Reviews of Dunhill (2003)
by Alfred Dunhill

So-so fougere. More like a watered down Brut (how the heck can you do that to an already watered down scent?). Just throw some woody notes into the mix and you get Dunhill. Very weak on my skin. I've had other Dunhill scents last much longer. This one was a downer.

No joke, when you put this fragrance on, it smells just like Cool Mint Listerine! It quickly drys down to a very faint powder and cotton candy smell,(nearly nothing, really) which is fine with me. Although, it stays very close to the skin and does have a fresh and clean smell (lol),I will not be buying Dunhill again.

I found the first of the top notes to be rather off-putting. It backs off ok, but it retains a slightly strange tinge to it—it feels quite synthetic—which is not necessarily bad, but in this case it’s a bit annoying. I have a difficult time telling where the fragrance is going after the opening—actually, I’m not sure that it is going anywhere. The orris doesn’t come through very much, which is unusual for me because this is one note I usually have no problem detecting. The base notes are very nice but rather ordinary. Most of the notes in this fragrance seem to just melt together in sort of a conglomerate blob. In the end the fragrance smells nice and performs acceptably, but I think it’s generic (albeit, pleasantly), and what isn’t generic is a tad annoying.

Smells like classic cheap aftershaves, nothing new here, just a rework.

The top notes first made me think - fried shrimp! go figure. The sweet, corny,lemony smell was interesting but faded fast, turning into something far less interesting - more like a margarita. Lemony and heavy - I'd pass on this one.

Synthetic D&G PH wannabe. Very dissapointing launch, especially from a brand responsible for great classics like Edition and the more recent Desire.
The whole pyramid is sharp and almost sulphurish and sour, feels like a work of haste. Too bad on a great flacon.