Midnight Poison

And besides, the house of Dior waited almost 10 years before daring to challenge this Poison with a new fragrance. From then on, new perfumed offspring of Poison made their appearance, including the lovely and enigmatic Midnight Poison, which once again plays at bewitching us between delicate rose and animalic scents.

Midnight Poison, or the perfumed effluvia of a modern fairy tale

For Poison, the house of Dior shied away from no venomous audacity, from its rather scandalous image to its composition so opulent that it stamped its seal on the 1980s. However, by offering new chapters to this perfumed fairy tale, Dior chose to break with opulence and create new, lighter but still just as effective spells. Tendre Poison and Midnight Poison are very representative of this mindset.

Indeed, Midnight Poison shares with its brilliant elder its mysterious atmosphere and its faceted apple-shaped bottle, which of course evokes the fairy tales of our childhood. However, unlike Poison, Midnight Poison would be much more the fragrance of a modern princess than that of an opulent, bewitching fairy.

To magically illustrate the story of Midnight Poison, the house of Dior called on the great director Wong Kar-Wai, master of the famous In the Mood for Love, to film the beautiful and so mysterious Eva Green. Eva Green is the worthy heiress of the goddesses of Hollywood’s golden age {...} She is also a great artist with many facets, fascinating and free. We thus follow, in this magnificent advertising film, the adventures of this princess dressed all in blue who sets off to fight the relentless hands of time. The imagery of Midnight Poison is enchanting, just like the composition by François Demachy, Olivier Cresp and Jacques Cavallier.

When Poison transforms into a beautiful carnal floral for the blue-tinted Midnight Poison

In reality, as we have been able to observe, the olfactory composition of Midnight Poison has moved very far away from that of its cult original bottle, Poison.
From the top notes onward, Midnight Poison sweeps us into a whirl of bergamot and mandarin, as if to better draw us into the magical world of its heart notes. For the princess of Midnight Poison will be adorned with the striking, contrasting richness of an unprecedented marriage between a Grasse rose and an exotic, powerful patchouli. In the image of this heart, we can therefore discern the features of the modern princess that Dior wishes to portray: a woman as delicate as she is fragile yet strong.

Finally, in Midnight Poison we find the strength of the sillage offered in 1985 with the first, so widely noted opus. Ambroxan, vanilla and amber thus form intense depths, but tonka bean, the favorite raw material of Olivier Cresp, the most gourmand of perfumers, joins these woody and exotic beauties to embalm us in these sweet scents.