Dior Pure Poison

Pure Poison, where do I even start! The fact that I keep rebuying the bottle whenever I run out of juice for the last 15 years, is probably testament to how much I love this one.

Over the years this one has definitely been reformulated and it might be noticeable to more nuanced noses. My older bottles used to have more of a citrusy opening, but not the newer ones.

Pure Poison feels like pure love to me. Whenever I wear it, I feel like I'm cocooned in a layer of expensive lotion. It feels icy but in a refreshing manner, not in an aloof way. The gardenia and orange blossom in this make it crisp and clean. The jasmine is clean and translucent, not heady or indolic. The drydown is soft woody musk.

This is an intimate scent. Despite lacking projection, I remember an instance when I had just left my apartment and entered the elevator, one of my upstairs neighbours who was in the elevator had remarked that I smell lovely and asked what I was wearing (*it shocked me a bit coz (1) I'm not at all a morning person and hate interacting with people, and (2) nobody has ever commented on my perfume except my junior at work*).

Pure Poison lasts approx. 4 hours on me, I usually carry a decant in my bag when I'm wearing it so that I can respray at around 2pm. The older bottles (white cap) definitely had better performance. But my love for this perfume has not stopped me from rebuying it whenever I finish a bottle.

This one is timeless, clean and sophisticated for me personally. It is one of my no-brainer workday scents.