10 years ago
Ohhh....the penny is dropping (slowly).
You'll think I'm making this up to justify my ignorance, but truly, I half remember reading this story about Eau Sauvage but I couldn't remember the details - possibly it was on Malle's website or in an interview - and so I looked up Christian Dior's early life and, not surprisingly, couldn't make the connection. Then I started thinking it must have been a Parfumo member's story that I'd read.
To add to my ignorance, I was erroneously thinking of Eau Sauvage as a fougere, not a chypre, and also didn't bother to translate the name, which might have helped (in my mind I think of it as 'Oh, Savage!' instead of 'wild water'). Derrr....
Well, I'm glad that's done. Here is my offering in return (which you will no doubt guess in 5 minutes)
Another place name fragrance,
A place of dust and heat,
Unlikely you'd smell perfume
On the locals that you meet;
If perfume could be golden,
Combined with sweat and grit,
Unquestionably earthy,
Then this one would be it;
The place you'll find this perfume
Is the country of the brand,
Their inspiration could be
That they share a wide, brown land.