Dior
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Citrus and pear collide with immediate green intensity as basil storms to the foreground, cutting through the fruit with herbaceous bite. It's startling in its freshness—less perfumed greeting and more botanical assault, crisp as a knife through waxy skin.
The rosemary deepens the herbal narrative whilst spices add an unexpected peppery warmth that prevents things becoming too austere. Cypress joins in, introducing a slightly mineral, almost woody dryness that transforms the composition from fresh-fruity into something more contemplative and structured.
Pear wood emerges as the primary structure, offering a pale, slightly resinous woodiness that the musk barely colours. What remains is skeletal and whisper-soft—pleasant rather than present—eventually becoming skin-scent territory within hours rather than clinging to fabric.
Higher Dior arrives as a defiantly austere fragrance, one that eschews the comfortable sweetness its fruity accords might suggest. The pear here isn't the honeyed, jammy interpretation you'd expect from a 2001 Dior; instead, Olivier Gillotin pairs it with basil and citrus to create something distinctly herbaceous and green-leaning. This is the scent of biting into fruit whilst standing in a kitchen garden, where herbs dominate the landscape.
The rosemary in the heart intensifies this botanical bent, cutting through any residual fruitiness with peppery, almost medicinal insistence. Paired with cypress and spices, it becomes contemplative rather than convivial—a fragrance that turns inward rather than projects outward. The pear wood base attempts to anchor everything with woody warmth, though the musk feels decidedly restrained, more whisper than statement.
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