Christian Dior, Diorama, 30 ml. or 1 oz. Flacon, Parfum Extrait, 1948, 1960, Paris, France ..

A woman’s perfume tells me more about her than her handwriting.’ So said Christian Dior, who was born in 1905, and who was one of the greatest-ever couturiers, but yet a man whose name is also synonymous, all over the world, with the art of perfume." The Perfume Society.

Christian Dior lived from 21 January 1905 until 23 October 1957 and was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior. ‘A woman’s perfume tells me more about her than her handwriting’ ... So said Christian Dior, who was one of the greatest-ever couturiers, but yet a man whose name is also synonymous, all over the world, with the art of perfume.

During the Second World War, Dior worked as a designer beneath couturier Lucien Lelong. On 12th February 1947, Christian Dior started his own business, and turned the austere post-wartime world on its head, creating the most headline-grabbing collection ever known. Overnight, Christian Dior‘s ‘New Look’, with its full, swirling skirts, wasp-waisted jackets and bold use of colour, became, as Vogue puts it, ‘catnip to a luxury-starved populace eager to return to the rituals of grooming and dressing up’.

But women didn’t just want to look good. They wanted to smell beautiful, too. Soon after the success of his ground-breaking New Look, Dior recalled, ‘Miss Dior was born. It was born of those Provençal evenings filled with fireflies when green jasmine serves as a counterpoint to the melody of the night and the earth.’

Launched in 1948, Diorama by Christian Dior is a Chypre Fruity fragrance for women. The nose behind this fragrance is Edmond Roudnitska. Christian Dior Diorama is a sparkling fruity floral with notes of melon, peach, plum, and white florals.

"No perfume has ever had more complex form and formula, more feminine contours, more sensual, more carnal. It seduces us with its spicy notes: pepper, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, cumin, the scent of skin. All the accords and themes to follow are contained in this perfume: the wood and the violet, the plum and the peach, the jasmine and the spices." Jean Claude Ellena

Top notes are Bergamot, Peach, Melon, and Plum
Heart notes are Jasmine, Gardenia, Tuberose, Nutmeg, Clove, Cinnamon, Rose, Lily of the Valley, Violet, Caraway, and Pepper
Base notes are Vetiver, Sandalwood, Oak Moss, Virginia Cedar, and Leather

Offered here is a very hard to find one ounce flacon of this much beloved and sought after perfume. It has seen some evaporation over the years .. about a third. It has never been opened or used, and it comes in its original presentation box.

Serious Dior collectors! So hard to find ..