Fragrance Notes
Diorissimo
Diorissimo Eau de Toilette 100ml dates from 1956 and was composed by Edmond Roudnitska, two facts that explain most of its standing.
Four flowers make it, and they are arranged with the restraint that marks the period. Jasmine is the richest of them, white and sweet with that faintly animal edge the real flower has. Rose sits beside it and supplies the familiar centre, full rather than thin and not at all jammy. Ylang ylang brings a creamy, almost banana like sweetness that rounds the other two off. Hyacinth is the one that makes the fragrance, green and cool and slightly sappy, the smell of a bulb pushing through soil, and it keeps the whole bouquet from becoming soft.
There is very little development to track here. The four materials are present from the start and the pleasure lies in how they are balanced rather than in any progression, which is how fragrances of this age tend to work.
As an eau de toilette it gives four or five hours with modest reach, closer to the skin than modern concentrations. Spring is the obvious season and daylight the obvious hour, and it is sold to women, though it is the sort of classic that anyone interested in perfumery should smell at least once. Two sprays are the right dose for something this old fashioned in build, and it is better on skin than on clothing.
The perfume and cosmetics side of Dior is part of LVMH. A first couture collection appeared in February 1947 with Miss Dior beside it, Paul Vacher's work, made in answer to a request for a perfume that smelled of love, and the founder liked to describe himself as a couturier-perfumer. Dune, Poison, Fahrenheit, J'adore, Sauvage and Eau Sauvage all came later.
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