Dior Pairs PDRN With Vitamin C in New Capture PDRN-Shot Booster

Dior has brought PDRN, one of the most talked-about skincare ingredients of 2026, into its Capture line. The Dior Capture PDRN-Shot Radiance Revitalising Booster appeared in Herworld Singapore's round-up of October 2026 beauty launches and is now stocked by UK retailers such as John Lewis in a 20 ml bottle.

According to the retailer listing, the formula combines plant-derived PDRN with what Dior calls "vitamin Cg" and niacinamide, plus a lily extract. Vitamin CG is a name commonly used in the industry for ascorbyl glucoside, a stable vitamin C derivative, although the listing does not spell out the chemical name. Dior says this is the first time it has combined PDRN, vitamin C and niacinamide, and that the actives sit in an exo-liposome designed to release them into the skin over eight hours. The listing notes that the delivery claim comes from an ex vivo test on a reference molecule, not from a test of the finished product on people.

The headline results come from a clinical evaluation by a dermatologist on 30 people: skin looking 25% more radiant for up to eight hours, dark spots looking 25% less visible after 28 days, and skin looking smoother and more radiant after a single application. A single-arm grading of 30 participants, without a comparison product, is a small base for those numbers, and they describe how skin looked rather than measured pigment.

PDRN, short for polydeoxyribonucleotide, is a mixture of DNA fragments. Most of its research comes from injected products and wound care, usually made from salmon DNA. Plant-derived versions are newer, and a July 2026 review in the Journal of Functional Biomaterials described their evidence as still mainly preclinical. Our blog explains what is and is not known about pairing PDRN with vitamin C in a serum.

Dior has not announced an Indian price, and we have not converted the UK price. The booster is meant to be used after Dior's own Capture serum, so it is positioned as an add-on rather than a stand-alone vitamin C serum.