Dior
Dream it. Dare it. Dior it.
Christian Dior launched his Paris couture house in 1946, and the first fragrance followed immediately — Miss Dior in 1947, named for his sister Catherine and created with perfumer Paul Vacher and Jean Carles. The partnership between tailored fashion and perfumery was structural from the start: Dior's postwar femininity found its olfactive counterpart in a chypre floral of austere elegance. LVMH controls the house through its majority stake in Christian Dior SE. The fragrance division operates at considerable scale, with global commercial anchors J'Adore, Sauvage, Miss Dior, and Dior Homme alongside the quieter La Collection Privée and the minimal La Collection Couturier Parfumeur series. François Demachy has served as in-house perfumer since 2006. The iris accord runs through the masculines as a house signature; roses anchor the feminines. La Collection Privée entries tend toward skin-close concentration and restrained projection.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
