Miss Dior Eau de Toilette Originale

The house sums up the eau de toilette as a trio. Galbanum opens, fresh and refined; jasmine forms the central bouquet; patchouli essence, in the base, gives what Dior calls its impertinence. Galbanum, a gum from Iran and Afghanistan that is distilled, serves as the green touch at the opening.

A green, herbaceous top

In 2007, Elena Vosnaki described an eau de toilette more powdery than the extrait, with a dry bitterness she attributed to coumarin and a green opening carried by galbanum and clary sage. She noted styrallyl acetate in it, found in gardenia buds.

Dior’s American page places a Grasse rose absolute beside the jasmine. The French page sticks to the trio of galbanum, jasmine and patchouli, kept here as is.

What the label declares

The list Dior publishes for the 100 ml bottle cites, among the natural materials, patchouli, lavender, bergamot, ylang-ylang, geranium, orange flower and jasmine oils, along with the oakmoss and treemoss extracts that carry the chypre base.

The declared allergens include linalool, hydroxycitronellal, cinnamyl alcohol, limonene, coumarin, citronellol, geraniol, citral, eugenol, isoeugenol, farnesol, benzyl alcohol, benzyl salicylate and cinnamal. A filter, butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane, protects the formula from light.