Fragrance Notes
Miss Dior
The newest reading of the house's oldest name, Dior Miss Dior Parfum was composed by Francis Kurkdjian in 2024 and is recorded with just two materials: mandarin orange and jasmine.
Two materials is a short list, and this is a short composition rather than a layered one, so there is no point describing an evolution that is not there. What there is instead is a clear contrast. Mandarin orange gives the opening a soft sweet brightness, the rounded and slightly candied side of citrus rather than a sharp one, and it is gone fairly quickly. Jasmine then holds the fragrance for the rest of its life, rich and heady with a faint animal warmth underneath the sweetness, the kind of white flower that fills a space without any help.
A parfum concentration carries the most oil of any version of this name, and the effect here is depth rather than volume. It wears close, it lasts a very long time, and the jasmine becomes warmer and softer the longer it stays on skin. One or two sprays is the whole dose.
Evenings and cold weather suit it, as do occasions where you intend to be dressed up. It is sold to women, and it is the version to try if the deeper and more upholstered editions of Miss Dior have never quite suited you, since this one takes the name somewhere notably simpler. Those who like it tend to like it a great deal, which is usually a sign of a composition with few places to hide.
The business is the fragrance and cosmetics arm of Dior, part of the LVMH group. Miss Dior was its first scent, launched in 1947 in the same season as the first collection of clothes and written to a brief from Christian Dior himself: a perfume that smelled of love. It has been the thread running through the house ever since.
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