Dior’s Circus Of Dreams: Holiday 2025 goes high-wire with Anya Taylor-Joy and Deva Cassel

I pressed play and immediately smelled velvet and starlight. The new Dior Holiday 2025 film, titled Circus of dreams, is a ringmaster’s cue for fantasy, the kind of gilded escapism the house delivers when the nights get long and shopping bags get heavy.

Casting does the heavy lifting. Anya Taylor-Joy has that porcelain-spark vibe that reads luminous and untouchable, while Deva Cassel brings a moody softness that hints at danger wrapped in satin. Together, they tilt the carousel toward something a little stranger than the usual snow globe. Think spotlight on sequins, shadow on silk, then a quick cut to fireworks that practically mist your screen.

No press release can fake the way a fragrance ad moves, and this one moves like a perfume blooms. First, glittering citrus energy, then a slow focus on white petals, finally a hush of musks and woods. The film never shouts bottle names, but if your brain immediately drifts to J’adore for liquid gold glamour and Miss Dior for the rose-laced romantic streak, you are right on brand for December in a Dior universe. The circus theme simply makes it riskier, less safe, more dream logic than window display.

What I love is the refusal to spoon-feed. The camera stays tactile, almost nose-close: satin gloves, lacquered lips, a trapeze flash that feels like aldehydes turning effervescent. You don’t need a pyramid to understand the message. This is holiday perfume as performance, and the performers are in charge.

If you gift by vibe, here’s the read. Love radiance and solar florals, follow Anya Taylor-Joy down the golden path, likely toward the house’s luminous pillars like J’adore. Crave a sweeter, petal-forward story with a romantic flicker, Deva Cassel telegraphs that mood, which lines up with the softer facets of Miss Dior. The film isn’t a catalog, it’s a compass.

Verdict from my side of the vanity: Circus of dreams earns its title. It’s opulent without feeling syrupy, theatrical without losing the skin-close intimacy that makes perfume personal. Holiday fantasies are everywhere right now, but this one actually smells like something.