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1947 ChypreEDPFrance

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Editorial notes

01
A green-floral chypre conceived to accompany the launch of Dior's New Look couture collection on 12 February 1947.
02
Pioneered the postwar green-chypre direction with prominent galbanum, paired with Dior's debut couture line on the same afternoon at his 30 avenue Montaigne salon.
03
Named in tribute to Christian Dior's sister Catherine, a decorated French Resistance fighter deported to Ravensbrück. She survived, returned, and rebuilt her flower-growing business in Provence.
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Composed by Jean Carles and Paul Vacher in 1947 around galbanum, jasmine and gardenia over an oakmoss-leather chypre base, in the houndstooth-etched amphora.

Dossier

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Status · Active. Reformulated multiple times.

A green floral chypre.

Composed by: Jean CarlesPaul Vacher
Founder: Christian Dior
Country: France

The pyramid

Top: bergamotgardeniagalbanumaldehydes
Heart: jasminerosenarcissusneroli
Base: patchoulioakmosssandalwoodleather

The brief

Conceived to accompany the launch of Dior's New Look couture collection in February 1947, evoking elegance returning to post-war Paris.

NameNamed in tribute to Christian Dior's sister Catherine Dior, a decorated French Resistance fighter deported to Ravensbrück.

Why it mattered

Pioneered the postwar 'green chypre' direction with prominent galbanum, paired with Dior's debut couture line

The flacon

Houndstooth-etched amphora flacon recalling the textile pattern of Dior's atelier

Footnotes

Presented on 12 February 1947, the same day as Dior's first couture show that introduced the 'New Look'.

The Curator's Note

A perfume named for a Ravensbrück survivor: weight no other launch carries.

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