I smell so good right now, it’s ridiculous. I’ve got about four or five (so far) of the new Dior La Collection Couturier scents on, and I haven’t found one yet that I hate.
This is the perfect way to wrap up 2010, wading through a bunch of new Dior scents that not only do not suck, but smell great and fell almost… dare i say it? Diorish. No, not clear back to the Diorling, Dioressence days, which not just a few people hate (I know! but it is true), but the feel is classic, defined, with a clear idea of what it is. There’s a lot of nods to modernity, but no kowtowing
I don’t want to blast out some hasty reviews, so I’m going to just roll around in these for a few days, take them to Kansas with me for the holidays, and try and write more coherent reviews that say more that “WOWIREALLYLIKETHEM!!! and “We girls are gonna love the so-called masculines as much as the boys do.”
My disclaimer is I have all of these scents in hand because I got them for TPC, and that’s my source. But instead of making you wait for thoughtful reviews, and because it is so close to Christmas, on behalf of TPC, we’re going to give away four sample sets of all seven of the new scents to four lucky commenters. So comment away on anything you like, what you’re wearing today, which one of these you want to smell the most, or none of them? Do you think this is another overreach of releasing too many at one time? Big-honking bottles, yes, and it is annoying, but they are cheap per ml.
I’d love to smell all of them, for perhaps there will be one that I would consider to be a “winner”; although I do agree sometimes certain companies do release too many at the same time.
I’d be interested to smell these, but most likely won’t get a chance. My lack of access to perfume stores is one of the big things I hate about living on a little island. Honestly, without TPC and swapping I’d still be living in the land of magazine perfume strips, still under the mistaken impression that I hate the smell of rose and having never realized that Cumming smells a little bit like my dog’s paws. :)
Hi Patty,
I’ve been reading your blogs and reviews for a while, but never commented because honestly I don’t feel savvy enough. Everyone usually has tried a multitude of fragrances and “knows” the what’s what’s of perfumes. I should also add that currently I wear BB products because it’s affordable. I fantasize about all the delicious scents you review and try to find them, on my budget of course, but usually end up with nothing.
Thank you for your generous offer, and for writing such vivid and fluid commentary on perfumes.
Happy New Year!
Happy holidays! I’m working my way through my last few drops of Theorema parfum (wah!) and hoping for something to replace it with, so I’d love to try something new.
After a hectic Christmas Eve, I am lolling on the sofa surfing perfume blogs, looking for the perfect perfume. Not sure what that means. I just spent a bundle on 2: Tauer’s L’air du desert morrocan (if I spelled that correctly more power to me!) and Amourage Epic Woman…like them yes, are either THE ONE, no. I purchased them on a jaunt to Vancouver where my husband and I got carried away. I should know better as committed to tester vials as I am. Long story short. Still searching.
I love Dior scents as a rule and have been waiting to try these until the Christmas budget issue has been resolved….Safe travels and happy holidays Patty!
I am sure I’m too late on this drawing but I came late to the article and would love to try at least :) And my fragrance related comment to go along with this is that I’m wearing two fragrances that Luca Turin belittles in he and Sanchez’s book that I absolutely love. Rose 31, a recent gift, is wonderful to me. It’s not amazingly complex, but certainly not boring. I find it incredible that he gives such accolades to Malle Outrageous but pins Rose 31 as not rose, and boring. The other is Jo Malone 154. The fragrance is a real shape shifter. I get smoky, green, rich, resinous, deliciousness and Turin bills it a typical “sport” style masculine. I wonder if he sniffed the first 5 seconds and then washed it off. Add these to the list of “Luca Turin did me WRONG” fragrances :) Rant completed :) Happy Holidays everyone!
Testing out Smell Bent One and Prairie Nymph on Christmas Eve. Prairie Nymph is a great combination of honey, orange and carnation, like what I thought Fendi Theorema would be.
Thanks for the great giveaway – I’d love to try the new Dior collection! Merry Christmas! :)
Oh, of course it’s too many at once, but that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t love to win the samples – please enter me in the drawing.
SOTD: Chanel no 5, in lovely between-rainstorms weather. More rain due tomorrow, Christmas day, when I’ll probably wear Bois de Paradis for a good mulled-spices holiday vibe. Happy holidays and a good new year to all!
I’m always vary of any lines that put out a zillion scents all at once so it’s exciting to read that they don’t suck! Predictably, I’m most curious about the vetiver (+coffee??) one, what with being a vetiver freak an’all.
I’m still annoyed that the one counter in my area that used to have these (well, the first 3) stopped stocking them. Not that testing them was easy anyway, since they stocked the frags but never had any testers. Anyway, I’d love a chance to try these properly!
Please enter me in the draw too! Like Claudia, I’ve been wearing Etro Messe de Minuit alot lately; it’s my comfort scent. But today I put on Demeter’s Wet Garden in defiance of the winter cold!
I hope I’m not too late to be in on this draw. I’m happy to have a job, but honestly, I’m tired of having to work so hard! Especially when it keeps me away from my perfume blogs. My holiday scents have been Etro Messe de Minuit and an Orange and Cinnamon scent from a Italian perfumer whose exact name I can’t reproduce here. (the bottle is upstairs and I’m too lazy/tired to go get it.) It’s from Florence though. I wore it last Christmas, and my niece hugged me, then said Yum, and buried her head in the crook of my neck and nestled there for awhile. She hasn’t done that since she was a little girl. It was my favorite Christmas present.
Wow. I’d love to win that. Sadly, my favorite scent this season is my little tiny Guerlain Winter Delice. Why can’t everyone else stop bidding on ebay and let me win one of those rare big bottles? Or better yet, why can’t Guerlain forego some of their less wonderful recent releases and bring this one back?
This new Dior collection is EXACTLY why TPC (and decanters in general) rock! How could we pick from among all of these choices unsniffed– given the “big, honking bottles”. Winning your giveaway would be nice of course, but I’ll be on the web ordering decants very soon ;)
I would love to try this Collection. Please, enter me in the draw.
Yesterday I was wearing Diptyque Tam Dao, which is one of the perfumes I enjoy in Christmas days. In fact, it was the perfume I wore last year while the Christmas Eve dinner.
This year I think I will pick Kenzo Amour le Parfum. The incense on it is lovely and it matches my mood.
Thank you very much and Merry Christmas!
These new Diors give me hope for the house. My mother wore Diorissimo and the current iteration smells nothing like what it was in her day. . Sigh and possibly sob…….
I am really looking forward to your reviews of these. Please enter me in the draw.
Thanks for the drawing. I would love to be entered.
Here’s wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season!
Oh, please, enter me the draw- I’m so trilled at the revival of a great house
wearing SL Filles en aiguilles, just love it!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all
I just came from Scentbar–so I smell really good! Amouage Opus II–Boadacea Alluring– PdN Vanille Tonks–Unicorn Spell–ooh lala. Got the Vanille Tonka for my Mom–I hope she likes it. Would love to be entered for the draw, thanks and happy holidays!:)>-
The only one I have tried is New Look 1947. Love it! It may be my favorite of 2010.
I would love to try the others.
Have a wonderful and relaxing holiday!
So many comments. I never win anything by chance, so I suppose there’s no point in getting my hopes up, but I WOULD like to try those new Dior fragrances.
Since you asked, I started the day by sampling Costume National Homme, then tried Michael Storer’s Djinn, then some pure oakmoss on one hand and oakmoss plus Iso E Super on the other, and am now wearing the civet-rich version of my own perfume in progress, Golden Cattleya.
If that isn’t enough to turn your stomach and send me the Diors out of sympathy, I don’t know what is.
SOTD is 31 Rue Cambon. Ok,ok, yes, I am on record as saying this is the perfect heels-and-hose-going-out-for-a-fancy-evening perfume, but couldn’t help but spritz it today despite having no swank cocktail parties on my agenda – only wrapping presents, taming my VERY excited kidlets, running errands and an appt with my optometrist. But I really did small fabulous ;-)
Please enter me.
I wore Avignon today for last minute Christmas shopping – I love how it develops through the day. On me it starts very heavy with a medievel-stone cathedral-like and ends up so much sweeter.
Merry Christmas, Patty!
Enter me! I am curious. I am wearing Naivris (spell?) today from the 8th Art sample set. snice.
Oooh, totally curious about these, but gah! hate when it’s a decent price but too-big bottles.
I actually feel I’m smelling pretty good as well. I was in Whole Foods and spritzed on a vanilla amber edt by a brand I could have sworn was called Tulip, but now I can’t find any mention of it online ANYWHERE and it’s driving me crazy because I LOVE this scent and wanted to know about the other scents and about the company without trekking back to Whole Foods during a crazy holiday weekend.
Would love to be in for the draw, especially for Milly-la-Forêt and more especially for New Look 1947. They sound so appropriate for a seasoned woman! Thanks for the opportunity. Happy New Year!
I’m wearing Back to Black (by Kilian) today and smell oh so sweet!
Please enter me in the drawing.
Thank you!
I would like to be entered in the draw. I bought my first bottle of Miss Dior in 1966 in Paris…would like to experience some other Diors.
thanks.
Vetiver sounds very raw… I’d love to smell that one in particular! I’m relatively new to the fragrance world and am really liking vetiver, but haven’t sniffed a vetiver-coffee note yet. Thanks for the chance to win!
Good eye, eswift – or should I say good nose? Jo Malone used to do Black Vetyver Cafe, which I really like, though it is a bit simple. The vetiver-coffee angle can definitely work. I’m looking forward to Dior’s take, too!
Looking forward to your reviews! They all sound wonderful, especially Mitzah, but not sure how I’m going to get my hands on this stuff.. please enter me in the draw then!
Oh, yay! Thank you so much for the drawing – I’ve been wanting to sample these since I heard about the collection. I think I’m most interested in New Look 1947 as I’m a white floral addict, but Mitzah also sounds intriguing, as well as Bois d’Argent and Eau Noire, which I haven’t tried yet… so many to look forward to! :o)
good to hear that these smell good – they sounded good, but that doesn’t always translate, as we all know. would love to roll around in them, too.
i was thrilled to find cdg daphne at my fave local boutique today – i didn’t know they were going to get it, so it was a fun surprise. i love daphne, even as so many despise it. ha. when i asked for a decant of daphne at barney’s the SAs made such faces i offered to do it myself, so they wouldn’t get it on their hands. they were all too happy to let me!
The leather oud one sounds right up my alley! Please enter me in the draw!
I have a little bit of a few of these. The vetyver is amazing!! Really classy. Would love to try these samples! Esp. Leather oud:)
I’m still in that phase where I want to try everything, so, um, I want to try all of them!
V e r y interested in these….New Look intriguing. Please enter me in the draw. I have a little Parisienne on….I say little because with a cold it is hard to discern the smells…Merry Christmas to you.
HAPPY HOLS!
I would love to try these — that leather oud has been calling to me…
Ooh, please enter me, these sound great! I am looking forward to smelling the leather one very much, and all the others too. I am SO glad they made an effort with this new group!
SOTD: DSH Perfumes Tamarind Paprika, which just smells deliciously “holiday” to me for some reason, very tangy fruit with a hint of spicy heat.
These new Diors sound fabulous! I went to the Rene Gruau exhibition at Somerset House earlier in the week and it has really re-kindled my Dior love. Would love to sample them please! Thank you.
Wearing a Roja Dove semi-bespoke today: No 6. Heavenly powdery oriental. Oh, and Pluie in extrait? Yes pleez.
Merry Christmas!
Sounds great, Patty. I’ve been wearing spicy holiday-type scents in the last few days, or deep chypres, to keep warm: Diva, Femme, Youth Dew Amber Nude, Cinnabar.
What a wonderful give away! I’m wearing Ralph Lauren’s Turquoise today and wishing I were at home reading the book I just picked up – Chandler Burr’s ‘The Perfect Scent’
Happy Holidays to everyone!
Happy holidays Patty.
Please enter me in the drawing. I am wearing the DSH mushroom thing and I really don’t like it. Way too much birch tar and not much else. Makes Andy’s Lonestar Memories smell like a pretty light floral in comparison. Have her Silver Fir on the other wrist and it’s so aquatic/ozonic, I think it is going to get thrown out post haste. Where are the damn trees?
Thanks, Patty. Please enter me in the drawing because I am dying to test New Look and Mitzah.
I am wearing Anne Pliska today. It smells like Christmas in a bottle to me.
Hugs!
Wow, how great to read about a new collection that’s not only not disappointing, but actually good! Would love to see what they’re like.
Oh my gosh! I ant to smell them all, but especially Leather Oud. i don’t think it’s overkill if the scents are worthy, like most, if not all if the Chanel Exclusifs. Anyway, please please enter me in the draw.
I’ve got a cold, so just wearing a spritz of Yves Rocher Vanilla for comfort. Would love to try these – thanks for the drawing!
I’d love to try them all though none of them sound very Christmassy which is what I’m in the mood for now. Merry Christmas one and all.
I’ll be a broken record and say that Leather Oud is at the top of my (and it seems many other) list, please enter me!
:)
I’m still trying to decide what to wear today… still working on my excellent swappage samples! Timbuktu started working for me recently– it really glows in all our rainy weather in Seattle. VERY excited about the Diors!
Throw me in, please!
Happy Solstice, everyone!
I was just thinking the other day how much I adore the old Dior’s. Diorella, Diorissimo, Dioressence. I’m so grateful that they are still being produced and even more grateful that I found a store that has some older (although not vintage) bottles. I was not aware of this new collection, but you can bet I’ll want to give them a try!
I’m wearing PG’s Cadjmere today (sp?). Perfect for the wet, cloudy weather here.
Please enter me in the drew & Merry Christmas!