I recently bough a POC Cytal Lite. Now a few weeks old, it starts to look worse than my old Giro that is more than 10 years old, with dents in the EPS as well as the shell. I cannot recall ever dropping it or hitting something with it, so I am wondering whether they achieved the light weight by a very low densitiy EPS that dents very easily. Has someone made similar experiences?
I hope not as I have just done a similar thing to you, going from Giro to POC Cytal Carbon. 
I have a POC helmet for winter because my Giro is a little tight fitting with a winter cap and it looks ok with no sign of a hard life.
One thing I did notice when perusing the POC website, the Cytal Lite seemed to have slightly less hard shell7cover at the rear than other helmets which did put me off it and towards the Cytal Carbon.
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I have a Ventral Air and it’s holding up really well. My old Ventral was good too, no unusual dents or wear. So maybe this concrete model has an issue.
I would not doubt that the POC Cytal Lite is prone to denting. They had to do SOMETHING to make it lighter than their other helmets. Isn’t the entire back half exposed foam that most of their helmets use a plastic type cover for? Have had not problem with multiple regular weight POC helmets.
Yes, the rear is exposed, but funny enough all the dents happened in places that would be exposed on the regular one as well, or through the shell (which seems very thin as well). So next time maybe not the Lite version.