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dimon_se – :
I LOVE Diorella and have for over a decade. It’s the quintessential summer scent – citrus, melon, jasmine. Ugh, it’s just so perfect. It’s intelllectual, for lack of a better word, and there’s a distinct cumin note, and it is very of its time, so it’s not for everyone.
The new version is acceptable-ish. I would take it if I had no other option. Be advised that my reference point is the late 90s/early 00s version, which is when I fell for it, not the truly vintage. I haven’t been able to find an affordable bottle of the 70s/80s formula.
kssf – :
@HoustonHouston, the houndstooth bottles are the oldest ones but the blue and grey box formula are still very good.
newzheka2010 – :
On the shores of the Black Sea by Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin
archee – :
With all the lamentation about Diorella, the previous versions, the loss, the heresy – I was pleasantly startled finally being able to test the current version. This takes me right back to the bottle of Eau Sauvage I had around 1990, a tad less citrus, a bit more lily of the valley – all in all brilliant, for anyone interested how older Eau Sauvage was, check the current Diorella. What a nice surprise!
zakryvashka779 – :
I enjoyed the citrus and flower combination, but then a weird salty note appeared… I’m not sure ‘salty’ is the right word to describe it. Some comments here referred to a ‘sweaty’, ‘sultry’, ‘indolic’ note or even to female secretions. I think this must be it. So even though I liked everything else about this scent, this weird note makes it unbearable.
podvalistan – :
I’m going through a vintage phase and Diorella was next on my list to revisit. I cannot believe I used to wear this in my early teens! How on earth did I pull it off?? All I can think is that it was a different time and we were probably all reeking of oakmoss, as opposed to today’s teenagers who love to smell saccharine sweet, like candy and flowers. This to me smells old money, pure class, divine decadence. I feel rich and aristocratic just wearing it, sitting here in my Target pj’s … I definitely appreciate this more as an adult.
Igor97 – :
I can now understand why the vintage fragrance is so much praised – after a disappointing blind buy of the new version, I eventually felt brave enough to buy a vintage bottle.
What a beauty! I do not love lemon in fragrances,maybe I should say that I actually hate it as it reminds me of dishwashing soap, but here I can smell a completely different and rich lemon, surrounded by honeysuckle, ripe fruit and oakmoss! I must have a soft spot for oakmoss, because it is hard for me not to love a fragrance which has it among its notes. I suppose that the dryness of oakmoss in Diorella provides depth, and a natural feeling, preventing it from becoming a fruit-juice perfume – I can almost smell earth, the wind, and a sense of freedom.
This stuff does not smell sexy, like Diorama, for example. I think a woman wearing this does not need or want to seduce anybody. She feels free and happy and she is wearing her happiness and freedom.
Even the vintage advertisement with the laughing, carefree young woman makes sense, now.
Thumbs up, definitely.
Valeriyam1106 – :
Thought-provoking. A scent journey to experience in the privacy of my own home, but not beyond—only deep into the Sprite drydown is the fragrance pleasing on my skin.
Otherwise, it’s a fun game to try to smell “fur rubbed with mint toothpaste” and “herbs, vitamin B, and lime.” And it clicked, I can smell those. Peach and melon as well. I get something else blaring in and out, a grain alcohol or moonshine note, semi-medicinal. Chalky pills. One note I don’t get is honeysuckle.
Overwhelming perfume with a capital P; I’m not ready for this.
thresabeg – :
The classic and classiest summer perfume ever. Fits a woman that can make some gardening and drink an ice tea on beautiful curved vintage drinking glass at the same time and without a drop of sweat although it is midday and 42º out there under the sun. Only to stop and have a business meeting in the porch, give some orders to her subordinates and receive the visit of some friends with which she’ll drink some fresh white wine and share an amazing conversation.
This perfume is the epitome the natural intelligence, charm and sophistication that a few women have in an effortless way.
The eternal green chypre.
Bitter, green, grass, vetiver and mossy, honeysuckle and bright citrus. Perfect for mediterranean summer.
glonin – :
Yes, yes, yes. A layered cascade of hair in a wind machine and bell-bottomed jumpsuit swishing. Take me now.
Seriously though, I used to struggle a bit with oakmoss in the past, it easily goes a bit musty. Not so in this. It just adds body to the citrus and intermingles perfectly with the green notes. I see a cool bare-faced girl in a headscarf and big ring earrings wearing this. I can dig it.
Arvein – :
Slipping into the stream flowing to the centre of the cool dark green river, hair floating, flowing underwater. Diving down and then looking up to see the brilliant flawless cerulean sky turned turquoise in the emerald underwater glow. Quiet, calm and cool in my world. I, Mermaid, wear Diorella. Diorella, a perfume by Christian Dior.
hjv113Negeltzex – :
Fragrance Review For Diorella
By Dior
Top Notes
Lemon Bergamot Basil Green Notes Melon
Middle Notes
Peach Rose Honeysuckle Jasmine Cyclamen
Base Notes
Vetiver Oak Moss Musk Patchouli
Diorella is a funny name isn’t it? I thought it was Dior playing around with the name Cinderella LOL But this is definitely something even Cinderella would wear to the Ball. This is a gorgeous spring floral fragrance, created with a lot of love. It has a charm and magic that draws you into it’s aroma. In the end it’s so sensual and so ravishing that even if it might upset others, I’m going to douse myself with this shower of scents.
The opening to Diorella is a combination of citrus and green notes. It smells like Emeraude as it begins with sparkling fresh citrus courtesy of bergamot orange and lemon lime. It’s lemony and invigorating, fresh, cool, and delicious. A melon note is there too right from the start. Smells like sweet fruit. A peach begins to emerge as the scent begins to enter into it’s second stage and the middle notes.
Roses jasmines, cyclamen and honeysuckle provide this fragrance with a floral air. It’s mature as far as floral frags go but it’s so glamorous, sophisticated, elegant, beautiful. I would not be surprised to hear that the most beautiful women of all time wore this fragrance to match with their feminine appeal: Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor. This is a flower that keeps blooming and growing as you wear it.
The base notes were interesting. I picked up on herbal essences of patchouli leaf, warm musk, and moss. It’s green like the other “green” princesses in the Dior line i.e. Diorissimo and Dioressence. If you wear both or have worn both, and have not worn Diorella this is for you. I think it smells more green-herbal-floral and fresh than the muskier Diorama.
Absolutely fantastic. I envy women who wore these classic Dior perfumes when they were first released. That must have been something. I would give anything to go back in time to wear classic Miss Dior in Paris in the 50’s.
Sublime!
lotos89 – :
If Le Parfum de Therese is the best fruit Roudniska cyprus, Diorella is your best floral chypre.
This review is based on the version without restating or classical.
The opening is bright, cheerful, very green and very citrus with an important note of bergamot and lemon, both very sharp and clear to which has been added a note of juicy melon brings a sweet and water point to the fragrance. cyclamen, jasmine: background and Honeysuckle floral notes where Queen and illuminates the entire central stage as a giant light screen, accompanied twinkling lights around as if they were invited to the party garlands are appreciated. carnation, rose all accompanied by lovely peach and the mossy background typical chypre emerges and gives glow and makes thread that carries electricity to the music and start dancing notes. Drying oak moss feels sublime (what a shame restrictions IFRA for this wonderful note) vetiver accompanies the mossy note as a mild smoke, notes of patchouli adds an earthy touch and musk makes based on the skin and all spread beautifully. All this gear works and works perfectly rhythmical, the mixture becomes voluptuous, elegant and sophisticated, this chypre fragrance looks great dressed in a female skin.
Roudniska knows how to make magic with a chypre fragrance, and he can do like no other.
Rating: 9.1
ZOMBIFOREVER – :
As you are gardening in your herb garden, covered in dark soil, under hanging vines of sweet jasmine, a garbage truck passes by on the street, leaving behind a soft trail of rotting fruit, garbage (melon/peach notes) and gasoline (honeysuckle).
There are spice notes too. The basil with it’s clove nuances, a strong black pepper and some sweeter notes, like nutmeg and pimento.
If nothing else captures you, wear the vintage EdT and wait 24 hours for the drydown. The way this perfumes backs up from purring of rotting herbs and overripe spicy fruits down to this fresh cologne like ending of lemon, pimento & oakmoss will blow your mind.
An undisputed masterpiece of bucolic, rural, elegant countryside smells, meant to integrate INTO life, instead of standing outside of it screaming “I AM PERFUME. SMELL ME TO FORGET ABOUT LIFE.” When you smell Diorella on somoene, you are just smelling a great smelling person not a person wearing a great smelling perfume.
slavolyasof – :
Diorella is a very complex and difficult to describe scent. Very mossy, green fragrance. I can definitely smell honeysuckle, moss, grass, lemon and bergamot. However I can’t detect any peaches or flowers…
This perfume is a very elegant, classic fragrance, however it would not suit most people, it’s definitely NOT a crowd pleaser… I think majority of people would think that this fragrance is way too intense and complex. It would suit a woman, who is unique, proud and even stand-offish… Also I think it’s one of these perfumes that is good to wear from time to time, however I couldn’t imagine anyone applying this as an everyday perfume… As this perfume can easily overwhelm both the person who wears it, and other people around…
Also I would like to comment on the sillage and longevity… Both sillage and longevity are amazing! I really wish that contemporary Dior fragrances had similar quality :/
Andrey24810 – :
Hot and cold, fizzy, sparkly musky 7UP!
Finally a fresh citrus based scent that doesn’t bore me. I’m sure the original formulation was better but I love the modern incarnation for what it is. The old `toothpaste on a fur coat` analogy still makes sense even with this version. Warm and fuzzy glow meets icy, tart herbal liquid. Clearly unisex.
bulanovivan – :
I would like to swap a full unopened 100 ml bottle of Diorella. Received it as a present, not my cup of tea unfortunately so I do hope it will find a more loving home. PM
rastamantic – :
A week or so ago I agreed to swap a few perfumes that did not get enough love from me for a big bottle of Diorella. As a lover of vintage fumes, I was really happy to add it to my collection, the more so that my lovely swap partner informed me that it is from 2007. In the meantime, being an impatient, curious being, I tried it in perfumeries, and wore the recent EDT for two days. I was ever so slightly disappointed, I didn’t quiet get the hype, the “milestone in perfumery”, Roudnitska’s masterpiece, etc. references. Nice, slightly bitter fruity chypre, where is the exciting Vietnamese beef salad (Tania Sanchez), the nearly rotting fruit, the muskiness?
Then my swap perfume arrived. Not from 2007, but from 2006, so well before the disastrous reforms in 2009. And NOW I get it! Gosh, this perfume is outrageously good! It is all what it is said to be and more! Sweet and savoury, fresh and musky, juicy and dry, clean and lived-in, fascinating, exciting, a multitudes of facets intertwining and playing in different lights like a sparkling gemstone. The recent one is nothing like this. It is nice, but boring. A picture so pixelated that you can just guess what it looked like once. I am sure that the 2006 version differs from the original one, too, but gosh, this is alive and shimmering with Life! Go for it if you can find a bottle!
Vintage version: 9.5/10
New version: 5.5/10
WHITESKIF – :
My mother always had Diorella, Dioressense, and Diorling in her collection. The smell of each is burnt into my olfactory memory, and I mean that in the best of ways. Diorella particularly so, I’m not sure why, but I suspect it’s due to the juxtaposition of a melodically spicy, musky melon and juicy (not necessarily sharp) citruses on a mossy, warm, classically Dior chypre base. It stands out. I loved them all equally, for different reasons, but this is one I’d recognise anywhere.
Except I didn’t when sampling the latest ” Les Creations” formulation. And I certainly never recalled it costing $190, either. The fruitiness is there, but the musky mossy spice is gone. And it didn’t last 2 hours on the skin either. Shame Dior. Even more of a shame that your rude reps blurt “well no one wants to smell like this anymore anyway, so don’t worry about it!” when you note that it doesn’t smell that much like it used to.
nepoklonnov – :
The amazing muskmelon note in this immortally beautiful fragrance sets it apart from the plethora of spawn, many of which I adore…..Cristalle, Après Mousson, philtre d Amour, etc. (Upon smelling Roja Dove Diagliev I instantly thought Diorella with a big dash of Mitzy). In fact Diorella is probably the great mother of the aquatic melon female seaweed genre. I am using a beloved vintage version. I’ve never seen a new version in Australia. It is ridiculously sexual, driving one into that maddening quest.
666crazymen666 – :
I suppose Diorella is considered one of the paramount achievements in modern perfumery, from what I read. Although not uncommon, here in Asia it proved difficult to find, so I got a bottle when I traveled to Europe.
I like the current edition. A floral chypre, yes, with citrus and somewhat fruity. But much more than this of course. It is long lasting and changes course throughout its development.
It includes a kind of stale odour which can even be described as body odour (BO), and I have pondered that this might be due to an indolic jasmine, but I don’t know of course. Thus the fragrance has an interesting combination of ‘freshness’ and ‘staleness’. I actually prefer the current edition since I have also tried the vintage, but found it to be too ‘stale’.
In my opinion it is completely unisex, it doesn’t smell much feminine to me.
Tasha_80 – :
I smelled the new version from a tester and had great expectations. My memory of old Diorella is not clear, because I smelled very very long time ago and I have a vague feeling of a citrus herbal with flowers, but nothing clear.
So I tried the new one and was a little puzzled. It smells like an old school perfume that has been re-made, if it makes sense. I sprayed it on both paper and my skin and waited a long time before having an opinion.
It’s not my usual type of perfume, unfortunately I cannot smell the honeysuckle. I smell a lot of citrus lemon with a big piney note, like smelling a tree or Pino Silvestre. Not sure about this one. It says to me: I tried hard to smell aromatic herbal, but ended up piney.
Saiks – :
Diorella is a citrusy, fruity woody composition with a very substantial floral element and a chypre tonality. It has the individualist approach of Roudnitska around the same theme and is said to be his best work.
Now, what can an amateur say about the most complex composition of Edmond Roudnitska whose impact in the perfume world has no match. Well as a masculine it works perfectly and as a feminine…I wouldn’t know. I have a very vivid memory of this fragrance because I used to wear it in the army. Risky choice but men don’t know many about fragrances so when asked I told them I wore adidas sport without ever knowing if such fragrance existed. I needed something fresh and “watery” for that summer which wouldn’t bore me before the third full wearing. This was my choice since it seemed to have depth and complexity. It also features a prominent jasmine note which is a very meaty and decadent floral note which I like. In the beginning, I experienced a certain difficulty with the succulent melon and peach domineering but once I got used to the accord I found it extremely hard to break away. This is mainly because this accord is so unique, so characteristic and immediately recognizable, certainly a statement of its creators brilliance.
It is meaningless to breakdown Diorella since its individual notes are meant to combine and support the character of the perfume and not stand alone as parts. So if you try it keep in mind that it won’t comply with your need for a citrus, a floral, a fruity chypre or whatever. You simply have to deal with Roudnitska’s signature. Now if this happens to whisper to your heart you may find it hard to substitute its voice with another.
semen740 – :
It amazes and amuses me greatly reading about Diorella smelling “funky” to say the least and “rotten” in other cases.
Authoritative commenters in authoritative books (which have proved interesting and enlightening in most of their reviews) often underline the feeling of “rotten meat with flowers” or “garbage” that Diorella supposedly conjures.
I strongly disagree.
When I first bought and used Diorella I was 16, my nose was simple and not sophisticated or cultivated as it might be today.
It was the nose of innocence.
And innocence suggested me that Diorella is a stupendous, classy, fresh but not only fresh, floral but not only floral, young but perfect at any age, scent.
I loved it then, I love it even more today, despite years, culture, and reformulation.
True, Diorella is no longer what it used to be, but to my uncultivated nose it smells as beautiful as it smelled when I was 16 and expected Great Expectations from life.
I still do.
And not only reading Dickens by the fire.
ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE
mexyt – :
This review is for the 50ml EDT Diorella.
So hard to find words for this one. I’ve wanted it for so long and finally got my hands on a bottle. I’ve worn it a few times trying to make up my mind about what exactly it is that makes people compare Diorella to ‘flowers and garbage’ ‘Vietnamese beef salad’ and ‘fur rubbed with mint toothpaste’.
Diorella starts out like lemon zest on me, joined by a very subtle fresh mint/ basil note. Very fresh smelling at first. I wondered how anyone could think those notes smelled dirty.
Then came what to my nose is limoncello. Still lemon zest, but not as freshly grated and sweet. VERY sweet, almost syrupy and unappealing. In fact at one point it was approaching disgustingly sweet, almost rotten.
Just as I was processing the syrupy sweet limoncello and being surprised, came what I think might be cumin, even though it is not listed as a note. I’m not really sure what it is, but it smells faintly like BO. The first time I tried Diorella was right after I purchased it because I was so excited at finally getting some, and I thought maybe the BO note was just in my imagination, or due to the fact I’d been walking around the mall all day and wasn’t shower fresh by any means. Nope, it’s Diorella! I tried again today after a shower, and the BO note is unmistakably still there. It’s not unpleasant or overpowering, it’s simply the smell of warm, sweaty skin. There is something almost coital about it, like you took a quick tumble in the hay and then didn’t have time to really freshen up afterwards besides applying a quick squirt of cologne.
So limoncello and sexy BO, then comes the ‘chouli to say hi! At this point I can faintly pick up basil again, and combined with the slight warm fleshy scent that is developing I can say that I now understand the Vietnamese beef salad comment. It’s savory, and almost edible.
As it develops further I can also now understand the mint toothpaste and fur comment shortly after. There is just something animal and alive behind the mint and basil that I can’t put my finger on. I could see it being a fur coat though, especially one that has been worn a long time and has picked up the scent of it’s owner along with her toiletries.
And this is where I fall in love with Diorella! Why, I cannot even begin to explain. Even reading back over my own words attempting to describe Diorella it sounds repulsive, but it’s not. I never really got the flowers and garbage at any point, although maybe that registered as limoncello to my nose instead of flowers tossed in the trash. It was definitely approaching an almost rotten sweetness when the fleshy note showed up to tame it.
All in all the fragrance really lived up to it’s hype for me. I was afraid I’d built Diorella up in my head and would be disappointed by the reality of it as sometimes happens when I finally get to smell something I’ve spent time hankering for, but that was definitely not the case this time! My bottle was manufactured in January of 2010, so it’s not exactly brand new, but now I really am hankering for vintage. If it smells this great even after it was no doubt tampered with and reformulated, I can’t imagine how amazing vintage must be!
mvp719Diobtetty – :
Update: So I bought the reformulation, only because I was purely naive to think that it would not be …well…changed. My heart sank at the first spray. What is this caustic lemon smell?? Nothing like the Diorella of yesterday, and I wore it lavishly.It was light,citrus-floral, with a hint of patchouly and moss. Simple yet sophisticated I would do anything for a vintage bottle. The new one is sitting in my perfumed display, way in the back. I forgot I had it until I satrted working on a chypre of my own, came to this page and read the reviews…again…
victorianovicova – :
I have the original “Diorella” in Pure Perfume version. I received it as a present for my birthday on 1987 and I never opened it. It was wrapped with the original cellophane till 2014 when I’ve decided to try the fragrance out. Unfortunately I can’t stand the scent. I wonder how it was described as “clean and fresh” – for me it is heavy, even abusing. I’m still keeping the bottle in my wardrobe as a souvenir, but I’m sure it will never be opened again. I think it is a kind of things that are not belonging here and now.
shapik – :
This review is based on a tiny decant. It does remind me a little of FM’s Therese minus the plum note and Eau Sauvage (after the opening). Wears close to the skin with moderate longevity.
ANDREI-1965 – :
I have Diorella for decades, honeysuckle fragrance ! It was reformulated , added citrus , it is also a very complex fragrance . Feminine and aromatic !
sokhan – :
Long time it didn’t happened, when first reaction is strong NO, it cant be that Diorella that lots of people have cravings for, second – you still recoil but taking it with dignity, approach number three – I am starting to like it and eventually you can even spray it on yourself and…enjoy the legend
Strongest aldehydic lemons till the point of horse dosage of indolic jasmine on me, mossy and bitter. The first fragrance that makes me sneeze 20 times apart so ingredients are alright in this one!
update- after week of constant sniffing I really smell MILKY base..Its like lemons and moss in milk, might be that erotic honeysuckle
inkosto – :
Since I smelled this on strip a long buried olfactive memory has been attempting to resurface. It hasn’t managed to do that completely but I get a feeling of a familiar female presence, perhaps my favourite aunt. She never wore this as far as I know but she wore Tosca that had a similar drydown. Perhaps this is the reason I fail to see any sexiness in this although I still find it likeable. The strong jasmine tinted with some animalic dirt (perhaps castoreum?) seems to be the centre of this for me.
First impression was “oh, a feminine Antaeus?”. I find they have an important common aspect and this in fact makes Diorella almost unisex for me.
Vokbirg – :
Amazing how a scent can impress you for years… When I was a kid, in the 70’s, my Mum was given a HUGE bottle of Diorella… as seldom wore it, because it was too strong on her. But I found it to be perfect for hot summer nights… So I took to drenching myself in it in those hot summer nights, and I remember having a cloud of hot summer rain, on a thirsty land over my head…
Still a great classic, even not for the faint of heart… or nose…
sa111ha – :
One of my favourite perfumes. I have been wearing this fragrance since I was 15 when, armed with my first pay packet for a part time job, I went into a local perfumery and bought some (for £11 – which was nearly ALL of my weekend pay). I got it from one of those old style shops (even then), everything on show and in glass cabinets – it was 1981 and I was in heaven, mulling over the Dior section trying to choose between eau Fraiche, Dioressence or Diorella. I must have been in the shop for well over an hour and it was a small shop – sadly long gone.
The edt of Diorella (vintage) is utterly beautiful. In 1981 I sprayed it liberally, on my skin, clothes, bed-clothes, as an air freshener – I just could not get enough of the stuff. I have never been without a bottle of Diorella since that day. I have tried the reform – it’s good but the memories that my old stash evokes remains with me – I even have some pure perfume which I snagged by chance and without realising it was the pure perfume which appeared on the market (I understand) briefly in the early 1980’s.
Diorella is a perfume that is crystal clear, green, herbaceous and, I would whisper it quietly,a refined version of eau Savage – but above all this perfume is a complete masterpiece, not loaded with fruit or heady with musk – this is an elegant, classy fragrance. It’s redolent, intriguing and has me under its understated but oh so present spell. I loved it then, I love it now, I will love it forever. I wear this for summer, a cooling honeysuckle note, a mere suggestion of sweetness; it’s green, spikey and harmoniously sings with spirit. It is a complete sentence in perfumery, nothing missing, nothing needed.
Can you tell I love this stuff?
7692470 – :
This is such a happy perfume. It opens up just like Cristalle de Chanel ( the closest to my signature perfume as I’ll ever come) but then forgets all of Cristalle’s aloofness and cool distance and explodes Into a happy green and flowery dance. It has no creamy dry down, it’s less lush, drier than Cristalle, but also more amiable. So if these two were at a party, Cristalle is tied up with her beau in some really difficult conversation, whilst Diorella has opened a bottle of wine for all her friends. I really like it.
zakadroviy – :
I worked for Christian Dior in the early 90’s. At that time chypre fragrances had become unfashionable. The big sellers at the time were fruits and florals. Diorella was not a big seller. We couldn’t give the stuff away. I didn’t love the scent but I ended up with so many free testers I wore it just to use it up. Over time I began to really appreciate this fresh, floral, green gem. Vintage Diorella is a lovely, clean 70’s classic but in my opinion it is not worth the huge amounts being charged for it on eBay simply because the original is no longer available.
565545602 – :
The first time I wore Diorella I was 15 and loved it.
Green, long lasting, classy, a real beauty.
Second time was 15 years later.
Same impression but with less enthusiasm. Maybe I landed on known ground and did know what to expect.
Both Diorella were in original formula.
20 years (and some reformulation) later there I am with another Diorella.
I feared I would have mourned over the original long gone (the same way I did with Mitsouko, Shalimar, Opium, Magie Noire, Cristalle and a bunch of others).
Nope.
I do not know if this is going to ban me from Fragrantica, but in my opinion this Diorella resembles the original Cristalle (which I bought the same day it came out) more than the reformulated Cristalle is close to her ancestor. Same complexity, same crispness, same angularity.
Diorella is a marvellous scent.
I know a number of people regret the original one.
It was a masterpiece, we know, but even if not identical to the original, this version has truly something. It’s powerfully classy, not so linear as I’d expected, complex and – well, it happened the same with another Roudniska’s masterpiece, Femme by Rochas – so much masterpiece that no one and nothing can destroy.
Roudnitska is a genius, his work cannot be destroyed with a simple rework. Traces of his artistry remain and even the worst reformulation offers us a scent that remains a work of art. More, much more than many insignificant creations around today.
I’m happy with Diorella, no matter how reformulated it may be.
It’s one of the few cases where I am not disappointed with a rework.
Outstanding.
Danilow – :
How sad. Diorella now smells like shampoo or shampoos smell like Diorella – everywhere.
farWorway – :
I have this in vintage formulation, the melon always killed it for me, made the whole composition smell putrid.
I’ve tried for years to ignore the waxy peach and that stupid melon notes, and I just found I can’t bare them anymore.
I’m sad to say this but I hate this fragrance, just for the fact that my stupid chemistry brings out the two notes that I hate the most in this perfume.
Brooklyn_fromAF – :
I wore it back in the day and it was once a favorite so I ordered an unopened box of the juice from ebay. I loved the citrus combination with green/woods. Just well-done. An Edmond Roudnitska signature. I’m very happy to have found it, though it asks a heftier price but Diorella is priceless to me. Had to have it.
lobaroria – :
I still have a tiny actual perfume of Diorella from, most likely, the late 70’s. It is still wearable, although undoubtedly past it’s prime. I haven’t smelled the new formulation, but this scent has always struck me, as Eau Sauvage for women! (I couldn’t find Eau Sauvage on your data list, BTW or I would have posted it.) It is so much like Eau Sauvage that I feel that Dior must have just added some lovely honeysuckle and a little jasmine to the men’s scent and called it a day!This is another scent that invokes summer for me, always. Annick Goutal’s “Eau De Sud” made me think of Diorella right away, the first time I smelled it. No where near as lasting though.
limar12 – :
i recently (& finally) got a sealed late 70s vintage diorella on ebay and i am simply in love with this gem. the current formulation is ok but nothing to get excited about – too citric, too generic. this, however, is a remarkable fragrance: deep moss that floats!, a floral undercurrent that gives it real old school elegance and a very ripe fruit (some say peach, i say the whole basket) note that projects & lasts. i really love this and see it being an all-season wonder. moments like opening vintage diorella are what make this expensive hobby so utterly enjoyable. timeless masterpiece….
tiffemioriect – :
I tried this when I was fifteen years old – many, many moons ago – and fell in love with it. Did I also mention I’m a guy.
I would never have tried this if it weren’t for an older lady who worked the counter at Carson Pierre Scott near where I grew up.
I was used to smelling men’s colognes until Gladys sprayed this on my hand. I was confused – never smelled anything like it. Needless to say I was really disappointed when she told me it was a women’s fragrance!
It has an energetic buzzing, fizzing melon, leafy basil and boozy wine kind of feeling at first with a really good citrus note that doesn’t say lemon or lime but is instead just an all around clean juicy citrus. That opening transitions into a really abstract floral and melon with hints of moss and cedar.
It settles into an earthin