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Dune, the Desert Planet
As I already mentioned in my response to Medusa00's review: With Dune, I immediately think of the desert planet. Although I have never seen either the classic from 1984 or the elaborate remake from the previous year. And I am actually quite fond of science fiction. When the fragrance was launched in 1991, the film was also highly popular everywhere. One of my friends wore the Eau de Toilette back then, and she always pronounced the fragrance name of this French creation in English, just like the film of the same name. When I recently had the chance to get to know the perfume, I was thrilled.
It is simply beautiful, and it is once again incomprehensible how such a gem can be created. But why do I associate it with the desert planet? It can't just be because of the name. It isn't, because Dune is for me a typical oriental fragrance from the eighties and nineties. Even though the pyramid doesn't show anything like that, I perceive Dune as a real spice bomb. Of course, Dune is primarily a floral scent, and this sensual perfume evokes some impressions known from the world of chypre fragrances for me. Last but not least, there are plenty of resins at play. At first, I have to think of a spice market on the edge of the desert. And I also imagine I can smell dried fruits that are sold there as well.
I always wonder why orientals used to smell like this and today are so completely different. Was a fragrance like Dune the image that the Western world had of the Orient? Or had oud, saffron, and co. simply not yet arrived here? Were these fragrance notes too difficult and complex for Central Europe in the late eighties? In Arab countries, such fragrances were probably already worn everywhere, and we might have even been laughed at for labeling scents like KL, Dune, Cašmir, or Alchimie as oriental. Who knows?
For me, this image of the desert planet fits this beautiful classic from the nineties perfectly. If I had to choose a suitable fragrance for the film adaptation from 2021, it might be Andy Tauer's L’Air du Desert Marocain or indeed an oud fragrance. Personally, I still prefer these, let’s say, Western-influenced orientals. And I would find it very nice if modern perfumery would sometimes revisit compositions like this today.
That's it for today from Throwback-Polly. A big thank you to 0815abc for allowing me to test this fine classic. And I really need to finally watch those films.
It is simply beautiful, and it is once again incomprehensible how such a gem can be created. But why do I associate it with the desert planet? It can't just be because of the name. It isn't, because Dune is for me a typical oriental fragrance from the eighties and nineties. Even though the pyramid doesn't show anything like that, I perceive Dune as a real spice bomb. Of course, Dune is primarily a floral scent, and this sensual perfume evokes some impressions known from the world of chypre fragrances for me. Last but not least, there are plenty of resins at play. At first, I have to think of a spice market on the edge of the desert. And I also imagine I can smell dried fruits that are sold there as well.
I always wonder why orientals used to smell like this and today are so completely different. Was a fragrance like Dune the image that the Western world had of the Orient? Or had oud, saffron, and co. simply not yet arrived here? Were these fragrance notes too difficult and complex for Central Europe in the late eighties? In Arab countries, such fragrances were probably already worn everywhere, and we might have even been laughed at for labeling scents like KL, Dune, Cašmir, or Alchimie as oriental. Who knows?
For me, this image of the desert planet fits this beautiful classic from the nineties perfectly. If I had to choose a suitable fragrance for the film adaptation from 2021, it might be Andy Tauer's L’Air du Desert Marocain or indeed an oud fragrance. Personally, I still prefer these, let’s say, Western-influenced orientals. And I would find it very nice if modern perfumery would sometimes revisit compositions like this today.
That's it for today from Throwback-Polly. A big thank you to 0815abc for allowing me to test this fine classic. And I really need to finally watch those films.
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