Miss Dior

The Miss Dior name was born in 1947, with the house’s first perfume and the New Look collection. It honors Catherine Dior, the couturier’s sister, a member of the Resistance and a flower grower in Grasse. The 1947 perfume lives here under the title Miss Dior Original; these lines cover the eau de parfum sold today.

From a Chérie to a Miss

The current eau de parfum descends from Miss Dior Chérie, composed by Christine Nagel in 2005 to rejuvenate the line. François Demachy, who had become the house perfumer, reformulated it in 2011. In 2012, Dior dropped the adjective: Chérie became Miss Dior, and the 1947 original took the name Miss Dior Original.

The change went with LVMH taking its formulas back in hand. Le Monde reported in May 2011 that the group was bringing the manufacture of its perfumes home, until then entrusted to the major fragrance houses. Demachy now signed the line, and the scent moved away from Nagel’s strawberry and caramelized popcorn.

Two rewrites by François Demachy

In May 2017, Dior presented a new Miss Dior Eau de Parfum at Château de La Colle Noire. Demachy married Grasse rose with Damascena rose, over an opening of blood orange, mandarin and Calabrian bergamot, spiced with pink pepper and rosewood from Guyana. The watchword went back to Christian Dior: a perfume that smells of love.

In September 2021, a second version set out to be an olfactory millefiori. Around the centifolia rose, honeyed and peppery, Demachy embroidered a fresh lily of the valley, a peony with an apricot note and a powdery iris, over a woody, vanilla base. The Sweet Love rose, discovered in April 2020 in Carole Biancalana’s garden in Grasse, was his inspiration.

Francis Kurkdjian’s vanilla chypre

In August 2026, Francis Kurkdjian, Dior’s perfume creation director, delivered his reading of the eau de parfum. The house presents it as a vanilla chypre: the centifolia rose absolute, tender, honeyed and lightly peppery, is wrapped in creamy vanilla, almondy tonka bean absolute and a milky sandalwood accord, supported by patchouli and rosewood essence.

Dior ties this rose to its eleven exclusive estates in Grasse, among them Château de La Colle Noire, the couturier’s Provençal residence, and the Naysses estate, where Catherine grew the flower. The house describes the previous version as a classic floral built on centifolia, lily of the valley, peony and iris, and the new one as warmer and more gourmand.

Its place in the line

Dior sorts its four Miss Dior fragrances by chypre register: Blooming Bouquet as a musky chypre, the eau de parfum as a vanilla chypre, the 2024 Parfum as a fruity chypre and the Essence as a gourmand chypre. The eau de parfum comes in 30, 50, 100 and 150 ml, with a customizable bow and engraving offered on the house’s website.