The dense phase of CO 2 -CS 2 mixtures has been analysed by Raman spectroscopy as a function of the CO 2 concentration (0.02-0.95 mole fractions) by varying the pressure (0.5 MPa up to 7.7 MPa) at constant temperature (313 K). The polarised and depolarised spectra of the induced (ν 2 , ν 3 ) modes of CS 2 and of the ν 1 -2ν 2 Fermi resonance dyad of both CO 2 and CS 2 have been measured. Upon dilution with CO 2 , the evolution of the spectroscopic observables of all these modes displays a "plateau-like" region in the CO 2 mole fraction 0.3-0.7 never previously observed in CO 2 -organic liquids mixtures. The bandshape and intensity of the induced modes of CS 2 are similar to those of pure CS 2 up to equimolar concentration, after which variations occur. The preservation of the local ordering from pure CS 2 to equimolar concentration together with the non-linear evolution of the spectroscopic observables allows inferring that two solvation regimes exist with a transition occurring in the plateau domain. In the first regime, corresponding to CS 2 concentrated mixtures, the liquid phase is segregated with dominant CS 2 clusters, whereas, in the second one, CO 2 monomers and dimers and CO 2 -CS 2 hetero-dimers coexist dynamically on a picosecond time-scale. It is demonstrated that the subtle interplay between attractive and repulsive interactions which provides a molecular interpretation of the non-ideality of the CO 2 -CS 2 mixture allows rationalizing the volume expansion and the existence of the plateau-like region observed in the pressure-composition diagram previously ascribed to the proximity of an upper critical solution temperature at lower temperatures.