Christian Dior
Hypnotic Poison
Hypnotic Poison extends the Poison line in 1998, born thirteen years earlier, by shifting the venomous towards the gourmand. Annick Menardo built it on bitter almond, whose biting bitterness stands up to the vanilla and sandalwood of the base. The opening is fruity — coconut, plum and apricot — before a heart of sambac jasmine, tuberose and rose lifted with caraway. The bottle takes up the house's red apple, a forbidden fruit turned signature.
- Brand
- Christian Dior
- Launch year
- 1998
- Perfumer
- Gender
- Women
- Olfactory family
- Oriental
- Concentration
- Eau de Toilette
- EAN
- 3348901445108 (20 ml) · 3348900378551 (30 ml) · 3348900378575 (50 ml) · 3348900425309 (100 ml) · 3348901250351 (150 ml)
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Thirteen years after Poison and four after Tendre Poison, Dior added a third ridged bottle to its venomous line in 1998. Annick Menardo did not remake the original in it: she shifted the formula towards bitter almond and vanilla. The juice marked its twenty-fifth year in 2023, still in the catalogue.
What Menardo shifts
Poison, in 1985, had divided opinion. Menardo keeps its silhouette and changes its subject: bitter almond and caraway take the provocative part, vanilla and musk the comforting one. The fragrance thus found the customers its elder put off.
The house describes its creation in four contrasting facets, bitter almond and caraway, sambac jasmine, jacaranda wood, vanilla and musk.
The retouches
The juice changed along the way. Dariush Alavi, of Persolaise, recalls that part of the Dior catalogue passed through the hands of François Demachy, and that without access to the house's batch codes it becomes hard to say which bottle still holds Menardo's composition.
Olfactory pyramid
- Top notesThe first minutes
- Heart notesThe heart of the perfume
- Base notesWhat lingers
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The advertising
Jovovich, Bellucci, Mélanie Laurent
Milla Jovovich carries the 1998 launch, Monica Bellucci takes over, and Mélanie Laurent takes the part back in 2011 to a Nina Simone song.
Dior handed the launch to Milla Jovovich, who holds the films of 1998 and of 1999, at the moment when The Fifth Element made her famous.
Monica Bellucci takes over, on a date that is not established: 2006, 2008 and 2011 all three circulate, with none of them prevailing.
In 2011, Mélanie Laurent takes the part back, in a film built on Nina Simone's « I Put a Spell on You ». The director's name remains uncertain, two contradictory attributions running on the web; neither is kept here.
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