Dior
Maison de Parfums

Monsieur Dior in the garden
As soon as Christian Dior arrived at the Château de La Colle Noire, he liked to get changed to go and see the gardening and picking teams on the domain. In the summer he would wear a large navy blue shirt with cotton trousers or shorts and a straw hat. The rest of the year, he would wear a velvet suit. Previously, in 1945, Christian Dior had participated in harvests on his sister’s property in Callian. At the Château de La Colle Noire he would spend 2 or 3 hours a day with his employees at harvest time.

The strawberry plants
On a 25m2 plot of land, one of the domain’s gardeners cultivated Moutot strawberries especially for Christian Dior, who particularly liked their large and fragrant fruit. He could never resist tasting them on the spot when he visited his domain.

In the kitchen
Every morning, Christian Dior would spend time in the Château de La Colle Noire kitchen with his chef Georges Huilier, and would choose the lunch and dinner menus when he had guests. He often liked to visit the kitchen to taste something, eat a petit four, and see how the meal preparations were coming along.

The Château de La Colle Noire cake
Monsieur Grosselin was the former owner of the Château de La Colle Noire and became the steward of the domain during Monsieur Dior’s time. His wife baked the “Château de La Colle Noire cake,” which Monsieur Dior adored (the secret recipe was based on sponge fingers, marzipan and rum).

Roses
At the Château de La Colle Noire, both fragrance roses and decorative roses were cultivated. They could be seen in the bedrooms as well as on the tables at mealtimes, and were even given to guests upon their departure. One of Monsieur Dior’s team was responsible solely for these bouquets.

In the name of CD
Tableware and house linens as well as harvest crates and the grape press were all monogrammed with the initials CD.

The vineyards
Each year, on the Château de La Colle Noire domain, Monsieur Dior produced around 1,000 litres of wine.

Catherine
Catherine Dior knew the Grosselin family (the previous owners of the Château de La Colle Noire) well. She was therefore the one who informed her brother in 1951 that the château was for sale. “I shall tell my brother that La Colle Noire is for sale,” she said immediately upon hearing the news.

The children
Children of the Château de La Colle Noire staff would receive adventure storybooks as gifts for Christmas, and big chocolate eggs for Easter. A large Christmas tree would be put up in the château, and when her brother died, Catherine Dior continued the gift tradition. The children were allowed to swim in the ornamental pond when Monsieur Dior and his guests were not there, and sometimes, swimming competitions were organised for them.

Ivan
Ivan, the Russian-born gardener who worked at Milly la Forêt, came to oversee the garden planning at the Château de La Colle Noire, where the flowerbeds were replanted twice a year.

The telephone
The first telephone line ever to be installed in Montauroux was a direct line connecting Monsieur Dior at the Château de La Colle Noire, to his sister in her house in Callian.

Water
Monsieur Dior had a tremendous amount of work done to bring water from Montauroux to the Château de La Colle Noire, in order to irrigate the domain. The water was brought down from the heights of the village by an immense, 5 km long pipe constructed specially for the domain. Those living nearby benefitted from the arrival of running water in their part of the district.

The ornamental pond
The purely decorative 40-metre long ornamental pond, created by Christian Dior in 1953, also served as a reservoir used for watering the fragrance flower fields situated below the domain. It was emptied twice a year for maintenance and took 3 days to refill. At the suggestion of Hubert, his sister’s stepson, Christian Dior had goldfish put in, and organised a little ceremony with the children to welcome the new “inhabitants” to the domain.

Winter 1956
During the terrible winter of 1956, the workmen at the Château de La Colle Noire could walk on the frozen ice of the ornamental pond.

August 24th
Every year on Saint-Barthelemy’s day, the day of the Montauroux village fête, Monsieur Dior would take part in the festivities along with the village mayor and the parish priest. He was the Honorary President of the Festival Committee, and would make a donation to help organise the festivities (folk dancing and hunting shows). Traditionally, a vine shoot would be burned on the village square, and it was usually one of the Château de La Colle Noire children who would bring it along.

The Comet
One evening during a reception, Christian Dior gathered all the staff’s children together to show them a comet that must have been particularly visible that night in the Provençal sky.

Drawing
Christian Dior never swam in the ornamental pond, preferring to find a quiet spot where he could sketch. According to his close friends, he worked often, looking for inspiration for new dresses and new perfumes.

Dinner
Never more than 12 people… Christian Dior was of course very superstitious and would never have invited 13 people for dinner. Meals at the time were very long and very copious.

Breakfast
Monsieur Dior ate breakfast at 8 o’clock every morning in the ground floor dining room.

Harvest time
In the Château de La Colle Noire jasmine fields, the best picker in Monsieur Dior’s team would pick 1 kilo of jasmine per hour. Up until the mid 2000s, Catherine Dior, based in the village of Callian, 5km away from the Château de La Colle Noire, continued to cultivate Rosa centifolia on her property with an annual harvest of between 600 and 900 kilos. She would then sell her crop to Grasse perfumers. It is strange to think that during the war, the Dior family pulled up their roses to plant vegetables…

The chapel
The Saint-Barthélemy chapel, situated in the heights of Montauroux village, was formerly part of the Château de La Colle Noire domain. Monsieur Dior, who financed the chapel restoration project, donated it to the village in 1953.

The team
Almost a dozen people were in service at Monsieur Dior’s house, including a butler (always in white gloves), valets, a driver, a cook, a kitchen hand and chambermaids etc. Another twenty or so people worked on the agricultural domain and in the garden. The team responsible for the château went back and forth between Paris and Montauroux. They would bring their spouses and children during the holidays, and the Château de La Colle Noire was filled with life.



Mademoiselle Marthe Lefèvre
Known as “Ma,” Mademoiselle Lefèvre had been the Dior family governess, looking after the children in Granville. She and her sister Marie had links to this part of the South of France, which was what had incited Maurice Dior to move there permanently in 1934, when fleeing his financial troubles. Under the supervision of Catherine Dior, she was in charge of everyone working at the Château de La Colle Noire. She died in 1985 aged almost 95.

Renovation works
Christian Dior spent hours and hours of his free time supervising the works at the Château de La Colle Noire with André Svetchine, his architect. Upon Christian Dior’s demise in 1957, the ambitious renovation project for his castle had not yet been completed.

Pot-Pourri
According to René Gruau, Christian Dior adored pot-pourri, which he placed in various rooms around the château. Lavender, which grew in abundance in the Château de La Colle Noire gardens, was part of the pot-pourri composition. Christian Dior loved this flower so much that he also wore lavender eau de toilette.

The fashion show
Catherine Dior told Lucienne Rostagno of Christian Dior’s desire to see the Haute Couture models appear in a fashion show around the ornamental pond at the Château de La Colle Noire.

The almond trees
As soon as he purchased the Château de La Colle Noire in 1951, Christian Dior had 150 almond trees planted. The almond tree is one of the first trees to flower in the year and Christian Dior enjoys their blooms and fragrance in the very early days of spring.

Kindness
All those who previously worked at the domain still praise Monsieur Dior’s kindness and his natural talent for creating good relationships with the teams working in his service. Everyone who knew him speaks of a very affable, easily approachable man. “We never had the impression that he kept people at a distance,” explains someone who knew him then. “He liked people,” says Lucienne Rostagno, who picked flowers for Monsieur Dior and who still lives in the La Colle Noire hamlet.

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The 69th Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 11th to 22th 2016. Christian Dior will be present again on the Croisette, in Dior Suite at the Majestic Hotel.

LIU YIFEI 
IS DRESSED UP BY DIOR
is wearing a strapless dress embroidered off pink wool Dior Haute Couture with shoes and clutch Dior.

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For the Eyes: Diorshow Extase Mascara – Black N°090 – Diorshow Fusion Mono Matte – Songe N°721 – Diorshow Pro Liner – Pro Black 092
For the Lips: Rouge Dior – Macadam N°526
Blush: Diorblush – Cocktail Peach N°553

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IS MADE UP BY THE DIOR PRO MAKEUP TEAM
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Blush: Diorblush – Rose Darling N°861

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IS MADE UP BY THE DIOR PRO MAKEUP TEAM
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For the Eyes: 3 Couleurs Smoky Palette – Nude Glow n°651 – Diorshow Black Out – 099 Khol Black
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Blush: Diorskin Rosy Glow – Petal Nº001

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Ready for summer (Bronzer) – 
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hide & sheen (Concealer + highlighter palette)

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J’adore Eau De Toilette
The New Eau Lumière
全新閃漾淡香薰

閃爍明亮 CHARLIZE
在Peter Lindbergh的鏡頭下，Charlize Theron綻放柔和的金色光暈。仔細近看，她乍現出前所未有的嶄新光芒。她微笑自若，流露豐富情感。J’adore的迷香誘發她的多重性格，熾熱的美態縈繞璀燦光芒。她的淺笑明豔醉人，她的感性傾倒眾生。在幕後花絮中，她猶如與閨密分享獨有的私密時刻一般，率真感性，毫無保留。無論高聲呼喊或竊竊私語，J’adore總被她掛在嘴邊，幻化神奇的魔法咒語。J’adore!

J’adore 泛起新一個微笑
全新的春天隨J’adore Eau de Toilette萌芽。嶄新香調組合保留清新明亮氣息，綻放前所未有的光芒。一種全新成分，讓著名的花束香調變得截然不同。極具明亮氣息的瓦洛里橙花，乃格拉斯至今最美麗的品種，悠然闖進J’adore的迷香國度。首席調香師François Demachy渴望珍貴豐饒的璀燦花香調賦予最細膩的演繹，讓J’adore Eau de Toilette泛起煥然一新的微笑。

J’adore Eau de Toilette
展現在全新春天之下。
嶄新香調組合保留清新明亮氣息，
綻放前所未有的光芒。

François Demachy希望能突顯 J’adore Eau de Toilette的明亮個性，因此他著手提升香調的對比，調節它的層次，並注入嶄新的清新氣息，卻不忘忠於原有的花香標記。受強烈的渴望驅使，他想為這款香水以至生命注入更多光芒、喜悅和熱情。更重要的是，François Demachy想在保留J’adore的經典花香的同時，帶出此淡香薰的獨特個性，一項傾注光芒而不改其特性的精密習作。血橙精華喚醒感官和撩撥慾望，帶來芳香四溢、綻放愉悅的誘人前調。

奢靡金光的微光  J’adore的春天
花卉精華綻放馥郁華麗的芳香，突顯花瓣的躍然朝氣。玉蘭花的甜美氣息與香草和檸檬纏綿繾綣，交織著大馬士革玫瑰的強韌嬌美。瓦洛里橙花擁有獨特的芬芳，與一眾絢麗綻放的花卉精華捲起迷香漩渦，令香調如炫白花瓣般明亮，如地中海豔陽般和暖，深邃的花香讓J’adore閃耀醉人光芒。

隨著斯里蘭卡檀木徐徐湧至，後調漸趨鮮明，感性及奶香的香調能增添舒適感，讓香調更趨圓滿。血橙是新鮮柑橘類水果，亦瀰漫最馥郁的果香。 它可口多汁，如酸糖般惹人垂涎。

J’adore Eau de Toilette擁有非同凡響的氣質，具有獨特的吸引力和璀燦魅力。
即時刺激感官，直達愉悅之旅。

橙花無可比擬的馥郁芳香”
帶有獨特的豐富層次。
它閃爍而璀燦，
前調與熱情奔放的花香聯手合奏。

Dior首席調香師François Demachy

瓦洛里橙花
普羅旺斯的瑰寶
普羅旺斯與Dior有密不可分的關係，Dior創辦人Christian Dior先生曾在普羅旺斯度過無數奇妙和創作的關鍵時刻，其後更在此購置私人別墅Château de La Colle Noire。普羅旺斯為卓爾超群的香薰孕育矜罕花朵，因此Dior以無限信念和熱情保護這片備受珍愛的土地。

為J’adore Eau de Toilette注入瓦洛里橙花精華絕非易事，它必須賦予香薰一種能提升獨特芳香特質的橙花氣息。這對François Demachy來說尤其重要，重喚起他的故鄉格拉斯種滿苦橙花的童年回憶。與此同時，為全新J’adore Eau de Toilette 加入著名的瓦洛里橙花，更體現了Dior在這培植非凡花卉的珍土推廣專業知識的決心。

曾幾何時，橙花是瓦洛里戛纳地區的瑰寶。每年四月中旬，香氣馥郁的純白色苦橙花綻開遍野，隨處可見。苦橙花經當地合作社的工人以人手採集後，透過傳統而精密的蒸餾過程萃取出橙花精華，縱然產量有限，合作社至今仍沿用此傳統方法生產少量的橙花精華，以維持其優質矜罕。今天，Dior香薰傾力提升這片土壤，鼓勵年輕農夫投入橙花耕作，實踐一個滿載希望和決心的方案。

推動培植瓦洛里橙花並不是一項投資，也不是為香水締造民間傳說，而是Dior以守護這片珍土和傳統技術為己任。橙花的香氣特質早已備受肯定，它獨一無二，與別不同，所以我們要做的是好好保護如此得天獨厚的風土和傳統工藝。

Dior首席調香師François Demachy