correspond plutôt à une femme d'âge mûre (environ 60ans); sentir avant d'acheter, cependant travail du nez intéressant car arriver à marier toutes ces senteurs est un vrai challenge. Even though I had tested the current reformulation, I could see the appeal of this beautifully blended, nuanced yet powerful earthy scent back in the minimalist 90s–and it works today. It doesn't smell like smoke or like an ashtray, but more like unsmoked cigarettes, which, as an ex-smoker, is a smell I actually love. Under no circumstances should the products of Perfume Parlour be mistaken for any other brand's products. Dune, a mass-market designer scent from the 1990s, exceeds many of today's niche/private line collections.

Dune notes consist of bergamot and mandarin with palisander and aldehyde followed by peony and broom with jasmine and rose.

It's such a familiar scent but I can't think of anyone close to me who uses or has used Dune at any point in their life. A fragrance belonging to the oriental woody olfactory family unique in the world of perfumery for its surprisingly unusual sandy aroma in perfumes. I don't understand why they are discontinuing this masterpiece whilst continuing to pump out endless variations of Miss Dior and J'Adore (the most insipid perfume ever created in my opinion). It's a dry, warm scent that I enjoy in all kinds of weather– heat amplifies the hazy desert warmth, whereas on cold days it feels cozy and soft. Granted, I had just quit smoking when I tested this, but when I tell you it actually smells like cigarettes.

When I really love a perfume, I don’t ask anyone’s opinion on it, because they will probably react either lukewarmly and blunt my enjoyment of the scent, or they will demand to know what it is, and potentially get a bottle themselves! It is still difficult for me to describe this scent - orange woody opening, luminous aldehydic touch, smidgen of abstract floral added, oakmoss, woody-amber finish. Another excellent alternative is the YSL Libre Eau de Parfum is also a floral fragrance with top notes: lavender, mandarin orange, black currant and petitgrain Emporio Armani lei/elle/she/ella also features a cedar and vanilla base, but the top notes are luscious citrus with white floral notes of lily of the valley and jasmine making up the heart. Roma has the citrus and amber accords more forward, but the combination of myrrh-rose-sandalwood in the drydown Roma has some parallels to the Brazilian Rosewood in Dune Both have above average performance that becomes excellent with dark storage after first sprays.

I remember a bunch of my friends wearing this all the time, brings back some great memories (lived in LA during the 90’s). The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Dune from Christian Dior is a misty, windswept shore of lonely paths lined with bracken, gorse, and heather leading to treacherous cliffs, where there lurches a corrupt and crumbling old inn. She wore Dune, Pleasures, Opium, Eau de Givenchy, Chanel No 5… All of those smelled incredible on her, but Dune was somehow special to me. Dune is that quiet corner of the room where there’s an open window welcoming a warm breeze; where you can collect your thoughts and feel present in the moment.

Perhaps these notes, being the most delicate, were not preserved in my vintage bottle due to the effects of time. peut être l'ai rattaché à un évènement négatif de ma vie mais je l'ai en horreur, tenue et sillage très forts, parfum lourd, peut incommoder(j'avais la version des années 2000).This is an afternoon at the beach, at the end of Summer, when the sun has started setting and you feel the pressure lowering and you get that smell of approaching rain. I was also surprised to see there were aldehydes in the fragrance as I hated the aldehydes in Chanel No 5, which smells awful on me.

This may just be the influence of the name and the color of the bottle, but this really does make me imagine hazy golden-red sand dunes.In fact, for love, for what you love the most, the least words are needed, it is a state of mind and spirit, in the air, in a million little things, movements and eyes, always in the eyes. Although a mildly soapy suntan lotion vibe is present at first, the scent warms and settles in quickly.