Miss Dior Original: A green chypre that brought a wind of freshness to the postwar period... The lovely Miss Dior, or rather the lovely Miss Dior fragrance, was born from the expert hands of Paul Vacher at the same time as the very first collection from her father, the great couturier Christian Dior, was released.
Christian Dior's very first fragrance, released in 1947, was designed to be the touch of brilliance and refinement needed for his haute-couture collections, which had just been launched. As a lover of perfume, Christian Dior took part in the Miss Dior Original project in close collaboration with his nose Paul Vacher, in order to create a fragrance that would pay tribute to his childhood memories, while also clothing the greatest women in the world in its floral scents.
Miss Dior Original, a revolutionary green chypre
Not just anyone can be a perfumer, and it must be acknowledged that Christian Dior, though a talented couturier, achieved the remarkable feat of working on his fragrance concept with as much brilliance as on his New Look dresses. Make no mistake, from its very debut on the shelves of postwar perfumeries, Miss Dior Original was already a grand lady of perfumery.
Yet the gamble taken by Christian Dior and Paul Vacher with Miss Dior was a bold one. While postwar women were seeking fresh, cheerful eaux, the two men instead offered them, with Miss Dior, a rather classic chypre fragrance. However, they had the genius to blend this elegant, slightly retro chypre with entirely novel natural green accords. Miss Dior Original would not be like the others and managed to stand out with refined, sharply distinctive chic. The legend was born.
Miss Dior creates surprise by placing a modern touch on a classic base, a green note on a chypre. It was not obvious. It is entirely the talent of the perfumers of that time, all their know-how, to have achieved such harmony, attributed to François Demachy regarding Miss Dior Original.
Although it found its new descendant in 2005, signed by Christine Nagel, the beautiful lady Miss Dior, renamed Miss Dior Original, has never lost her aura of modernity and absolute chic...
Miss Dior Original, “a fragrance that smells of love” according to Christian Dior
Miss Dior Original was composed, as noted above, around chypre accords that had been particularly highlighted a few years earlier thanks to the famous Chypre by François Coty. This was simply because Christian Dior saw in these accords sensual, animalic inspirations perfectly suited to his dream of clothing every woman in a sillage of desire.
The chypre base is life, a sensory approach to life. And life, whatever one says, is love, attributed to François Demachy regarding Miss Dior Original.
Despite this desire to make love exhale from a bottle, the floral bouquet of the heart of Miss Dior Original is, conversely, entirely devoted to the creator's childhood memories, as he recalled through this jasmine, this narcissus or this rose, the delicate scents that enchanted his childhood. As for the top freshness, composed around sage, gardenia and sharp galbanum, it was designed to represent the sparkle and charm of these new postwar women.
Thus Miss Dior Original was composed to be one of those fragrances that never go out of style, that always suit the spirit of the times while leaving an unalterable chic in its sillage.
Its avant-garde green floral chypre accord revolutionized perfumery and perfectly embodies the couturier's signature, states Dior regarding Miss Dior Original.