Description
Dune Road is part of Volume 1 of the SCENT STORIES Collection which debuted in 2014. Volume 1 consists of 11 fragrances to be released on a members-only basis for the first year. The fragrances’ notes and concepts are reserved for members only. The fragrances are planned for release to the general public in a year, when Volume 2 of the collection is released.
“Olfaction is the sense that’s hardwired to your brain. A direct, subconscious passage to memory and emotions, a memorable smell is rarely forgotten. In SCENT STORIES, each perfume is a potion and an abstract work of art. We invite each guest to spend time with each aroma. Engage, reflect, project, and allow each to transcend your moment. Like a good book, we hope each chapter takes you somewhere captivating. An exchange in the creation, alchemy is achieved in this dialogue and we hope that you find the stories interesting. The collection is rare, exclusive, and made from only a single batch of the best ingredients in the world. We encourage true connoisseurs to collect their favorite chapters.”—Chad Murawczyk and Mindy Yang of MiN New York
nenoutift – :
I love Min NY house and its strange creations! Dune Road is a unique smelling, unisex, warm weather daytime scent with dominant grass & seaweed submerged in sea salt and driftwoid with a beautiful vetiver drydown. I also get ozonic notes and cucumbers which blends wonderfully with the rest notes. I get also faint wormwood, noticeable musk and traces of cedarwood.
With a few words, crisp ocean breeze with cucumbers! It feels almost artistic as many MiN creations.
Performance is moderate overall.
It slightly reminds me Bond No 9 Wall Street but Dune Road is totally safe, inoffensive, smoother and totally wearable. I wish it had the same performance as Wall Street.
Update
After trying it multiple times I took the decission not to buy it even if I loooove its strange freshness due to limited sillage/projection. On my skin Dine Road lives for about 6-7 hours as a skin scent with dominant vetiver but it doesn’t projects. If it was a moderate I’d buy it on the spot. Nevertheless I still love its smell.. top shelf stuff.
geluka – :
Thus cologne is very unique. I appreciate when a fragrance takes you on a journey to something new and different. Imagine walking on a beach after it rains. You can smell the salty water from the waves. The breeze starts to come in from the east after the rain storm. I can smell some type of tree or bushes in the background. This last a very long time. I can still smell this after 8 hours.
kisa1975 – :
From MiN website:
Summer walks…
Crisp ocean breeze…
Foamy sand…
Whispers of herbs, wildflowers & sea grass from a distance.
Ethereal, Captivating,
Hazy pleasures
Top: Absinthe, Cardamom, Ozone
Heart: Sea Grass, Salt, Algae/Seaweed, Driftwood
Base: Vetyver, Musk, Cedarwood
Neteununtee – :
Many perfumes out there are trying to dramatize a moment in a specific place or time. But the successful ones are very few and Dune Road is one of them for sure.
This fragrance is right to the point; a scent of humid seaside and its salty breeze. Wet wooden deck and seaweed. Dune Road is very moist and fresh. It has a kind of salty sour smell. Reminds me of an algae salad I ate in a Japanese restaurant once.
Not many people want to pay $240 for such a perfume that doesn’t get many compliments I suppose. But I don’t understand the low rating of this artistic fragrance! A realistic scent of seashore. Unique and suitably wearable.
svaten90 – :
The opening of Dure Road is all about fresh cut grass, brand new latex / rubber and a potent marine accord. Basically an unused condom neglected at the beach.
The fragrance turns then into a mash-up between the thin and sour woody-vetiver base of most Hermes in the Les Jardins series and a whatever post-90s aquatic thing. Eccesively weird at first and outdated during the final stages. Insanely long lasting.
Rating: 4.5/10
Trinoirrato – :
This opens to my nose as pure cucumbers. Yes, I like the smell of cucumbers, but it lacks the typical top, mid, and base note construction. In other words, it doesn’t transition much except it gets more chemical. Overall, it seems so chemical that “acetone” comes to mind. In fact, I know Dune Road costs $100.00 per ounce, and it isn’t really unpleasant, but I can’t get past that acetone association, and it doesn’t seem to be anything more than a blend of cucumber oil and nail polish remover. I can certainly live without it.
Дядя Миша – :
I was expecting this to be a car crash, but it’s surprisingly ok. In fact more than that, it’s rather interesting, all be it, not something I would wear myself.
The aquatic greenness, the tang of the salt, the smooth, slightly lactonic quality of the musk and the rustic woods invariably bring my mind back to one rather simple accord: melon. Of course I get the driftwood and beachy maritime air, but ultimately I think of a ripe melon, its sweet/salty flesh and its hard bitter skin.
Very fresh, green and uplifting, but just not to my taste.
HSH – :
The Hamptons’ Dune Road is home to a stretch of oceanfront properties where verdant knolls and sand dunes converge. This scent aims to capture that environment by placing grass notes against a musky, salty backdrop. This is mainly grass, verging on more botanical blue grass kind of notes (cedar leaf, armoise etc.) against a marine backdrop that renders the scent as a shade of gray/teal. Vetiver is present, but subdued, and a botanical musk lends an airy quality to produce a fairly conceivable image of a beachfront space. With that said, I’m not sure who would want to smell like such a place as it’s a plausible rendering with a fairly hefty algae facet, and I can’t help but think that this may have been better suited as a candle of some kind. Dune Road’s intriguing for sure and it wears more comfortably than it sounds, but it’s perhaps not as easy to slip into as some of the others in the line.