Diorissimo
Yesterday, after reading Bois de Jasmin’s Diorissimo article, that I highly recommend reading - go now, do your reading!- Â I found myself going to bed with Diorissimo, with snow flakes gently gliding down outside my bedroom. Whenever I sniff this scent (and I do not even have a vintage version…) I feel the extraordinary power and creativity of its creator, Roudnitska.
He mastered to create a fragrance that is on one hand incredibly close to nature’s original, yet never is a simple copy of a wonderful natural scent. There is always a second agenda, a secret story unfolding below what seems to be lily-of-the-valley at its best. Better than nature can do it. In this sense it is a baroque scent, a fragrant trompe l’oeil, a joyful, seamless and almost mathematically logical composition. A clear and straight composition, but with hidden warmth and flesh, the flesh that churches are fighting since centuries, as it makes us sinners, a memento mori in between, poison in a crystal glass of champagne.
Simply wonderful.
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January 24th, 2007 at 11:53 am
What a lovely post Andy. And I agree, discovering Diorissimo for the first time was a milestone for me…and it was the first fragrance I thought of for my Grandmother when I found out that she was having serious health troubles and needed all the uplifting life affirming help she could get…This for me mixes flesh and family and all true comfort and release life feelings/energy/vitality. Truly scintillating. I hope and trust you are all faring well. x
January 24th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
You have hit it on the head…
Johann Sebastian, were he a perfumer, might have created Diorissimo.
It holds a special place in my memory as well.
It must be all my maternal nonsense, but I so enjoy the thought of you enjoying a beautifully scented,peaceful sleep…isn’t that silly ?
Hope you are healing, and enjoying those overdue snowflakes…
Kisses to you, Taubchen.
January 24th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
My dear Sands, hello and hugs and all the best to you! You know where I sniffed Diorissimo the first time? My mom had it but stopped wearing it and she showed it to me once when we talked about lilly of the valley…thinking back the days when my father was still alive. On mothers day he would go with us in the woods and we would search for lilly of the valley for mom. Good memories. I think I see this picture of my dad, desperately searching for lilly of the valley, early in may, in green woods. Hugs to you and greetings.
Dear Chayaruchama, thank you. When I woke up yesterday night, in the middle of the night, I sniffed my hand, and felt wonderful. Knowing that outside my cosy sleeping room the snow falls, and I, in bed and comfortable, can enjoy a masterpiece, made me feel happy, and fall asleep again immediately. By the way: The foot is almost there! I feel everyday how it gets better. It is magic how nature works. Hugs, my dear, and I send you a snow flake….
January 24th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Boy, am I glad to find you all! I have a question. I am an avid Diorissimo fan. I found a bottle on Ebay that is still in the box and is wrapped. It is unlike anything I have ever seen before. Where the name of the concentration should be it reads, PERFUME. The seller has it listed as pure perfume, which is commonly shown as PARFUM on the Diorissimo box. Also, this is a 1 oz box. I have only seen .25 oz and .50 oz in the pure parfum. I am hoping that this is not Esprit or EDT. Have you all ever seen a box like this?