Dior Homme Cologne 2013

Im super excited to finally get my hands on this.Its one of the most polite and noble scents i have come accross in my modest frag journey.Its super safe and easy to wear.If i could every morning i would swim in a pool full of Dior Homme Cologne,haha.Sadly,the summer is about to end soon but i hope that i will be able to use during the hot autumn days.It was a love from the first spray and i knew that i have to have it xD It was on my radar for a year.I have tested it twice beforehand and the longevity really impressed me,i was able to detect a slight skin scent on the next morning(12-13 hour later)and when i was in my bed i was taking a waft throughout my sleep,for such a scent profile,such longevity is decent.I dont know about sillage,but once i was at the stadium to watch my team,i have ran into his sillage from an uknown person and it might came from 2-3 meters,i was really impressed and that made even more craving to have it.The second time i have tried i got goosebumps on my head,it was my first time experience it from a perfume.Expect some old bottles clearance,i was able to get a smoking deal,200 ml for 80 euros.Had some preoccupations that it might have gone weaker were it an old batch,but decided to gamble and it paid off.Its the old bottle design but who cares,if you ask me i prefer the old ones.Its much more stylish and minimalistic,but its all about business after all,a revenue has to come.You may say its too simplistic and ordinary but thats what i love about it,minimal at its best.I love minimal,minimal music,clothes and art.Less is more.The main notes are only three,but you can feel them all,its not like other complex pieces where everything gets blended together and some notes are hardly detectable.Its a mass appealing frag,but who cares,man,its no shame to dip your toe in such things once in a blue moon.I glaudly introduced him to my modest collection and from now on,it will be an honorable member of my rotation squad,i will be rocking him today,hehe.Oh,and i almost forgot,the atomizer spays like a boss,its not the kind that sprays over excessively,but you are in the drivers' seat.

When I first smelled this years ago it felt like I finally found THE fragrance for me, the perfect one, my holy grail. Anyone here who has been looking for their sort of holy grail scent will probably recognize that it feels like a weight is lifted off your shoulders when you finally find it, I felt so happy. A review was long overdue, because DHC has been my signature scent for 4 years now and I still can’t imagine anything smelling better than this. The uncomplicated bergamot-grapefruit blossom-white musk combo results in a super refreshing and uplifting happy scent that is as inoffensive as it can be. Plus it has elegance like all Dior Homme's. Makes me think of a gentleman wearing a white linen shirt drinking a fresh lemonade at a fancy summer party. This is also the only fragrance that I could wear almost every day year-round and not get tired of. I’d gone through my 125ml bottle in 1.5 years which is something I'd never expected happening with any fragrance, so of course it got replaced by a 200ml. The bottle is beautiful with a fantastic atomizer like all Dior Homme's, and the frosted white glass is extremely fitting. Performance is not the best, as mentioned a lot, though it's not bad either and it serves its purpose as an EdC and fresh summer fragrance. I usually use 6 sprays (which is ~twice my usual) and it lasts about 4 or 5 hours with low projection. Don't forget to spray on your shirt though as it lingers nicely for you to smell throughout the day. Its performance and smell ultimately make it the perfect inoffensive daily fragrance. Between this and Chanel Allure Homme Sport Cologne (which it is often compared to, definitely try out both side-by-side) I easily prefer the Dior. If you like this kind of citrus scent I personally find them clearly different enough to warrant owning both. Both perform similar, both are (too) expensive.

Beautiful take on bright tart citrus with a jaw-dropping top note. Calabrian bergamot is a note I am quite familiar with after living in southern Italy. It has a certain contrast to it between an airy tart juiciness and an aromatic bitterness. This definitely captures that bright juicy zing, but without any of the green bitter or oily facets. There is just enough sweetness to counterbalance the sharpness of the bergamot, without muting it, reminds me of a high end natural lemonade that is high in tartness, but has just the right amount of sugar to keep it pleasant. Citrus enthusiast surely know that when you buy a citrus fragrance you are essentially wearing its dry down, since the best citrus top notes tend to disappear in a matter of minutes. So what do you get in DIor Homme Cologne? A convincing grapefruit undertone, zesty and 'yellow' that last for about an hour on me, and then it settles on a delightful musky dry down that may just be as elegant and smooth as the top note. You can tell there are some expensive musk compounds at work here, I suspect a bit of ambrettolide, giving a cold, slightly white floral aura, but also a mysterious cotton like fuzzy musk I can't really place that seems to float almost off your skin. I easily get another 3-4 hours of that musk on my skin, projecting moderately with about 3-4 good sprays in total. I see a lot of criticism about the performance, and by no means is this a beast mode EdC, but I suspect a lot of it has to do with how musky the dry down is, a lot of people are simply becoming noseblind to it when wearing it, or may just be entirely anosmic to some of the musks used in this. For me the artistry of the top note, and suave musk dry down which clearly contains some high end musk compounds that never feel soapy or cloying clearly justify the premium Dior price.

People claiming this has "abysmal" performance and "doesn't last more than 30 minutes" are misunderstanding this fragrance. It's not a citrus fragrance, it's a citrus MUSK fragrance. My friend gave this two sprays and I was smelling musk on them all day. I've received compliments about smelling "sweet and fresh" 8 hours after applying six sprays. Perhaps most casual fragrance owners are not familiar with the scent of "white musk". DHC features a white musk / orange blossom heart/drydown that lasts for HOURS and projects very well. It's just not a scent that many people can easily identify. It's very transparent and soft. Almost akin to fresh white linen out of the dryer. This is a soft, musky scent. Do yourself a favor and try spraying this AWAY from your nose. On your cuffs, your pants, your belly. You will get whiffs of musk for hours, and hours. The freeze-dried, fresh lemon opening only lasts 30-45 minutes tops before this transforms into a musk scent. This is a "Fresh" scent in a freshly dried laundry sort of way. I'll say it again, DHC has phenomenal projection and longevity if you view it as a musk fragrance. The problem is, many people on here do not know what musk smells like, or they become quickly anosmic to it from spraying too close to their nose, or they could be completely anosmic to the type of musk used in here. And no, Jimmy Choo Man Ice smells like a synthetic showergel cocktail compared to this. It's not even in the same league. The closest relative in my opinion would be Chanel Allure Homme Sport Cologne. This is my second review to address concerns about DHC's performance.

I lived with my wife (ex wife at this point) on an apartments building. Sometimes, when I took the elevator, it would smell manly, fresh, clean and sharp. I always wondered what it was, I started to have a relationship with that fragrance... I was its secret admirer. I wondered how I would feel rocking that beauty. One day the son of the owner who lived in the penthouse was in the elevator and I knew it was him. I am a very prideful creature and at that moment I didn't ask. I regretted it hard. Some weeks later I found the guy again on the morning, swallowed my pride and asked. Dude only told me: It's Dior. Fuck it... I had a clue at least. I didn't want to look on the internet for it. That very same day I went to the department store and searched thoroughly for it. Tried all the Dior fragrances but I couldn't find it. I couldn't give up at that point and went to another store and then to another. There I found a white bottle that I haven't smelled and before even opening the cap... I knew that it was 'it'. I opened it up and sprayed directly on my skin. Took the 200 ml bottle with me that evening and since then, I have bought another 200 ml one. It's that good for me. The fragrance smells like a manly lemonade. It's Dior. Refined, classy, fresh, playful but sober. Amazing for summer and spring. Casual or dressed up. On my skin it lasts at least 6 hrs, get yourself a huge bottle and a decant. It's a hidden jewel that may be too simple for some but... why does everything need to be complicated?