Christian Dior’s world was full of talismans and flowers — a detail celebrated in iconic perfumer Francis Kurkdjian’s latest creation for the French fashion house, La Collection Privée Christian Dior Rose Star, which lands on shelves this week.
Paying homage to two of the designer’s most precious treasures — the long-loved Centifolia rose, which Dior cultivated throughout his life, and his lucky five-pointed guiding star (it is said that in April 1946 he was out walking when he stumbled over a metal star, taking this as a sign to open a couture house) — this fragrance turns all our powdery preconceptions of traditional rose perfumes on their head.
