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.
A red glass apple with warm transparencies, the name engraved in the glass, the third ribbed bottle of the Poison line.
Dior gives the bottle the shape of a red apple, presented as the forbidden fruit one would want to bite. The letters of the name are drawn on the glass itself, a call to voluptuousness according to the house. The eau de toilette wears a bright red Dior calls resolutely modern, with warm transparencies: the glass looks inhabited by molten lava.
The eau de parfum takes up the same silhouette in a dark shade, with curves that sit in the palm like an apple. The Roller-Pearl version offers a portable glass bottle dressed in bright red, fitted with an applicator ball.
Elena Vosnaki, of Perfume Shrine, remembers a first casing of matte red rubber, strange to hold, which she likens to the Bvlgari Black of the same period. Recent bottles no longer carry it.
Reviewers tie this container to the two earlier ones in the line: it adds a third ribbed bottle to the Dior catalogue, after Poison in 1985 and Tendre Poison in 1994. The eau de toilette also comes as a 30 ml spray.
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