Eau Sauvage Cologne

Quite simply because Eau de Cologne allows the juice to become even lighter and airier while gaining increased tonicity thanks to a precious selection of raw materials. This freshness bath is represented by the eternal Alain Delon, delivered as a bearded adventurer out on the open sea… Once again Eau Sauvage creates an event!

Eau Sauvage Cologne: when Eau de Cologne becomes trendy...

Of course the evocation of Eau de Cologne has, at first glance, nothing that seems truly current…Used mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries, Eau de Cologne was above all a hygiene product before becoming a beauty ritual. It gave these gentlemen a clean smell, very smooth, even too smooth, for our 21st century noses.

Thanks to perfume houses that have skillfully reworked this great classic of perfumery, men are rediscovering cologne in its modern version with pleasure. Far from being sanitized like its ancestor, it carries the man off in a powerful, refreshing wave. To illustrate this aquatic surge, what better than choosing archival images of Alain Delon out at sea?

Thus the advertising spot for Eau Sauvage Cologne offers selected images from the film Les Aventuriers, shot in 1967 by Roberto Enrico. Alain Delon appears more seductive than ever with a beard entirely unknown until then to the general public. The vintage black and white once again causes a sensation, and the advertising for Eau Sauvage Cologne generated a great deal of talk!

An unprecedented sun-kissed freshness for Eau Sauvage Cologne

Eau Sauvage Cologne, released in 2015, does not seek to distinguish itself absolutely from its predecessors and does not hesitate to once again wear the precious flask bottle that made the glory of its original 1966 juice. To mark its difference nonetheless, Eau Sauvage Cologne dresses in white, synonymous with purity, on its label as well as its cap.

The composition of Eau Sauvage Cologne primarily foregrounds green notes in its juice. The top notes are thus orchestrated around citrus accords of Sicilian bergamot, lemon and mandarin, offset by rose oxide. The heart notes showcase a lovely blond woody Haitian vetiver accompanied by a powerful, powdery cocktail of aldehydes, hedione, ozone, not forgetting the essential green notes. Finally, pink pepper berries from Réunion punctuate the deep sillage of Eau Sauvage Parfum with a spicy, fresh touch, while relying on white musks, evernyl and coumarin, animalic note obliges.

Eau Sauvage Cologne aims to offer men of the new millennium a fragrance just as fresh as Eau Sauvage while granting it the raw materials and invigorating discoveries made over the past decade in perfumery. As Dior states about it: an immediate, gushing composition. A spontaneous brilliance that nonetheless conceals faceted nuances. Eau Sauvage has not finished surprising us, and Eau Sauvage Cologne is one of its loveliest surprises!