Fragrance Notes
Sauvage Eau Forte
One material is all we hold for Dior Sauvage Eau Forte Eau de Parfum, and that material is lavender, so this is a short composition and there is nothing to be gained by pretending otherwise. Francis Kurkdjian is the perfumer. What lavender gives a fragrance, used at this sort of prominence, is a clean herbal bitterness with a cool camphorous edge and a faint powderiness underneath, closer to the plant crushed between the fingers than to anything in a linen drawer. It is one of the oldest materials in masculine perfumery and one of the most useful, because it reads simultaneously as fresh and as grown up, and a composition built around it will always feel groomed rather than sweet.
Expect the fragrance to behave accordingly. There is no evolution here to follow across the day, no bright opening that gives way to something else; the character is established in the first few minutes and then simply softens and settles. Some wearers greatly prefer that, since it means the scent you chose in the shop is the scent you have at six in the evening. Others will find it plain next to the busier versions of the Sauvage name, and it is better to know that before buying than afterwards.
As an eau de parfum it has the oil content to last, which here means several hours of quiet presence rather than a cloud in the first hour. Two sprays is the dose, and the drier, cooler character makes it easier to wear in warm weather than the sweeter members of the family. It suits daytime, work, and a man who wants a herbal fragrance without any sugar in it at all.
Dior's perfume and cosmetics arm sits inside LVMH today. Its founder treated scent as part of the collection rather than a souvenir of it: the first Dior show, in 1947, had a fragrance of its own, and he liked the title couturier-perfumer well enough to use it himself.
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