Fragrance Notes
Bergamot
AmbroxanSauvage
Before the richer versions existed there was this one, and Dior Sauvage Eau de Toilette remains the original from 2015, built by François Demachy on bergamot and ambroxan.
Bergamot opens it and does so with more bite than the later concentrations allow, a sharp clean citrus with a bitter edge, and at toilette strength it is the loudest part of the first ten minutes rather than a brief introduction.
Ambroxan is the material that made this fragrance famous, and it is worth understanding what it does. It is a modern synthetic with a mineral, slightly salty, almost metallic warmth, dry rather than sweet, and it is what gives Sauvage the quality people describe as clean air or hot stone. It also has an unusual persistence, which is why a toilette strength fragrance performs as strongly as this one does. A two material row, and there is no dressing that up as more than it is. What it does, it does very efficiently: a bright start and a long dry finish, with nothing in between to get in the way.
Expect strong projection in the first hour and a close, persistent trail for many hours after, and bear in mind that it reaches further than its concentration suggests, so three sprays in an office is one too many. It suits daytime, warm weather, work and the gym, it is sold to men and worn extremely widely, and it is the version to choose if you find the eau de parfum too sweet.
The house, Dior's perfume and cosmetics arm, is part of LVMH. It grew out of the couture business that began in February 1947, whose founder launched a perfume alongside his first collection and claimed both trades at once, a view of the work that the company has never dropped.
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