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Miss Dior Essence Dior 2025

6.8 / 10 140 Ratings

A new perfume by Dior for women, released in 2025. The scent is fruity-sweet. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Fruity

Sweet

Floral

Woody

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Blackberry jam

Elderflower

Heart Notes

Jasmine sambac

Base Notes

Oak wood

Perfumer

Francis Kurkdjian

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Ratings

Scent

6.8140 Ratings

Longevity

8.0106 Ratings

Sillage

7.6102 Ratings

Bottle

8.4108 Ratings

Value for money

5.978 Ratings

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Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is the Israeli-American actress, director and film producer Natalie Portman.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

La Vie est Belle L'Elixir

Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/16/2025

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

MaxSmells
93 Reviews

MaxSmells

2

Miss Dior essence

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.

09/07/2025

6Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

CurlyHen
42 Reviews

CurlyHen

2

Beautiful opening, but the oak in the dry down is at war with the sweet fruitiness.

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.

09/21/2025

Ganii
135 Reviews

Ganii

1

Not special

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 touch as well. This perfume is just that, Le parfum with Elixir.

09/02/2025

1Scent 10Longevity 5Sillage

glitterbot
8 Reviews

glitterbot

1

Hard pass.

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.

10/02/2025

Frizzen44
7 Reviews

Frizzen44

1

Grown-up fragrance that reminds me of childhood.

My first reaction trying this on paper was overpowering, eye-watering blackberry with elderberry undertones.

The initial drydown on skin is also pretty overwhelming, but once it dried... I've harvested black raspberries and black elderberries at home since I was a kid. This perfume is the warm, strong scent of a pot of blackberry jelly simmering on the stove, with hints of elderberry from the last batch you just made. For me, the florals are beautiful supporting notes that don't overshadow the fruit. The woody notes add a warmth that so many fruity fragrances lack.

The longevity is great, I could still smell warm, fruity wood 8 hours later close to my skin.

I did not want to love this perfume. It's more than I care to spend on a fragrance and it seemed overhyped. I was wrong and I've already bought a backup bottle in case they change it.

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