Dior Homme 2020
The 2020 reformulation opens with a bright flash of pink pepper and bergamot before quickly settling into something quieter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Musky70
- Woody65
- Patchouli55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Atlas Cedar
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe 2020 reformulation opens with a bright flash of pink pepper and bergamot before quickly settling into something quieter. Within minutes, it reveals its true character: a clean, almost weightless composition built around patchouli stripped of its earthy heft and cedar rendered translucent. This is deliberate minimalism, not dilution.
The base of white musk and Iso E Super creates an effect more atmospheric than substantial, hovering close to the skin with a soft, woody persistence. The patchouli here bears little resemblance to the dusty, chocolate-tinged note in earlier Dior Homme iterations—it's airier, almost abstract.
This is a pared-down reinterpretation for those who want the idea of a masculine classic without its weight or projection. It works for corporate settings, warm weather, or anyone seeking something restrained and inoffensive. Those attached to the lipstick-iris density of the original line will find this a different fragrance entirely, sharing little beyond the name.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
