Dior Homme by Dior: the whole line, from 2005 to 2025

The house declares three materials: Guatemalan cardamom, Tuscan iris, Haitian vetiver. Robert Pattinson became its face in 2013, in a black-and-white film by Romain Gavras. Robin, of Now Smell This, ranked it among masculine gourmands at launch; Persolaise sees it as a modern classic.

François Demachy signed the formula in 2007 and recomposed it in 2011. The house names only three materials, Tuscan iris, Ecuadorian ambrette and Virginia cedar, in a glass block covered with a translucent lacquer. Dior suggests wearing it like a suit.

The 2014 version, signed by Demachy, rested on a leather accord. Kurkdjian turns it into an overdosed iris, from root to flower, over an amber accord of patchouli, vetiver and coumarin, in a monolithic bottle inspired by skyscrapers. Varanis Ridari, of The Scented Devil, finds it softer and more romantic than the earlier versions.

The first version, of citrus and ginger, came out in 2008 with a film by Daniel Askill shot in the Bahamas, starring Jude Law. The current version, which Dior compares to a boxer’s uppercut, combines bergamot, lemon, elemi, pink peppercorns and incense. Persolaise considered the original a triumph and finds the 2022 version predictable.

Dior Homme Sport in an unbreakable continuous-spray bottle that releases the fragrance as micro-droplets. François Demachy retouched the formula for this way of spraying, replacing the top-note citron, judged too bitter, with a rounder blood orange.

Dior released a new version in 2013, which François Demachy keeps to three materials: Calabrian bergamot, grapefruit blossom and white musk. Peter Lindbergh photographed Jude Law at the wheel of a vintage convertible on the French Riviera. The white bottle carries a touch of blue.

Woody where the original was powdery, it has Atlas cedar embrace a spicy Haitian vetiver, around a heart of patchouli. The duo The Blaze filmed Robert Pattinson in New York to Leonard Cohen’s I’m Your Man. Persolaise finds it well made, but regrets that it erases the ambiguities of the original.