Vanilla Diorama – pastry delight inspired by Christian Dior – LUXE.TV

It is in Luxembourg that we meet this 
young pastry chef for the first time. Far from La Chèvre d´Or, a two-star restaurant 
on the Côte d´Azur, where he usually officiates,   He meets us in a beautiful branch of Maison Dior,
in the heart of Galeries Lafayette. Here, everything is in place 
to discover Vanilla Diorama,   An essence of the ultra chic Private Collection by 
Christian Dior. An Ode to Madagascar Vanilla … At a time when perfumes blend with tastes, 
what better than to respond to the sweetness   Of Vanilla Diorama with a 
matching and eponymous dessert…   And it is all the magic of a marriage 
between flavors and scents that is born   From the collaboration between Julien Dugourd and 
François Demachy, Master perfumer of Maison Dior… This story stems from a mystery: Vanilla 
Diorama pays homage to Diorama Gourmand,   One of Christian Dior’s favorite desserts. 
Created for him by the famous restaurant Maxim’s,   No image or exhaustive description 
of this pastry has survived … Julien Dugourd did not need any more to 
embark on this astonishing adventure:   Creating a small cake in 
tribute to Christian Dior … There have been 5 months of research 
and development around this little cake.  I have already tried to learn about life as 
much as possible from Monsieur Dior and in fact,   To pay tribute to him, it is true that we have a 
round shape for the 1950s, because in the 50s the   Entremet was round. We find the velvet side 
of the cake, because Mr. Dior evokes a lot,   In his works or in the reports that I have seen, 
his childhood home in Granville, where he evokes   The powdery side of the walls of his childhood 
home and he explains that a large part of his own   Architecture was built and founded in relation 
to this house, so for me, it was necessary to   Offer a part of Mr. Dior’s house in Granville 
through this small cake. So, we find a little   Of the powdery side on the small cake, which is 
like a parallel to the walls. And then, above…   The curvatures that you can see above, these 
are the real pencil strokes of Mr. Dior, from   His first sketches in 1947, which were modeled.
In fact, I chose the curves that marked me, touched me We modeled them in 3D to obtain a signature. 
In fact, to have the soul of Monsieur Dior, I didn’t want to stamp the “CD” initials or 
something like that. I really wanted to go   Further to pay tribute to him as best we could. 
For me, that was the best solution, that was it,   Really going back to his sketches and it gave a 
natural draped appearance that represents a bit   Of the couture side. And there you go. I thought 
it was the best tribute we could pay him … While vanilla is one of the most expensive 
and precious ingredients in perfumery,   It is the same for pastry. In the cake as in the perfume, vanilla blends 
with orange for even more contrast. At the heart of the fragrance, this bourbon vanilla from 
Madagascar is embellished with accents of rum,  

Patchouli and a note of cocoa, with a quick 
spray of white chocolate and in the background   There’s a crunch to the dessert, inspired by 
this little cake that Christian Dior loved. When he spoke of his dresses, Monsieur Dior 
evoked the simplicity at a visual level,   But the complexity was inside. Mr. Dior’s first dresses consisted 
of 6 to 7 layers, there were weights,   There were springs in some 
places. It marked me and in fact,   I absolutely wanted to do the 
same thing with this little cake.   So aesthetically simple. Simply elegant. A very 
simple but very elegant visual. On the other hand,   The architecture of the cake is very complicated 
with several layers. We find a cookie,   We find a crisp, we find orange marmalade, orange 
confit, fresh orange segments, a vanilla mousse,   So the complexity of the small cake is inside and 
the particularity is that there is no added sugar.   There you go, it’s a very light little cake 
where we keep the sweetness of this little cake   Compared to white chocolate and compared to 
orange. But there is no added sugar. We also tried to really respect this light and feminine 
side, which we find in the house of Mr. Dior. I’m not afraid to say it’s the creation of my 
life, yeah, it’s the creation of my life. I made a lot of beautiful things, I had the 
chance to be able to rub shoulders and to   Be able to work for personalities, very important 
people, but this is really something that touches   Me and it really is a cake that was made with 
the heart, before being made with the head. And really, I thought of Monsieur 
Dior from start to finish. It’s a little cake, there you have 
it, made for him, for the heart,   For Maison Dior, for Mr. Demachy. It is really, it is complicated to explain in a few 
lines. We could make a book out of it … ”Vanilla Diorama and its delights” Or, to paraphrase the pretty phrase
of a client who tasted the little cake: ”when Monsieur Dior 
blew on the shoulder of a pastry chef”…