Dior · 1998 · Annick Menardo

Hypnotic Poison

VersionEau de Toilette

Dior says

You’ll smell almond, jasmine sambac and vanilla.

More from Dior’s description

It also mentions Jasmine, Bitter almond, Bitter almond-caraway accord, Sambac jasmine accord, Moss-jacaranda wood accord and Vanilla-musk accord.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Hypnotic Poison’s scent picture, a draft: almond, jasmine, vanilla (vanillin), oakmoss, musk, sandalwood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Hypnotic Poison, top notes: Almond

Heartas it settles

Hypnotic Poison, heart: Jasmine

Dry-downwhat stays

Hypnotic Poison, dry-down: Vanilla (vanillin), Oakmoss, Musk, Sandalwood

What’s inside it

What Dior names

AlmondJasmine sambacVanillaJasmineMoss-jacaranda wood accord

What the label names

6 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 woods1 sweet1 spices

Citrus1

Limonene

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Woods2

SantalolSandalwood oil

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Spices1

Anethole
4 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholPentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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