Dior · 2025 · Francis Kurkdjian

Miss Dior Essence

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

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Blackberry jam, elderflower and marmalade over jasmine sambac, settling onto oak.

Dior says

You’ll smell blackberry and elderflower accord, jasmine and oak notes.

More from Dior’s description

It also mentions Jasmine sambac, Blackberry jam and Marmalade.

The house’s page

The drawn Miss Dior Essence bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Miss Dior Essence’s scent picture, a draft: blackberry, jasmine, oak, bergamot, patchouli, vanillin (vanilla) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Miss Dior Essence, top notes: Blackberry, Bergamot

Heartas it settles

Miss Dior Essence, heart: Jasmine

Dry-downwhat stays

Miss Dior Essence, dry-down: Oak, Patchouli, Vanillin (vanilla)

What’s inside it

What the label names

24 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

5 citrus4 herbs & lavender10 florals1 woods2 sweet2 spices

10 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell10

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoateA light stabiliserRed 4Ext. violet 2Red 33Yellow 10Diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Daisy DreamMarc Jacobs · shares blackberry and jasmine$146 for 100 ml · about half of Miss Dior Essence’s $199
La Vie Est BelleLancôme · shares blackberry and jasmine$166 for 100 ml
Mango SkinVilhelm Parfumerie · shares blackberry and jasmineabout $280 for 100 ml · about the same as Miss Dior Essence’s $199
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.