Sauvage Eau de Parfum (Dior, 2018) is the amber version of Sauvage by François Demachy. Reggio bergamot opens the fragrance, the heart keeps the lavender and Sichuan pepper from the eau de toilette and adds star anise from China and nutmeg, the base pairs Papua New Guinea vanilla absolute with ambroxan. Warmer, rounder and more tenacious than the original, it is aimed at evening wear and the cold season.
In 2015, Dior marked a real turning point in its men's perfumery world. Departing from its usual luxurious style, the house moved toward a more primitive and incisive masculine fragrance. This is how the Eau de Toilette Sauvage came about, a highly contrasted fragrance, as radical as it was provocative. Embodied on screen by Johnny Depp, this juice immediately achieved great success. Building on its notoriety, it was turned into an Eau de Parfum a few years later, in 2018. Marked by a warmer and more oriental character, Sauvage Eau de Parfum relies on a scent of vanilla, nutmeg and star anise, without shying away from its resemblance to its predecessor. But what exactly about its bottle?
Sauvage Eau de Parfum, a bottle nearly identical to that of Dior's original Sauvage
Sauvage Eau de Parfum has an appearance very close to that of its predecessor. Indeed, its bottle preserves exactly the same silhouette. More specifically, it is a thick, sturdy glass cylinder. Here, as if to echo the fragrance it holds, contrasts abound. The Sauvage Eau de Parfum bottle has rounded, sensual lines. Yet its name proves far more rugged and virile. Could the man wearing this fragrance be a tough guy with a tender heart? Still stripped of anything superfluous, the visual of Sauvage Eau de Parfum fits perfectly into the recognizable and claimed codes of the Dior house. Its heavy glass is streaked with a dark, slightly bluish glow, like barely diluted ink. Graduated, this dark hue becomes fully opaque at the top. At its base, a drop of glass seems suspended. The Dior house logo, meanwhile, appears twice. It is present both on the cap and engraved into the spray bottle. One final detail that carries weight: the black lacquered cap of Sauvage is slightly magnetized. Despite its apparent simplicity, the Sauvage Eau de Parfum bottle was therefore designed with extreme care.
Warmer tones make their way onto Dior's bottle
Unlike the first version of Sauvage, its Eau de Parfum edition introduces new, warmer, orange-tinted tones. In reality, this is meant to echo its essence. Its orange base resembles the glow of the sun lighting up the world. The message is clear: the scent of the original Sauvage is as if warmed by the morning sun. Thus, the warm, oriental tones of vanilla and spices are visually evoked. Sauvage Eau de Parfum resembles a new day awakening before our eyes. The man wearing this fragrance need only gaze at the horizon to release his deepest emotions and set off on the right foot into this new day beginning.