoration efforts on the nine-bedroom house and the extensive gardens. It was also the inspiration for the new La Colle Noir fragrance.

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