Sauvage Parfum (Dior, 2019) is the most concentrated flanker of Sauvage, signed by François Demachy. The top pairs bergamot, mandarin, and elemi, the heart rests on Sri Lankan sandalwood, and the base brings together olibanum, tonka bean, and Papua New Guinea vanilla. Woody, amber and resinous, without the ambroxan of its predecessors, it is the softest and most enveloping of the line.
The Sauvage bottle becomes more intense for Sauvage Le Parfum. Dior's Sauvage fragrance made its appearance in 2015, rising to become one of the most popular fragrances among men. Already declined twice, Sauvage now reveals a third edition, in its most intense form. As François Demachy, the perfumer behind its creation, explains, it is an endless composition. Its formula is so dense that it can be given new light by shaping it with subtle nuances. For Sauvage Parfum, he imagined an intense freshness meeting the suavity of an oriental. He kept the powerful soul of Sauvage intact while giving it nocturnal accents, an animalic attraction, and rounder facets. And these are precisely the elements found on its bottle.
The nocturnal accents of the Sauvage Parfum bottle
The Sauvage Parfum bottle is not diametrically opposed to the design of its predecessors — quite the opposite. In fact, it keeps exactly the same silhouette as they do. It asserts its sobriety through rounded, sensual lines, contrasting with the virility of its name. The word Sauvage appears in capital letters on its front face, in clear lettering that stands in sharp contrast to the rest of its color. More than ever, the shade of Sauvage Parfum has intensified. With this new visual, Dior clearly aims to draw the viewer into the heart of the dead of night. For this fragrance, François Demachy drew inspiration from untouched vastness under a bluish night. And this is precisely the same element that guided the design of its bottle. The midnight blue chosen by Dior is at once mysterious, masculine, and profound. It is captivating while adopting one of the most universal and elegant colors there is.
When flaming glows come to light up Dior's bottle
While the first version of Sauvage Parfum already featured a captivating midnight blue, its base was entirely transparent, offering a most limpid and airy gradient. This time, transparency has given way to orange tones. Here again, the goal is to offer perfect coherence between this fragrance's visual and its scent. And Sauvage Parfum enriches its juice with a more intense odor, similar to that of a crackling fire. The magic takes hold at the very sight of its bottle. Sauvage Parfum seems to have come to life at the heart of a blaze, and thereby intends to warm up the atmosphere.
Generally speaking, the Sauvage Parfum bottle is quite plain and stripped down. As such, it fits perfectly with the usual style of the house of Dior. Its glass, for its part, is heavy, a mark of its overall quality. To give the whole a mirror-like appearance, a thin layer of silver has even been sprayed onto its walls. Nothing has been left to chance here. The whole is also topped with a lacquered, magnetic cap, finely engraved on the inside with a bee, the historic signature of Dior's men's fragrances.