Vive la difference with Dior

CHRISTIAN Dior is celebrating Christmas with its customers by offering a Dior Noel Gift Set to anyone who buys $800 worth of beauty products.

The set, in a glittering blue and gold velvet pouch, contains a mini-nail enamel, and a Miss Dior mini-fragrance.

And anything you buy - as a gift or for yourself - will be presented in Dior's exclusive gold houndstooth check wrapping paper or gift box.

Dune, in the distinctive orange bottle, is a Dior favourite, and the company has put together a selection of gift packages ideal for Christmas presents.

A Dune eau de toilette Spray and Dune Body Milk cost $360, an eau de toilette spray, a bath and Shower gel, and a body milk cost $390, and an eau de toilette refillable spray and body cream sell at $390.

According to the company, Dune appeals to a woman who is a symbol of a New Age, an idealist, a generous and intuitive earth mother in harmony with nature and the environment.

For her, Dune offers a refuge from a materialistic and impersonal world - and if that doesn't apply to Hong Kong, what does? The perfume is oceanic floral, featuring a combination of lily, wallflower, and peony, mixed with oceanic compounds of broom, lichen and amber, to make a light and airy but distinctive scent.