Dior ★
Dior ★ opens with a brisk chord of petitgrain and bergamot — citrus clipped short by the green, slightly metallic edge of jasmine in bloom.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readDior ★ opens with a brisk chord of petitgrain and bergamot — citrus clipped short by the green, slightly metallic edge of jasmine in bloom. The top dissipates quickly into a heart of lily of the valley, peony, and narcissus: powdery florals assembled with mid-seventies confidence, more restrained than the baroque fragrances that would follow from the house in the eighties.
The base settles into almond and amber softened by musk, giving the drydown a warm, slightly confectionery character. It reads as a transitional piece — bridging the classical French floral tradition with the emerging taste for softer, skin-close finishes. Best on days that need gentleness.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.




