The launch of Miss Dior: Dior, 1947

A dated launch: the year, the house and the perfumer are the conservatory’s; the fragrance record holds the rest of what is documented.

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Date

1947 (year)

documented

Miss Dior (1947) DIOR 1947 EDT Chypré Vert Paul Vacher Jean Carles

OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30
WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

Wikidata gives the same year (a second witness)

confidence A

Label

documented (a source states it)

house label

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

one of the four labels the site gives a reconstruction, chosen from what the cited source itself says

confidence B

Kind

launch

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the house’s grouping of events for the timeline

confidence B

What happened

Dior launches Miss Dior, by Paul Vacher and Jean Carles.

documented

Miss Dior (1947) DIOR 1947 EDT Chypré Vert Paul Vacher Jean Carles

OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Place

not on record

not on record

no place on record for this event

People

• Paul Vacher (perfumer)
  documented

  Miss Dior (1947) DIOR 1947 EDT Chypré Vert Paul Vacher Jean Carles

  OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30

  confidence A

• Jean Carles (perfumer)
  documented

  Miss Dior (1947) DIOR 1947 EDT Chypré Vert Paul Vacher Jean Carles

  OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30

  confidence A

Perfumers

• Paul Vacher
• Jean Carles

Fragrances

• Miss Dior

Teaching accords

• The chypre skeleton

Sources

1. OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums. Collection Osmothèque, juin 2015 (PDF list: name, house, launch year, concentration, family, sub-family, perfumers). www.osmotheque.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Col… · read 2026-09-30 · no reuse licence stated; short quotes and single facts only, under fair use (quoted, not reproduced)
2. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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this record as data: /data/event/miss-dior-launch-1947.json · version 2 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A