Sauvage Extrait sample: a 3ml test against 4 other Sauvages

What Sauvage Extrait smells like

Sauvage Extrait is a men's Extrait de Parfum launched in 2026 and credited to Francis Kurkdjian. Its top notes are bergamot and lavender, so it begins in the same citrus and aromatic territory as the rest of the line. The heart is a single note, oud, which is the first sign that this is a different composition rather than a stronger version of an older one.

The base is vetiver, cedarwood and patchouli. In plain words, the perfume moves from a bright, herbal start to a dark wood centre, then settles into a dry, earthy finish. The listed accords agree: woody, aromatic, lavender, amber, patchouli, earthy, musky, fresh spicy, citrus and warm spicy. Vetiver gives the base its dry, grassy-woody backbone.

Follow it in three stages when you wear it. In the first minutes, notice the bergamot and lavender. After an hour, check whether the oud has become the main impression. In the evening, look for the vetiver, cedarwood and patchouli that remain. An Extrait de Parfum is the most concentrated strength, and our guide to what extrait de parfum means explains what that changes and what it does not.

What the community votes say

On longevity, community votes lean long lasting, then eternal. On sillage, most community voters rate it strong. These are reports from voters, not a promise of how it will perform on your skin.

Community voters most often pick winter and autumn, with evening and night as the hours. That is a cooler-weather, after-dark profile, so test it in the conditions the votes point to as well as on an ordinary day. A warm room and a cold street can make the same perfume read very differently.

How Sauvage Extrait differs from four other Sauvages

Dior's line is not a ladder of one scent at different strengths. Each version has its own notes and its own launch year, and the Extrait is credited to Francis Kurkdjian where the four below credit François Demachy, so a sibling's name tells you little about what the Extrait smells like. The table sets five of the Sauvage versions 10ML stocks next to each other, from their published note lists.

Sauvage Extrait by Dior against Sauvage Elixir by Dior

The Elixir is the nearest on the community votes, as the next paragraph shows, and on paper it shares lavender, vetiver and patchouli with the Extrait. The difference is in the opening and the middle. The Elixir lists cardamom, cinnamon, grapefruit and nutmeg on top, and its base adds amber, licorice and sandalwood, so its accords read warm spicy and fresh spicy with a powdery, balsamic side. The Extrait lists no spice notes: its middle is oud, and woody, aromatic and lavender come first among its accords. If you know the Elixir, the Extrait trades the spice notes for wood on paper.

Most community voters rate the Elixir's longevity long lasting. Most community voters rate its sillage strong. The Extrait's votes lean the same way on both. Voters also pick both most often for autumn and winter, with evening as the top hour, so the two sit close on the votes even though they differ on paper. Our comparison of the Elixir and its siblings goes through the wider line in more detail.

Sauvage Extrait against Sauvage Parfum

The Parfum takes a different road. Its top is bergamot, mandarin orange and elemi, its heart is sandalwood, and its base is olibanum, tonka bean and vanilla. Its accords lean citrus, woody, amber and vanilla, with a sweet, powdery and balsamic side. The Extrait shares the bergamot, but it replaces the vanilla and tonka sweetness with oud, vetiver and cedarwood. These two share a name and a house, and little else on the note list.

Sauvage Extrait against Sauvage Eau de Parfum and Sauvage

The Eau de Parfum and the 2015 original are the fresher pair. Both use Sichuan pepper and lavender in the heart over an ambroxan base, which is why their accords read fresh spicy, citrus and musky. On paper the original shares more of the Extrait's notes than any other version here, bergamot, lavender, vetiver, patchouli and cedar, but sets them around pepper and ambroxan rather than oud. The Extrait leaves out the pepper and the ambroxan and moves toward a deeper, earthier centre. For seasons, community voters most often pick the Eau de Parfum for autumn, spring, winter and summer, and the original for spring and summer, against winter and autumn for the Extrait. If your usual one is a warm-weather daytime scent, the Extrait is the cooler, later option within the same line.

A three-day wear test: Extrait on one wrist, Elixir on the other

A 3ml decant holds around 60 sprays, ample for three careful days. The plan compares the Extrait with the Elixir because their community votes are the nearest match, but you can swap in any of the other three. Use one spray per wrist and check at three set times each day: straight away, an hour in, and in the evening.

1. Day one: Extrait on the left wrist, Elixir on the right. Spray once on each, on bare skin, and leave them to develop. Jot down a line at the opening, another after an hour, a third in the evening. Note which one you keep returning to smell.
2. Day two: swap the wrists. Put the Extrait on the right and the Elixir on the left. This removes the chance that one wrist, rather than one perfume, is shaping your notes. Keep the same three check-ins.
3. Day three: wear the Extrait alone. Choose a setting that matches how you would really wear it, such as an evening out in cooler weather. Read your notes from the first two days and decide whether you want its oud and wood in your rotation.

Two things to watch for. First, judge the Extrait after an hour, not on the first spray, because the opening says little about the oud heart and the wood base. Second, write your notes down on the day, since a dry-down is easy to misremember by the end of the week.

What a 3ml and a 10ml decant each give you

Three millilitres is the trial size, about 60 sprays, so the plan above leaves spare for a repeat. At €4.26/ml, it answers two questions: does the Extrait suit you, and does it differ enough from the one you already know?

Ten millilitres gives about 200 sprays, which suits weeks of regular wear. At €3.87/ml, it is the step to take once the wear test has settled the matter. Sizes are laid out on the perfume samples page, and the decant explainer shows how the format works.

Which one should you sample first?

Begin with the Extrait if oud, vetiver and cedarwood are what you came for, and pair it with the Elixir if you want to hear the difference between a spiced and a woody Sauvage. Choose the Parfum if you prefer vanilla and tonka warmth, and the Eau de Parfum or the original Sauvage for a fresher, peppery daytime scent. For the wider Dior range, see the best Dior perfumes and the Dior brand page.

If you want to try originals from other houses in a similar style, see similar originals to Sauvage Extrait; here the focus stays on the Dior originals you can wear first in 3ml or 10ml. 10ML is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Dior.

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