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It has become almost impossible to keep track of all the changes. For the last few years, Dior have given us so many different versions and flankers of Dior Homme, Dior Homme Sport, Miss Dior, J’Adore, Poison, Addict and others that it would require someone with near-Wikipedia level information-storage capabilities to maintain a reliable database of what came out when. Conversely, it is extremely easy to remember the best incarnations of many of these compositions, and I brought one of them back into the limelight on YouTube the other day when I reviewed the original, 2008 release of Dior Homme Sport. Here’s a link to the video: original Dior Homme Sport 2008 review.

Perhaps we didn’t realise it at the time, but the first decade of this century saw the mainstream exploring some genuinely interesting ideas with their releases. One of the finest examples of this bravery was, of course, Olivier Polge’s original Dior Homme. But this Sport flanker (composed by Francois Demachy) was noteworthy too, and I shall forever remain mystified as to why it wasn’t a runaway success. It is a true flanker, in the sense that it nods to its pillar scent. It’s technically superb, maintaining an insouciant lightness during its entire development. And it ticks all the fresh/sporty boxes without reaching for any cliches: the characterful grapefruit-ginger-lavender interplay over the powdery base feels like something from a so-called evening scent, projected through the lens of daywear. In short, it is a joy. And it certainly shows up the shortcomings of the current iteration.

Persolaise

[Dior Homme Sport (2008) review based on a sample obtained by me in 2022.]


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Dior Homme Sport 2008 original review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise, 2022

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4 thought on “Christian Dior Homme Sport Review – Francois Demachy; 2008”
  1. I was wearing Dior’s Aqua Fahrenheit yestrday. I enjoy it. I have the big lunker of a bottle of it from 2011, and a decant of it from 2015. I’ve never had the chance to smell the original Sport, but I do hope to, and will.

  2. Great review, summed up my thoughts on this. The only real cliché about this was perhaps the red stripe on the packaging, but this was an exceptional fresh masculine, too bad Dior did not stick it out with this one (or the parent Dior Homme).

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