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Dior Sauvage 10 Years Johnny Depp

<p>Ten years since its debut, <strong>Dior Sauvage</strong> remains one of the most influential men’s fragrances of its time. Conceived in 2015, the scent broke convention, balancing the rawness of Calabrian bergamot with the strength of amber woods.  At the heart of this story is <strong>Johnny Depp</strong>, who became the face of Sauvage from the very beginning.</p><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17609450406703.png" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner">Johnny Depp embodies the spirit of Dior Sauvage</span></span></span> </div><p>His collaboration with Dior evolved beyond a campaign to a dialogue of the senses. Alongside director <strong>Jean-Baptiste Mondino</strong>, Depp helped define a visual language for the scent that’s cinematic, elemental, and deeply human.</p><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17609452921015.png" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner">Johny Depp and Dior Sauvage celebrates a decade-long partnership this year</span></span></span>Now, for the fragrance’s tenth anniversary, Dior releases a new short film that reflects on this decade-long partnership. Shot once again by Mondino, the film captures a stripped-down kind of strength: the silence of the desert, the patience of the wild, and the enduring spirit of freedom that has defined Sauvage since the beginning.</div><p>Below, <strong><em>Metro.Style </em></strong>shares an exclusive look into Johnny Depp’s reflections on the making of the film, his collaboration with Mondino, and what the desert means to him after all these years.</p><div><iframe width="925" height="525" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mC-NysO3aHM?si=jVtR2OVhdcGchvv7" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><strong>On working with Jean-Baptiste Mondino...</strong></div><p>Johnny Depp: “Jean-Baptiste is a very renowned photographer of course, but he is also a great renegade filmmaker. I could do 25 films with him or read the telephone book for him if he wanted me to. When we worked together the first time, for the first Sauvage film, it felt to me like I met this wonderful kindred spirit who was as interested as I was in letting moments create themselves. He allowed an infinite amount of freedom than you would normally have on a film shoot. He wants imagery, he wants to create poetry and he has the best eye and the best sense of humor. He has no fear, and is the sweetest man in the world, but also absolutely stuck to his vision.”</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>On playing himself in the Sauvage films...</strong></div><p>JD: “It’s the strangest thing because the last thing in the world that I ever wanted to do as an actor was to play myself. It’s such a frightening idea. Characters can get away with a lot more than I can, and under their guise, even though every character is part of me of course, I can escape myself. With Dior and these films, it’s pretty much me. But with Jean-Baptiste, I felt very comfortable and free because you never know exactly what is going to happen.”</p><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/176094533508210.jpg" style="width:1000px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>On the desert as a place of reflection...</strong></div><p> “Many years ago, when I finished a film, I would either get on an Amtrak train and go North, or split in my old pickup truck, drive out to the desert and stay at some motel. I also shot in the wild deserts of Nevada and Arizona, and got to see these beautiful spiritual monuments… The desert is a very powerful place.”</p><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17609453788027.png" style="width:1000px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>On the puma and the wild...</strong></div><p> “I’m not sure that any would accept me! But my late friend, the writer Hunter S. Thompson, always said something that I still, to this day, find very intriguing about snow leopards: ‘At the top of the mountain, we’re all snow leopards.’ It’s very poetic… But me I’m probably more of a raven, like in the Edgar Allan Poe poem. Or an owl.”</p><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17609453565443.jpg" style="width:1000px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><br/></div><div><strong>On the line, ‘In the wild, everything is always in front of you’...</strong></div><p>“We had a line and we knew that there was something there but Jean-Baptiste kept looking for a better way to phrase it. And then I just said those words in a conversation and he said ‘Yes, that’s it!’”</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>On being chosen by Dior...</strong></div><p> “At first, I was kind of shocked. Dior has been maintaining an elegance and a sense of legacy for almost a century. The fact that they saw something in me that they felt could express what they were looking for for Sauvage meant a lot.”</p><div><br/></div><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/176094541588219.jpg" style="width:1000px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>The Enduring Spirit of Sauvage</strong></div><p>From the first bottle’s deep blue gradient to the creation of the Elixir and Eau Forte, Sauvage has always carried the same DNA of being deliberately untamed while still being grounded in simplicity and strength.</p><p>For Depp, that message endures: “In the wild, everything is always in front of you.” It’s a line that closes the film — and a fitting reflection on ten years of a fragrance, and a man, that have both stood their ground.</p><div><br/></div><div><em>Photos courtesy of<strong> Dior Beauty</strong></em></div>

<p>A decade after the fragrance first redefined modern masculinity, Dior reunites with Johnny Depp and in this Metro exclusive, we talk about this partnership</p>

A decade after the fragrance first redefined modern masculinity, Dior reunites with Johnny Depp and in this Metro exclusive, we talk about this partnership

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Metro Exclusive: Johnny Depp On What Freedom Smells Like And 10 Years Of Dior Sauvage

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