Christian Dior has added a third fragrance to the Escale collection: next month, Escale aux Marquises joins Escale à Portofino and Escale à Pondichéry.
Escale aux Marquises is a fresh feminine cologne-style fragrance paying tribute to the tiare flower. Additional notes include blood orange, pink pepper, cardamom, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, clove, nutmeg, coriander, elemi, lemon peel, benzoin and vanilla.
Christian Dior Escale aux Marquises will be available in 75, 125 and 200 ml Eau de Toilette. (via vogue.fr, condenast-profesional.es)
Update: see a review of Christian Dior Escale aux Marquises.
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What a pretty picture of the bottles! All twinkling and… pretty.
I don’t mind Portofino and Pondichery – they actually strike me as leaning towards a men’s cologne – so I’m looking forward to sniffing this one!
I thought the first two were good but not great…this one sounds very try-worthy, we’ll see…
I found I could live without my Portofino and gave it away to a male friend. He appreciates it more than I did.
I love the bottles – they shimmer like sun on seawater. But neither of the previous scents have done much for me. Mind you, this one has the magic word ‘ vanilla’!
They look pretty all in a row, don’t they?
That’s exactly it, N! Good call.
Ooooooooooooooh. LIKE. I loved Portofino, it’s deliciously nutty on me and lasts forever, I bought a bottle for last summer. Pondichery, not so much. Those spicy notes sound great. Hope it’s not too “fresh.” Or too feminine.
They seemed to be using the word fresh just to say it will be in the same style as the first two — cologne-y type things — so hopefully that’s all it is.
I love Portofino – it was what i was wearing when y husband proposed to me last summer, and is a wonderful summer/vacation scent. Pondichery is not bad at all, though not as much of a love for me. i can’t wait to try this new one!
Like Portofino, loathe Pondichery and looking forward to trying this one.
Might as well give it a shot! I will.
I read several magic words in the list of notes!
Tiaré, benzoin, lemon peel, cardamom…
It sounds great!
To cool my enthusiasm, I should remind myself that non of the Dior Escales has interested me… but, as I said, Tiaré, benzoin, lemon peel, cardamom…
WANT!
The spice notes sound great.
I liked Portofino and Pondichéry, but not as much as to buy a bottle (the second one reminded me a lot of Angel Schlesser Femme, which is good).
This new scale sounds great and I think it easily could be my favourite one if the spices are noticeable.
Yes, hope it is not too light.
I’ve really enjoyed both Portofino and Pondichery although, it’s true they both are tipping the masculine side of the scale. I agree with Nina —’vanilla’ is the magic word….makes the lemmings perk up and look around….
I do love the bottles! Look nice and feel nice in the hand….but the tops get all mottled and black…good thing my perfume cabinet is dark….
I should note that Vogue did not mention vanilla at all. Conde Nast said “La suavidad y la sensualidad de esta flor de Tiaré se acentúan con una pizca de vainilla, en una de sus variedades más bellas, cultivada localmente.”
I think pizca means a pinch? So would not expect it to be heavily vanillic.
Ha! your guess is as good as mine! I barely speak English! (as evidenced by my many typos every day) but really there wasn’t a single “bad” note mentioned ie. cumin, apple, raspberry, aquatic notes or lavender….so it’s all good! (somewhere one of us is reading my list of ickky notes and thinking “mmmmm good!” )
HEY! You are dissin’ my apple…
Pizca means pinch!
Does anyone know if this is the last in a trio (like the Sisley trio) or will they have more than three? I have a weakness for these and feel a bit anxious that I will convince myself I need ALL of them no matter what!
No idea, sorry!
I’ve had high hopes and been disappointed so far. I too love those bottles, and Portofino smells great for about 2 minutes, then all but disappears on me (just a flat, faint milky base left). Pondichery worked much better, but didn’t inspire a purchase either. Both seemed like they could have been great, though, so I’ll keep trying as they add new scents.
Yeah…both were “almost” great to me, but not quite there.
Now this one sounds good! Portofino was okay on me…I think I gave mine away. I had high hopes for the second one, but it was just plain flat on my skin.
But this one…the notes sounds wonderful!
Hugs!
Hey you! Let’s hope this one has more sizzle.
Just say tiaré and I’m hooked. But I suspect it’s going to be far too breezy on my skin like the the other two.
It certainly sounds promising, and i would think it would be the most masculine smelling, unless that tiare is really pronounced. The first 2 i didnt find to be all that masculine.
“Les Marquises” are known to English-speakers as the Marquesas Islands. So the sunny vacation theme continues for this series of colognes or cologne-types.
Those bottles are beyond lovely; they certainly set me to imagining a tropical paradise.
I’ve truly enjoyed the Escales so far and look forward to this one!
sounds tempting – if it delivers
Yeah this one sounds great! Way more appealing to me personally then the previous 2. They were nice but I dont need a bottle. I may need a bottle of this though. It sounds AMAZING!! Blood orange, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, clove, nutmeg, lemon peel, and vanilla!! Can anyone esle say YUM?! Im so excited!! I want to get me a bottle of Miss Dior Cherie L’eau still. Its WAY better than the original Cherie. : )
I love Portofino.
I like Pondichery and probably love it more because of the name. I’d wear it like mad if a bottle fell from the sky.
This one makes me say “Meh” just because I’m on overload and I just think “Aqua Allegoria… BFD.”
Still love the bottles.
Dior manages to produce fragrances that I hate every time. I cannot explain, it must be a secret ingredient. They are the champions of fruity musty FRESH and parents of the worst frag disaster, which is Dune. I bought a piece of furniture, a small closet, from a Dune wearer, 7 years ago. It still smells Dune when i open it. Horror!
I liked Pondichery, didn’t try Portofino yet and was hooked at ‘tiare’ when I read this description. I loved OJ’s different take on tiare, and can’t wait to give this a try. I haven’t found a Dior I don’t at least like to one degree or another, so even if it doesn’t grab me, I’d still hope to smell it.
oh you had me at “tiare” as well. i just realized.. is Marquises french for the Marquesas Islands??? (although i think tiare is the official flower for tahiti). tiare is also like plumeria – smells wonderful in real life but difficult to capture realistically in perfume because it is so fleeting. i am open to anyone’s tiare recs
Hm. Not too enthusiastic about the series so far (Portofino was a big ole “meh” and Pondichery felt like the superfluous sibling to the Bvlgari Eau Parfumée series), but there’s quite some likeable notes in that list. I’ll likely get suckered into trying it anyway.
I really love Portofino, it made my mouth water when I put it on, I had to buy it on the spot last year.
But Pondichery wasn’t even close to being as great even though I tried in vain to enjoy it because I loved the notes.
But when my hubby Z said it sort’ve smelled like urianal cake, I could’nt help but see his point
I really hope this one is as good as Portofino
Hey and I LOVE the bottles too, they are quite pretty but my Dior woman at Nordie’s informed me that supposedly they are changing out the bottles soon! ( Why?????????????)
So yeah that kind’ve sucks.
I just saw that I wrote ‘urianal’ and I know thats not right!
haha my bad
Okay guys, it does definitely not deliver! Received it today and I was pretty disappointed. I am not the biggest perfumista on earth, but I recognize a meinstreamer when I smell it – this one smells like all dept.store stuff at once, reminds of Burberry Sport (yiiek!) and is nicely said, boring. Not offensive, but not even nicely done, beacuse you smell the mainstream intention out of it.
I am here, I am at least an inspiring one.
I do not mind mainstream, I just think then of all the nameless scents you smell and forget at the same time.
Surely, I wear Amaranthine in summer or Nahema, because my skin “eats” it, so maybe I am a perfumisat?
Hey, at least the bottle is elegant, really pretty and classy. But hey, we know it better – it is all about the juice.
Sorry for the typos
again and again. I mix german spelling in the english words all the time, sorry! It is because I nearly get a heart attack when I think about such scents and/or their (lacking) quality.