Miss Dior Cherie

A loss from which I may never recover!!! Perhaps I am biased to this fragrance due to the time in my life that I wore her and her alone and went through countless bottles never betraying her!! I didn’t have a large collection back then. I could not afford multiple fragrances and would ask for this for bday and Xmas. I was in my early 20s and life was very exciting and this beauty was a part of it! Would I feel the same love if I smelled this gem for the first time now without its ability to evoke the feeling and memories of my younger years? I don’t know. But I know I’d still enjoy it. Much like who I was when I wore her, the scent is young and carefree. She is playful and a bit flirty! Incredibly feminine and sweet, greeting you with bright sharp strawberries swirling with tarte cherry and sweet pineapple. Behind those notes the Carmel popcorn adds a warm slightly savory component that grounds the sour fruits. Patchouli and a faint touch of soft florals anchor it all down creating the loveliest girly, sweet and sour concoction!! I have found fragrances that are similar but they lack that special something that This version of Miss Dior Cherie offered. The next couple versions Dior replaced her with honored the vibe of her after that they went off track completely and while Ive enjoyed other versions they lost the spirit of the MDC completely. The 2024 Parfum seemed to want to go that direction and while I like it, it isn’t nearly as good and lacks that special kick Miss Dior Cherie offered. I hope someday they bring it back, even for a limited time. Update: I have kept a tiny mini bottle of the Original Miss Dior Cherie on hand to smell when I need a dose of nostalgia but I don’t wear it as its just to keep as a collectors piece. But recently I got a decent deal on a half full size bottle of Miss Dior Cherie with the original label printed directly on the bottle. For being nearly 20 years old it still smells really nice and just as I remember. I’m so glad to have a bottle to wear tho I will likely ration it! One of the things I love so much about this fragrance is just how perfectly the notes hit, sure there are similar fragrances especially from the era Miss Dior Cherie came out but to me this is my Goldilocks version of Chypres! It’s just right! Sweet but not syrupy, bright but anchored, youthful but not juvenile, playful but chic, nothing is overwhelming me or too heavy but it is still potent and noticeable. I truly have never found a fragrance in this category that hits so perfectly for my taste and I have looked for years! Also I see some reviews on this page of dupes that are reviewed as if they tried the actual authentic Miss Dior Cherie. I have tried most of the dupes, including the ones mentioned and they are similar but don’t have the Goldilocks effect of the actual OG to me.

Ahh! This is heaven. I meant to write this review many times, but then forgot. So here it goes today... Miss Dior Cherie 2005 is simply one of the best fragrances ever made. I am the happy owner (lucky, lucky me!) of a full 100ml of this marvelous, enticing, divine concoction and as someone pointed out previously, it opens with a wild, wet strawberry - the pineapple gives it that wet vibe, I believe, toning slightly the tarty babe here - AND popcorn. YUP! It is really a popcorn note there at the back. The initial fuzz goes on about half an hour, and relaxes only to give space to a subtle, sleek but deep musk with a hint of caramel and mandarin orange. This is very distinct a note from the more common orange, it has depth and it is soapier, maintaining the character of her distant cousin (the orange). Patchouli is there, but overall not at all as prominently as the duo opening the dance. And what a waltz!!! Not sure what anyone who voted the cherry as third prominent note smelled here: it is way at the back, if you can perceive it at all. Almost mute, hiding in the background, like the fussy violet they used to create this masterpiece. They are both there to back the other notes; they are an incredibly well balanced whisper. And I say this because cherry has a slightly sour soul, which here is not showing one bit. To me, the protagonists are wild strawberry, pineapple and popcorn, backed in order by mandarin orange/musk combo, a tad of amber and jasmine/patchouli just a drop. Miss Dior Cherie 2005 is a must for lovers of fruity musk, because that mandarin orange works wonders with it and the opening trio is just incredible with its backing. Perfect for mid-spring through early fall, day mainly but if you can afford to spray with abandon then evening too (and it would definitely give you an entrance anywhere!). NO age restriction here: from teen to more mature any woman can wear this fragrance and feel joyous, fresh, classy and mostly, pleased to be a woman. This fragrance is the epitome of joie de vivre. 11 out 10, because they do not make them like this anymore! But then, Dior is Dior and if there's any house that knows how to work a floral into a class number, it is this one in my humble opinion. Like no other ever did, or can (I may be biased, because Diorissimo and Pure Poison are my other two great loves). PS: I sprayed it on today at 1pm and right now it is still there - 8 hours and though not in your face my husband could smell it, and so do I. Top sillage and longevity. For information - the popcorn note was removed in subsequent reformulations of this fragrance. That is why the 2005 formula, aka the original one, is the most sought after.

Flowers, sweet strawberries and juicy sour cherries generously drizzled with warm salted caramel, garnished with dark green oakmoss and served on a plate made of patchouli. Yes, the 2005 formula definitely had oakmoss in the base, and there are a few other floral notes not listed, I think lily of the valley was one of them. My God, this was SO good, addictive smell, it was delicious but not in a gourmand way, rather it alludes to something luxuriously indulgent and gourmand. The best fruitcholli ever created, period. It was truly unique and distinctive. It’s: gooey sweet, buttery, salty, juicy, tangy, dense, warm, fresh, fruity, floral, green/mossy, woody, musky all at once, all seamlessly blended into a rich, elegant potion...just amazing! It used to be my fall/winter signature. There’s really NOTHING like it in today’s market. This was a polarizing scent back then because of the so-called ‘popcorn’ note that added a nuance of saltiness (honestly, just smelled like salted caramel to me), it was just too ‘quirky’ for some, especially contrasted with the rather mature mossy/woody chypre base (many of the girls my age and older thought it smelled too mature, while the more mature ladies thought it was too fruity-sweet and girlish). It was not polarizing to the level of Angel, but people did seem to either love or hate it. It did tend to develop a ‘BO’ odor if I attempted to wear it in warm weather, but in cool weather I wore it unapologetically, and I would get stopped, complete strangers wanting to know what my perfume was, and people I knew then associated this whimsical, beautiful, happy scent with me. I loved the 2010 EDT as well, it smelled similar, but lighter, less sweet and more versatile, more suitable for all year round use. It’s too bad this baby (and the EDT variant) is gone. I still remember the scent vividly, as if it’s under my nostrils...it’s that iconic and memorable. PS. The reviewers below talking about it being a light scent, and then someone else mentioned an aquatic note...whhaaaa??...your bottles must be fakes, becareful with eBay purchases, this is why I just don’t bother hunting down for a bottle, too many fakes circulating around...the Miss Dior Cherie I knew scented the whole interior of the cupboard I stored it in just by sitting there. Sillage so huge my mom could smell me as soon as I entered the house. The juice was really dense and rich, similar in thickness and potency to Coco Mademoiselle Intense. I purchased CMI because the richness of the drydown reminded me of MDC (no, they do not smell similar, but both are ‘luxurious’ fruitchoulis).

Miss Dior Cherie edp. This one I purchased a few years ago off eBay. Batchcode from April 2007. Spraying this on my arm now, Oh my goooood! I'm actually getting emotional. But mostly happy! Because it smells so good. It just puts a smile on my face. Almost in tears. It reminds me of working at the Chanel counter in David Jones, Sydney. And Dior was our rival, but I could not resist Miss Dior Cherie when it first launched in 2005. I also loved many Chanel fragrances, which we received plenty of, and are also favourites. (and we had to wear Chanel while while at the counter of course) But this perfume.... was something completely groundbreaking and new. It wasnt like everone lovedbit back then, but no one was indifferent about it. They loved it or hated it. Some said it was too immature and sweet. But my goooooodness, I just loved it! It became my signature scent, and it was until it was first reformulated and turned too patchouli on me. As I'm smelling it in 2023, almost 20 years later, it's still perfection. Its not sweet at all, compared to the norm of today's popular scents. And thereby also the new Miss Dior 2021. Now that it sweet. Miss Dior Cherie however was just perfectly fruity. Christine Nagel composed a classic with this. The fruits and accords are true and authentic and not synthetic or a blend of generic "fruits". And the balance of pineapple, strawberry and cherry it hints of gourmand, and the chypre notes are just divine. Elegant! Sophisticated! No vanilla "bomb", no flower "bomb", no fruit "bomb" no "patchuli-bomb". Its hard to explain because its nothing like today's fragrances. If it came out today I don't think it would be as popular. It's just not sweet or gourmand or floral enough to please the crowd. I used to have the shower gel, the deodorant (still have one) and body moisturiser, and they all smelled exactly like the edp. What a bliss and blessing it was to be shower-fresh and perfumed with the full circle of Miss Dior Cherie. If you wonder if it smells like the new Miss Dior 2021, it does not. Neither does it resemble the previous versions from Francois Demachy. The Miss Dior Cherie edp 2005 is fruity, salty, sweet and chypre in a fresh and dewy way that is just not done today. A sparkling gem. Nothing compares. Now what to do? Use it, or let it sit in the bathroom cupboard because its too precious to actually use?

Ahhhh, patience has finally paid off! After years of daily emails from that blasted new listings subscription, I scored a full unused bottle (with box!! albeit a little battered) at a local online auction for like, USD70 converted. A week of fretting it might be fake later, this lady now owns a genuine bottle of this stupid(ly good) fragrance she wasted so much time scouring the net over. If you can't tell, I am simultaneously over the moon and appalled at myself. As for the fragrance, it smells amazing. At first, it's a fruit salad bowl drizzled in caramel and it smells like sunshine and happiness but HEAVY, not the light springtime one you'd get from, say, Blooming Bouquet. It would smell overbearing on me, to be honest, if it weren't for the patchouli. My skin reacts weirdly to patchouli - if there's any hint of it in a perfume, you can bet your last dollar my skin's gonna project that shite like skunk spray. Fortunately, I quite like patchouli (not so fortunate for the fam, who all HATE it with an undying fervour haha). So the earthiness of patchouli perfectly balances it. It's still ridiculously sweet but it works. The popcorn probably helps, but my uncultured nose can't detect it at all. There are faint hints of something buttery from time to time (or perhaps it's placebo), but that's about it. I did spray it on someone else and was subsequently quite revolted at the odd savoury note her skin brought out. Sillage and longevity depended on where it was sprayed. On my wrists and inner elbows, top notes were quicker to fade, drydown was pretty much just a sweetened patchouli, and it became a skin scent in a few hours. On neck and chest, it lasted much longer (5+ hours) and drydown was more of a blend of every note (but the caramel was definitely stronger). Also tried two sprays on tissue. I left it on my desk and every time I entered the room, I'd get a blast of it. Sitting at the desk, I'd get whiffs of it throughout the day (sweet heaven...). Anyways, it's a safe blind buy in that if you somehow don't like it, there's always someone you can pass it on to.