Dior Pure Poison

You can buy the genuine Dior Pure Poison straight from FragranceNet.com. The real bottle comes first; the accessible alternatives below are there if you'd rather spend less.

Dior Pure Poison opens with Bergamot and Mandarin; a heart of Orange Blossom and Jasmine; drying down to White Musk, Sandalwood and Amber, from notes Nordstrom (authorized retailer) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, floral, amber, woody, musky, the coarse families Nordstrom (authorized retailer) cites. How it wears depends on your skin and the concentration. We only publish notes and accords we can trace to a source.

The genuine Dior Pure Poison runs $170.09 at FragranceNet.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them; a real 5ml sample is $2.99; the "smells-like" alternatives start around $11.95.

We rank the "smells-like" alternatives to Pure Poison by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Pure Poison, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

Dior Pure Poison is listed as a women's fragrance by the retailer. That's a marketing label, not a rule: fragrance has no gender, and plenty of "women's" scents are worn by anyone. We show how it's sold and leave the wearing to you.

Unbranded Pure Poison is the alternative we list first for Pure Poison, ranked on shared cited accords then price, at $11.95 against $170.09 for the genuine bottle. Most alternative houses publish no scent profile of their own, so for those we show the original's cited accords rather than claim an independently verified match. It's meant to evoke Pure Poison, not replicate it, so we link the real bottle first and let you judge for yourself.

Argos Pour Femme (shares Orange Blossom, White Musk, Sandalwood); Estee Lauder Beautiful (shares Orange Blossom, Mandarin, Sandalwood); Mancera Gold Prestigium (shares Orange Blossom, White Musk, Sandalwood). These share specific notes with Pure Poison, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Pure Poison's cited notes they actually share, weighting rarer notes heavier than ubiquitous ones. Each is its own fragrance with real, sourced notes, not a copy of Pure Poison, and has its own page.

Pure Poison reads as citrus, floral, amber, woody, musky. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Xerjoff 1861 Renaissance, Tiziana Terenzi Afrodite and Rasasi Aiyara Pour Femme nearby. We rank them by how many of Pure Poison's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Pure Poison, and each has its own page.