Christian Dior • La Collection Couturier Parfumeur Mitzah Dior • Fragrances

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*TOP REVIEWER* YoHarajuku on 2/26/2013 5:15:00 PM more reviews by YoHarajuku

Age: 25-29   Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool   Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium   Eyes: Hazel    

Personally it wasn't for me but its certainly unusual and well crafted fragrance. It ticks all the boxes, complicated but smooth, clean but strong. Definetly one for perfume lovers.

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*TOP REVIEWER* rpolisk on 12/23/2012 2:48:00 PM more reviews by rpolisk

Age: 44-55   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Brown    

Probably my second favorite in La Collection Couturier. Mitzah is not subtle. She is a sweet, boozy, vanilla-heavy mix which hums with that characteristic benzoin present in many many offerings these days. One reviewer below calls this scent "fat", and that is exactly right on the money. In the same sense that biting into a piece of pure pig fat (think of French charcuterie rilletes or other pates rimmed in white creamy pure lard) can be both quite pleasant, if tempered with a perfect piece of crusty baguette and a sip of good red wine; yet give you a heave-like sensation of surfeit if you're not exactly in the right mood or already have had a heavy meal, Mitzah can behave in the same way. On the perfect crispy cold day, surrounded in cashmere and furs, Mitzah will feel absolutely luscious and perfect in the way of many Guerlains. But it will just as easily tip the scale into an over-the-top caricature of orientalist mess which will clear a room in seconds if over-applied or mixed with the wrong skin chemistry. Not nearly as well-crafted as its Guerlain antecedents, but the price is about half of that for a bottle of Tonka Imperiale or Musc Ravageur, leaving Mitzah as a good entry level boozy/vanillic/oriental. Sample first.

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Fitby40 on 4/7/2012 9:40:00 AM more reviews by Fitby40

Age: 44-55   Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Green    

I loved this at first sniff.... unusual but beautiful! oriental amber suitable for work- Win-Win! Price point is actually reasonable!!!

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maximiliana on 2/25/2012 11:21:00 PM more reviews by maximiliana

Age: 36-43   Skin: Combination, Dark   Hair: Brown, Relaxed   Eyes: Brown    

I love this scent! It's unusual and sexy.

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*TOP REVIEWER* ellizam on 1/12/2012 8:38:00 AM more reviews by ellizam

Age: 44-55   Skin: Combination   Hair: Brown   Eyes: Brown    

Mitzah is gorgeous, an entrant in what I call the "super-fat" category - frangrances almost overstuffed with vanillan and smoky notes. Other fragrances in this category are Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille, Guerlain Bois Armenie, Killian Back to Black, Guerlain Cuir Beluga.


Mitzah has the dense labdanum of Norma Kamali's Incense, a spine of patchouli, light metallic clinks of geranium. Everything is enrobed in a deep layer of super-dense vanillan, the synthetic vanilla. That's not to say Mitzah smells "synthetic" - it smells rich and of intensely good quality. The overall gestalt is a non-cakey vanilla, with smoky resinous notes, wood, and a center spine of spicy/floral geranium with a little cinnamon, maybe, and maybe a touch of pepper.


The notes per Fragrantica are: coriander, rose, spices, cinnamon, labdanum, vanilla, honey, patchouli and incense. I may well be conflating the rose and coriander combination with geranium, but what came to my nose was geranium.

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