Addicted

Dior Addict's 2014 reformulation is famously a three-note pyramid, and Addicted follows the same blueprint: bright mandarin leaf up top, a dense jasmine sambac heart, and a bourbon vanilla base. The first twenty minutes are a genuinely close match, with the same warm, slightly narcotic jasmine that made the Charlize Theron-era campaigns so recognisable. The gap opens in the heart-to-base transition. Dior Addict's jasmine sambac is dense and almost syrupy, carrying that quality for hours before the vanilla fully takes over; Addicted's jasmine reads flatter and thinner, and the vanilla base arrives earlier and settles into a simpler sweet skin scent rather than the designer's dense, slightly boozy warmth. Projection is soft from the first spritz rather than building. For the price it captures the jasmine-vanilla mood well enough for an evening out, but it wears closer to the original's dry-down than its opening hour, and fades a good deal sooner.