Dior

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Diorissimo

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Vintage Diorissimo bottle with houndstooth black and white printed label and ceramic cap, filled with pale gold eau.

Muguet and nostalgia.
Titania gracing an outdoor wedding, the Snow Queen in her sled in winter.
Pure lily-of-the-valley, budding green, blooming to ringing white bells and fading to pungent roots.

My mother wore Diorissimo, which is the only thing I’ll ever have in common with Prince Harry, I’m afraid.

Dior released this one in 1956. The same year Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much featured Doris Day singing Que Sera Sera.

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Hypnotic Poison

Blood-red mini bottle perched in an icicle–This one is sublime in cold weather.

Dior’s Hypnotic Poison is the femme fatale in the upscale mall who laces the gourmet sweets with cyanide.

It took over my house and punched me in the teeth and made me watch movies about international intrigue.

Jordan Almonds and loud vanilla sex, this stuff.

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Handlful of red apple Hypnotic Poison bottle at the mall.

Morcheeba, a trip-hop R&B band, has been going strong since the mid nineties, too. This song has some of the same lethal sweetness.