Miss Dior Essence Dior 2025

To me this is a must have fragrance, looking on here the reviews seems to be up and down with the ladies but in my opinion, this is one of my favorite fragrances to smell on a female. The opening is kind of tart and very fruity with some spices and sweetened up with some dry vanilla notes. While the heart is white florals, I don't get any jasmine, with light woods coming in shortly. To me this is a very sexy fragrance that I do enjoy smelling on a lady.

This is beautiful; photo-realistic blackberry jam with a side of elderflower. Fruity, sweet, and deliciously jammy. I adore elderflower as a note so may be slightly biased on that score. I don’t really pick up on much jasmine; it’s there just about but remains very much in the background as a supporting floral. As it settles the oak wood comes into play, adding additional warmth and a robust, creamy smoothness. It’s not at all overpowering, however; this fragrance really is all about the fruit.

Longevity is great (8 hours+ on my skin) and projection moderate (gorgeous scent bubble for me, arm’s length for others). This is such a happy, uplifting fragrance, and spot-on perfect for autumn.

On paper this is a fruity jammy bomb but on my skin it opens as an entirely different perfume.

On spraying, it’s a bright, sweet and playful fruit gummies affair; orange, pear and black grapes. Within a minute or so the musky sweet elderflower arrives along with some blonde woods. It’s extremely pleasing when it hits your nose. Feminine, sweet, breezy with a little tease of powder. After a few minutes a slight jamminess appears and the muskiness disappears as the sweetness increases. I grow blackberries and I get zero blackberry in this perfume. It’s much more like red currant. The jasmine pulls through very smoothly and the perfume becomes a blended accord of bright summer fruits and jammy red berries with a hint of white floral. It’s somewhat whimsical with the musky elderflower. It’s very familiar here, it definitely smells like something from my teenage years. And this is where I start to lose heart. Because I think it reminds me of a body spray. An Impulse maybe? And is that a bad thing? That’s defo thrown me.

Anyway, as it starts to dry down it behaves somewhat like a changling. I get breezes of whimsical musky elderflower, sudden whiffs of fresh raspberry and redcurrant, some orange, pear and black grape all dancing on top of a floral blonde wood base. At times the oak becomes very prominent and catches me off guard. It’s nice from afar but when I bring my nose close to my skin it gives an earthy rotten wood whiff that clashes terribly with sweetness, somewhat synthetic and chemical which makes it take a turn of nail varnish remover and pencil shavings.

It has taken me a long time to write this review and I still haven’t figured out whether or not I like this perfume. I’ve worn this perfume multiple times to gather my thoughts and it still leaves me confused.

The smell from the top of the bottle is so sweet, fruity playful, fun and pleasing. I love the moment it’s sprayed very much indeed and the first 10 minutes after. It catches my attention but each time as it dries down I’m just not sure where it’s going or what’s it’s trying to be. I do like a woody perfume, but, to me, the woody base feels like it’s at war with the sweet fruity floral rather than complementing it. A quite masculine, earthy, vintage oak mixed with sweet fruity gummies that makes it lean into, at times, an unpleasant synthetic chemical smell. Instead of adding a sensual or alluring layer of intrigue and maturity, it smells at times like a body spray that’s meant to be sweet and playful but instead smells a bit dirty, like an unwashed teenager that’s trying to compensate, wearing a weeks worth of layers of various cheap body sprays on a stale school blazer that has had nail varnish remover spilt on it.

I think I can at least be certain that I won’t be buying a full bottle. But I can see people buying this in a department store when they immediately smell it, but then not being sure about it when they take it home and wear it properly. I haven’t smelt this on another person in the wild yet, so it will be interesting to see how my nose interprets that encounter.

A perfume that you can easily just not buy... I was very excited as well because I really loved the presentation of the notes and loved the miss dior line.

Well, like others said, just nothing special and it's really not a need. It has a very intense woody and jasmine note, quite well mixed with the flower. Tends to smell like a more powdery wood on the skin with a touch of playful/ syrupy jam.

I find again the "miss dior - le parfum" DNA wich is a fruity - patchouli mix, but with "La Vie est Belle L'Elixir | Lancôme" touch as well. This perfume is just that, Le parfum with Elixir.

I was excited when Dior announced their Miss Dior Essence along with the notion that it smells like blackberry jam with jasmine. My nose generally doesn't detect wood notes in most fragrances that are marketed towards women, especially as a base note. Sadly, the blackberry jam note lasted all of 5 minutes. There is no jasmine to be found. Oak wood completely took over, and to my complete and utter dismay, it stinks like tobacco. Over the next few hours, it began to take on a manure-like stench. Instead of washing it off, I left it on, and hoped for the best. I sprayed it at 11 AM; It is now 9:30 PM. It still lingers and smells a bit like ash.

It smells nothing like Lancome La vie est belle L'Elixir. I'll stick with that one.