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norasgit – :
Oh it’s gorgeous! And what a divine bottle and box!!! I love it for that alone, it’s fabulous!! And I adore the beautiful perfume. Lily-of-the-valley is almost my favourite flower! It’s the perfect fairy flower. Beautiful, and it’s heavenly in this. It’s a very feminine perfume, and rather fruity and sweet, but not overly so, and I love it. It’s very refreshing, and delicate, but the dry-down is warm and enveloping and very comforting. It’s wonderful on a hot day, and makes me feel light and happy. Beautiful!!
Deon – :
I Love Dior is my latest $12 Ebay purchase. I haven’t received it yet, but the bottle, the name, the zeitgeist give me more than enough to start writing.
In 2003, French Fries became “Freedom Fries” when a US member of Congress proposed excising France from the American consciousness for the perceived betrayal of opposing the invasion of Iraq. I think there was “Freedom Toast” as well.
8260699.i_love_diorI imagine that the Dior perfume, released in 2002, was in the works before 9/11, but I don’t know when the name, image, marketing came into play. The bottle is the generic bottle that Dior were using for Diorella, Diorissimo, Dioressence at the time. LVMH would eventually use the bottle as a bridge from the classics to… whatever perfumes like Dior Me, Dior Me Not and Dior Star and Forever and Ever Dior were. The I Love Dior box and bottle sported a grainy close-up of denim and a decal with, “I (Heart) Dior.”
I suppose I Heart Dior was one of the perfumes hoping to bandwagon on the success of YSL Baby Doll’s nouveau feminism. Still, it’s hard not to see I Heart Dior as a dumbed down version of j’Adore (translation: I heart) for Americans. j’Adore was enormously popular and accessible and I Heart Dior reads as an unnecessary dilution of an already least-common denominator.
Given the timing of its release, I Heart Dior turned out to be Dior’s prequel to Freedom Fries.
from scenthurdle.com
hohland – :
This fragrance smells like candy after it settles down, and I don’t mean cotton candy or your typical Aquolina Sugar (whatever it is-LOL) scent. I mean, this is candy with a fresh-floral twist. I was lucky enough to win a fresh 1.7 oz bottle for a whopping $2.74 on eBay!!! YESSS-I couldn’t believe it either! 🙂 🙂 🙂 As one can tell by my perfume wardrobe, I don’t go for scents like this one. The only fragrance I can compare this one to is Cassini by Oleg Cassini. I owned it when I was 12 years young and I always said that Cassini (with the pink top) smelled like candy.
This one has to be sprayed with a light hand. I find it best to spray it about 8 inches away from your skin and waiting at least half an hour before stepping out into the world 🙂 I actually enjoy getting wafts of the scent from inner elbows, every time I move around.
dixa – :
Oh god, I remember when I first smelled this on a ferry back in 2002 when I was 20 years old and out on my own in the world for the first time. I moved to Denmark for the summer and my friend came to visit me and we decided to take a little Eurotrip to Germany and France. Thus the ferry. I saw the bottle in the Duty Free shop and immediately liked it. Sprayed it on and fell in love. This is a very much “me” smell. Still is, but even more so back then. I adored fresh and light fumes, flowery/fruity innocent types of smells. I remember contemplating if I should buy it or not but ended up not buying it, since I was a dirt poor student at the time. Even though I never bought it, it still lives fresh in my memory… from that one spritz on the ferry. It will forever remind me of being young and carefree, falling in love, travelling to foreign places, having adventures and not taking life too seriously. In essence living in the moment and loving life. It makes me feel nostalgic. I’m grateful for all those happy memories that warm my soul. For that I truly do heart Dior <3
varnius – :
Recently, I’ve been revisiting those fragrances from my past that I’ve all but forgotten. Scent memory truly is amazing. Even if I purchase a used bottle that has gone off a bit, a mere hint of a fragrance is all I need to instantly recall it in all its glory with shocking clarity.
I just received a partial bottle of I <3 Dior, and it has indeed gone off a bit. I will likely toss it when I’m done reminiscing. Yet, I experienced total recall from what essence of the scent remains, and on me, it is a lily-of-the-valley blast! I’m surprised LOTV wasn’t voted the prevalent note on here. (I just voted it up to second place.) In fairness, LOTV is always a note that makes its presence known on my skin, and I’m definitely okay with that. Nevertheless, I will not bother to hunt down a fresher bottle of I <3 Dior. It’s nice but not amazing. Tonight’s brief reunion will suffice.
ataman7604 – :
Even if I dont have it-yet, it evokes a happy feeling to me. Very harmonious, refreshing, perfect for summer. I love the melon and patchouli notes. I love patchouli!A little bit expensive for my pocket now, but hope to find a discount soon!
draf21 – :
This is lovely, fresh sweet floral, with a real nice drydown, it isn’t your typical fruity juicy scent, it is still a Dior after all, and there is a quality throughout the scent. Totally acceptable that Dior would create a lighter scent after all!!
It is light yet the longevity is real good, the green notes mix nicely with the amber in the base. I love pear, and it gives a luminous edge to this perfume.Of course it isn’t a masterpiece, yet it is far from boring nor generic.
vint1986 – :
I can safely say that I [previously] loved Dior. Not any more after blind buys of this and Midnight Charm.
The packaging is tacky though I decided to judge the scent on its own merits.
One spray and all I get from this is lemon scented cleaning product. My experience with Dior fragrances prior to this has been mostly positive. I associated the brand with high end, classy fragrances such as Poison; J’Adore; and Miss Dior Cherie. The cheap quality (with expensive price tag) for I Love Dior has made me reconsider what I think of Dior as a perfume house.
GANKSTER – :
ideal for teenagers or younger women.
vixel – :
Can you be more romantic?????????????????
zoggyla – :
The first time I wore this—it gave me the worst headache ever.
Then since I ran out of perfumes to wear one time, I tried it again and was able to almost finish it. It is okay but I am not crazy about it. It is a typical sweet floral.
Van Cleef and Arpel’s Feerie is somewhat like this on my skin. Feerie is richer and deeper and more succulent than this.
I Love Dior is a chemistry-dependent fragrance. My mom wears it a lot better—her chemistry is slightly alkaline. I am neutral. If you are acidic, this might cloy.
ilnar929 – :
I bought this cause i love dior , but i hate this it makes me sick , I am still a dior fanatic 🙂
Koverin-2011 – :
My grandmother bought this fragrance for me when I was still in elementary school. I liked the scent back then as it was fresh and young. At that time I didn’t use scents that often. In the end I got bored of it tho and now that I think about it I’m not so sure it fit the natural scent of my skin so well.
After I got bored of it my grandma used the rest of it. Tho i think I still have the bottle somewhere with a few drops in it so I can smell it and bring back memories.
I remember the clean pear scent that was the main scent I felt in it.
Lily of the valley was also there and that was the reason I liked the scent in the first place. (Lily of the valley has always been one of my favourite scents.)
sefset – :
A sweet childhood memory parfyme. smells nice and clean whit a little bit of powder at the end . i am 33 but i still can use this . a sporty nice averyday parfyme to use when i want to feel fresh and young 🙂
hig220elipseskism – :
Beauty Encounter still carries this..I purchased it for my nieces out of nostalgic fondness. They love it!
jumka – :
Out of about twelve perfumes I had in high school (granted that was in high school), my boyfriend then liked only this one. I wore it only when I saw him. I still have some left but it has since changed scents.
It smells a bit too synthetic for my tastes, but nothing brings back memories like scents.
Honeysuckle is the most distinguishable note, and the cedar lays a nice base.
danilka600 – :
I Love Dior has a fruity citrus start along with some faint Forever and Ever Dior type of floral hint.
Soon the bubbly sizzling cirtrus scent settles down and you will get a good nice long perfect tangling of bitter orange in light fresh floral veil.
A kind of strangely attractive greenish floral sweetness comes along and becomes more and more distinctive as the lively orange/floral combo goes lighter and eventually to the background.
The dry down is like a nice monologue of the spiced-up greenish floral sweet nuance with some comfy and warm hints.
Some of the members here recommended I Love Dior for teenagers, but I would say anyone between 15-40 who likes to wear jeans sometimes, can easily wear this nice perfume. I think the bottle design really captured the essence of this perfume. It is as multifunctional and multifaceted as a pair of nice jeans.
Yes it does have some fruity and citrus hints here, but it’s so not the watery/sugary/try-hard-innocent-fruity commercial teenager scent. Give it a little time to settle down, you may notice that I Love Dior is an easy-going perfume with hidden elegant attitude.
Argureunremia – :
I smell this on a friend today and on her it smells exactly like CK One. I even asked her if she worn CK One and she replied by saying I was I Love Dior.
max-max33 – :
I’ll start by saying that I tried this fragrance in the store today and I’m not a 100% certain on whether or not the tester has gone bad. The juice inside was orange coloured.
I can sense alot of citrusy and orange blossom notes in this fragrance. They are in some ways strong, but not overpowering. I Love Dior is also quite soapy and fresh with slight hints of powder every now and then.
Seeming that this fragrance has been discontinued now for almost 6 years, I have a funny feeling that the town in which I found this perfume is just trying to rid themselves of old stock. Australian stores are funny like that sometimes. Fragrances aren’t usually a widely bought item.
The scent reminds me somewhat of Truth for women by Calvin Klein, (I will be retesting Truth to make sure that also wasn’t an off tester bottle).
From what I can gather, I Love Dior was a unique, refreshing, clean and delightful floral fragrance. It is a pity that Dior makes so many limited editions only to discontinue them 12 months later.
FriendSebastian – :
i love this perfume! is so fresh! very fruity floral with just a touch of sweet warmth just feathery in the background. I think it would be considered by some as a simple teenage fruity floral, but i think dior put just a twist in it that makes it slightly different.
Very good for summer! im wearing it now and it is very warm in my room even with the windows wide open! I find it light and refreshing! xx
hoopsymbofons – :
I loved this perfume …Unfortunately this scent was a limited edition . i don’t know why dior makes the best perfumes limited editions
ahota – :
Nice, young and untypical Dior. Unfortunately a limited edition, I bought it on my flight back from the States to Europe and wear it sometimes in summer.
9090 – :
I wouldn’t assume it as a floral but as a floral-fruity fragrance. When I sprayed it on it was beautiful, divine, a real classy but fresh Dior that I absolutely loved. Unfortunately, the refreshing, feminine notes disappeared in a few minutes and it turned into a very simple teenage-fruity scent without character:(