Dunhill London

BUY THIS NOW!!! Honestly, I picked this up because it was only £14. But damn, this is an amazing frag. Longevity: Absolutely great. Obviously not competing with things like Sauvage or Stronger with You, but this frag lasts a good while, especially on clothes. 7/10 Sillage: Probably the only downfall of this frag, doesn't project as much as I would like. Although there are definitely designer scents that project less. 5/10 Scent: Lovely sweet scent. It does feel a bit more synthetic, it still is a massive hit if you love tonka bean fragrances. 9/10 Overall: I love this scent, and for the price? Please buy it. 100ml for £14 was a steal. This is an amazing scent, even if you're just using it as a casual everyday cheap scent because this definitely doesn't smell cheap. 8/10

Wow, what a plesant and unexpected surprise. This has that classic Barbara shop touch about but quite a unique. I really love this one that performs very well on my skin. This will get you compliments and will perform better in cooler weather conditions. It's hard for anyone not to like this one and gets a sold 8.5 out of 10 for me all the way👍❕ Im fairly new to the Dunhill lines and Icon and Desire or both very good fragrances in their own right but London sticks out for me because it's very 70's and modern in many ways! A great and beautiful scent that's a really joy to wear but only occasionally. It's not one to be your signature scent!

I absolutely adore this scent! My boyfriend and I went looking for a nice fragrance for him and after hours of testing we ended up with London. I'm somehow addicted to the associations and emotions this scent creates for me. It's grown-up and playful at the same time and really really sexy. A lot of men wear heavy colognes that fill a whole room with their scent in just seconds. I don't always like that.. London is more subtle but still fascinatingly delicious. I can only talk about his body chemistry, but from that experience longevity and sillage are pretty decent.

A great freg from Dunhill , the dominating note of tonka bean beside the others ( vanilla , jasmine, rose, red apple ) just work grate in summer for me . Longevity : around 8 hours. Sillage : 4 - 5 hours. scent : 7/10. Bottle design : 8/10. p.s. all the Dunhill fragrances that i had like ( Dunhill Edition , Dunhill Black , Dunhill Pursuit ) are grate, i can hardly wait 2 use dunhill Custom .

I like this perfume so much that I was noticing its cloud from meters away... it smells very modern, fresh, soft and expensive. Makes you feel like rich and elegant when you wear it. After having learnt the brand&name I bought it. Only disappointment was its longevity despite spraying heavily...

Thought this was going to be good - but it's not overly warm or sweet enough for my liking.

Fruity, aquatic scent. Easy to like. Great for Spring and Summer times.

My absolute favourite! Stunning fragrance!

Dunhill's London is surprisingly low-impact and light on the spice and herbs for an oriental fougere. Instead of a blast of cardamom, lavender, citrus and vanilla that attacks the skin with reckless abandon; London blends sensual red apple and organic vanilla with the slightest hint of floral (rose) to create a very uplifting, fluffy and light composition that seems more suited for spring and fall then the dead cold of winter. The scent itself is incredibly well-blended and attractive on top for the first hour of wear, maintaining a vanillic dominance throughtout that changles slightly from red apple to a creamier, powdery tonka once the apple gives way to the heart and base. It is the first 20-30 minutes of London that really shines, before the tonka fully evolves into the fragrance and allows the apple and vanilla to stretch out and create a warm, friendly and charming presence. When the tonka fully arrives, it makes London a bit too powdery, feminine and creamy but still wearable in a very feminine way that may not appeal to everyone. Still, this is pretty decent stuff all things considered. The blending is well-balanced and more than compensates for the blueprint itself being a bit standard and worn. London has a very fine and charming organic red apple and vanilla composition that is light yet extremely uplifting, pleasing and eluminating. The downside is longevity and projection, which ultimately makes London more a novelty than a must have purchase given the excellent range of bottles available in the well-represented oriental fougere category. Longevity here is consistently under-par, ranging from two to five hours consistently depending on the wearer and climate. Sillage is excellent early but tapers off quickly to a skin scent within 30-45 minutes of wear and then becomes rather indistinct and subtle from that point on until fading out with little warning or evolution late, with a light sandalwood and patchouli base barely surfacing after the three hour mark. Still, the opening makes this a wonderful sniffing experience and a fantastic purchase for those looking for something light and fluffy but less sweet than a lot of the tonka and vanilla based scents on the market. Not essential, but fun and enjoyable if you can find it for the right price.

A heavy dose of slightly synthetic vanilla over creamy tonka, subtle rose and sweet dried red delicious apple. This is a little powdery, but far more tame than most in the oriental category with vanilla and tonka as the two major ingredients. This isn't complex and it won't blow away guys addicted to finding the most obscure and expensive niche creations on the market. This is a simple, formulaic oriental fougere with a little sweetness, a little bit of fruit and a little bit more cream and vanilla; all balanced competently and a rather enjoyable wear in cooler air. Best suited for late fall and early spring evenings, this is cloying in the heat and too thin for the powerful Arctic winds and extreme cold. It fits London in that it excels in damp, cool, misty evenings. Oddly, given how famous Dunhill is for their tobacco blend London, you would have thought this would have been the perfect marketing opportunity to make this a tobacco heavy fragrance to marry the brilliance of Dunhill's reputation with the tobacco smoking aristocracy of 17th and 18th century South England with its new ambitions since the 1980s to strike off beyond pipe smoking. Instead, we get an American old fashioned ice cream parlor feel instead with none of the really earthy elements that made Dunhill so famous in the first place. Enjoyable none the less, but flighty, soft, and rather unisex instead of fierce and masculine. Longevity for me is generally 3-5.5 hours and sillage with two sprays at moderate the first three hours before trailing off to soft. Scent is pretty and charming, but those words also imply a certain lack of masculine virility underneath the nails of this one. More for the white collar cubicle weekday commuter or the man looking for a gentle oriental fougere with less of the earthier and spicier elements to avoid imposition on co-workers. Scent: 7.5/10 Longevity: 5/10 Sillage: 5/10

Dunhill's London is a decent fragrance at an affordable price. London is successful blend of fruit and spice notes with several similarities to Hugo Boss' Bottled. With my body chemistry, I notice the Vanilla, Apple, and Tonka Bean blend from the opening until and through the dry-down. London is an average performer, noticeable for about four to five hours, and the projection/sillage is modest, at best, settling to a skin scent through the dry-down. I would suggest that London is most appropriate for fall and/or winter, but given the modest projection/sillage, it could easily be worn all year. Also considering the modest sillage, I would deem it office safe for those work environments with more sensitive noses. As with all Dunhill fragrances (I have a about five in my collection), the bottling and packaging are first class, the bottle is exceptionally well designed. The real beauty of London is the price/value that can easily be found for under $25 USD. For those looking for an inexpensive alternative cologne to add to your collection, I definitely recommend. For the aficionado, or more seasoned collector, I suggest passing on London. If the projection, longevity, and originality of the scent were better, London would be at Top 10 fragrance. Final tally for London is four (4) stars out of five (5). **An edit - one day later...** Last night following the review at lunchtime, I joined my girlfriend and family for dinner - you just can't beat $1 taco nights - both she and her son requested what cologne I was wearing and each provided favorable comments. This was 10 hours after I applied London. Enjoy your day and make it count...

The vanilla and apple combine well to create a soft powdery uplifting smell with mild sillage that’s also a touch generic and feminine. However, its longevity is a serious disappointment, giving perhaps 2 hours at most before it disappears abruptly from my skin or clothes despite spraying heavily. If you can get your head around that issue, then Dunhill London is a friendly and budget-conscious casual choice for the summer and/or in an office setting. Like too many Dunhill scents I’ve tried of late, this is not a bottle I feel compelled to replace when it runs out as perhaps the smell is too bland for my liking and its longevity is rubbish. Also, I'm baffled with the name as I can't make out any obvious connection between the fragrance and London UK which is where I was born and live. Update: I tried this scent again but this time in cool temperate weather (8c), and managed to get an impressive 7 hours longevity out of it, of which the first 4 hours consisted of good projection. Admittedly I had layered it with the matching aftershave balm, and amazingly I can still detect it 12 hours later on my skin, albeit faintly. Overall, its performance is not as poor as I first thought, and I do very much like its cheerful and metrosexual smell. My conclusion is that this is certainly not a warm weather fragrance and is probably best suited to late winter & early spring.

A beautiful blend of creamy tonka bean, sweet vanilla, airy floral topped off with a fruity and very sensual red apple accord that makes the first 20-30 minutes really stand out. The scent on its own is angelic, extremely uplifting and all the while warming in its light, fluffy balance of fruit, cream and floral; finding a very unusual balance between oriental and aromatic. It's like being at a small family grocer in Europe on Valentine's Day with the proximity of the candy, fruit and floral aisles converging on each other in the last few weeks of winter. Unfortunately the light essence of Dunhill's London is also to its detriment, making it too flighty to hold on the skin without the stronger basenotes to anchor it. Longevity is thus rather consistently below average; with 2.5-5 hours generally the most the wearer should expect and sillage moderate the first hour but quickly receding to the background. Extremely versatile for an oriental fougere, Dunhill London's lightness allows it to fit the bill rather well on spring, summer and fall evenings while also giving winter days more warmth. Just don't forget to bring it with you if you plan on being out for more than just a quick bite to eat.

A fun, flighty and enjoyable wear that takes the apple and vanilla feel of Boss Bottled but cuts out the cinnamon and goes for a more minimalist palette that leaves the vanilla, tonka and musk the dominant players, pressing against the apple floral heart. What do you ultimately get? A rather linear, soft, sweet and fruity synthetic accord that taken as a Gesamtwerk is rather alluring and pleasant despite its limitations. Dunhill London is rather soft and fleeting, but I've found I get better performance in the 40-55 Fahrenheit range; with 4-5 hours and decent moderate projection the first two to three hours of wear. London fails in the cold Arctic winds of Canada and Scandinavia in winter and isn't a great option for summer nights because the heat and humidity really brings out the synthetic vanilla. This is discontinued but can still be found at discounters in the UK. Scent: 3.75/5 Longevity: 2.75/5 Sillage: 2.5/5 Originality: 3.25/5 Versatility: 3.75/5 Value: 3.5/5 Overall: 3.5 out 5

I just bought around 30 fragrances (HDI; MBL;HBB; Z&V; AHS; SF...) This is one of the best and I just paid 16 EUR for a 100ml Ridiculous ! LOL. Smell is very pleasant, the glass is gorgeous. It doesn't project I guess but last quite long on skin and make you just keep sniffing back where you sprayed it on. Not ground breaking so most perfumes are but very well done. A slighty sweet red apple wrapped in a cozy vanillic musky body with the freshness of rose and jasmine. Nicely blended ! For that price point you definitely cannot go wrong :) Sensual perfume !

I have bought this twice. Is it actually discontinued, or just reformulated? My old 50ml one looks like the one above, and is made in France. My 100ml I just got for $29 at Rexall says made in the usa, and the lid is textured like the one on 51.3n. Smells a whisper weaker too(compared them side-by-side). Other than that, good smell...like candy flowers or something. Could be unisex for sure.

The reviewers are spot on in describing this one. This scent would be pleasing for anyone, and is not overpowering nor overwhelming, but long lasting. I like how it's a little sweet, and the sandalwood is a subtle touch. Unlike many others, there isn't any overpowering lavender or violet presence; which is a nice change. It seems to reach a nice powdery dry down at about 7.5 hours.

It has a classically modern, bitterly sweet, simply casual yet refined body to it that I know I've smelt somewhere in my testing journeys but I can't remember where. Does it smell like a CK or some other creation by any popular brands? I can't put my finger on it. Sticky sweet tonka and vanilla combo with something trying to soften it. Patchouli in there too.

Blind bought this as i had just moved to London and wanted something other than a Burberry frag to commemorate the move! It's overall pretty a nice, clean and slightly sweet frag which while leaving a little to desire in terms of projection, does last a decent while and provides a lot of enjoyment while it does.

Very good, I'm a Londoner and I like Dunhill London, classy, like all the Dunhills. Slightly sweet and spicy, nicely blended and never cloying. Projection isn't masive but as a skin scent I get in excess of 12 hours longevity. Good value for money and it will do for any occasion.