my favorite perfumes: diorissimo

a single review of a singular springtime scent

in the beginning, there was the word, and the word was with dior, and the word was dior. i consider the notorious french house to comprise a third of classical perfumery’s haute couture designer triumvirate. alongside chanel and yves saint laurent, most of the stylistic innovations to have occurred in the landscape of twentieth century mass-market perfume have come from these three greats. i think pretty much all of them have fallen off completely in terms of contemporary experimentation and relevance to the discerning aficionado, but in a sense, i think they all had their great runs. chanel’s in the early twenties and thirties, saint laurent’s in the 70s, and dior’s in the mid-century, markedly with the release of bestsellers miss dior and diorella, but the most precious among them to me is diorissimo. this article will be a little different than things i’ve done in the past, because it will review only one single perfume from the mental pantheon of perfumes i hold most dear to my he…