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 pearly white, Poison Girl in pink. The silhouette changes color, never drawing.
From the same line
- Tendre Poison
- Hypnotic Poison
- Pure Poison
- Midnight Poison
- Poison Girl
- Poison Girl Eau de Toilette
- Poison Girl Unexpected
- Hypnotic Poison Roller-Pearl
The whole line on the blog: Poison by Dior: the whole line, from 1985 to 2018
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