OlfactionaryPoison(1985)
Christian Dior · Edouard Fléchier · Amber
Created by Edouard Flechier for Christian Dior, Poison opens on pimento, coriander, and wild berries, moves through a heart of tuberose, plum, honey, and cinnamon, and closes on opoponax, vanilla, sandalwood, and musk.
Created by Edouard Flechier for Christian Dior, Poison opens on pimento, coriander, and wild berries, moves through a heart of tuberose, plum, honey, and cinnamon, and closes on opoponax, vanilla, sandalwood, and musk. Its provocative name and famously overpowering, room-filling sillage made it one of the most talked-about and polarizing fragrance launches of the 1980s, and Dior deliberately leaned into its intensity as a marketing hook rather than tempering it. Poison remains a frequently cited benchmark for the decade's maximalist, unapologetically loud school of perfumery, its dense tuberose-plum-spice construction still recognizable from across a room.
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