Poison is the first women's fragrance Dior released without the founder's name on the box. Édouard Fléchier overdoses tuberose over a base of honey and opoponax, in an amethyst apple bottle designed by Véronique Monod. Launched in 1985, it imposed a frontal femininity the decade adopted, and one critics still argue over forty years later.
An amethyst glass apple designed by Véronique Monod, pleated glass, gold collar and rounded stopper: the bottle announces forbidden fruit before the scent does.
The Poison bottle is the work of Véronique Monod. She drew a glass apple in amethyst, cut to sit in the palm, whose dark tint states the name of the fragrance without having to write it.
The collar is gold, the stopper rounded and translucent. The pleated glass, worked like drapery, gives the volume its depth. The reference is double: Eve's apple and Snow White's, two fruits one should not bite.
The shape served as a mold for the whole line. Tendre Poison takes up the apple in green, Hypnotic Poison in red, Pure Poison in clear glass, Poison Girl in pink. The silhouette changes color, never drawing.