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La Collection Privée

Spice Blend Dior 2019

7.8 / 10 247 Ratings

A popular perfume by Dior for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is spicy-sweet. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Spicy

Sweet

Woody

Fresh

Oriental

Fragrance Notes

Bay rum

Madagascar pepper

Pink pepper

Cinnamon

Ginger

Rum absolute

Perfumer

François Demachy

Ratings

Scent

7.8247 Ratings

Longevity

7.5216 Ratings

Sillage

7.0214 Ratings

Bottle

8.2225 Ratings

Value for money

6.2131 Ratings

Submitted by RobK, last update on 07/12/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the La Collection Privée collection.

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Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/01/2024

7Scent 6Longevity 5Sillage

Musicandarts
227 Reviews

Musicandarts

2

Underwhelming rum accord with a peppery amber vibe

I have been binge-testing perfumes from the La Collection Privée Christian Dior using 7.5 ml samples. So far, I have been a bit underwhelmed with this series. Even more so, when I compare them to the much superior Givenchy La Collection Particuliere. The Dior perfumes are made with high quality ingredients and blended exquisitely by renowned perfumers. But they are a little short on creativity and uniqueness. Spice Blend is no exception. This perfume plays on Dior’s fascination with Cuba, though it was released only in 2019, decades after Dior’s death. The perfumer behind Spice Blend is François Demachy, who created most of the perfumes in this series.

Dior website lists fresh rum, ginger and pepper as the major accords in this perfume. I find no reason to argue with Demachy, though independent websites sense cinnamon, coriander, pink pepper, black pepper, nutmeg, bay leaf and woody notes. If these exist in Spice Blend, they are too finely blended for an amateur like me to detect.

Here is what I smell. Spice Blend opens with a rum accord spiced with ginger and pepper. But it is not the caramelized sweet rum accord that you smell in a piña colada. It has an amber vibe, which in combination with pepper vaguely evokes Ambre Sultan from Serge Lutens. There is no significant development for this perfume on my skin. The heart notes are essentially what you smell in the opening, but perhaps a bit subdued. The base notes and the dry down are too weak to describe. I sense a very mild spice blend – clove, ginger, cinnamon etc.- and a hint some woody notes.

The performance is solidly midrange, which can be euphemistically called elegant or gentlemanly. Spice Blend lasts for a few hours on me, but projects little. Sillage is also mediocre, although detectable in the opening hours.

Spice Blend is yet another perfume that is good not great. Given the misleadingly high score that Spice Blend receives from reviewers, it is important to test it on your skin. It is an inoffensive perfume that is versatile enough for most settings. But I cannot recommend it because its high cost disproportionate to its generic performance.

08/02/2023

Thomasgumu
6 Reviews

Thomasgumu

1

Fresh and spicy

Dior Spice Blend is a fantastic spicy fragrance. But not the kind of spicy that blows your nose. It is soft, warm and fresh at the same time. You have a nice blend of woody notes, spices (cinnamon, pepper, cloves, coriander), rum and ginger.

Performances are not too strong. It will not stay all the day on your skin but it projects very well for the first 3-4 hours.
It's one of the best fragrance of the Dior Collection (if not the best).

12/02/2024

9Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Drewboi
3 Reviews

Drewboi

1

Really enjoyable scent.

I personally like this scent. Wouldn’t have thought that I would like a perfume like this considering I am not a huge fan of spicy fragrances, but this one is really nicely blended.

The rum accord really shines in the first hour after applying, after that the cinnamon gets a bit more noticeable but it doesn’t become overwhelming.
There’s also a nice freshness coming from it which I really enjoy.

Really great stuff, performance is also really impressive for me, getting around 8-10 hours without overspraying. I would say it works almost all year-round with maybe being careful with the sprays in the summer.

I would recommend to try this before buying.

For me this is a solid 9/10 and another Demachy masterpiece.

10/23/2020

9Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Siebenkäs
35 Reviews

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Siebenkäs

Top Review 29

Subversion

They stood around in the courtyard in their gray felt robes,
once again, one leaning against the other, silently,
waiting.
The walls of the houses were gray, as were the shutters of the
windows, the frames, and the doors. Gray were the paving
stones and the small walls, the benches in front of the gray park-
lands and gray on gray the inscriptions on the prohibition-
signs. Gray were the planters, in which gray little trees
stood, and gray was also the exit that led out
into the vast, softly gray shimmering landscape.
C11 placed his hand on his jacket and felt the firm,
round shape of the bottle. Suddenly, he saw it before him,
he didn’t even need to take it out. A perfect
foreign body. Cylindrical, salmon-colored or rose, perhaps
also mauve. He knew many such wonderful color-
names from the Forbidden Books. And it seemed to be
warm, as if a heart was beating inside it.
Suddenly, the effect set in. The scent they had just
applied a few minutes ago began to lift him up. First just a little,
then more, over the gray ground, across to the Other
Side.
What carried him, safe and reliable, was a strangely
familiar mélange of warm spices, a slightly
sweet breath of kitchen happiness and herbal secrets,
of loving baking secrets and old grandmother-
knowledge. A brownish-orange world in which he gently
rested, without knowing where he actually was.

Only now did he notice M24 not far from him, who was
moving in her own little cloud of fragrance.
He knew it was a somewhat different magic that lifted her,
perhaps comparable to another, no less powerful fuel. He knew this play-
style of the elixir almost as well as his preferred one, the
spicy-warm. For her, it was this certain, strangely
uplifting freshness that carried her away. A freshness
that simultaneously reminded her of her father's shaving rituals,
and that carried something blue-green with it, in which also
soft golden and ochre-colored scent tones floated.
And that led her back to long-past school paths, where the only
delight was a small red gumball machine. They both loved the somehow
forbidden sweet-fresh, artificial mintiness of the colorful
gum balls. Just as much as the comforting power of cloves and this not directly
graspable, delicately elegant sweetness that reminded them of both
flowers and simple childhood dessert joys.
It was something powdery-floating, something both
light and heavy, that had the power to take them away from the
gray.
Whether the one who supplied them with the powerful substance
was putting himself in great danger, mattered little to them.
Nor did it concern them whether something entirely different could be
behind it.
They were not particularly interested that he called it
“Spice Blend.” They simply called it “Blend” -
because it sounded so beautiful. And because they were so blinded
by the colors of the Other Side. But also because it
just sounded so wonderfully friendly.
And surely that was not a wrong name for something
that gently, like with a soft filter, repeatedly opened
the access to another world for them.
A world that always gave them the opportunity to
meet someone completely new.
Themselves.
And so they returned each time a little stronger and
calmer. The gray seemed to them a little less
monotonous and oppressive, they could suddenly notice fine
differences. And so they began to give it names - stone gray, field gray, mouse gray,
old iron gray and hair gray, wood gray, skin gray, light gray
and leaf gray.
After each journey to the Other Side with its double-
edged warmth of sweet-comforting spice and
self-assured freshness, which had something anti-authoritarian, almost
subversive about it, they found the gray less mono-
chrome, less colorless, less intense.
And in equal measure, the Other Side also gradually appeared to them a little
fainter.
It was as if the scales of a balance were slowly
settling.
And so they wandered back and forth as needed and
grew older and more content, calmer and more ponderous.
Gradually, the contrasts between the
worlds became softer and blurrier, like the images
in an endless crossfade.
But into this crept a smooth, inconspicuous gray-
clad being - Forgetting.

And the great TJB23, the third largest
algorithmic core being, leaned back contentedly.
Yes, he could indeed be satisfied, for once again he had been able
to close a leak from which unpredictable wishes could all too
eagerly escape.

And yet, unnoticed, inconspicuously and
hidden, they remained, patiently waiting -
the untraveled paths, unfelt feelings and
undreamed dreams.

04/01/2021

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Serenissima
1216 Reviews

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Serenissima

Top Review 22

Creole Fire

"Hey, let’s go swimming!" shouted the spices as they dove headfirst into the large cauldron of rum extract.
There they frolicked and splashed, and it didn’t take long before a heavy warm-spicy scent rose from the cauldron, and even faster, the intensely paddling crowd was only giggling and gurgling: a good rum has 40% alcohol content after all! And this spice mixture was right in the middle of it.
What was an experienced perfumer to do?
Aside from shaking his head, the only option left was to try to bring order to this spice brew.

I’ll give it a try too, just with my own sensual means and the help of the internet:
So, spices - listen up!
Ginger in the front row; the already aromatic rum will become a bit spicier right away!
Pink and black pepper: you follow and don’t overdo it; spicy doesn’t just mean sharp and biting! Think of my sensitive nose: tingling is delightful, biting is not!
Ha, here come some cinnamon sticks swimming along!
Good, we need them for sweetness and warmth: fiery heat alone isn’t everything; it also needs to have aromatic depth!
Clove, nutmeg, and coriander: you provide exotic flair; but please, without overdoing it.
What else is floating in this golden-brown liquid?
Bay leaf and a bit of wood: well, thankfully no pellets, that would be a shame for this precious mélange!
You boozers stay behind, because now the deliciously fragrant liquid is being poured off, filtered, and only needs a name:
"Spice Blend" - how about that?

No, of course it wasn’t like that!
Monsieur Demachy surely did his work diligently and seriously for the brand Christian Dior. After all, his name stands for quality!
And once again: "No!"
I am not drunk! Even when I was shivering early in the evening, I thought of the love handles that have been bothering me for months and skipped the "Hot Chocolate".
As a summer woman, I only have white rum at home; it didn’t quite feel right.

But last Friday, I received one of the rich "wish list fragrance packages" from a very dear parfumista, and I remembered seeing something warm and spicy in it.
I rummaged through and found "Spice Blend", and this lively scent spirit immediately played a little "Theater of the Senses" for me.
The strong character of intense spice notes quickly revealed itself, combined with the sparkling personality of the rum extract.
If this rum extract is indeed from Martinique, then all these spicy aromatics must also be at home there.
Before my "nose-eye," the rich vibrant colors of the tropics emerge: ochre, red, and brown appear on the palette of scents and make me think of creole, sensual beauties.
Wasn’t this what made Joséphine de Beauharnais so alluring to Napoléon back then?

"Spice Blend" feels somewhat outside the usual, always a bit serious framework of Dior fragrances. Such passionate warmth is rarely found in them.
I certainly haven’t encountered it before. And so this trip on my "Christian Dior" fragrance expedition will be a detour into the vibrant scent world of the French Antilles.
And "Spice Blend" is an entertaining travel companion for that journey!
Just one more spritz and then we’re off: Bon Voyage!

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