Dior Sauvage Eau Forte

Mostly soft skin-like warmth, more the smell of clean skin than a scent of its own. Underneath that, cool and green, like herbs crushed between your fingers.

It opens on elemi resin and spices, moves through lavender, and settles on musk and woody notes.

• spices: a general spiciness rather than any one spice
• lavender: clean herbal flower, cooling and slightly soapy

Built from the note listing and the measured performance figures. We have not smelled this one.