Homme
Dior Homme Eau de Toilette is the odd one out in a line usually discussed in terms of powder and polish, because the materials recorded for it are cedarwood, patchouli and vetiver, and that is a drier and more serious set than the name suggests.
Cedarwood sets the tone, sharp and dry with a faint pencil shaving quality, the kind of material that reads as clean without ever being sweet. Patchouli is the one that can divide a room, and handled well, as it is here, it comes across dark and slightly damp, earthy rather than dusty, giving the composition its weight. Vetiver completes it with a cool bitter rootiness, smoky at the edges, and the three together produce something closer to a dry forest floor than to a perfumery flourish. A short note row, and it wears like one: the fragrance you meet at twenty minutes is substantially the fragrance you have at four hours, simply quieter.
Toilette strength gives it brightness in the first half hour and a moderate reach afterwards, sitting close enough to the skin to be worn in an office without comment. Two or three sprays is the right dose, and it performs best in cooler weather where dry materials like these have room to breathe. It reads as masculine and suits a man who wants presence without sweetness. François Demachy is the perfumer, and this version dates from 2011.
As for the house, Dior's fragrance arm belongs to LVMH today, though its character was set in February 1947 when Christian Dior showed his first collection and launched a perfume beside it. He described himself as a couturier-perfumer, and the men's fragrances, Eau Sauvage and Fahrenheit among them, have been as central to the business as the couture ever was.
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