J'adore l'Or

Dior launched J’adore l’Or in 2010, eleven years after J’adore. François Demachy, then the house’s perfumer-creator, made it a perfume essence, the highest concentration in the line, conceived as a tribute to fine materials.

The gold of Grasse according to François Demachy

The house presented a noble, sensual harmony, the quintessence of J’adore’s floral bouquet: jasmine grandiflorum absolute from Grasse, dosed almost without restraint, centifolia rose, Tahitian vanilla, ylang-ylang, and tuberose.

François Demachy spoke of it as the fragrance of every extreme, with rare absolutes and an intense concentration, an oriental character that is immediately recognizable: a sensuality of materials, a painting entirely devoted to the beauty of flowers.

Francis Kurkdjian recomposes L’Or de J’adore

In 2023, Francis Kurkdjian, now Perfume Creation Director at Dior, signed his first women’s creation for the house by taking up J’adore l’Or, renamed L’Or de J’adore. He says he exaggerated the contours of the flowers to bring out their nuances and define a texture like flowing gold.

Speaking to the press, he compared the exercise to touching something untouchable. He tempers the original fruitiness with a bouquet of petals meant to give the feeling of a flower, and says he reconnected with Calice Becker, the author of J’adore, to recapture its spirit.

What the house says

Dior now describes a full, voluptuous perfume essence with solar and floral notes, where orange blossom, jasmine grandiflorum, and centifolia rose absolutes converse, unfolded larger than life: these flowers, the house says, are the true gold of J’adore.

The essence comes in 35, 50, and 80 ml, refillable, and in a 500 ml Queen Size format. Charlize Theron, the face of J’adore since 2004, lends her features to L’Or de J’adore in 2023.