Collection
Dior’s Miss Dior: the whole line, from 1947 to 2026
Christian Dior’s first perfume in 1947, Miss Dior has changed its name, its juice and its perfumer over the decades. The eleven perfumes of the line, from Paul Vacher’s original to Francis Kurkdjian’s Essence.
A perfume born with the New Look
Christian Dior presented his first collection in February 1947 and launched his first perfume that same year, Miss Dior, composed by Paul Vacher and Jean Carles. The name pays tribute to Catherine, the couturier’s sister. The juice is a green floral chypre, opening on galbanum.
Nearly eighty years later, the name covers a whole family. It even changed perfume along the way: since 2012, “Miss Dior” refers to the former Miss Dior Chérie, and the 1947 formula is sold under the name Original.
Here are the eleven perfumes of the line, in the order they were born.
The 1947 original
The original formula is still sold in two forms. The house sums it up in three materials, galbanum, jasmine and patchouli essence; François Demachy retouched it in 2011, the year it took the name Original.
1947 · Esprit de parfum · Galbanum, jasmine, patchouli
Miss Dior Esprit de Parfum Original
Christian Dior
The most concentrated version, sold in a 100 ml bottle. René Gruau drew its advertisements from 1947, including a white swan with a pearl necklace. Elena Vosnaki sees in it a leathery floral chypre, demure on the surface and animalic underneath.
1947 · Eau de toilette · Galbanum, jasmine, patchouli
Miss Dior Eau de Toilette Originale
Christian Dior
The same composition, lighter, renamed Eau de Toilette Originale in 2011. Elena Vosnaki found it more powdery and greener than the extrait, and considers today’s Originale respectable for what it is.
Chérie, the 2005 turning point
For the centenary of Christian Dior’s birth, the house entrusted Christine Nagel, under the direction of John Galliano, with a perfume for a new generation. Miss Dior Chérie broke with the green chypre: strawberry, caramelized popcorn and patchouli.
2005 · Eau de parfum · Strawberry, popcorn, patchouli
Miss Dior Chérie
Christian Dior
Riley Keough fronted the launch; Sofia Coppola filmed Maryna Linchuk in Paris in 2008, to a Brigitte Bardot song. Robin, of Now Smell This, found it sweet and fruity without heaviness, very young and very trendy.
2012 · Eau de parfum · Rose, vanilla, tonka bean
Miss Dior
Christian Dior
The version sold today: Grasse centifolia rose absolute, vanilla, tonka bean, sandalwood, patchouli and rosewood. Natalie Portman fronts its campaigns, from Anton Corbijn in 2015 to Manu Cossu in 2026. Eleanor Vousden finds it more chypre than the 2021 version, Elena Knezevic sweeter.
2012 · Concentrated version · Rose, patchouli, amber
Miss Dior Le Parfum
Christian Dior
An oriental chypre for the evening: mandarin, Turkish and Bulgarian rose absolutes, Indonesian patchouli, amber and vanilla. Eddie Bulliqi considers it the richest and most mysterious of the Miss Dior perfumes.
François Demachy’s florals
From 2014 to 2020, Demachy extended the line with lighter florals, often built on rose and peony. Two of them are still sold, Blooming Bouquet and Rose N’Roses, alongside the 2019 eau de toilette.
2014 · Eau de toilette · Peony, rose, white musks
Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet
Christian Dior
Demachy imagined it as a dress embroidered with flowers, around a recomposed peony. Sofia Coppola filmed Natalie Portman in the hotel at 30 avenue Montaigne, to La Vie en rose. Thomas Dunckley sees in it the most successful of the Miss Dior variations.
2016 · Eau de parfum · Red berries, rose, peony
Miss Dior Absolutely Blooming
Christian Dior
The more intense variation of Blooming Bouquet: raspberry, pomegranate and blackcurrant lifted by pink peppercorns, Grasse rose, peony and white musks. Tim Walker photographed Natalie Portman on a pink sofa. It no longer appears in the house’s range.
2019 · Eau de toilette · Blood orange, rose, lily of the valley
Miss Dior Eau de Toilette
Christian Dior
The lightest of the line, a floral whirl: blood orange and mandarin, Grasse rose, jasmine and a lily of the valley accord, a clear patchouli. Angela van Rose finds it fresh and well balanced; Grace Lindsay, young and cheerful.
2020 · Eau de toilette · Grasse and Damask roses, geranium
Miss Dior Rose N'Roses
Christian Dior
Demachy, born in Grasse, wanted less a rose than a floral profusion: Grasse and Damask roses, bergamot, mandarin and geranium, white musk. Natalie Portman emerges from a shower of petals to Sia’s Chandelier. Angela van Rose judges it a very successful romantic perfume.
2024 · Parfum · Jasmine, strawberry, patchouli
Miss Dior Parfum
Christian Dior
A contemporary chypre in which a jasmine with facets of strawberry, peach and apricot answers mandarin, over patchouli, Alaskan cedar and moss. The houndstooth-engraved bottle bears a silver dagger bow. Dariush Alavi, of Persolaise, judges it harshly.
2025 · Essence de parfum · Blackberry, jasmine, oak
Miss Dior Essence
Christian Dior
A playful chypre: jammy blackberry and elderflower, jasmine sambac, an oak base. Zoe Natale Mannella photographed Natalie Portman in a crimson gown. Grace Lindsay, of Who What Wear, names it her favorite Miss Dior.
What ties the Miss Dior perfumes together
From one version to the next, the juice changes family: green chypre in 1947, fruity gourmand in 2005, light florals under Demachy, fruity and vanilla chypres under Kurkdjian. Rose, jasmine and patchouli nonetheless recur in almost every pyramid.
The bottle keeps its codes: houndstooth, the couturier’s favorite motif, engraved on the glass, and the bow at the neck. The travel formats, roller-pearls and Mini Miss solid perfumes, lead to the page of their perfume.
The eleven Miss Dior pages
Chypre
Chypre
Chypre
Chypre
Chypre
Floral
Floral
Floral
Floral
Chypre
ChypreEach page details the perfume’s composition, its bottle, its advertising and, where they exist, signed reviews.