Miss Dior Dior Eau de Toilette Originale

Cyprus, late eighties: Wild taxi ride from Larnaca Airport over bumpy roads to Polis tis Chrysochous, rent a room from the villagers, then off to the overgrown beach, forty degrees, shower in the evening, then the small fish restaurant in the center of the village with delicious swordfish....A roommate from England smelled delicious when he came out of the shared bathroom, the bathroom still smelled heavenly afterwards and once I see what he uses: Eau Sauvage. In the airport duty free, I looked to see what else was available from Dior and discover a fluted bottle with a delicate ivory cap - and what comes out of the tester is simply terrific: Miss Dior, by Roudnitska, by who else, this old-school yet very new interpretation chypre is elegant and bold at the same time, and also highly eroticizing. The sparkling top note rises to the head like champagne, the base note has a sleepy voluptuous component. Wonderful and delicious, pulled out yesterday after a long time and fell in love all over again in a flash. (Small note: Brought out after a long time because I was reading a book about Ted Hughes yesterday and it kept mentioning a Dior perfume that Assia Wevill wore. The woman with whom he began an affair that eventually drove Sylvia Plath to suicide, and who also killed herself seven years later, in the same way Plath did, along with the child Shura she had with Hughes. Look at the photos of this beautiful woman: this could only have been Miss Dior (it was 1962, otherwise I would have thought Diorama too).

Comment refers to a bottle from about 2010 (looks like the photo here).