Dior launched Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet in 2014, a floral eau de toilette that François Demachy imagined as a dress embroidered with flowers. Peony is its center, recomposed from rose and fruity notes, over a base of white musks. The house has since reworked it around bergamot, Damask rose and peony.
Thomas Dunckley (The Candy Perfume Boy) sees it as the most successful take on Miss Dior, a pastel spring bouquet, safe and polished, a little too fresh for his taste.
Olfastory’s review
The Candy Perfume Boy: a pastel spring bouquet
On March 18, 2014, Thomas Dunckley describes an opening of crisp fruits and flowers, dewy, more pink than green, with a grassy hint; little sugar, as the bitter facets of grapefruit and mandarin dry out the whole.
The flowers strike him as vague, a blend of rose, lily and a note close to hyacinth, which he would have liked bolder. The patchouli and musk base, clean and slightly creamy, evokes for him spring air heavy with pollen.
He calls it his favorite take on the Miss Dior signature of the day, a pretty, unfussy floral he recommends for spring, though too fresh for his personal taste, of impeccable quality as always with Dior.