HommeFlorale

I admit I had my doubts at first whether this small exclusive series from Byredo was any good. Nevertheless, this fragrance had to be tested extensively, I was too curious. And what can I say, it is probably one of the most complex creations of the house.
I am not a big tuberose lover and try to avoid it rather, but here it is so finely balanced that it is not only bearable but absolutely beautiful and complementary! Amazing that I experience myself once again to praise tuberose use. The whole creation is simply round and it seems to me that this composition was not created in a hurry. The fragrance constantly oscillates between classic and modern and forces you to sniff your own wrist. In my opinion, the plum is clearly perceived over the whole head and heart note. During the heart note, an interplay between jasmine, lily and rose, which together smell like a 1000€ bouquet of flowers. I don't really smell carnation, but I do smell a steady, very soft, woody undertone that gets more and more pronounced as the hours go by. One thing that always excites me is the course of the sweetness. The scent has a certain basic sweetness, not too daring, rather well dosed. The first sweetness you notice is a plum sweetness and at some point, very secretly, this sweetness changes into a discreet honey sweetness that is quite untypical for honey. In the last hours I perceive a kind of rosewood and the just mentioned honey note. I see this fragrance for evening occasions, extraordinary events and special moments. Too special to wear it just like that. The price alone hardly allows this perfume as an everyday scent anyway.
A laudable creation from the house of Byredo!

It's him. Oh, the things you've done. So inconspicuous in your little bottle, you created a small world for me. Clearly my favorite of the three Dior Homme Sport versions (2008,2012,2017)
To anticipate what follows is something very personal and for me formative.
I remember that day like it was last weekend. It is the year 2008 and I am 11 years old. As usual I accompanied my parents on a stroll through the city and once a year I had to visit a perfumery. During the payment process, my parents were of course given samples and suddenly the sales lady bends down to me and presses a small box into my hand. I was very happy and thanked her very much. It was a shower gel test of the former Dior Homme Sport. I think it was 30ml. Quite unusual, I only knew the small perfume taps in the sprayer at that time. Nearly 2 weeks later I was invited to the birthday party of a classmate and shortly before departure I went into the shower where this little box welcomed me. For this special occasion I wanted to test how it is like. I didn't have high expectations anyway, at the age of 11 years shower gel was for me, well just shower gel and smelled almost always the same anyway. When I took a shower it completely blew me away! What was that smell? What kind of shower gel is that? Something beautiful and high quality smelling never came under my nose before. Then it happened, I was infected. Proudly I stepped out of the shower and for the first time I was just happy about something as banal as a smell. My mother also mentioned what I had done to make me smell so good. I reminded her of the specimen. The birthday was great and it got even better than half of the girls present complimented me on my smell. To get compliments for my body odor was something unknown to me at that time, something I had never experienced before. But it confirmed my assumption that this woody citric smell is something very special. Since this experience I became very sensitive to odours. I paid attention to everything that had a smell and was looking for more scents. But nobody could match the Dior Homme Sport Shower Gel in its light citric ginger fresh water, except for my shower. I was in love. Often I just opened the flap of the shower gel to have a quick sniff. I never got any pocket money, so for almost a year I saved every imaginable money to buy a small 50ml of the 2008 version of Dior Homme Sport Eau de Toilette shortly before my 12th birthday. I was proud and very happy about my second largest investment at that time (the Kettcar was more expensive). The scent was identical to the shower gel and also knocked me out every time. At that time I didn't have a plan of individual fragrances, I couldn't describe what attracted me to this little fragrance, but it was so beautiful. Since then I have wished for only one thing in addition to every birthday and every Christmas: The 150ml shower gel of the fragrance, which after all cost a proud €35. This also always lasted every six months, because I only wore it for special occasions combined with the perfume. I bought the perfume annually from my own money. This fragrance simply did not let go of me, I spent my childhood and complete youth with it. When the 2012 version was released, I went along with it and remained true to my Dior Homme Sport. I liked the follow-up version, even though I preferred the original.
I still have about 60ml of the 2012 version and an empty shower gel pack of a 2008. Every time I open this lid again and smell it I go on a trip. A journey back into nice moments, into bad moments. Memories of family members still alive at that time. On light and dark days of my schooldays, in many places and situations
I am not in a position to evaluate this scent purely factually.
Even the 2012 version reminds me in contrast to the current 2017 version still very very much of that time. It is one of the few fragrances that I can't just wear the way you do with fragrances. It is a fragrance where I know exactly what happens every time I spray it on. A time travel, every single time. And so the last 60ml disappears like the last days of my childhood. Both I appreciate, but also both I have to leave behind me sometime. What remains at some point is the memory


Thanks. :-)

The only fragrance in the Les Elixirs Precieux range where I wouldn't recommend wearing it pure. Not because it doesn't keep what it pretends to be, no because it can do much more than you might originally think. Applied pure and rubbed into the skin (as one does with oils of this kind), the soapiest musk scent I have ever come across unfolds. Very clean and much more pleasing than I originally thought for practically pure musk. If you leave it at that, you will have an accompanying soft musk aura for 12 to 14 hours. Nice, but not worth the money. One day I had the idea to layer the fragrance with something from the Prive collection of Christian Dior, since most of them are based on white musk anyway. I spontaneously decided on Sakura. No sooner said than done, I layed two sprays of Sakura over a few rubbed in drops of Musc, this I did on three parts of my body.
What received me then was not the sakura I knew, but a tremendous symbiosis of the most beautiful things that unfolded a depth that I could not have imagined. It literally knocked me out. I couldn't stop sniffing my wrist. I was in a hurry at the time but I quickly noticed that body heat does not harm the musk, quite the opposite. Besides the fact that the scent develops and changes so beautifully, the sakura easily stayed on the skin for 2 to 3 hours longer than it usually does, thanks to the oil. Nice side effect.
The change that a fragrance goes through thanks to Musc is unimaginable. The same evening I met an acquaintance who owns Sakura herself and did not recognize the scent on me. She just wanted to know what I was wearing. I felt the same way.
I was curious to see how the other fragrances in the in-house collection would change once I layered them in the same way. And it was thanks to this thought process that I discovered the true strength of the Elixir that finally convinced me to buy it.
There was almost no fragrance in the range that did not have a distinctly more valuable smell and durability. A small 3ml large secret weapon, whose use of the smallest quantities is enough to achieve enormous effects.
Musc is extremely simple, but makes other things surprisingly complex.
Nice!

Three vintages and one question: Which one is it? Which one is the best?
2008, 2012 or 2017. For me, 2012 is a well-deserved second place. A bright dior typical citrus note greets you in the first minutes. Then follows this soft and pleasing iris paired with ginger and makes me smile every time. A fragrance that brings back many memories for me. It is one of those fragrances that I do not wear on the side in everyday life, no. It is a fragrance that always takes me back to the time 8 years ago. Demachy has created a fragrance that is sporty, yet elegant and never intrusive. In the base my favourite wood awaits me: cedar! What a crowning finish! Nobody knows why this formula was discontinued, well Dior's ways are unfathomable. This is known by now. At least this has the advantage that I appreciate it as a privilege to enjoy my remaining 60ml bit by bit and let the past slowly fade away.

Lucky, a fragrance that has the potential to literally make you 'happy'
Those who expect big changes in the scent will be disappointed here. The top note is practically the whole fragrance. Lily of the valley. After two, three minutes, a few white flowers appear behind the surface, that's it. Beauty can be that simple. The smell of lily of the valley is clearly noticeable, but every time after a few hours it always seems a little bit more synthetic than at the beginning, but doesn't bother me. Again and again I am impressed by the durability of this fresh scent, 6 - 7 hours including acceptable sillage are not unusual. This spring and summer, the scent has simply proved itself, in other seasons I don't see it that way.
Although the entire Prive collection is marketed by Christian Dior as a unisex, I would clearly classify Lucky as a women's fragrance. For a real unisex fragrance Lucky lacks the balance.
Nevertheless, I am also happy as a man that Lucky will accompany me again next spring.
It is definitely worth a test, but those who expect complex and groundbreaking things will probably be disappointed.