Today , Rihanna is golden. Her hair is long and honey-caramel, with face-framing layers cut to highlight her cheekbones and famous cupid’s bow. Strands of champagne pearls climb up her swan-like neck, likely an homage to a highly coveted necklace from her own collection designed by John Galliano for Dior in the 2000s .
And then there’s the room she’s in—Versailles’s gilded Hall of Mirrors—reflecting a resplendent shimmery aura around her, not like she really needs it. It’s absolutely fitting for the moment: the singer, actor, entrepreneur, mother of two, and so much more is officially the new face and muse of Dior’s J’adore fragrance. A new muse The J’adore scent has long been special to Ri and the entire Fenty family, starting with her mother, Monica .
“My mother worked in a perfume shop,” she tells Vogue exclusively. “She used to always bring home the J’adore testers when they were almost empty, so there was always a bottle in the house. I have always loved this perfume.
” The newest iteration of J’adore is L’Or de J’adore , crafted by Armenian fragrance wunderkind Francis Kurkdjian , who joined the house as perfume creation director in 2021. He describes it as “sunshine hitting the curve of a shoulder” while at a park in bloom: a bouquet of jasmine, rose, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, and violet. Rihanna has long been a fan of Dior .
She was the house’s first Black ambassador, and whispers of a potential collaboration first start.