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Desire for a Man

Name: Desire for a Man Eau de Toilette (EDT)
Brand: Dunhill

Dunhill · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 2000

Amber · Soft Amber Designermasculine

≈ $40 · 100ml · approx. retail

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Dunhill's best-known modern flanker line opens with this original Desire — a crisp green-apple-and-citrus top over a soft, vanillic amber-woody base. Its accessible, mass-appeal sweetness made it one of the house's most commercially successful launches of the 2000s and spawned a long-running Desire family (Blue, Black, Red, Silver, Platinum).

Amber Fruity Woody Vanilla

The scent

Top notes

The opening · first 15 minutes

Apple Lemon Bergamot Orange Blossom

Heart notes

The core · the next few hours

Rose teak wood Patchouli

Base notes

The dry-down · what lingers

Vanilla Musk

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Perfumer

Michel Almairac

French · 29 in collection

Born in Grasse in 1953 and trained at Roure Bertrand Dupont, Michel Almairac is a master perfumer long associated with Robertet, credited with shaping the olfactory signature of Chloé. He later co-founded the family house Parle Moi de Parfum with his son Benjamin.

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