My FINAL Thoughts On The New Dior Homme Parfum 2025
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Do you think 2 weeks of regular wearing is enough time to warrant a full review?
I dive headfirst into the good, bad & fugly of this new Dior Homme Parfum.
I break down the merits of the parfum on its own, then in comparison to the original Dior Homme Parfum from 2014.
I also took some thoughts to addressing the new perfumer Francis Kurkdjian and the outgoing perfumer Francois Demachy.
I touch on the issues of pricing this so wildly differently in different markets.
And finally, I addess the outrage directed towards this fragrance release by going on a non-sequential philosophical rambling on religion & deriving meaning from life.
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New subscriber gained, but that was longer than 2 mins. 😉
I do not care about Dior Homme one bit, but this was an extraordinary video. I feel like you should consider changing the title because this is about so much more than a singular perfume. Frankly, it is something a lot of the fragcomm needs to see.
I love the way you turned a review into a deep philosophical discussion on community and finding meaning in something greater than yourself. This is exactly what I subscribed for!
Mate, I really needed to watch this today. I used to wear fragrances as an accessory to enhance my experiences, almost as a ritual before heading out the door, but I’ve lost sight of that along the way. Keep doing what you’re doing, I’m really enjoying these videos and I find them very helpful.
Another substantial video, it’s bigger than any fragrance, the misgivings are a lens into us as a people. Great message brother 💯
Brilliant! You are indeed a fragrant filosopher!
Best.TH-cam.Fragrance.Video.Ever!! 👍
You're bloody awesome, mate!! Keep up the outstanding job you're doing on here!! Cheers! 👍 🇦🇺
The back half of this video is incredible. Well done.
Well said my friend 👍 was a pleasure watching 👍
You're a great storyteller! This is so much more than a perfume video about Dior home parfum
Great, great video and thank goodness for backup bottles 😉
I myself had the shocked, religious reaction to the reformulation of Homme in the 2020 release, only to almost immediately come around to appreciating what the new scent had to offer. I still wish it had come out under a new line though, even though I have no doubt that my cherished DH is not terribly popular in today's 20-somethings, and those are absolutely the customers that they have to pursue as they did when they pitched me on that pre-2020 DH 😆
So then… are we wrong? Or were we ever right? Or has your opinion changed?…. In any case, it’s refreshing to see this change of heart. At least I feel seen and understood. ❤
Nietzsche warned us 😆
Another awesome video 🍻 Your channel Is extremely underrated.
great video and thought analysis here
Okay, I have plenty of things to disagree about here. All of course respectfully and without any “outrage”. People may or may not mistakenly credit Demachy for the Dior Homme dna but it doesn’t matter - in the eyes of many he did a great job and great job is always worthy of the praise and respect (as you mentioned in the video). Polarising Dior Sauvage doesn’t affect his image because it didn’t replace anything - it simply was something to like or to skip, unlike the new Dior Homme Parfum which instead of adding something that could be simply liked or skipped it takes away something and robs people from the opportunity to buy it. There is no double standard here - it’s two different standards. Similar thing happened with Dior Homme 2020 - instead of giving people two different products to choose from Dior removed the old one and replacing one liked product with a different liked product was the thing that angered people (the reaction to the 2020 would be much better if it was a separate product). And the customer is always right in the matter of taste. I'd like to point out that you point of view is certainly influenced by the comfort of owning a bottle of the original Dior Homme Parfum or even backup bottles and by the comfort of being able to afford another one if those somehow perished (as do many people who are chill about the whole thing; there’s also another place of comfort from which people are coming from and it’s the sheer lack of interest - if someone's favourite restaurant was closed down I wouldn’t care less but I would respect their feeling of losing something they once enjoyed). And the negative emotions come from the place of discomfort - from the people who didn’t manage to resupply themselves in time, from people who sampled and liked the fragrance but had to postpone the purchase because it was financially irresponsible at the time and from people who are new to the fragrances, want to explore the olfactory creations but now can’t even buy a sample. And I'm completely sure that those people in their hierarchy of problems do not place that issue nowhere near the top. There’s still nothing wrong with them being angry about it or about any other issue in their lives (as long as it doesn’t lead to insults, threats or causing harm to others). Proposed root cause is just blown out of proportion. The lack of meaning and belief in something greater than ourselves is a cause for much more serious issues and human-caused catastrophes. People were always angered by changes in the fate of the material goods: discontinuation of a beloved fragrance, rises in price of classic cars, loss of favourite tools, death of a favourite fruit bearing tree or being sold bad quality copper. No matter the times, people's personalities or beliefs. And it’s something so common, so important from the personal perspective yet so insignificant in the grand scheme of things that analysis and critique of it doesn’t add any value to this world. And speaking of world. The world is a way too complex concept to be simplified like you simplified it. It doesn’t make sense to anyone - and inherently human need to make sense of things has created science and philosophy tasked with the search for the understanding of all things. The world is everything - you can’t trust everything thus you can’t trust the world. You can trust things that exist in the world and you can trust them to be both good and bad (which doesn’t really invoke a profound sense of peace). The world presents itself to people with both beauty, depth and ugliness, shallowness in different proportions. Seeing glass full when it’s half full is not a sign of a good life but a sign of ignorance. We also tend to see the glass half empty because we are evolutionarily designed to constantly seek for improvement. I would also state that the lack of trust in the world presents us with a grim reality but often saves us from misfortune. It can also motivate us to do things that make the world a better place and make this mission our live's meaning, valuing the moral standards in which we believe in above ourselves. “Loneliness and despair and depression are at all time highs” - the detection of them is at all time highs. Because nowadays people are more open about their problems and have the ability to share them through the Internet. The social attitudes towards them also change, no longer forcing people to stay quiet or gaslighting them to “man up”. These problems have accompanied humanity throughout millennia and the cries of their victims are now impossible for us to hear. This creates an illusion of the “old times” being better and it’s simply unwise to repeat that mantra (which is also as old as the humanity). Being passionate and emotional about things is completely natural for human beings - it’s part of what makes us humans after all. The idea that personal passions are somehow shallow and are caused by the deviation from religion and philosophy, being an attempt to fill the void in our lives is simply nonsense to me. It reminds me of the sigma male image where he “only engages in truly meaningful and useful activities”, wondering why nobody wants to talk him. Bring back Socrates to life and I'd rather talk to a bug collector. And religion? Coming from a very Christian country I can say that the majority of devout believers doesn’t live in accordance with the wisdom of Bible. I can even say that the majority behaves in a more pagan way - worshipping the institution of Church, the rituals and the local traditions rather than God and the teachings of Christ. Why do people rage about the new Dior Homme Parfum? Because they can and questioning it doesn’t make us morally superior. And the egocentrism? Our every action can be labelled as egocentric - making a video where you critique people critiquing a fragrance so that your voice can be heard, typing a comment where you disagree with the video or engaging in charity so that you can let your moral values affect the world around you. And treating self centred comments about a disappearance of a product affecting their authors is your self centred comment about how you feel morally superior to them.
In my neck of the woods we call it a “butt ache”. So with all due respect I must say that you have a butt ache about other people’s butt ache. And that technically it means that I have a butt ache about you having butt ache about other people’s butt ache :) Now I want to address the last part of your video. The truth is that we never lost anything, and humanity wasn’t better than now at any point in history. Religion wasn’t making people holier and families were not less often dysfunctional than they are today. We are all prisoners in the cave, who turned their back to the entrance, seeking wisdom in poking fire and watching shadows, mistaking wisdom for the desire to be wise. To anyone who was brave enough to read the whole thing, thank you sincerely and egotistically. I wish you a great and peaceful day (but not to Dior - evil laughter). It’s always nice to engage in such a thought exchange from time to time :)
Bravo
Nicely put .
I clicked to have somebody s opinion on DHP 2025 .
And felt like I was listening to a cult leader.
Some scary stuff out here on TH-cam.
That was deep. I didnt expect having a existential thoughts after waching a fragrance video 😅😂
Excellent reflection to look inside ourselves and evaluate our own mental health and wellbeing specifically when reacting to something so superficial as a fragrance formulation 😐
Excellent video as always; such great points. I’m your fan.
Great job!
In Canada, HBC and shoppers' drug mart sell the 75ml for $185cad.
Brilliant video, 💯
I was just here for a review. Now that being said I cancelled my next therapy session and for that I'm grateful.
I picked up a 75ml bottle in Japan for $119. There were four bottles left when I went to the airport lounge. When I returned to grab a second bottle, there were none left. As I’m not a huge fan of the DHP 2014, 2020 iris-powder bomb, I like the 2024 as much as I like the DHI.
Deep 👌🏻
Demachy created great stuff in the exclusif line .
Just because you hate Dior homme sauvage doesn’t mean everybody else does .
BTW Olivier Polge is Jacques Polge’s son .
Do you think that he succeeded his dad at Chanel only because of his talent ?
And never had access/help from his dad’s experience to create anything ?
Did you watch the video?
I can not praise you enough for this. Thank you for the wonderful surprise good sir. Ballsy move.
🙌🏻 Amen!
Wow I couldn’t agree more on the fragrance. I do enjoy the 2025 release, but I feel it was totally made for a juvenile demographic. I will say it is a mass appealing frag now but the price is brutal.
Very inspiring 🤔
Loved the video and i own the new dior Homme Parfum 2025 and rather enjoy it
Great thought-provoking vid. Well yes, it seems silly and very conceited to be outraged by a fragrance reformulation. People are passionate about their hobbies though, (not just about fragrances, you can apply this to outraged Watch collectors who might hate the latest Rolex) so you can excuse the outrage a little for passion. I didn't understand your final point, unless you were simply stating how more egocentric we've become, losing perspective and leading to more outrage of trivial things.
Goddamn this was 🔥 🔥🔥🔥
Brilliant
Vigorous for this
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....you DELETE comments because?
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
It's really nothing new- every community, online or not, has a degree of groupthink. Immature, world loving people feel compelled to be emotionally involved or externally project their emtional ups and downs. Many of them feel good about taking part in a group sentiment or identity. Even though I don't care for either the old or new version of dior homme parfum, I understand the dissapointment. However, that is where I think sensible, mature people should be able to draw the line. At the end of the day, it is a perfume made by a corporation. "Oh it's great!" "Oh, it's dissapointing to my nose." Both valid, but I hope people see not only the degree of criticism but also the extreme love some people have for certain fragrances and realize extreme ups as well as downs are no good to our soul. I get how they feel and where they are coming from as when I was not religious, I would often find myself feeling emotionally involved in hobbies and things happening in the world. As an orthodox christian, I can only pray for everyone to open their eyes sooner than later.
you’ve been reading some nietzsche lately huh?
The loss of God, community, and purpose relating to reactions of Dior Homme parfum 2025. Good work my friend. You have my axe.