Tendre Poison was launched by Dior in 1994, nine years after Poison, and signed by Edouard Fléchier, the author of its elder. The first offshoot of the line, aimed at a younger audience, it is a green floral: galbanum and mandarin at the top, freesia and orange blossom at the heart, sandalwood and vanilla in the base. It is no longer produced today.
Dior described Tendre Poison in three stages: galbanum and mandarin at the top, freesia and orange blossom for the heart, a warm and subtle base of sandalwood and vanilla. Now Smell This and Perfume Shrine list the same materials.
What the critics perceive
Robin, of Now Smell This, smells galbanum floating above very sweet floral and citrus notes. The fragrance settles into a simpler floral than Poison, tinged with green and amply sweetened with honeyed vanilla, without heavy spices or an oriental base.
Elena Vosnaki, of Perfume Shrine, reads it as a light green floral built around freesia, a little sharp and soapy. The pale woods of the base keep a powdery undertone that beckons you closer; she counts heliotrope among the heart notes.
What stays out
The honey Robin cites and Elena Vosnaki’s heliotrope do not appear in the house’s description and remain described in prose. The tuberose, rose, bergamot, rosewood, or asafoetida sometimes attributed to Tendre Poison do not appear there either.
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