Hypnotic Poison Eau Sensuelle
Christian Dior (2011)

Tuberose-vanilla flankerTuberose is strong on my skin from the beginning, with vanilla and a nice orchid element balancing nicely. Later a musky notes is added. This is a strong scent with excellent silage and projection, with a brilliant longevity of nine hours. A worthy variation of the more subtle original and good in colder weather nPros: LongevityCons:

MAGNET Hypnotic Poison Eau Sensuelle is a People Magnet. So If you don't like compliments, Hypnotic Poison Eau Sensuelle might not be for you. I've never received as many same-day compliments for any other fragrance in my life. I quickly went through my quarter ounce mini and purchased the full size. "You smell like frosting! What is it? Where can I get that?," one lady complimented me, with a huge smile on her face. Hypnotic Poison Eau Sensuelle is a vanilla bomb, with the vanilla being prevalent from the get-go, even though it's listed as a basenote. The vanilla IS "the frosting," gourmand effect. An hour later, my butcher moved in closely and said "You smell so good! Where can I get that for my wife?" He possibly could detect the fragrance due to excellent silage. The combination of orchid and orange blossom makes Hypnotic Poison Eau Sensuelle a Silage Bomb. At the same time, green notes add levity and freshness. An hour later, as I passed by a little girl, she said to her mother "Ohhh, mommy, what is it? It smells so pretty, ohhh." And then there was the guy at the copier. He enquired three times as to what I was wearing and where he could purchase it. I repeated it three times. I finally had to write it down for him. But he didn't go away. He continued to hover.Pros: Longevity, Silage, CompositionCons: Mosquitos, Fruit Flies and Bees also love this

This is indeed a paler version of the original Hypnotic Poison.

All that bold vanilla and play-dough has been taken away and replaced with soft florals and subdued vanilla. They perhaps made the original more wearable and casual, however in my opinion they made it boring.

Hypnotic Poison was never my favourite in the Poison series, I much preferred the richer Poison, Midnight Poison and Tendre Poison. To make a lighter version of any of those three fragrances would be an outrage, why did they assume that making a softer version of Hypnotic Poison was going to be well-received?

I'm a young woman that likes to make a statement with the fragrances I choose to wear. Hypnotic Poison eau Sensuelle is neither head-turning or overly sensual in my opinion. I would wear this fragrance perhaps as a bed-time scent or to a picnic in the park.

The sillage is extremely intimate and soft, and the lasting power, while satisfactory, could have lasted a little longer.

In conclusion all I can say is for those that like to wear bold fragrances, stick to the original. For those shy perfume wearers, Hypnotic Poison eau Sensuelle could be the perfect scent for you, especially if you found the original to be too strong.

After the many reformulations we have witnessed in recent times, Eau Sensuelle is a "breath", a cool breeze of ylang ylang sustained with orchid which beautifies the sweet chords of his predecessor. Beautiful unpretentious, suitable for different occasions, and with a twist, that makes it go from fun to elegant.

This flanker is far better than the original, unmysterious sugary Hypnotic  Poison in my opinion. This fragrance is not an almond gourmand and the cloying burst of cocomut, almond and vanilla is here replaced by a better appointed orange blossom-ylang-ylang-carnal flowers trio that is brighter, sultrier and more lively. Just an hint of cocomut and musk; the fragrance shares many notes with Carnal Flower Malle which is a better composition in the middle between this flanker and the original Hypnotic but with a more natural, woodsy, changeable, citrusy and sultry consistence. The tuberose is exuberant in its agreement with milk, more radiant than the jasmine sambac of the original, the smell is drier, an hint angular and less dusty, the orchid is not particularly powdery, the orange is captivating, the smell in general is more stabilized on the side of flowers  and musk than on that one of sugar, almond and  milk, the dissonance of caraway is faraway. The "synthetism" .....still present but this is another story.

L'eau sensuelle is the brigther, smarter sister of Hypnotic Poison. Once I met too twin sisters. One was smart, good looking and self confident. Just the opposite of the other, the plain sister. l'eau sensuelle is in fact the sensual version of HP. Better built, better on my skin. Still not my signature scent but gives me a nice feeling. Thumb up.