What do you think of Dune Pour Homme?

[Opiate]

Dune PH & Jules are the only 2 Diors I’ve yet to smell. I’ve come close to blind buying Dune PH a number of times, but man… the reviews and the descriptions are all over the place!

One person will praise it for smelling natural, another will bash it for being too harsh & synthetic.
One calls it unique, the next calls it generic smelling.
One will describe it as a green floral fig fragrance, while the next will call it an ozonic and Calone aquatic, and the next will start talking about it’s gourmand facets

To further demonstrate the source of my confusion- Here‘s a few things Basenotes reviewers say it smells like:

-Cool water
-florals
-A brand new rubber toy
-shoe polish
-an old lady's wooden powder box
- fresh figs surrounded by violet leaf
-dial soap
-oceanic
-vegetables
Every time I think I have a handle on what this fragrance is about, the next opinion completely throws me for a loop.

Help me out with this one guys, what’s really going on with this fragrance?

 

[Monsieur Montana]

Dune pour Homme is a very nice, gentle take on Fig. I personally like it a lot.
There is nothing oceanic in it and the similaritiy to Cool Water is 0%.
As for the smelling impressions like shoe polish, vegetalbes and so on (especially the old lady's wooden powder box ) i wonder where all this is coming from. I' d say try it and let us know what you think. Hopefully you wont't come here stating that it smells like KOUROS

 

[Sloth]

You could get a sample or decant I suppose?

Dior Dune Pour Homme

Dior Dune Pour Homme by Christian Dior is a Fresh Green fragrance. Buy Dior Dune Pour Homme Samples And Decants here. Perfume sample, decant.

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I'm sure there are others in the US (I'm in the UK)
Also, this guys reviews are not seemingly commercially motivated, unlike some...

Christian Dior Dune Pour Homme Review - Olivier Cresp & Jean-Pierre Bethouart; 1997 - Persolaise

Dior Dune Pour Homme review by award-winning perfume critic Persolaise, 2022, 1997, Olivier Cresp, Jean-Pierre Bethouart, masculine, classic

persolaise.com

 

[Bavard]

One person will praise it for smelling natural, another will bash it for being too harsh & synthetic.

It leans modern in a way that smells synthetic to me. I blind bought a bottle and I'm not really a fan.

Jules is pretty good. I have a modern bottle I don't really wear. I might some day, though. I had just put on some older Jules before I saw this thread. In moments, it's a perfect 10, for me. In other moments, I don't like it as much, which usually keeps it off favorites lists, but it's close.

 

[mrcologneguy]

Own it, like it, wear it rarely. I agree with comments in this thread — it’s all over the place in terms of composition, style, and wearability. It can strike me as light and eau-like on cool, arid days. Turns thick in humidity. My wife had a negative reaction to me wearing just two sprays on a warm day. But I still wear it now and then.

Per your post: start with Jules. You’ll love it. Add Dune later if you find it at a good price.

Should add here: Dune needs to be sprayed, with several full wearings, to get a good understanding of it. Modestly dabbing from samples won’t cut it. Needs to open up with a few good sprays.

Beautiful bottle, too. Glad it’s in my collection.

 

[mixerscent]

If your wardrobe leans fresh, I'd recommend vintage Dune pour Homme. I'd describe it as fresh fig, green melon with vegetal notes. It's slightly aquatic with white musk in the base, and reminiscent of the fragrance they use to scent major international airports. You can identify vintage with 'Christian Dior' lettering, while the modern version has 'Dior' lettering. It's a feel good fragrance and perfect for Spring weather.

 

[hednic]

To answer the thread question, I own and like it a lot and need to fetch it out of my stash and wear it more.often than I do.

 

[slpfrsly]

Help me out with this one guys, what’s really going on with this fragrance?

It's good stuff. As you've noted, it's not the easiest to describe.

It's definitely a little dated and smells very 90s. There's a little bit of everything in it - a bit of fruity fig, a bit of a calone aquatic freshness, some synthetic dry sandalwood, a granular woody-spicy texture that is listed as a 'sand' note. Chanel's original Allure Homme is a good reference point, particularly the opening fruity part before it dries down to become ambery. There are a number of shared aromachemicals/accords between those two fragrances, although they're overall still different enough from each other to avoid being seen as interchangeable.

If you think of it as a little bit of everything from the 90s, you'll have a decent idea. That doesn't mean loud/overblown/too much going on, rather it has touches of everything that surrounded it at the same. It has a sweet-woody base but it's still fresh and floral, as you'd expect from the aquatic trend. It's soapy and green, a bit like Moschino Uomo, but never goes full fougere or in to the metallic fougere territory either.

You really have to try it to get the full picture.

 

[Franco65]

Cool Scent!

 

[Opiate]

It's good stuff. As you've noted, it's not the easiest to describe.

It's definitely a little dated and smells very 90s. There's a little bit of everything in it - a bit of fruity fig, a bit of a calone aquatic freshness, some synthetic dry sandalwood, a granular woody-spicy texture that is listed as a 'sand' note. Chanel's original Allure Homme is a good reference point, particularly the opening fruity part before it dries down to become ambery. There are a number of shared aromachemicals/accords between those two fragrances, although they're overall still different enough from each other to avoid being seen as interchangeable.

If you think of it as a little bit of everything from the 90s, you'll have a decent idea. That doesn't mean loud/overblown/too much going on, rather it has touches of everything that surrounded it at the same. It has a sweet-woody base but it's still fresh and floral, as you'd expect from the aquatic trend. It's soapy and green, a bit like Moschino Uomo, but never goes full fougere or in to the metallic fougere territory either.

You really have to try it to get the full picture.

That‘a a great description and really paints a clear picture for me now. Thank you for such a detailed response!

 

[Ken_Russell]

Liked this from the very start, in any version, during each sampling and also recognized most notes in the thread starting post as parts of its fragrance composition.

 

[ultravisitor]

I think it's nice. Do you know Dior's Balade Sauvage? I think there's a lot of similarity.

 

[slpfrsly]

That‘a a great description and really paints a clear picture for me now. Thank you for such a detailed response!

No worries. 👍

 

[Varanis Ridari]

I haven't smelled this one myself, but Jules is nice.

 

[Marty McFly]

In the mid 00s, Dune was one of my favorite daily wearers. I haven't smelled it in some years, and I was not enthralled in fragrances to the degree that I am now, so at the time, I couldn't have told you that it was a fig scent, let alone competently ID any note for the most part. But it was a very clean, maybe slightly soapy and slightly woody, and sweet fragrance, and now I can see where it was fig-centered. If the current iteration is still what it was then, it is not a challenging fragrance and it was nice enough that most people would be ok blind buying it. It definitely bore no resemblance to Cool Water whatsoever.

 

[Ifti]

Agree it's a bit of everything from the era of its birth!
Sometimes I get a little hint at P.E? Maybe just in the opening scenes, I dunno how to describe it but I always think "gassy".
Easy going fresh, dry down doesn't really move me... Though reading above perhaps I should spray more?!

 

[Mythrol]

Send me a PM if you want and I'll shoot you a small sample of both Dune & Jules. I own them both.

Dune to me is a nice fig fragrance as has been described above. Fig is a childhood scent for me since growing up on our property we had a huge fig tree that my great grand father planted (tree is still there and must be getting close to 90-100 years old at this point). Whenever I smell Dune my scent memory takes me back to being a child and climbing all over the fig tree (yes it was so big you could climb in it). I say all that to say I'm too bias with fig fragrances to give you a proper fair review of it.

Jules on the other hand. It's a wonderful fragrance that has some skank in the background from I'm assuming civet. Even with that musk in it I always find myself going back to smell it like I can't pull my nose away. I get green notes, a bit of pepper, leather, and the animalistic musk. From what I've read one of the translations of the word Jules from French to English can be pimp and that seems like a very accurate image that comes to my mind.

 

[Andy the frenchy]

Dune is a nice release. I tried it a few years ago. Nice leafy green fragrance, with acquatic undertones. But does it stand out compared to other fig leaf scents? I personally don't think so.
Let's not forget that it was released in 1997, following the trend of the new acquatics, so I guess Dior tried to surf a bit on that synthetic wave, and at the time, it for sure was perceived as novel. But if I have to say it all, I don't think it aged very well, and I'm surprised that it hasn't been discontinued. It's nice, but also a bit dull (for my tastes).
If looking for a fig leaf fragrance, I'd suggest to try 3# Nota di Viaggio (Ciavuru d'Amuri) by Meo Fusciuni or the recently released Figuier Noir by Houbigant.

Jules is a typical 80's powerhouse. One of the rare occurences when I found the current one more to my tastes than the viintage one. Indeed, the vintage one is really rough on the edges, while the current one is a bit more wearable.
I love it, but I already have several ones in that department, and it's not, admittedly the style I wear the most, so I'll pass on that one (because of redundancy, not attractiveness, and again: it's a beautiful one!)

 

[_Nicolas_]

I wasn't curious about Dior Dune PH until I recently saw it being repeatedly compared to Davidoff Good Life. Are they really quite similar? Dune often gets called synthetic but so is the Davidoff really, but it has a sort of pleasant fruity creaminess in the dry down. If a fragrance is synthetic-smelling but still an interesting composition it doesn't bother me!

 

[JBHoren]

What do you think of Dune Pour Homme?

I prefer the original (and have it on good authority that Sting and Kyle MacLachlan do, too... dunno about Sarah)

 

[Renato]

I wasn't curious about Dior Dune PH until I recently saw it being repeatedly compared to Davidoff Good Life. Are they really quite similar? Dune often gets called synthetic but so is the Davidoff really, but it has a sort of pleasant fruity creaminess in the dry down. If a fragrance is synthetic-smelling but still an interesting composition it doesn't bother me!

The similarity is obviously in the fig leaf notes of each, but I always liked Good Life a lot - not so much Dune PH.
Sometimes I don't mind Dune, but other times I wonder why I bought it.
Cheers,
Renato