Dior's 1947 fragrance launched as Miss Dior was named after Christian Dior's sister Catherine.
Christian Dior introduced the perfume alongside his first haute couture collection in Paris. The fragrance helped establish Dior as a fashion house that also created beauty products, rather than treating perfume as a separate business.
Catherine Dior was a French Resistance member during the Second World War and later became known for cultivating roses. The name is sometimes confused with Dior's later fragrances J'adore and Poison, but those are separate creations with different launch histories.
Miss Dior has been reformulated and reinterpreted several times, so descriptions of its notes can vary by version. Its original identity is nevertheless tied to Dior's first couture-era perfume and to Catherine Dior's nickname.