Dior Addict (2002)
by Christian Dior

Dior Addict’s coconut cream and floral top notes may be blatantly synthetic and crassly “foody,” but I can’t help liking them. The white flower-infused vanilla pudding that follows is no less crude, but I’m ashamed to admit that I like that, too. I guess I’ve always been outrageously gauche in my tastes, but my responses to Dior Addict drive the point home. (Burps, grunts, scratches his groin…)

In composing Addict Thierry Wasser has executed the same brilliant gambit that Olivier Cresp did a decade earlier in Angel; pushing an intensely sweet floral/gourmand composition through the looking glass of vulgarity and into a realm of alternate dimension beauty. While the two fragrances smell nothing alike, the trick works just as well for Dior as it did for Mugler. Addict may smell dumb but beautiful, and it’s easily as loud as an Airbus on the runway, but examine it with care and you’ll find a very clever and subtly executed construct.

Dior Addict is very sexy, if I could compare it to a fabric, it would be velvet, purple, or dark red, soft, sensual velvet. That's what this perfume seems like to me, it envelopes you in this aura of mystery and sensuality.
I get a lot of mandarin leaves in it at the beginning, the key word is not mandarin (citrus), but leaves, and something else that I can not identify, almost like a muddy smell, but in a good way. Vanilla is not overly sweet on me, but rather dry, not edible or gourmand type, not like Hypnotic Poison but just right to soften up the unusual top notes.
I must be the only person on earth who is not in love with Hypnotic Poison, but I do like Addict. It's a strange scent, but I love it. It makes me feel very classy. I know that a lot of people consider Addict trashy and cheap, may be because of the ads, but I guess, it all depends on your chemistry. I do not pull sweet vanilla out of it, like many do, and I think that's the trick.
I would not compare it with Rush, Rush smells very plastic-y, sweet on me, and this one does not. Worth a try.

There are scents that one wears and get strong sensual wafts of all day. Addict EDP is one of those scents, and after several full wearings the experience for me has always been pleasant. Addict makes me glad i love fragrances, mainly for what they are and not just for adornment or compliments.

I will not go into any analysis of the various stages/notes of this fragrance. Enough has been well very done by previous reviewers. However, ladies and gents, i may be wrong, but Addict is Alexander McQueen's Kingdom plus strong vanilla. The "sickening", "nauseating", "repugnant" ingredient (or conglomerate of ingredients) seems to be the same that makes Kingdom what it is infamous for. The strongly animalic vibe in Addict EDP is what excites me and saves the scent from being, errrr...., plain vanilla.

Uduandibeme cannot imagine a man pulling Addict off. Addict is one of my favourites and i usually forget it is targeted towards women. I am so glad i have an easily available alternative to my Muscs Khoublai Khan for when the mood hits me.

Addict is a fine, sensual fragrance.

Dior Addict starts pungent. The vanilla is harsh, sickly, and sharp, forcing itself up your nostrils, and it stays like this on my skin for some time. After 1:30 hours, it softens, and at 2 - 3 hours in, becomes the deepest, softest, pure vanilla fragrance i have smelt. This is the sweet spot, the bit which makes you say "yummy!" each time you move and it wafts a hot tasty cloud of vanilla your way.
I don't think i'll be getting it for myself, it's just a bit too obviously feminine, but i would love to smell this on a girl. The drydown anyway, and only lightly applied. 2-3 sprays is probably plenty. I think it's best to keep a smell like this apllied lightly, so that when someone does get close they get a nice suprise, rather than them smelling it from 6 feet away. It's heavy stuff. Great sillage and longevity.

MMMMMM!!!! burnt caramelized bourbon sugar with vanilla.....so thickly sweet and darkly sensual. sillage is incredible, staying power will last forever and a day.

A gigantic sweet vanilla bomb. I absolutely love it and think it's a wonderful vanilla. (And I've tried a lot of them, including the niche stuff.) Don't let the fact that it's widely available put you off trying it.