Sauvage Elixir

I used to wear this fragrance every single day my Junior year winter in High School, the cold New England weather complimented this fragrance like no other. When it’s freezing my hands still yearn to reach for this, unfortunately, its just too good. It’s just too good of a beast mode fragrance. Therefore, this is a formal apology to all of my best friends and aquantiances in my third year of high school. I apologize for waking up every morning between the months of September and early February and spraying 3-5 sprays of Dior Sauvage Elixir on my neck and my clothes, knowing full well that the sprays from last week are still all over my hoodie, even after a few washes, and the sprays on my neck are still apparent, even after a couple showers. This Fragrance is just too good. So good that it is nearly unwearable. I knew full well I should have only been spraying 1-2 sprays. Everyone who is even six feet social distancing (if you remember what that was) with a mask on could smell this fragrance on you. It was loud and it stayed on skin for days. Worse, it stayed on clothes for WEEKS. High school me had no business carrying a fragrance like this in my pocket, it was genuinely unfair. Unfortunately, my girlfriend absolutely despises this fragrance, so my originally formulated bottle is banished to the top of my closet along with the divine Summer fragrances that come out towards the end of the Spring. I hear it call out to me in the New England mornings when the weather is practically zero degrees, but I know I can’t wear you anymore, you’re too brash, you’re too bold, you smell to much like everyone else now, regardless of how beast mode this fragrance is. I’ve heard murmurs that reformulations have ruined this fragrance and simply too many people own this for it to be a viable fragrance, and I believe that these two issues are absolutely true and apparent. I attempted to smell some of the new reformulations and was genuinely shocked and disgusted at the fact that it is not the fragrance it used to be. It is not the same fragrance I wore when it initially released, to make matters worse, everyone now owns this fragrance, so you won’t even smell remotely unique if you were to wear this fragrance. It’s not even worth purchasing even though when it was first released it was truly one of the greatest fragrance ever. Luckily, its not like this fragrance needed more years. It again, was too good. 1-2 sprays max, a day. No reapplies. It would last the whole day with 1-2 sprays. This bottle could last in anyone’s collection for decades before you would even think of purchasing another bottle. I’m sure Dior realized that they made too legendary of a fragrance and decided to fuck it up for profits. What more could you expect from a mega corporation? Greed kills fragrance. With that, I end my ode to Dior Sauvage Elixir. Thank you for the great memories, thank you for allowing me to smell good even if my friends were dying in cars, and thank you for carrying me into a better life, even if I have to leave you in my closet for life, my hands still yearn to reach for your bottle. I’m going to finish a YouTube script for this fragrance, this fragrance is simply too perfect, its unfortunate it’s prime is long gone. This is as close to Eden Hazard as a fragrance gets.

Been a year and I'm halfway through my 18 batch code bottle. I really wish I had bought another one before this batch went extinct. I originally bought it because I smelt a soft-spicy amber combo on testers HOWEVER, with my batch that I ordered from discounters that WAS NOT THE CASE Although I miss that smell, this is VERY different and NOT in a bad way. It is harsh, metallic, spicy, and slightly barbershop-y. I LOVE IT. It almost smells like how I would imagine tattoo guns and ink to smell like: this harsh, buzzing, vibrating sensation. However, this sensation is backed up by a soft, smooth shaving cream/barbershop scent that is VERY smooth and gives this perfume its signature element. Despite having similarities to some oriental or fougere scents, this raw juxtaposition is what makes it so unique and amazing. This harshness and spiciness is very present in the opening--which I thoroughly enjoy--but as the scent progresses it becomes more amber-like and smoother. Although other people say they smell liquorice, I do not (I also wish I did because I really love liquorice) but instead I smell a deep, dark, yet also sweeter and creamier dry-down. I don't think you should care that much about the notes but more the wear experience and this one is particularly amazing. I also think that the whole "this is basic" or "cologne-y" is bs and A. doesn't understand that this is unique, B. doesn't understand perfumery in general, and C. doesn't understand how people actually experience scents. The same way someone might wear this scent now, your dad may have worn le male or your mom opium. Performance is pretty good. I obviously wish it was stronger projecting, but you do have to watch out for how many sprays (especially in the heat--but I have been wearing it in the heat wave weather). Dry down lasts the whole day basically, but it projects for maybe 6. (ANDDDDD when you get in the heat, your heartbeat quickens, or when you sweat it projects LIKE CRAZY which I prefer to the airy scents) The clouds are dense and take a while to dissipate. I have been told various times that people could smell me hours after I left a room. HOWEVER other people tell me that they cannot smell me at all. I think that's because it's a dense and lingering scent RATHER than a projecting one. Anyways, I am really sad about the thought of moving beyond this perfume. It is incredible and makes me feel incredible. The more that I wear it, the more I appreciate it. Its hard to keep myself to only three sprays daily.

Dior Sauvage Elixir: The Man Who Does Not Knock First things first: this fragrance does not enter a room, it arrives at one, and the room adjusts. Sauvage Elixir smells like a handshake that goes three seconds too long, delivered with unbroken eye contact and genuine, terrifying goodwill. The opening is cinnamon. Not a hint of cinnamon, cinnamon in the way a marching band is "some music." Nutmeg and cardamom crowd in behind it, a flash of grapefruit gets roughly four seconds of screen time before being quietly escorted from the building, and then the lavender arrives. This is not a gentle lavender. This lavender has been to the gym. Twice. Today. Then something strange happens: licorice. A dark, faintly medicinal anise note wanders in and gives the whole composition a chewy quality, like a French pastille dropped into a spice grinder. Underneath it all, vetiver and patchouli are doing the actual structural work, the two guys holding the ladder while everyone watches the man at the top. And here's the inconvenient part: it's well made. That's what enthusiasts can't forgive. It would be so much easier to dismiss if it were bad, but every gram in that bottle was engineered by people who knew exactly what they were doing, and what they were doing was building something detectable from the far end of a car park. Longevity? Absurd. Not "long-lasting." Absurd. You will wash this. It will remain. It will be on the towel. It will be on that towel next week, in the linen cupboard, waiting. Projection? Two sprays is a statement. Four is a legal matter for everyone else in the lift. Mass Appeal? Total. The single most likely fragrance on earth to earn you a compliment, and the single most likely to get you identified in a lineup. Scent? Very good, faintly exhausting. A great song played at a volume that ends the conversation. Final Verdict: Longevity: 9.5/10 (survives showers, seasons, and mild regret) Scent: 8/10 (superb construction, zero interest in subtlety) Mass Appeal: 9.5/10 (designed in a lab to be liked, the lab won) Projection: 9.5/10 (the handshake never actually ended) Smells like: the hero shot from a car advert where a man in a shearling jacket drives into a canyon at sunset for no stated reason, remade as a spice cabinet that hired a personal trainer.

One day I went to SEPHORA to test some perfumes, and the Sauvage Elixir is one of them. As usual, at first spray from testers from Sephora, the smell doesn't really do much and sometimes very sharp alcoholic. I can still capture a slight of this scent during the first smell and decided I'm going to let it dry on tester strip. Note that all of the strips look the same. On my way home, I picked up the strips I brought, and trying to see if there is anything that I might like. One strip, dominates them all. It smells,... nostalgic to me for some reason. Sweet, but slightly fresh, and heavenly. Somehow it takes me back in time.. I could not stop smelling this one strip. Yet I do not know from which perfume this was.. This scent lasts more than 5 days on the same strip and got me wondering.. Is this the Sauvage Elixir..? I even kept the strip cause I really enjoy smelling it. Few weeks later, I came by a duty free shop in our local airport, and I decided to try some more perfumes, and that includes the Sauvage Elixir. This time the tester strip has Dior logo on it for me to differentiate this from everything else. I let it dry down for a few minutes while checking up everything else, and I decided to smell the Dior Strip again. "So it was you..." I found it, and I immediately bought this very perfume from the store without any second thought. This has been my most complimented fragrance I've ever worn, and I genuinely love the smell myself, and my girlfriend especially love smelling it when I wear it during our dates. It is heavenly sweet, dark, masculine, unique, potent, long lasting, and an absolute nuclear. You only need 2 sprays, and 3 sprays are already pushing it but why not heheh. It is lingering, and for me, quite smooth.. perhaps I got a newer batches and I've heard older batch of this perfume is even crazier in terms of performance. On this one I can get more than 12 hours still on skin, and few days on clothing. My room legit smells awesome as well after spraying this. Sure, it is darn expensive, but for me, it is so worth it. 60ml is good enough for maybe a whole year because it is that strong and you don't need to spray too much of this anyway. Highly recommended, but be sure to try it first. Not everyone will like this fragrance.

This is basically what happens when someone at Dior said: “Hey, what if we take Sauvage... and then turn the power dial to 11?” The opening is BIG. Like, dramatic movie soundtrack big! Right away you get a blast of cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and grapefruit, which creates this warm spicy cloud that punches the air around you.  If regular Sauvage walks into a room and says “hi,” Elixir kicks the door open and announces itself like a WWE entrance. It smells rich, spicy, slightly sweet, and very masculine. Not subtle. Not shy. Definitely not an office safe blind buy. After about 30 minutes the chaos settles. The fragrance shifts into a lavender-heavy heart with deep woods underneath.  You start getting: lavender sandalwood amber licorice vetiver The vibe becomes dark, warm, and slightly barbershop-style masculine.  At this stage it smells like: A very expensive leather chair in a dimly lit whisky bar. It’s smooth, powerful, and surprisingly elegant for something that started like a spice grenade. Performance (Borderline illegal) Performance is where this thing becomes ridiculous. Typical numbers: Longevity: 12–16 hours easily  Projection: strong for 4–6 hours  Sillage: huge scent trail  This is the kind of fragrance where: 1 spray = normal person 2 sprays = confident 3 sprays = chemical warfare One reviewer on Reddit described it like this: “One spray fills rooms... chance of overdosing is high.”  They’re not exaggerating. When To Wear It This is not a summer beach fragrance. Best situations: Cold weather Night out Formal events Fancy dinners When you want to smell expensive Fall and winter are where this fragrance absolutely shines.  Wearing this in 30°C heat is basically a social experiment. Compliment Factor People notice this scent. Whether it’s “wow you smell amazing” or “why does the room smell like Christmas spices” depends on the person. It’s definitely a statement fragrance, and it attracts attention — sometimes a lot of it. Final Thoughts Dior Sauvage Elixir is basically Sauvage after it hit the gym, drank six espressos, and decided to become the main character. It’s bold, powerful, luxurious, and very hard to ignore. Not everyone will love it. But nobody will pretend they didn’t notice it. Rating: ⭐ 9 / 10