Miss Dior Chérie is the fragrance Dior entrusted in 2005 to Christine Nagel, under the direction of John Galliano, for the centenary of Christian Dior's birth. Green mandarin and strawberry leaf open onto a heart of wild strawberry sorbet and caramelised popcorn, which patchouli and musk close. The name disappeared in 2011.
For Robin, of Now Smell This, a sweet and fruity scent with no heaviness, very young and very much of its moment — and outside her own taste.
Olfastory’s review
Now Smell This, 13 September 2005
Robin describes an opening of very sweet strawberry crossed by a flash of mandarin, closer in her view to a strawberry-apple ice than to the wild strawberry sorbet announced.
She finds no popped corn, but a sugar that quickly takes a caramelised turn and warms the whole. The flowers make an indistinct backdrop before a patchouli and a musk she judges sanitised.
The fragrance stays sweet and fruity to the end without ever weighing. She sees in it a very young and very trendy exercise, successful for its target, and declares herself outside that target: it does not appeal to her.
She finally disputes the gourmand chypre label Dior gives it, finding nothing chypre about it, and reads the word as a salute of circumstance to the 1947 scent.