Milly-la-Forêt, the new exclusive fragrance from "La Collection Couturier Parfumeur" is certainly a mistake, a human error made in the Dior factory. This is an unacceptable launch!
The perfume is a floral musky, extremely faint and smells like the detergent used to clean the bottles in a fragrance lab where there is allways some musk. Clean, light bergamot-mandarine, with non descript shades, with no diffusion and an average tenacity, this smells less than your usual body lotion. Because Dior doesn't give samples for this exclusive line I had to rely on the huge blotters from the boutique. I went 3 times because I could not believe my nose. After 4 hours I was not sure if the residual smell was a composition of François Demachy or the Dior blotters were poluted with something else, the basic accord of synthetic sandalwood, hediones, 0,01% synthetic moss and orris methyliones. Milly-la-Forêt, Leather Oud and J'adore L'or cannot be the works of the same perfumer. Milly La Forêt, a small city near Paris with a beautiful plant collection, is also a jewelry line from Dior Joaillerie (the 4 seasons) created in memory of the time spent there by Christian Dior and his mother. This perfume cannot be the interpretation of Milly-la-Forêt and its exquisite botanical garden (Conservatoire National des Plantes à Parfum, Médicinales, Aromatiques et Industrielles).
Quelle horreur!
In the official press release François Demachy says: "For me, conveying this place in a scent was like describing a walk in the forest. I wanted the accord to be very soft, almost cottony. A fresh musk, evoking the contrasts between light and dark found in the undergrowth, where it is dark, but where the halo of a clearing can always be seen in the distance." I still hope the bottles will be soon replaced from the shelves because this is the biggest disappointment after the beautiful creations I previously reviewed.
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