Category: Dior
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Sauvage by Dior
This post was written pre-release. I have a mantra: don’t trash, but fairly critique instead. As the information trickles [and as I type this, the information is still trickling] for Dior’s latest masculine, I am left sorely disappointed. Before I got my nose on this scent, I was positively charged…
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Dior Homme Intense by Dior
Consider this: Take a perfume closely associated with femininity – Say, Shalimar. Then, modernise it with an updated rendition, aimed to appeal to a younger market from a totally different generation. Tweaking tradition, we get Shalimar Parfum Initial from Thierry Wasser for Guerlain in 2011. The iris, prominent; with the…
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Fahrenheit Absolute by Dior
Let’s talk about movies. I tend to avoid horror movies, partially due to the fact that cheap scares and cheesy slashers do nothing for me. I like old movies, and especially Hitchcock films, with North by Northwest being an absolute favourite of mine. However, horror texts with allegorical messages, supernatural…
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J’adore (EdT) by Dior
Yeah, I get it. Florals; flowers. It’s not that the advertisement for a fragrance should mean anything (well, maybe anything other than the Neroli Portofino advertisement for Tom Ford), but the golden coloured Charlize Theron, regardless of all that razzle dazzle attire and hair makes me instantly either scour other…
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Eau Sauvage by Dior
I am by nature, a sentimentalist. Therefore I resultantly exude a sense of prestigiousness. Being a sentimentalist is important, especially in this study. It takes time for all of us, but the allure of the classics are instantaneous, transportive and in some respects life-changing. Like a sharp prick from a cold…
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Fahrenheit by Dior
Masculinity bottled. © 2014 Liam Sardea Ultimately, Dior’s Fahrenheit is a very distinctive fragrance. It is described as something: Truly embodying the pioneering spirit of Dior, Fahrenheit entered a territory thus far unexplored by a fragrance: the land of dreams, of fancy, of the quest for meaning and the infinite. A legendary…
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