Diorella
Diorella Eau de Toilette 100ml is a fragrance from 1972 and it has aged into something genuinely unusual, because almost nothing made now smells like this.
Cumin opens it, which is startling and entirely deliberate. Used in quantity cumin smells of skin and sweat; used as it is here it gives the first minutes a warm, slightly salty human quality that no clean modern opening would attempt. It sets the tone for everything after.
The middle is fruit and flowers with the same lack of sweetness. Peach is the one people notice, and it is the velvet of the skin rather than the juice, slightly furry and not at all sugary. Jasmine gives it a white floral richness and violet adds a cool powdery edge, and the three together are soft without being pretty.
Vetiver and oakmoss finish it, and this is where it becomes clear how dry the whole fragrance is. Vetiver is rooty and a little bitter, oakmoss damp and earthy, and the pair leave a trail that is green and mossy rather than warm. It lasts five or six hours with moderate projection. Mild and cool weather suit it, it reads as unisex now whatever it was sold as then, and it is a fragrance for people who have exhausted the current market and want something with corners on it. The 100ml bottle is the standard size.
Perfume and cosmetics at Dior are now an LVMH concern. February 1947 brought the founder's first couture collection and, with it, Miss Dior, built by Paul Vacher to an instruction that it smell of love; Dior described his own trade as couturier-perfumer. Fahrenheit, Dune, J'adore, Sauvage, Poison and Eau Sauvage fill out the list beside it.
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