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Miss Dior
Of all the versions of this name, Dior Miss Dior Eau de Toilette is the one recorded with a full structure, and it is the brightest and most citrus led reading of the house's founding fragrance.
Blood orange and mandarin orange open it together, and the pair are chosen for sweetness rather than sharpness: the first juicy and faintly bitter in the peel, the second rounder and softer, the two of them giving the first few minutes a warmth that a cooler citrus would not.
The heart is a proper old fashioned bouquet. Grasse rose is the principal flower, and the distinction matters, because the material from Grasse is fresher and greener than the deeper roses used elsewhere in the line, with a peppery clarity to it. Lily of the valley adds a cool watery cleanness, sharp and green, and jasmine brings the sweetness and the faint animal warmth that stops the arrangement from being merely polite.
Patchouli alone makes the base, and it is enough. Earthy, dark and a little damp, it gives the flowers somewhere to settle and provides the only real weight in the composition. At toilette strength this is a daytime fragrance, bright for the first half hour and then quietly present for four or five more. Three sprays is sensible. Spring and summer suit it, as does the office, and it reads as more classical than the Blooming Bouquet without being as formal as the eau de parfum. The original composition is credited to Jean Carles and Paul Vacher.
Dior's perfume and cosmetics side is an LVMH maison now, though the house began as couture: the first collection went out in February 1947 with Miss Dior released alongside it, which is why this name sits at the centre of everything the business has done since.
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