Dior · 2025

Homme Intense

VersionEau de Parfum

Dior says

You’ll smell POWDERY IRIS, SENSUAL AMBRETTE and WARM CEDAR.

More from Dior’s description

It also mentions sensual ambery facet, precious warm cedarwood base, Woody, vanilla, elegant iris, sensual amber facet, precious wood base, Iris, sensual Ambery facet and precious Wood base.

The house’s page

The drawn Homme Intense bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Homme Intense’s scent picture, a draft: orris, ambrette, cedar, vanilla, bergamot, virginia-cedar drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Homme Intense, top notes: Bergamot, Sweet orange, Lavender

Heartthe first hours

Homme Intense, heart: cinnamon

Dry-downhours later

Homme Intense, dry-down: Orris, ambrette, Cedar, Vanilla, virginia-cedar, Patchouli, peru-balsam, Iso E Super, Coumarin

On the label

What’s inside it

23 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

4 citrus5 herbs & lavender4 florals3 woods2 sweet2 amber & resins2 spices1 powder

Citrus4

Bergamot oilLimoneneBitter orange oilCitral

Herbs & lavender5

Lavender oilCamphorLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals4

Geranyl acetateGeraniolFarnesolRose ketones

Woods3

Cedarwood oilPatchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)

Amber & resins2

Peru balsam oilBenzyl cinnamate

Spices2

Cinnamon bark oilCinnamal

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Not in Ingredients yet4

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha-terpinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterAvobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoateYellow 5Red 4Violet 2

Named by Dior, never on a label

POWDERY IRISSENSUAL AMBRETTEVanilla

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 23 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.