Dior Homme (Original/2020)

4.2
Overall
Accords
woody
musky
aromatic
amber
citrus
powdery
Notes Pyramid
Top
BergamotPink PepperElemi
Heart
Atlas CedarCashmere WoodPatchouli
Base
Iso E SuperHaitian VetiverWhite Musk
Community Verdict
Pros & Cons
- ✅ Pepper-cedar-iris combo with the polish you'd expect from Dior
- ✅ Genuinely versatile — meeting room to dinner without modification
- ✅ Long-lasting in a category where most designers cut corners
- ✅ It doesn’t display the mind-numbing crassness of Chanel Bleu or Dior’s own Sauvage
- ✅ An undeniably suave accent begins to make its presence felt
- ✅ Pleasant woody and peppery scent
- ✅ Unique all-purpose fragrance
- ✅ Fantastic scent
- ❌ Lost the iris signature that defined the original — fans noticed immediately
- ❌ Heavy Iso E Super means many noses go anosmic to it after an hour
- ❌ The ambiguities that made Olivier Polge’s composition an instant classic have been completely flattened
- ❌ The composition settles entirely into synthetics – in the way most modern designer scents do
- ❌ Change in formulation from original scent
- ❌ Not as complex or warm as other Dior Homme fragrances
- ❌ Lack of personality or authenticity