Description
Dior launches a new exclusive collection of ten perfumes named La Collection Couturier Parfumeur in 2010., signed by the perfumer Francois Demachy. The collection illustrates the life of the founder – the famous Christian Dior.
The collection consists of re editions of three male fragrances: Eau Noire, Bois d’Argent and Ambre Nuit , and seven new ones: Mitzah, Vetiver, Granville, Leather Oud, New Look 1947, Cologne Royale and Milly-la-Foret. Vetiver and Leather Oud are masculine perfumes; Cologne Royale is suitable for both genders, while the rest are intended for the ladies.
Mitzah is named after Dior’s muse and friend Mitzah Bricard. Mitzah is an elegant, feminine and mysterious oriental fragrance with notes of coriander, rose, spices, cinnamon, labdanum, vanilla, honey, patchouli and incense.
The fragrances from Dior La Collection Couturier Parfumeur are available in bottles of 125 ml, 225 ml and 450 ml.
xxxsahaxxx – :
How is amber not listed in these notes? I get so much amber, it smells on me like a smoother Amber Sultan! This is so beautiful. Amber and coriander on my skin, sweet, full, but where AS goes dark, this stays light because of the coriander. Absolutely beautiful and a contender for a signature. I will be picking up a bottle next time I’m in Paris.
vitalik_999 – :
Okay, to the reviewer about 10 below this one, I see NO SIMILARITIES between Mitzah and Tobacco Oud
For starters, Mitzah has neither tobacco or oud in it and TO has no amber.
What I liken this to is part Myrrhe Imperial by Armani Privee, part L’eau de Ambre Extreme by
L’artisan with a touch of ‘femininity’ added
In short, it’s a heavy amber with vanilla and spice concoction, combined to make a really beautiful, ‘deep’ unisex perfume
Simply stunning with fantastic performance. Wish the bottle sizes were smaller and more affordable.
$800 is just too much for any perfume but if I could get it on the cheap, I would bathe in this gorgeous fragrance!
Getting impossible to find now too.
A real favorite of mine and always will be.
sergeykoker – :
Oozing amber and vanilla golden warmth, shot through with drizzled honey, flush with incense and spices! It’s sensual, elegant and complex – a lot like the woman. Inspired by a beautiful, leopard-clad NY doyenne, Dior’s stylist, Mitzah. Refined, polished – I get the image of romantic candlelight and burnished jewelry. Perfume for an extravagant rendezvous!
P.S. My first impression was that it is a beautiful amber scent in the vein of other Oriental amber fragrances like Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan or Annick Goutal’s Ambre Fetiche. It captures that spicy warmth, although there is a slight “commercial” edge to it that all designer fragrances seem to have in the drydown. Top quality ingredients soften this though, and Mitzah has an inner gamine quality that sets it apart. Wearing it again, I was impressed by the layered accords, and the strong feeling of class and luxury it exudes. It’s like the finishing touch that adds the polish and mood.
wooladirway – :
Re: last post – me me! I want to smell like cupcakes out of a freshly baked oven 😀 It’s gorgeous sweet cozy and yes completely edible. It’s like if SL ambre sultan and Dior Coromandel had a party. Shame it’s discontinued…
sahs – :
honey, coffee and cream, far too sweet for my liking, nice fresh baked oven smell but who wants to smell like cupcakes !
VLADRA – :
It’s a bit too light for my taste.
Wattaherrop – :
It smells like baby powder with some dirty animalic note in the background. Let me see if it develops and gets better after some hours. With better, I mean like if it gets more natural and stops smelling like baby powder.
Scent: 7/10
Longevity: 9/10
Projection: 9/10
kdp1974 – :
Finally got to try this seeming unicorn. Nice, but I’m not finding it unusual or mysterious. In fact I’m finding it a bit boring. It’s a nicely crafted smooth amber, with muted spices-cinnamon mostly. Not overly sweet initially, slightly powdery, warming. For a brief while it almost smells a little baby powderish. I get no incense to speak of and a honeyed rose mingles very subtly with the sweeter labdanum and vanilla. It does get too vanilla syrupy sweet for me when it dries down. I wish it was drier and woodier, spicier, and smokier but I have those covered with the likes of MCG Sideris, SL Ambre Sultan, FM Musc Ravageur to name a few. The entire perfume smells like the drydown of other more interesting and complex scents in this genre.
I was hoping for a modern, more wearable version of YSL Opium (vintage) but it’s not nearly as complex or as dark as Opium and it’s sweeter. I’ll wear my decant maybe but I’m not as blown away as other people are by this one. Can’t figure out why it was DCed, though, since it’s inoffensive and wearable and not weird at all. I imagine Ambre Nuit was too similar and sold more bottles since it’s marketed as unisex while this one implies femininity by naming it after a woman.Just a guess. Smells unisex to me, however.
vitia – :
This was a fragrance that I could never seem to get my hands on until recently and I’m blessed to be able to own a big bottle. Somewhat of a cousin to Ambre Nuit but with much more complexity. Sensual and warming for the cooler months. If you can find it, buy it.
dbalduev – :
Mitzah is probably my favourite perfume from the Dior Prive line. Feve,Ambre Nuit and Bois D’Argent are my other faves but this is on another level for me. I have a weakness for Incense and amber notes and if you are looking for a sweet incense fragrance, for my money, this is just about as good as it gets.
Upon first spray, Mitzah gives you a solid albeit short lived hit of spice, the coriander and the spice notes mentioned with a hint of bitterness. The heart is where this gorgeous frag truly comes alive with the cinnamon, incense sweetened by the rose, vanilla and honey. The dry down is also a warm balsamic labdanum and patchouli mingling with the Incense. Lots of notes mentioned but to summarize, I would say this is a sweetish cinnamon Incense frag. Some frags just have their notes tied up in beautiful harmony and this is one of those, every note in perfect balance with the other. For me this is nosegasm in a bottle every time I sniff it. Nothing More I can add to that regarding the smell.
Projection on this is what I would call in the “Classy” range. Stays within arms reach but anyone who comes close to you gets strong whiffs which is what you need most of the time. Longevity like most of the heavier frags in the Dior Prive line is par excellence. I routinely get 10 hours or more with 3-4 sprays.
In conclusion, I will say this is a fragrance that every Perfume lover needs to get their nose on at least once. Even if you end up not liking it, it will have given your nose an education. If you like Incense, Amber, or honey notes, Mitzah is a no brainer. 9/10
alecse – :
I am lucky enough to have1/2 a liter of this juice both in the rotation and sitting in my makeshift storage. I need to wear it more to get an accurate assessment bc it is quite complex, will update later when it cools down outside. I did layer 2 sprays with 5 of Bois D’Argent one time and it was a pleasant mix.
This is the most complex fragrance that I own. The dry down is very different from what you just during the initial spray. I can see what this is a holy grail for frag heads.
carmus – :
Oh how I love this. Why did I have to fall for a discontinued fragrance! I have learned that just two dabs will suffice; otherwise it’s overkill.
This is warm and spicy with sweetness and has great longevity and sillage.
assombsiZ – :
FWIW, as of this last week of May 2017 Mitzah is still available from Dior in France. Over the last 2 years it’s been available there though occasionally out of stock while waiting for materials (according to Dior) while the discontinued story grows here. Many ‘exclusive’ fragrances are following the trend of selling all or most of the line in France/Europe so it’s worth looking at their French website rather than selecting U.S. which will probably direct you to a retail partner.
bulanovivan – :
If you could obtain a sample or a bottle of this out-of-the-world-fragrance, be careful when spraying it on your skin, be home alone and in your room, because you will lick your arm and if someone sees you they won’t understand, also try to stop at licking and not taking a bite. Bottom line, if you wanna get laid with your perfect crush, wear this, he/she will drool over you.
virunchev – :
This took me by surprise. Take tobacco oud by tom ford, less offensive, add smooth patchouli, sweet cinnamon and a smokey/powdery quality and BOOM! So good. Great longevity and projection. Whenever I smell this or ambre nuit, I get instantly turned on. When a scent can do that, you know its special.
sony1967 – :
Every once in a while, you come across a fragrance that makes your jaw drop. You just know you have something special. That you enjoy for you. Everything about this fragrance to me is perfect. The Cinnamon, the Incense, the Rose, and that beautiful sweet Honey drydown. All the notes compliment each other and work so well together. It is so well blended and transforms so subtly as it sits on your skin. A true masterpiece.
sergei.com – :
Holy $h!+… Mitzah is a gem. Wtf were they thinking discontinuing this?
First off-this is not an “incense” fragrance. It has some smokey elements but it is cinnimon heavy-heavy-heavy and has a spiced sweetness to it that firmly makes this an oriental bordering gourmand.
The rose is a vibrant background note and smells authentic and “medium” in terms of density.
It does project nicely for a little while but settles down at the one hour mark. It leaves a warm mulled spice and floral aura around the body for many hours therafter.
I have gotten rave compliments on this from men and women when they give me a hug though and it is one of the only perfumes I have ever had both sexes lean in-or stay close in and give me unsolicited compliments. I’m a 6’2″ tall big fella and other men-friends at my sportsbar have given me hugs goodbye and sniffed me like a prom date-and asked where they can get this scent. It’s perfectly unisex.
Scent: 9/10 damn near masterpiece but while head and shoulders above the rest, stops short of legendary.
Longevity: 4/10 on skin it only projects a short while and then gets quiet. On clothes it doesn’t seem to project but lasts for many hours.
Projection: 5/10 for the first hour or so then it becomes a close-range scent for another few hours then a skin scent by hour 4 without fail.
Sillage: 4/10 for the first 30 minutes at best. It doesn’t leave a train. This is a point blank fragrance.
Would I buy another bottle? Eh jeeze. It’s gorgeous and I’m so glad to have it BUUUUT… it is discontinued and the prices are going sky high. I’m just not sure it’s worth the prices people are demanding and getting anymore.
GastonPoli73 – :
To me this is somewhere in the vein of TF Amber Absolute and Tobacco Oud. It’s a love it or hate it frag.
NAMO98 – :
I brought Christian Dior MITZAH out today to celebrate the returning autumn weather which is competing with Indian summer in San Francisco. I couldn’t say it better than my friend LANIER. I met him with our fragrance godess Hilary at the opening night for the Christian Dior boutique at Neiman Marcus. I immediately bought my bottle (and a couple of others) that night so many years ago. It is from it’s original launch so it is strong & gorgeous.
garik-spb – :
“Spiritual and enigmatic… probably Dior’s most bold modern-day fragrance.”
Mitzah is a 2010 fragrance by Francois Demarchy, and is part of Dior’s La Collection Couturier Parfumeur collection. It’s considered somewhat as a myth/legend in the fragrance community because it’s been discontinued (or sold only online; it’s debatable) a few years ago. Perhaps to me, the other reason it’s regarded as a myth is because it’s a very “non-Dioresque” fragrance that dares to try something different as a major designer label.
Mitzah opens on my skin with wafts of incense and spices. Incense-smoky and spicy, it invokes images of being in a temple and thus creates a soothing yet lively atmosphere. It smells a little like MFK’s Absolue Pour le Soir because of the similarity in spice notes but Mitzah’s honey-cinnamon combo makes it more palatable and pleasant. Plus, the labdanum and patchouli gives the fragrance a more amber (slightly vanilla too) and down-to-earth property. The only note I don’t detect is rose, which a few other bloggers claim to get.
It’s quite a shame how this fragrance is discontinued or simple extremely hard to get these days. In the exclusive collection by Dior, this is perhaps the most daring creation by Demarchy. Is it my favorite in the line? It’s hard to say for now, but I really recognize how original it smells. A fragrance originally marketed for women but smells more masculine to me, it’s very unisex in overall and is a must-sniff for fans of balsamic/spicy fragrances.
alex312010 – :
Christian Dior’s Mitzah is a gloriously elegant fragrance that I am lucky enough to own, I first had a 10 ml decant of this work of art and I am ashamed to say that I didn’t know what all the fuss was about. Yet, I was still willing to see if Mitzah could convince me otherwise.
Now after finding myself a bottle, I am pleased to say that I adore this fragrance for its oriental femininity that it so opulently shows through majestic aromas of rose, cinnamon, vanilla, honey and smoky incense. The rose begins Mitzah’s journey so beautifully that you don’t want it to end, but then spicy cinnamon takes the floor dancing hypnotically with your olfactory senses to have you craving for more. The softness of the honey sweetens you up as the creamy vanilla subtly joins in, while the incense lovingly teases enough to calm you as you gently close your eyes allowing you to sleep in amber-incense exquisiteness.
Longevity and sillage lasts about 6-9 hours which is great for such a stunning fragrance, and if sprayed on clothes longevity can last up to 12 hours. In all honesty if Mitzah was a drug I’d be coming back again and again while upping my dosage each time.
Overall, Christian Dior’s Mitzah is a beautifully well blended fragrance. I recommend this to anyone who adores sweet, spicy and smoky incense fragrances, if you don’t find the aroma addictively fascinating at first, give Mitzah a few more chances and I am sure you will change your mind.
neutrop – :
To my nose this is painfully animalic up close. An almost pungent honey pierces trough an enveloping spicy sweetness that is, as a result, both inviting and off putting. But from a slight distance it’s a warm, sweet, slightly smoky rosy composition with good projection and incredible longevity.
Beeklymaymncdkye – :
Love at first smell: Dior Mitzah is a case where the reality of this now-discontinued Dior Privee fan favorite was met by reality. Cinnamon, incense, amber, honey, and vanilla make up the main portrait of the fragrance. Rose is involved but not prominent and the coriander is similarly used in only a small quantity, fortunately. Perhaps the honey and amber are most dominant for me in the blend, which stays relatively linear, but the cinnamon and vanilla contribute to the gourmand and the incense adds its characteristic ashy darkness to the mix that grounds the otherwise foody mix in something less playful.
Mitzah is smoky, sweet, and slightly spicy. While it leans toward cold weather due to the incense and cinnamon, this certainly strikes me as something that could be worn in warm weather, as well, perhaps simply with fewer sprays.
Performance is excellent, as a small sampling of this on my wrists projected significantly for several hours and then closer for some hours beyond that.
Attributing value to this, given its discontinued and increasingly rare status, is difficult, as prices seem to soar to double the current Dior Prive costs ($210 for 125ml) on the secondary market, but if you love it, and even this smallest offered bottle is a big one, it can surely last as long as you want it to.
Scent Split is where I obtained my sample, so I’d like to credit them with still offering this, along with a variety of other discontinued scents from a handful of houses.
10 out of 10
Strogg13 – :
My favorite ambery perfume.
Bery expensive unfortunatly, but a so beautiful variation on the amber 83 base.
More flowery than Ambre Sultan (Lutens), with the rose, less aromatic, also spicy, on a delicious and sensual labdanum vanilla base.
Not really original, but that fragrance blends so much beautiful raw materials. Definitively bewitching.
clorbLarlcoky – :
Mitzah By Christian Dior
This is one of the most beguiling scents I have ever known! On my skin, I smell rose, incense, labdanum, cinnamon most of all.
The first spray on my skin is a blend of rose and soft incense, it is so warm and seductively smoky. The rose is very pretty and feminine, it is building up in strength on my skin.
After a time on my skin, the rose softens as the balmy labdanum joins in causing the rose to become so sultry smelling to my nose. The incense-labdanum accord is my favorite part of this fragrance, labdanum is prominent on my skin. I get teasing wafts of the rose throughout the life of the fragrance. The sweetness from the honey is blending with the labdanum.
Earthy, woody elements from the coriander and dark patchouli adds more depth to the scent as well as providing a balance to the sweetness. I sense cinnamon underneath the honey-labdanum accord.
I wish I bought a bottle of this beauty when I had a chance!
I recently fell in love with Mitzah and Eau Noire, now I find out that they are both discontinued. Christian Dior seriously needs to stop putting out beautiful, expensive smelling fragrances and then discontinuing them!!
Xeroxxnuud – :
Smells like a woman who’s not afraid to voice her opinion or sensuality, who’s wise and well-traveled..
Although most talk about the spice, incense, and amber/resin, I find the floral aspects to be equally prominent. A true oriental amber-floral in the market of heavy westernization (with the likes of Guerlain’s new offerings)
grigoriy0307 – :
If anybody want to sell their mitzah I am looking for one. My preference is for 8 oz.
oleg196599 – :
Splutter splutter cough cough! Tons of woodsmoke and acrid incense, a holy bonfire! There might be something else lurking in there but I’m not risking choking to hang around and find out. A scrubber for me. My husband commented; “fags” (that’s cigarettes to you).
However, for those that love that effect, one spray lasts hours so expect the huge flacons to last…. eternity. A decant would be an excellent investment if you can find one.
jin7 – :
Dior Mitzah is my favorite ‘most wearable’ amber oriental.
I own a lot of amber perfumes; but many of my favorites are intense and edgy so I feel I cannot wear them outside of my home (such as Parfum d’Empire Ambre Russe and Annick Goutal Ambre Fetiche > both of these are stunning but not exactly Office Friendly).
Anyway, Mitzah is an amber oriental which manages to utterly please me and keeps me enchanted all day long but somehow isn’t so unusual that I feel that it’s too odd for Office Wear (or anytime wear around anyone). I actually think this is a feat! Dior created an amber oriental which is interesting and gorgeous and still wearable.
I also find that a “musty or dusty” note emerges with most amber orientals. I find this musty/dusty quality with another of my top ambers, namely Histoires de Parfums Ambre 114 and Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan. Even though I love these two (the HdP and the SL) I find they begin to grate on me with this musty quality after a few hours.
The only other amber I would put in the highly wearable category is Hermes L’Ambre des Merveilles. I adore L’Ambre but it leans a little too sweet and a little too soft for me. It’s really nice though.
Dior Mitzah is a GEM. It’s a complex and perfectly balanced oriental – perfectly layered labdanum, incense, dash of patch, and some vanilla cinnamon, spice and everything perfect!
Mitzah is easily my favorite of Dior’s La Collection. I cannot believe it is discontinued (well, it does appear on Dior’s website from time to time, so it seems they are still making little tiny batches of it?)
Gorgeous. 5 STARS.
ELIELLLIOT – :
Mitzah is a perfectly blended incense and light rose oriental beauty. Gently spiced, smoky and slightly sweet. It’s sumptuous and rich in an elegant, understated way. This is not loud at all. I love Youth Dew and Opium but see absolutely no resemblance to Mitzah except for the fact that they’re all Orientals. Sillage here is modest to soft. Mitzah doesn’t shout, she whispers in a soft sexy seductive way. For me longevity is all day. I feel like a woman wearing this, but I can easily imagine it on a man too. I’m happy to have discovered that the discontinuation rumours were not correct – Mitzah is and has been (with periodic stock outages) available from Dior France.
Andersen1313 – :
What kind of a madman would discontinue such a beautiful scent? Probably the 3rd best scent in the line, in my opinion.
bravest – :
This is a marvelous potion of labdanum, incense, amber, cinnamon and dusty rose.
The start notes are incredible – the most gorgeous smoky fragrance I ever smelt, I wanted these notes to persist throughout life fragrance which does not happen, the perfume will evolve in dusty-powdery-smoky aura, a very exquisite one, also.
Mitzah was created by Francois Demachy having as inspiration the Mitzah Bricard personality, Mr. Dior muse.
I agree with other reviewers that Mitzah and Bois d’Argent is a redundant presence in the same collection but I think Dior has committed a grave error choosing to quit Mitzah, even if it’s not as versatile as Bois d’ Argent, I found it more memorable .
If at the first test I considered it an eminently feminine fragrance, my opinion has changed on a longer and more careful analysis, in fact I found it completely unisex and one of the best perfumes I smelt.
Fragrance 10/10
Projection Medium
Longevity 12 h
vinbor – :
Well blended. A blast of patchouli , white florals, musk and eastern spices. Utterly elegant, high class and very mature. Same density of ingredients and oiliness as found in Shalimar. I believe this is going to be a delight for all patchouli lovers…but not for me. The only bit I am fond of is the final, sweetened with honey drydown.
Notes I am missing are: incense, labdanum
boxiwideokurs – :
I got a decant of this. If I didn’t know what it was I would’ve sworn it was a Serge Lutens frag, because amazingly, to my nose, it has the SL backbone. A mix of Chergui and Ambre Sultan. Super warm fragrance, so warm that you may not need a jacket on snowy, below zero weather, and SWEEET, cloying, tooth roting, vomit inducing sweet!!I detected some faint notes of amber and incense in the opening, but for a little while, less than an hour, then they faded away, and all I was left with was the intense sweetness. This, unfortunately for me, is a beast mode scent. It reminds me of John Cougar Mellencamp’s lyrics, “Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone”, and so does MITZAH. I put it on in the morning before going to work, one spray on each side of my neck, it was fine at the beginning, I was expecting it to morph into someting nicer after the harsh opening, but no!, 4 or 5 hours later it kept going strong and linear and the sweetness started to bother me, I was at work, so I went to the bathroom and tried to wash it off my neck at no avail. 7 to 8 hours later I started to feel sick to my stomach (I work 12 hour days)It even made me lose apetite, I was unable to eat anything all day! I was literally choking on it. It stayed strong and warm for the whole day. I was even afraid a shower wouldn’t wash it off. Fortunately it did, and right after I put on some Millesime Imperial to refresh myself before going to bed. No wonder it has been discontinued. I like sweet fragrances, but with this one they went too far. I’ll give my almost unused 10ML decant to my worst enemy!
SHEL666 – :
I adore this scent.I think it’s absolutely perfectly blended. The incense and honey are beautiful and not too bold. The labdanum makes it even more beautiful. I love the sweet earthiness of the beauty. A shame it has been taken off of the Dior website. I’m assuming it’s discontinued. I’ll buy big decants of it as long as I can, but a true pity it seems to be gone since it is definitely full bottle worthy despite the cost.
VANO110801 – :
Incense, honey,patchouli and cinnamon are the key notes on my skin. All notes that I like/love but they are too delicate in Mitzah. It feels more fem than masculine. No oomph in it. Longevity is good but silage is very tamed.Much better in the fragrance world for cheaper!
vladimir-19-55 – :
In retrospect, I probably didn’t need to buy this given that I already have Ambre Sultan, but the Dior salesman really rocked, and I love frankincense. It kind of reminded me of my beloved Aveda pure-fumes from the 90’s. This has a very nice longevity and is probably a little less weird than Ambre Sultan. The Dior salesman said something about how they were having trouble sourcing the frankincense, whether true or not, it totally worked on me in that it made me want to buy immediately. I just love the way this note is rendered in this particular perfume.
SEN-SURIK – :
This is a very pleasant honey/amber/incense scent. I enjoyed my sample a lot but…for the asking price on a full bottle I found the lasting power a bit poor and the overall impression, dare I say, blah? There are more interesting and a lot cheaper oriental perfumes out there.
кале – :
This review is based on a decant. It’s very similar to Ambre Sultan by Serge Lutens except that Mitzah is not as herbal/spicy. Moderate projection and good longevity on my skin.
Yanez341 – :
Oh, how I love thee…
Sampled from a tiny vial, this scent is bound to become my signature once I receive the full bottle!
This is amber, this is incense, this is beauty and comfort, sophistication and understatement.
Very similar to Ambre Sultan indeed, it is more feminine, elegant and classy. Great lasting power, too.
Incredible, simply incredible.
Oh, and yes, a great deal, too! 8.4 oz=250 ml for $250 – that’s less than $30 per 1 oz (30 ml)
I got my stash now that it’s discontinued! 🙂
Update: this perfume is a DRUG. I am officially addicted.
ziyuri – :
The prominent notes in here for me are the Labdanum and incense, with a touch of honey sweetness. I don’t get much rose or patchouli, at least for now.
Overall, I belive this would satisfy anyone who is fond of amber and/or incense based fragrances. I personally find Labdanum a more wearable version of amber. Good stuff, and right in the middle of unisex.
val50576199 – :
Oh, this is so gorgeous! An eiderdown comforter of spice-dusted incense, just sweet enough to soothe the soul. I’d swear there was amber in it but the notes say no. But, oh, it does remind me of another perfume… My nose will be stuck to my wrist all day while I try to remember which one. I can think of worse ways to spend the day. 🙂
Edit: I’ve got it! Ambre Sultan. Must be the labdanum that gives it that amber quality. They’re similar but easy to tell apart – Mitzah has noticeable cinnamon and a sharp floral base.
lignb;lfnb;ofnjmfnfn – :
At the opening I took a ton of incense, cinnamon and honey, pungent aroma and very sweet, warm, very powerful projection. After ten minutes the skin he referred me to the Louve Serge Lutens (amostrinha wax).
After about forty-five minutes, the incense will be taking and I am now a honey delicate floral, but still sweet, creamier, and now at this point, since the projection is average in my skin. The aroma lingers in this way until the end, getting a little more intimate, but the setting is great.
Honey dominates the fragrance from start to finish. Good for the winter.
iluxin – :
This is a bright, clamorous scent that draws some parallels to the other fragrances Demachy put together for the Couturier line. There’s an opulence to much of the series that can cause them to come across as trying a little too hard, but this particular one isn’t pushing any envelopes with its composition; Instead, it’s clearly aiming for pleasantries—and in that respect, it’s somewhat successful.
There’s an initial blast of Damascone Beta (presumably in order to cite Dior’s 1980s powerhouse scents), quickly giving way to a rich honey/vanilla that’s slightly tempered by the spices. Patchouli peeks through and adds a snippet of freshness to the mix as the scent attenuates. What results is a semi-fruity, honeyed-rose aura that sits relatively low, straddling between “nice” and “mundane.” Although the listed notes would disagree, I do pick up a hint of animalic dirtiness that’s probably coming from labdanum. Sadly, I get virtually no incense at all as it’s simply subsumed by the sweetness of everything else that’s going on and the somewhat sickly base that’s carrying the whole thing along.
Projection and longevity seem slightly below average: it sits relatively low in comparison to other Diors, and lasts around 4 hours on me. Pleasant, warm, rich, but ultimately boring, it’s frankly not that far removed from the slew of honey/rose/vanilla synths that have plagued the market from cheap celeb scents to designer fruit-bombs. Despite this, I get the sense that it’s created for absolute marination (which is probably why it comes in a ridiculous 8.4oz bottle) and is probably well-suited for such purposes. I’d list this as sniff-worthy if you happen to be in its presence, but aside from that, I wouldn’t recommend seeking it out—specifically as there are plenty more scents out there doing what Mitzah is attempting, but with far more grace.
sholeg2008 – :
Kind of like I always used to read Janet Reno Loves You instead of Jean Reno Loves You and Maggot instead of Etro Magot, I kept thinking I was reading “Mitzvah” wherever I saw this scent advertised. So, I felt obligated to try it…hardee har har.(Sorry) Mitzah is a dreamy incense fragrance, the likes of which we experience all too rarely. It’s not as smokey after awhile as it lead me to anticipate, but but it haunts with a labdanum and cinnamon warmth. It’s for a woman that makes turbans, bold leopard prints (faux!), and a string of pearls the size of golf balls seem effortlessly stylish. I think Mitzah is gorgeous, and it’s the kind of fragrance I admire, but it’s black hair, tall and voluptuous, and I’m a redhead, short and boney. Mitzah is several sizes too big for me, in the way that I could never play the part no matter how brilliant are my acting skills. If this came in something other than a vat, I’d probably buy a little bottle to have purely for the thrill of sniffing it.
Den7516 – :
If a perfume ever felt it had a divine right to be considered beautiful it could be Mitzah from La Collection Couturier Parfumeur by Dior.
Formed with the easy precision of a skilled pattern cutter’s hand, it is an apparently simple composition that only assumes its true form when worn.
From the start it is mainly smoke in the couturiers’ mirrors, in all directions billowing clouds of incense take their time to clear. The clouds come from cones heavily flavoured with coriander, cinnamon and cardamon, meaning they are rich and spiced in their swirling.
When the dust does finally settle our newly dressed gentleman lacks only one thing: a floral buttonhole. A mistake rectified with the quick provision of a rose, one that continues to emanate its Damascene scent the rest of the day.
Only one element now remains: a sweetness to add humour to this show of the dark arts.
Here come the bees in their honeyed hoards to bring a sepia tint to the scene.
An icon is an icon and has sexuality rather than a sex.
Mitzah is the first icon of the silent screen.
red98983 – :
I was fortunate to receive a sample of this perfume from a friend. First and foremost, this is a unisex scent, no question about it. Guys, don’t be afraid of this one, it works very well on men’s skin. Secondly, I come so close to wanting to call this a masterpiece. It’s one of the best perfumes I’ve tried in ages.
Mitzah grabs you by the shirt collars immediately with a sweet and gently spicy opening. I first detect coriander and labdanum, and bright hints of rose and a melange of spices. About an hour or two later, this astounding middle appears: warm wood, cool incense, smoldering nuts and berries, rubbed patchouli leaves. Not far after begins the epically long ending, where honey/beeswax plays the solo, surrounded by the echoes of other spices. Rose is prominent in the base notes, too. Every element of this perfume slides in a long horizontal line from one to the other so the experience lasts a very long time, and its changes are subtle, smo