Dia for Women (2002)
by Amouage

Top notes: fig, cyclamen, bergamot, tarragon, sage and violet leaves

Middle : precious and fresh flowers: peach blossom, rose oil, orange flower, peony

Base: white musk, misterious incense, vanilla, heliotrope, cedarwood, sandalwood and Guaiac wood

Created by Jean-Claude Ellena in 2002.

Dia is a spacious white airy floral bearing all the best hallmarks of a Jean Claude Ellena creation. Very rosey, like many Amouages, and extremely well-crafted.
Just heady enough, just sweet enough, just green enough, and rich and deep without being overly strong.
Dia seems custom-made for me, and I would see it as a sister to the Jardin series fragrances Ellena has made for Hermes. A wonderful floral made without cutting corners, and the packaging completes it.

29th January, 2012.

My review would be "What Hillaire said" as I agree 100% with her in this instance.
I tried Dia by chance, as I got a sample with an order of another Amouage and it instatnly grabbed me.
I get a nod to No.5 and also to Caléche (wonderful aldehydic classics) but Dia is more soft spoken, fresher, soapier.
It smells clean and more flowery (I get the cyclamen mostly) than those two and also more contemporary without losing its classical vibe or versatility.

4th April, 2011.

Not as bad as Amouage Gold, but I also find "Dia" a quite sharp, pungent and chemical scent. I was given a sample of Dia in the Amouage shop in Muscat but decided to give it away (the reader of this may have it) because I simply can't stand to wear it.

4th December, 2010.

Potent, rich and a little strange but strange good . Unique. Dia is a fabulous oriental that leaps out of the 'run of the mill' deep oriental grouping . It has a fresh vibe that bounds out of it - I put it down to the sage ,bergamot and tarragon notes . It's a very individual scent and quite beautiful .My favorites remain as Ubar and Jubilation 25.

11th September, 2010.

Sigh....how I wish I could relate to the glorious experiences some of you have described. After several attempts to get Dia, I have to say that I just don't. I do get the references to Chanel No. 5, but to me, Dia is what's left of No.5 after you've stripped it of all the elements that make it posh and luxurious, leaving a shrill and quite linear detergent or dryer-sheet accord....and I don't get even the slightest impression of rose. Hmph! Truthfully, it's not that I think it stinks, or even find it bad, really, but it's just not the revelation I expected. And although pleasant in a detergenty-clean way, it doesn't even come close to moving me. It's not even as persistent as I expected it to be.

Although I can't imagine many people would blind-buy an Amouage, I guess it's worth repeating how important it is to sample first. And now that I have, rather than be envious of y'all, I'll try to be happy that I can cross another pricey perfume off my list ...but I really wanted to be in this club - maybe Dia Man will be more to my liking! :-)

22nd August, 2010. (Last Edited: 13rd November, 2010.)

Dia reminds me of a silk blouse, color: caramel. Beautiful, feminine and classy. But it lacks personality and persistence. Many of the reviews rightly quote chanel n. 5 as a similar scent. Too expensive to be so similar to a very common parfume such as n. 5. Anyway a round, creamy, cyphre, floral beauty, with a gourmand and animalic drydown.

24th May, 2010.