Les Dioriginals: thirteen Dior classics restored in the Ovale bottle

Christian Dior’s lily of the valley. The flower yields no essence: Edmond Roudnitska rebuilt it in 1956, and the house regards Diorissimo as one of the masterpieces of world perfumery. Hydroxycitronellal, a molecule with a lily-of-the-valley scent, heads its ingredient list.

An amber floral that the house describes as an oceanic perfume, now pared down to Sicilian mandarin, a peony accord and vanilla. Its ingredient list declares no oakmoss.

Composed under the direction of Maurice Roger, Dolce Vita takes its name from Fellini’s film. Cedar, cooked peach, cinnamon and vanilla draw its outline; the label names clove bud and cinnamon bark oils.

The most recent of the collection’s florals. A clear freesia, an Indian jasmine absolute and a Bulgarian rose form its outline; the label confirms the rose, with rose extract, geranium oil and rose ketones.

The house’s second perfume, composed by Edmond Roudnitska in 1949: a fruity chypre built on the Prunol base he favored. Dior reissued it in 2010 within Les Créations de Monsieur Dior.

Christian Dior’s own perfume, according to the house, and the forerunner of fresh fragrances: a citrus chypre built on Sicilian mandarin, bitter orange petitgrain and patchouli.

The first perfume Dior launched after the couturier’s death. Paul Vacher composed a leather chypre inspired by English style, tweed and riding boots; François Demachy has since reorchestrated it.

Launched under the slogan “the barbaric perfume” to accompany a fur collection, Dioressence was born an animalic amber chypre and has been reworked several times since. Its ingredient list, one of the longest in the collection, runs to fifty-two entries.

The last Roudnitska in the collection. The house now sums it up as Sicilian lemon, a honeysuckle accord and Bourbon vetiver; oakmoss extract appears on its label.

A green, animalic fougère released fourteen years after Eau Sauvage, whose name borrows the French slang for a boyfriend. Its ingredient list, the longest of the thirteen, names lavender, coumarin and oakmoss.

Composed by Olivier Cresp six years after the women’s Dune, around a fig leaf that Dior places in the top notes. The house sees it as a return to the source, inspired by walks along the seashore.

A men’s fragrance built on a brief accord of citrus, pear and cypress, running against the heavy ambers of the previous decade.

Released two years after Higher, on an opening of grapefruit and juniper berries. A base of vetiver and white musks makes it drier and more resinous than its predecessor.