Dior Homme (2020) (Eau de Toilette) by Dior

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Dior Homme Dior 2020 Eau de Toilette

Version from 2020

7.7 / 10 1518 Ratings

A popular perfume by Dior for men, released in 2020. The scent is woody-fresh. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Woody

Fresh

Spicy

Citrus

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Elemi resin

Pink pepper

Heart Notes

Atlas cedar

Patchouli

Base Notes

Haitian vetiver Musk

Musk

Perfumer

François Demachy

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Ratings

Scent

7.71518 Ratings

Longevity

7.21380 Ratings

Sillage

6.81384 Ratings

Bottle

8.21369 Ratings

Value for money

7.31081 Ratings

Submitted by Skylab, last update on 10/12/2025.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is British actor Robert Pattinson.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Dior Homme (2020) Lotion Après Rasage

Dior Homme Sport (2021)

Mon Vetiver

Hero Eau de Toilette

Bleu de Chanel Eau de Toilette

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Reviews

86 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/20/2020

10Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Michaltutaj
2 Reviews

Michaltutaj

Very helpful Review 11

So much criticism... who cares?

This scent is elegant, masculine and just magnificent. However the Dior Homme line (the original scents) for me is some kind of a joke. Dior Homme Original and Dior Homme Intense smell like a baby powder mixed with cocoa - not manly at all. Better name for the original scents would be "Dior Unisex".
I know that people are used to those original scents, but I do not understand what would they expect from the new 2020 version. The same scent or what? It would be extremely boring if you ask me. Anyway, the 2020 version is a fragrance on its own and it is a great scent.
Sorry fragheads...

06/21/2023

9Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Uncrated
16 Reviews

Uncrated

Helpful Review 12

Harmonious Balance

WHAT IT IS
This is the closest scent I've found to the PNW coast in summertime... dry cedar wood, wildflowers in a meadow, someone peeling a citrus fruit nearby, and a clean coastal musk (cashmeran???). After years of ever more powerful Sauvage flankers, Demachy hit the reset button on the Dior Homme line and gave us what might be the most perfectly balanced - and tastefully restrained - men's fragrance in a generation. There's a burst of citrus to open, then it's all luxurious cedar wood and musk with some floral accords drifting by during the dry down. Linear for 6+ hours (which is excellent for an EDT) and while I go noseblind quickly, others can still smell it.

WHO IT'S FOR
Men over ~30 seeking one bottle for all seasons, all occasions, and all moods. You likely believe versatility is more important than making a statement, but you also don't want a "dumb reach" when you can have something as sophisticated as this.

ALTERNATIVES
Let's start with what's NOT an alternative: Dior Homme 2005/2011/Original, Intense, and Parfum which are all (beautiful) iris & leather fragrances, but bear almost no resemblance to Dior Homme 2020. Want more citrus? Dior Homme Sport dials up the bergamot and has punchier projection based on the same DNA - it's excellent. Bleu de Chanel EDT, EDP, and Parfum have somewhat similar citrus + woodsy notes with the Parfum coming closest to replicating the musky dry down; all are more "blue shower gel" + powdery to my nose.

FINAL THOUGHTS
As a die-hard fan of Polge's groundbreaking original, my decant of Dior Homme 2020 went from "meh" to "that's not bad..." to "wow there's a lot of complexity" to purchasing a full bottle as my daily driver in the span of two weeks. Time will tell if it deserves a perfect 10 (I need to test it in winter), but this might be my favorite creation of Demachy's to date. Dior's only mistake was reusing the Homme nameplate which seemed to inflame a lot of negativity around what is otherwise an outstanding grown up fragrance. Very highly recommended.

06/10/2021

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

INDIGOSPHINX
53 Reviews

INDIGOSPHINX

Helpful Review 9

Why we need to support Dior Homme 2020

1st part" the scent itself

Loads of bergmot and a hint of pink pepper.
The Elimi Resin gives it a slight sweetness but it is far from a typical sweet scent.
The patchouli gives it a really expensive smell.
Some nuances from classics are here, it has a beautiful Hedione/Jasmine whaff like Eau Sauvage
Performance is VERY good, 2 sprays max otherwise you go olfactory fatigue within 30s
I've owned all 3 versions of Bleu de Chanel, to me, DH 2020 is just more bang for buck, unless you really dig the BDC DNA
Also, I would have given it a 10/10 scent score if it had a carnation note. To me, if a big dose of carnation is added this thing would be a perfect classy masculine (maybe not as modern in that case)

2nd part: why you need to stop trashing this

The main reason people are angry is that the iris is gone, so people think it's now a dumber-down version of the OG. No longer "unique" in the way that it makes us frag heads feel like high society people who have refined taste just because we are wearing something aesthetically feminine. (My guess is real high society men probably only wear Eau Sauvage/Pour Monsieur/or Whatever their wife buys them)

As a fraghead myself, I argue this: Most people who like the OG DH love the DHI as well. And since the 2020 version of DHI is freshened up. It's almost like somehow the OG DH and DHI are combined. Dior Homme Parfum is also in production, even though it's hard as heck to get here in the US. But DHI is still fairly accessible. To the folks who loved the OG DH, why don't you just go for DHI? Don't get me wrong I loved the OG DH as well but what is the reason to hate this new version?? It's not like Dior completely stopped the production of the OG DH. And you can still get your hands easily on DHI.

Also, here is my assumption. Chanel's big cash cows are BDC line, Allure Homme Sport line, and potentially Platinum Egoiste. Dior, however, has only one big cash cow=Sauvage line. They need something new and mass appealing to grow the business. Even though we fragheads adore other Dior masculines, I think most consumers can only stomach the Sauvage line. So I think it's a good move on Dior's part, they make more money, have more revenue to potentially pay Francois Demachy to invent more cool stuff. (I say this argument in assumption that both Dior and Chanel's primary cash source is NA and Asia market, and from my perspective, someone who lived in Asia before and now living in the USA, I know the general taste of people. NO way the OG DH can do well in Asia if it can't even thrive here)

Finally, I think it's too bad that Dior is owned by LVMH, I wish it has more independence. However, the fact that Dior still produces their artistic oldies like Fahrenheit and pumping out good privee offers give us a hope that Dior is still a fairly high-society fragrance brand.
Additionally, they supported Johnny in his time of distress, that's something I highly appreciate, so I don't mind buying myself a bottle of DH 2020 at all. It is pleasant and easy to wear, and a perfect replacement for BDC, which is just a bit too pricy at this point.

I enjoy and respect Dior as a fragrance house, and I support DH2020

Thank you for reading folks.

11/17/2021

9.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Zeka
10 Reviews

Zeka

Very helpful Review 7

Lovely masculine fragrance

I've never loved Dior Homme line simply because I've never been able to correlate that sweet, powdery scent with the name "Homme". These scents don't correlate with my point of view of what "masculine" in perfumery means. The first time I smelled DH 2020, I was so surprised and happy that Dior finally made really woody, fresh, masculine scent that is comparable to Terre or some Guerlain male fragrances. DH 2020 is to me waaay more masculine than the original one, and to my taste light years ahead of Sauvage. If Sauvage were 20 years old boy, DH 2020 would be 35 years old gentleman! I love the vetiver note especially when combined with the fresh citrus notes and other woods. It is understandable that many people are "offended" by this reformulation but I think the original Homme line shouldn't have been named "Homme" in the first place. Don't get me wrong, this line is/was unique and maybe one of the best releases in the designer world, but as I said I don't find them particularly masculine. I hope that Dior will keep the old fragrances available for many years to come, but in the same time I love this new direction that started with DH2020. I love the scent! The two recent releases Prada LR Ocean and Davidoff CW parfume have a quite a similar idea behind, but not so well executed. Anyway, if you look for something quite similar but cheaper I would go for these two alternatives.

08/22/2021

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

ScentGrail
106 Reviews

ScentGrail

Helpful Review 8

Creating a future classic

What defines a modern masculine scent? Is it the predominantly woody scent trail that is often stripped down to its base, a trend started by none other than Hermes Terre d’Hermes back in 2005 that is finally starting to catch up just now?

Or, does it lie somewhere between the fuzzy citruses that are enveloped in ambroxan found in fragrances such as Dior’s Sauvage, and Paco Rabanne’s Invictus sweetness? Well, maybe the truth is somewhere in between, and interchangeable trends always seem to shift their winds where the masses lie.

Take it as you will, but rest assured that the 2020s will be marked as the decade of the approachable, and safe woody scents, moving away from the “blue scent” trend in the 2010s.

Here are my 5 quick takes:

- Latest generation masculine trendsetter
- One of the best compliment getting all year round signature fragrance
- Created by Francois Demachy in 2020
- Great value for money
- Lacks true development

The bergamot here is in the vein of Sauvage, natural, but different than the one found let us say in Montblanc Explorer. Also, a natural note of bergamot there, and surprisingly, an identical molecule found also in Bohemian Lime from Goldfield & Banks fragrance.

The pepper accord cuts through the citruses, making it sharp, and interestingly, airy during the opening, and giving a scent a touch of coldness before the overdose of woodiness and ambery heart take the forefront.

Never overpowering, and always at the right amount of projection, the transition to heart notes is smooth and never feeling like you as the wearing is smelling anything but clean, and masculine.

What surprised me about the middle stage was that not until I tried Dior Homme 2020 on my skin, the scent which resembles that aroma of the warm skin you get while being on the beach was not present at all.

All I got on paper strips were woods, citruses, and spices, and it just proves that the best way to test a perfume is directly on the skin.

The middle stage is where I feel this perfume is at its best. By the time the dry down is reached, what we are left with are soft traces of cedar and white musk, similar to that one in Dior Homme Cologne.

I do feel the presence of everything that came before in the opening and in the heart notes, but in a more subtle way.

Give it a try, you might be surprised.

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