La Collection Privée

Spice Blend Dior 2019

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7.7 / 10 241 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

7.7241 Ratings

Longevity

7.5213 Ratings

Sillage

7.0211 Ratings

Bottle

8.2220 Ratings

Value for money

6.2128 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

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/01/2024

4
Pricing 7
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 7
Scent

Musicandarts
206 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

8
Pricing 9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

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

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Siebenkäs
35 Reviews

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Siebenkäs

Top Review 29

Subversion

They stood around in the courtyard in their grey felt robes,
again, one leaning against the other, in silence,
waiting.
The walls of the houses were grey, as were the shops of the
Windows, the frames and the doors. Grey were the pavement
and the small walls, the benches in front of the grey parks-
areas and grey on grey the lettering on the prohibitions-
describe. Grey were the tubs in which grey trees
and grey was also the exit, which led out
into the wide, gently shimmering grey landscape.
C11 put his hand on his jacket and felt the firm,
round shape of the flacon. All of a sudden he saw it in front of him,
he didn't even have to bring it out. A perfect
Foreign matter. Cylindrical, salmon-coloured or rosè, perhaps
also mauve. He knew many such wonderful colour-
names from the Forbidden Books. And warm he seemed
to be as if a heart was beating inside him.
All of a sudden the effect kicked in. The scent she first
a few minutes ago, began to apply it
...to lift it up. First only a small piece, then more,
over the grey ground, over to the other one
Page.
What carried him, safe and reliable, was a strange
familiar melange of warm spices, a light
sweet breath of kitchen luck and herbal secrets,
from loving baking secrets and old grandmothers
know. A brownish-orange world where he is gently
without knowing where he actually was.

Only now he noticed not far from himself M24, which is in
in her own little scent.
He knew that it was a slightly different kind of magic that made her
uplifted, comparable perhaps with another,
no less powerful fuel. He knew these games-
type of elixir almost as good as his preferred one, the
spicy warm. For her it was this certain, strange
encouraging freshness that she took with her. A freshness,
which at the same time reminded her of her father's shaving rituals,
and which carried something blue-green with it, but in which also
soft golden and ochre scents floated.
And which led them back to long gone
School routes, where the only pleasant thing is a little
red gumball machine. Which was kind of illegal
the effect of sweet-fresh, artificial minty of the colourful
Gum balls loved them both. Just like the
comforting power of cloves and this not directly
tangible, tender-elegant sweetness, which at the same time reminds of flowers
and reminded me of simple childhood dessert pleasures.
Something powdery-floating was to be something at once
Light and heavy, which had the power to take them out of the
Gray to kidnap.
Whether the one who provided them with the powerful substance, supplied
put herself in great danger, she cared little.
Also not whether something completely different is behind it
could.
She also didn't care much that he
"Spice Blend." They just called him "Blend" -
because it sounded so beautiful. And because they were so dazzled
by the colors of the other side. But also because it
just sounded so wonderfully friendly.
And certainly that wasn't an incorrect name for something,
which will always be soft to you as with a soft shutter
opened the access to another world again.
A world that gave you the opportunity again and again,
to get to know someone totally new.
Yourself.
And so each time they swept a little bit stronger and
more relaxed. The grey seemed to them to be a little less
to be monotonous and depressing, they could with a
Sometimes subtle differences can be detected. And so they began
to give it names - stone grey, field grey, mouse grey,
old iron grey and hair grey, wood grey, skin grey, light grey
and leaf grey.
After every trip to the other side with her double-
bödigkeit of warming, sweet and toasty spice and
self-confident freshness, the something anti-authoritarian, almost
more subversive, they found the gray less mono-
chrome, less colourless, less intense.
And in the same measure the other one appeared to them
Side to gradually become a little paler.
It was as if the bowls of a scale were slowly
...to get out of the city.
And so they wandered back and forth as needed and
became older and more satisfied, calmer and more sedate.
Little by little the contrasts between the
Worlds softer and more blurred, like the pictures
in a never-ending crossfade.
But a smooth, inconspicuous greyish grey crept in /> clothed being - the forgetting.

And the big TJB23, third largest in its sign
algorithmic core, leaned back satisfied
back. Yes, he could probably be satisfied, because once
more he had been able to close a leak, from which only to
were happy to escape unpredictable wishes.

And yet, unnoticed, unremarkable and
hidden, they still remained, patiently waiting -
the untrodden paths, unfelt feelings and
undreamed of dreams.

04/01/2021

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Serenissima
722 Reviews

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Serenissima

Top Review 22

creole fire

"Hey, let's swim!" cried the spices, and plunged headlong into the great cauldron of rum extract.
There they romped and dove, and it wasn't long before a heavy warm-spicy aroma escaped the cauldron, and even faster until the intensely paddling crowd was just giggling and chortling: a good rum has 40% alcohol, after all! And this spice blend was right in the middle of it.
What was an experienced perfumer to do now?
Apart from shaking his head, the only thing left to do was to try to bring order to this spice brew.

I'll try that once, too, only with my own sensory means and the help of the Internet:
So, spices - watch out!
Ginger in the first row; the already aromatic rum becomes so immediately a trace more fiery!
Pink and black pepper: you follow and don't overdo it; spicy doesn't just mean hot and biting! Remember my sensitive nose: pizzling is delightful, biting is not!
Ha, here come some cinnamon sticks swimming up! Good, we need them for sweetness and heat:
fiery heat alone is not all; it must also maintain aromatic depth!
Clove, nutmeg and coriander: you provide exotic flair; but please also without overdoing it.
What is still swimming here in the golden brown liquid?
Laurel and some wood: well, fortunately no pellets, that would be a shame with this precious melange!
You booze hounds stay behind, because now the delicious smelling liquid is poured off, filtered and just needs a name:
"Spice Blend" - how about that?

No, of course it wasn't!
Monsieur Demachy certainly did his job conscientiously and seriously for the Christian Dior brand. After all, his name stands for quality!
And once again, "No!"
I am not drunk! Even as I shivered in the early evening, I thought of the rolls of flab that have been bothering me for months and passed up a "hot chocolate."
Also, as a summer woman, I only have white rum in the house; it didn't feel quite right.

But last Friday I received one of the rich "wish list fragrance packages" from a very dear perfumista and I remembered seeing something warm and spicy in it.
I rummaged and found "Spice Blend" and this feisty scent spirit immediately played me a bit of "theater of the senses."
Thus, the characterful marriage of intense spice notes with the effervescent personality of rum extract quickly became apparent.
If this rum extract is on record as originating in Martinique, all those spicy aromatics will be at home there as well.
The rich vibrant colors of the tropics now emerge before my "nose-eye": ochres, reds and browns appear on the palette of fragrances and make me think of Creole, sensual beauties.
Wasn't this Joséphine de Beauharnais' appeal to Napoléon at the time?

"Spice Blend" feels a bit out of the usual, always a bit serious pattern of Dior fragrances. So much 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 fragrance world of the French Antilles, bursting with life.
And "Spice Blend" is an entertaining travel companion there!
One more spritz and then we'll take off: Bon Voyage!

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