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. 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 started in January wh.