Christian Dior Pure Poison Assessment (Olivier Polge, Dominque Ropion and Carlos Benaim) 2004  

Christian Dior Pure Poison image by Nicoleta

 “The Snow Queen kissed little Kay once more, and by this time he had forgotten little Gerda, his grandmother, and all at residence. “Now you will need to haven’t any extra kisses,” she stated,“ or I ought to kiss you to demise.”

 from The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen

Christian Dior Pure Poison smells of frostbite, the form of chilly that covers any odor with intricate crystals of oblivion, wipes away any hint of reminiscence, whites out any shred of coloured splinters, punishes any detour from the white decor, flattening relentlessly, like a white heavy boulder rolling downhill, fading the whole lot into the white untouched décor.

Illustration by Henry Justice Ford

The flowers, white as they’re, so chilly that they stick your nostrils collectively, are immersed in liquid nitrogen and turn into pliable, clear, aseptic, a mere spectrum of ice flowers, clear and sterile, till you’re feeling that you’ve immersed your head in a dusty cloud of cleanliness and powdery white ice.

Igor Monsigna images

The fantastic thing about Christian Dior Pure Poison, nonetheless, comes from a notice of sandalwood, of a clean mild wooden with pulsating sap, alive below the bark, gasping for air beneath the layer of white poisoned snow.

Christian Dior Pure Poison, image by Nicoleta

A light-weight scratch, on the border of notion, will increase in quantity and depth, with the facility to transfigure the entire potion, taking out from its coronary heart (or nostrils) the icy splinter of glass, and echoing like an insect fluttering within the amber by which it was captured, the perfume awakens, and it awakens you.

Christian Birmingham illustration, The Snow Queen

“Then Gerda kissed his cheeks, and so they turned blooming; and she or he kissed his eyes, and so they shone like her personal; she kissed his fingers and his toes, after which he turned fairly wholesome and cheerful. The Snow Queen would possibly come residence now when she happy, for there stood his certainty of freedom, within the phrase she wished, written in shining letters of ice.”

Pure Poison was launched in 2004 and the noses behind it had been Carlos Benaïm, Dominique Ropion, and Olivier Polge.

Notes:  Orange blossom, Jasmine, Gardenia, Musk, Amber, Sandalwood, White Musk

–Nicoleta Tomsa, Senior Contributor

Disclosure: My very own bottle, opinions are my very own

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