The DxO style, while offering more options and settings compared to the DxO standard, features more vibrant colors and brighter brightness. However, it doesn’t look very natural, and some settings have the same values for all images. Can someone tell me in what situations this preset is used?
That’s because it’s not 
You need to find settings that work for you as a starting point, create a preset from those settings and then make that preset your default preset.
Me? My default is a tweaked version of DxO’s ‘neutral colours’ preset.
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The only preset that is applied automatically by PL is the one set as the default. To change the default, look in Edit | Preferences and on the ‘General’ tab look at the ‘Correction Settings’ section.
I also find the ‘DxO Style - Natural’ doesn’t look very natural, even though it’s the most common preset I use. I make one change that seems to make the image more natural looking: in the Color/B&W Rendering palette, I change the Rendering setting from ‘DxO Natural’ to ‘DxO camera profile…’. I definitely must create my own preset to incorporate some of what the ‘DxO Style - Natural’ does but also other corrections, like Denoising.
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When I started using DxO I thought there was something wrong with it till I realised that the Natural preset was being applied by default. For me, that looks very oversaturated, especially in reds.
Like an earlier responder, I now use a preset based on Neutral colours with some mods more commonly. But I have optical adjustments only as the default preset.
It also changes the rendering of reds to more of a pinkish red. At least that’s what I’ve observed.
I really like this preset, but yes, that oversaturation of some reds (if you just desaturate the reds and have people in the photo, they look… dead) is bugging me.
And I find the neutral preset… too neutral. Did someone figure out a way to just fix that red thing? As I said just desaturing the reds implies masking, plus it doesn’t look too natural neither once desaturated.
A colour rendering is down to personal taste. The guy who constructed the “Natural” rendering, colour and tone curve, made it to suit him.
One of the strengths of DXO is that they give you a huge range of options with regard to the default rendering that is applied when you first open a raw image.
I would explore the Camera Body Options and in particular ,the Leica SL2, Q and Q3 43 as they provide a nice range of contrast and obvious red saturation variation. The initial tone curve applied with any profile will have an impact on colour, where saturation increases as you increase contrast, unless you use the Luma curve.
Once you find a rendering that suits you then you can set it as your default for new raw images.
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Thanks, that seems to be a good lead, I’ll try that
I remember reading (somewhere?) that Kodak engineers came up with a film that perfectly matched the colors of items being shot. Test audiences really didn’t like it, so they changed representation to make caucasian skin look ‘better’ (to test audiences).
So it’s been ‘really not’ since the film days. We had to pick film stock based on a lot of things but this was one of them - and a major reason I used Velvia for landscapes, but preferred Kodachrome to Provia for shots with people. (I never was a ‘portrait’ shooter.)
Just my $0.02 of course…