Dune pour Homme 1997 Eau de Toilette

Dune pour Homme (Eau de Toilette) by Dior
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7.7 / 10 333 Ratings
According to EssenceVitae Research Team A popular perfume by Dior for men, released in 1997. Furthermore The scent is fresh-green. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 15.05.2024.

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7.5
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Zappod

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Zappod
Zappod
Very helpful Review 9  
Fata Morgana so beautiful
I bought Dior Dune blind. The listed smells promised to be exactly my thing and the fact that it will get harder and harder to get it has made me buy it at a cheap price.

In my hand I liked the bottle much better - in the pictures and from afar it always looked rather boring - and therefore I probably never noticed it. He has the shape of curved thin. The content is for me rather pale green than yellow, which also fits very well to the content.
The top note is for me totally ingenious and in the fragrance composition similar masterpiece like Fahrenheit or Dior Homme even if the species green will probably appeal to fewer people.
I love figs and I keep them in buckets myself. I don't know whether I can smell such crushed fig leaves and bark torn off a tree - I never wanted to do that to my figs. But the fact is that for me Dior Dune smells slightly bitter - green - like freshly torn roots or a tree from which bark has been removed. This bitterness is however ingeniously caught by the light rose and some vanilla sandalwood minimally to sweetened and creamy. Only very light but this combination is beautiful for me and never smelled of me before. A real masterpiece! The Johanisberry leaves which I love as a smell (in the form of a currant sage on my balcony very much) I unfortunately do not smell out explicitly.
Unfortunately, after about half an hour this smell disappears more and more into the background and there remains a slightly powdery pleasant smell of wood and very slightly and infinitely far away from the green miracle of earlier. After about 4 hours, the beautiful air-close finally turned out to be a Fata Morgana. Very sad - I would have liked to smell the Dune from the first hour.
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SiLe93

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SiLe93
Helpful Review 11  
The unjustly neglected
Dune pour Homme is in perfumeries, if at all in the background and is rarely presented - except perhaps at Dior counters in large luxury department stores. Too wrongly as I find.

Dune pour Homme promises an invigorating refreshment, which certainly lasts. The fig leaf provides him with a special Mediterranean mood, as if a refreshing blast of air over beach dunes. Refreshingly green, without becoming herbaceous, before a gentle light woody spiciness is added. Pure refreshment, young dymnamic without being too bold or banal, simply coherent.

A fragrance of its sophistication and independence quite justifiably next to the older Dior classics "Eau Sauvage (Eau de Toilette)" and "Fahrenheit (Eau de Toilette)" einreihenfte.

A test worth for all those who are looking for a fresh fragrance (in the somewhat more affordable price segment), which stands out from the usual suspects, from the house of Dior and basically.
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ColinM

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ColinM
ColinM
Very helpful Review 7  
Exotic surrealism
Dune pour Homme is for me among the most enigmatic and elusive mainstream fragrances ever made, for how it elaborates a generic “designer” theme in a fascinating way. It should be supposed to be a versatile, clean and “easy” exotic fig-green scent with a soapy-musky base, and it partially is so indeed; actually the smell itself is really simple, totally good and totally wearable. A gentle, graceful, mannered and slightly creamy fig-musk-green scent. But to me, and I admit this may be a totally personal perception, it has something else which makes it completely unique and, well, kind of creepy at the same time. That “creepy” feature is connected to its signature sort of warm, blurred and watery texture, which is due to the use of hedione and musk (ketones, I guess); it feels slightly humid, lactescent and “grey” too, and for some odd reasons it makes me think of some old, faded 8 mm homemade videotape shot in a cloudy, muggy August afternoon lost in the mid-1990s. The “analogic filter” role played by the film grain corresponds to hedione here, which is I think the key of Dune’s magic – a sort of fruity-watery-grey note which gives Dune this sort of damp, plastic, sultry feel.

This together with some more ordinary, decent-quality and undoubtedly “summery” nuances like green notes and fig leaves, produce a really fascinating “summer feel”, but where “summer” means “a summer of your childhood lost in your imagination”. Nothing crisp and realistic, on the contrary a blurry, cozy, faded souvenir. It’s like if the use of hedione and musk here gives the blend a sort of nostalgic and almost hallucinating feel which makes you plunge into your own memories. Grey, sort of humid and sweltering, at the same time “faded” and quiet. Out of all the dozens of similarly synthetic scents I’ve tried and owned, this is the only one which triggers that path of associations, showing how creatively one can make good use of synthetic aromachemicals (assuming there was an intention to be creative, otherwise I guess it’s just bare luck). Anyway, aside from all of that which is maybe just a subjective frenzy of mine, Dune pour Homme is surely a good, clean and cozy greenish-exotic all-rounder with a really respectable quality and a perfect balance of distinction and “safeness”. Nothing groundbreaking and a bit short-lived (as you can expect with these notes) but inexpensively solid.

7,5/10
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10
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Chemikus

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Chemikus
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Comparison 1997 and 2023
I bought the 1997 Vintage on Ebay out of interest, original packaging with batch code on the plastic film, year of manufacture 1997 (!). The color is straw yellow. In comparison, the current batch (spring 2023) is light green. You read a lot that the old Dune was so much better and the new one had zero performance. In direct comparison, the 1997 is significantly sweeter and this sweetness really does last longer. It is somewhat reminiscent of the top note of a jar of honey. There is also vanilla and a very slight hint of rose. Of course, the whole thing is subject to the ageing of 26 years (!!), which means that the fragrance will have been different again after production.

The current version smelled like nothing at all in the store. Probably anosmia after too much testing - or tester aged in the bright LED light. Anyway, bought it anyway. Result: The new Dune is brilliant. The desert dunes are much more pronounced in this one. After the top note has faded, it is less sweet than the 1997, much drier and reminiscent of sand. Floral notes are very subtle and it is mainly reminiscent of fig leaves - I don't know what a fig leaf smells like, but it definitely gives the impression. The scent is absolutely unique and I can recommend it without reservation. There are no synthetic impressions or "artificial fresh woodiness". After drydown in clothing, the smell is also completely gone.
10/10
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HugoMontez

71 Reviews
HugoMontez
HugoMontez
Helpful Review 5  
Summer memory - Wet sand and suntan lotion
This fragrance is unexpectedly good. Pretty simple, short lived and with a slightly generic base, but unique and great at the same time. It has Hedione which gives a jasmine vibe with a summer dry air feeling.
Objectly, the fragrance starts with a slighty sweet fig accord along with a currant leaf note and the Hedione. It drys down to a creamy-sweet lotion vibe provided by the sandalwood and Hedione. Hedione is the key here and links the fig opening with the creamy and sweet drydown.
It reminds me of beach but not in an aquatic way, neither in an suntan lotion way (which coconut and tuberose usually do), more in a breezy-wet-sand way. I know, sounds awkward, but that's what this one is. A bit strange but familiar. Like a memory, an old summer photograph that you have.
This is very interesting because of that. No Calone, no citruses, no tropical fruits, just a fig fruit accord (which is not super evident and completely different from other fig leaf base fragrances), Hedione, and soft creamy sandalwood. Doesn't last a long time but it's fun, masculine, summery and different although the Hedione gives a familiar and, for some, a "generic" vibe, which is not in a bad way and, if you pass some time with it, you'll find the beauty and the original twist that it has.
A solid and underrated fragrance by Dior.
4/5 (this review is based on a vintage bottle)
3/5 for the current formulation
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BertolucciKBertolucciK 1 year ago
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6
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7.5
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Fresh and green fig leaf note, spicy and with a woody base. A hint of citrus, slightly powdery and floral. The performance is very weak.
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StaticStatic 3 years ago
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10
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10
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9.5
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Less is more!!! 10/10
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CrazysillageCrazysillage 9 months ago
5
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5
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6.5
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A dewy green fig in the top with an Eros-esque woody vanilla base. Quite weak performance.
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Charilaos77Charilaos77 1 year ago
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7
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Nearly forgotten green fresh scent that evokes the sense of spring and summer. Just beautiful!
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ElysiumElysium 4 years ago
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7
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A perfume that I wanted so badly, then loved and hated. Something was bothering my stomach and head. With sorry, I gifted it to a friend
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