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Poison

1985OrientalEDTFrance

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Editorial notes

  1. 01

    A narcotic plum-tuberose oriental composed under a brief to create a darkly seductive scent entirely opposed to the chypre conventions of the period.

  2. 02

    So dense in sillage that several restaurants in Europe and North America reportedly asked wearers not to wear it on the premises in the late 1980s.

  3. 03

    By October 1985, Galeries Lafayette in Paris was reportedly selling one bottle every 50 seconds. Maurice Roger chose the provocative name to break with the pastoral fragrance titles of the era.

  4. 04

    Composed by Édouard Fléchier in 1985 around plum and anise over a tuberose-honey-carnation heart, in a dark amethyst apple-shaped flacon evoking the forbidden fruit.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active. Reformulated.

A narcotic plum tuberose oriental.

Composed by
Édouard Fléchier
Founder
Christian Dior
Country
France

The pyramid

Top
corianderplumanisepepperwild berries
Heart
tuberosehoneycarnationorange blossomrose
Base
vanillamuskopopanaxsandalwoodamber

The brief

Composed under a brief to create a darkly seductive, narcotic floral entirely opposed to the chypre conventions of the period.

NameMaurice Roger chose the deliberately provocative name 'Poison' to break with the pastoral, innocent fragrance names of the early 1980s.

The flacon

Dark amethyst apple-shaped flacon, evoking the forbidden fruit and the legend of Snow White.

Footnotes

  • Poison was so dense in sillage that several restaurants in Europe and North America reportedly asked wearers not to wear it on the premises in the late 1980s.
  • By October 1985, Galeries Lafayette in Paris was reportedly selling one bottle of Poison every 50 seconds.

The Curator's Note

A perfume so dense that restaurants began banning it as a personal accessory.

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