1 Let’s start with the obvious. His voice. That baritone alone can make you tingle right down to the toes. It can make us sit through 14 minutes of a car commercial.

2 The posh British accent and the perfect diction that give you an eargasm. Just hear him read Kubla Khan or even The Little Red Hen and you will fall in love. Or even when he is just saying ‘Cuppa tea’.

3 Because he makes R. Kelly’s Genius sound like the most romantic poetry ever. 

4 The eyes which change colour from green to blue to ash to gold, depending on what he is wearing. When he looks at you intently, you cannot help but turn into a puddle.

5 Those razor-sharp cheekbones that Irene Adler from Sherlock famously wanted to cut her hands on. 

6 Because he is the only man who can have the sexiest cheekbones AND a super cute little double chin. 

7 The hair, that apparently we have to thank Daddy Cumberbatch for. Ginger to auburn to silver blond, ‘twisted and diffused’ to curly to back-brushed to long, his mane has a mind of its own. And Cumberbitches know that if you ‘pull the hair on his head the wrong way’, you could have him ‘on his knees begging for mercy’.

8 No matter how much it hurts, we love that he loves Sophie Hunter as much as he does. You’ll know if you remember their Oscar red-carpet moment when she was pregnant.

9 Because he didn’t go for wayward womanising, but chose to look for a real relationship.

10 The lips that are made for kissing. He credits his full lower lip to his lessons on the trumpet as a child. And then there is the perfect Cupid’s bow upper lip. 

11 Those hands that make you think dirty thoughts. No wonder there are so many Tumblr pages dedicated to Cumberbatch hand porn.

12 The way he strokes everything with those hands — from the sofa he is sitting on to his thighs... and sometimes even the Cumberbum.

13 His self-deprecating humour. Remember when he confessed that he kept getting his lines wrong during Sherlock filming? And when he said that his name sounds like a fart in a bathtub?

14 His love for Daddy and Mommy Cumberbatch that is there for the world to see. 

15 Because he loves kids and becoming Daddybatch was his goal forever. We are sure he is a wonderful dad to Babybatch.

16 Because he does the Harlem Shake with his hands on a long and boring flight. And we are sure he knows exactly what that does to us.

17 That otter face he made at the camera during a web channel interview when the interviewer stepped away for a minute. And all the other funny faces 
he makes.

18 Because only he is dorky enough to fall for that stupid neutron cream stunt on the sets of Star Trek Into Darkness.

19 Because he officiated a gay wedding for his friends.

20 Because he is Sherlock. The rude, cocky, Aspergish, brilliant detective is what made us fall in love with him in the first place. Oh and he made brainy the new sexy.

21The smile, which is crooked but so genuine, smile wrinkles and all, that when he smiles we smile with him.

22 We love what he does to a muffler or the long coat. And how dashing he looks in those perfectly tailored suits that show off his lithe body. 

23 Because he looks taller than his six feet. As Sherlock explains, he ‘takes the precaution of a long coat and a short friend’.

24 Because he is goofy and sticks paper napkins on his forehead to soak up the sweat even at a formal event. 

25 Because he gives wonderfully silly acceptance speeches when drunk.

26 His bromance with co-stars is legendary. He had a dance-off with Michael Fassbender and shared a manly hug. He pinched Martin Freeman’s butt on The Hobbit red carpet. And he and Tom Hiddleston (inset) should be a couple already!

27 Because he loves his fans, even if we can be a bit of a psychopath at times. He always takes time out for selfies, photographs and autographs and even just to chat with us. 

28 He still makes time for the stage.

29 He supports indie filmmakers and experimental theatre like Little Favour and Frankenstein.

30 His versatility when it comes to acting. He plays creator and monster with equal skill in the play Frankenstein. He has gone from being a super sleuth to a conservative English aristocrat to a mathematical genius and a villain with a smoothness that’s totally him. 

31He is the master photobomber. Remember his photobombing Bono?

32’Cause he can do Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance... that too at a wedding!

33 Because of the things he cannot do — say ‘penguins’ (he calls them pengwings) and the heart sign with his fingers (what he makes looks like the Cumberbum). 

34 In his gap year, he taught English in a Tibetan monastery in India.

35 Because he uses his celebrity status and the attention of the paparazzi to spread awareness about various issues like human rights, gender and democracy.

36 He GIGGLES!! It is adorable!

37 Because he mimics very unlikely actors with impunity. His Chewbacca impression even had Harrison Ford impressed.

38 The way he slithered around the studio while recording the voice of the dragon Smaug.

39 He is okay with all the racy Sherlock fan-fiction and fan art flooding the Internet.

40 The way he is so earnestly consulting with the adorable canine companion in the first official picture from Series 4 of Sherlock.