Hypnotic Poison extends in 1998 the Poison lineage, born thirteen years earlier, by shifting the venomous toward 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 heightened with caraway. The bottle takes up the house's red apple, forbidden fruit turned signature.
A red glass apple with warm transparencies, name engraved in the glass, third ribbed bottle in the Poison line.
Dior gives the bottle the shape of a red apple, presented as the forbidden fruit one would want to bite into. The letters of the name are drawn directly onto the glass, which the house describes as a call to voluptuousness. The eau de toilette displays a vivid red that Dior describes as resolutely modern, with warm transparencies: the glass seems inhabited by molten lava.
The eau de parfum takes up the same silhouette in a darker hue, with curves that fit in the palm like an apple. The Roller-Pearl version offers a nomadic glass bottle dressed in vivid red, fitted with a roller-ball applicator.
Critics link this bottle to the two previous ones in the line: it adds a third ribbed bottle to the Dior catalogue, after Poison in 1985 and Tendre Poison in 1994. Some retailers list the eau de toilette as a 30 ml spray.