Eau Sauvage
Dior Eau Sauvage Eau de Toilette has been in production since 1966 and remains the benchmark for the clean citrus style that half the men's market still works inside.
The two materials we hold for it are bergamot and lavender, and between them they account for how the fragrance behaves. Bergamot is the bitter, faintly floral end of the citrus family, dry and refined rather than juicy, and it gives the opening a brightness that never tips into sweetness. Lavender comes in underneath, herbal and clean with a cool camphorous edge, and it is the material that turns a citrus opening into something structured enough to wear all day.
The reason the fragrance has lasted is that it reads as groomed rather than as fresh. There is no fruit, no sugar and no attempt at novelty in it, which is exactly why it has not dated in sixty years while a great many of its imitators have.
In wear it is light and should be sprayed accordingly, three or four hours with a bright first hour and a soft trail afterwards, so reapplication during a long day is normal and expected rather than a failing. Warm weather and daylight suit it best, it works equally in an office and at a lunch, and although it has always been sold to men it has been worn by women since the beginning.
Dior's perfume and cosmetics arm is now an LVMH maison. Christian Dior's first couture collection, shown in February 1947, arrived with Miss Dior beside it, and Paul Vacher composed that perfume to the brief that love was what it should smell of; Dior called himself a couturier-perfumer. This bottle sits with Fahrenheit, Miss Dior, Dune, J'adore, Poison and Sauvage among the fragrances the house is best known for.
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