Dolce Vita

Dolce Vita joined the Parfums Christian Dior catalogue in 1995. Pierre Bourdon composed it, under the direction of Maurice Roger.

The name comes from the film by Federico Fellini. Elena Vosnaki finds an aptness in it: the juice smells, she writes, as voluptuous as Anita Ekberg appears on screen.

The man who directed Dior perfumes

Vosnaki recalls the role of Maurice Roger. Poison was born under his direction in 1984, Fahrenheit in 1988, Dolce Vita in 1995: three fragrances that held the house's catalogue for more than a decade.

Roger did not compose, he directed. His name comes up among reviewers alongside Bourdon's, never in his place.

A link with Féminité du Bois

Victoria Frolova hears in the cedar of Dolce Vita a link with Féminité du Bois, which Bourdon had signed for Shiseido in 1992 with Christopher Sheldrake.

The comparison stops at the wood. The heart of Dolce Vita is worlds away from the plum darkness of its elder, she writes: where Féminité du Bois broods, Dolce Vita sparkles.

What changes on October 1, 2026

Dolce Vita is among the thirteen fragrances that Francis Kurkdjian restores under the name Dioriginals, in the period he calls Dior in Paris.

Kurkdjian describes the juice as a floral fruity woody. Persolaise, who devoted the four hundredth episode of his series of filmed reviews to it in 2023, already considered it a fragrance to be reassessed.

The Ovale bottle will house all thirteen: clear glass, half-sphere cap, white cord tied at the neck, designed in 1948 by Serge Heftler-Louiche.