Dior Homme Sport (2008)
by Christian Dior

This is certainly preferable to Homme and Homme Intense, but I still see no reason to justify a full bottle purchase in this range of products. Its single note is fresh and pleasing, but after a few hours this becomes a tedious bore. No doubt including the "Sport" in the title will ensure a rich seam of sales in the under 30s demographic, but in terms of creativity, this is instantly forgettable.

Dior Homme Sport beats all the run-of-the-mill (fresh, citrus) sports fragrances hands down. How many spicy sports scents are there out there? Not many and this one's great. This is certainly a refreshing change and my wife likes it too, which is a rarity.

The core of Dior Homme Sport is the citrus-ginger combo. On my skin the ginger is more prominent than the citrus. Basically that's all there is to DHS: a refreshing ginger scent. It's great for casual summer wear, not complex but very enjoyable.

A synthetic and generic citrus fragrance with a faint woody base. I also found the elemi note (mainly responsible for the spicy-peppery accord) too overwhelming for the majority of its duration.

Pass.

[Original submission date: 28 September 2008]

I am disappointed. I really liked Dior Homme and perhaps that is why I expected a lot from this fragrance. Dior Homme Sport, however, is a very different beast. Ginger is not bad, but this fragrance has a whole lot of it, and not much besides that, it seems.

Applied in moderation it is perfect for the office, so that is why I give it a Neutral rating. Also, if you like ginger scents this is a good alternative to the much pricier Creed Tabarome Millesime.

The first five minutes of DHS are effervescent, spritely, joie de vivre. After that five minute prelude, however, I find myself asking why I thought buying this cologne was a good idea. (Of course it was based on positive reviews somewhere, probably here...).

That titillating little entry rapidly morphs over into an annoying, clinging, pungent...smell. I'm being polite - "aroma" is not deserved, "stench" is too strong, though that's the first word that came to mind. You can't get away from it, no matter how much you wish it would slink off and go infest someone else.

Once it's dried down (see above, 5 minutes), you get this residual...smell...that is evocative of home products - something like mosquito coils, or laundry detergent, or the dreaded blue disks that live in the toilet reservoir.

If those are the smells that you'd like to convey to the world, this is the stuff that will take you there.

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