Sauvage Eau Forte

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60 ml	$168

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Cool spices and peppery elemi resin over a softened, clean lavender, settling into musky woods.

Dior says

You’ll smell notes of cool spices, notes of lavender and woody and musky notes.

What’s inside it

What Dior names

Notes of lavender

Woody and musky notes

Elemi resin

What the label names

7 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 florals1 sweet1 powder

Citrus2

Limonene Citral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals2

Hydroxycitronellal Geraniol

Sweet1

Coumarin (tonka)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

13 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell13

WaterButylene glycol, not in Ingredients yetGlycerin, not in Ingredients yetPentylene glycol, not in Ingredients yetCaprylic/capric/succinic triglyceride, not in Ingredients yetHydrogenated lecithin, not in Ingredients yetPoloxamer 407, not in Ingredients yetHydroxyacetophenone, not in Ingredients yetChlorphenesin, not in Ingredients yetSodium citrate, not in Ingredients yetPhytosterols, not in Ingredients yetCitric acid, not in Ingredients yetPentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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