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Donna Karan Pure DKNY ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 20 January 2010 55 Comments

Pure DKNY fragrance advertDonna Karan Pure DKNY fragrance

Donna Karan will launch Pure DKNY, a new floral fragrance for women, in February.

Pure DKNY is built around a “drop of vanilla in water” accord…

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DKNY Delicious Candy Apples ~ fragrance reviews

Posted by Robin on 19 January 2010 72 Comments

DKNY Delicious Candy Apple fragrances

Donna Karan’s fresh apple fragrance, DKNY Be Delicious (2004), has spawned a multitude of flankers and collector editions, of which the Candy Apple Trio — Ripe Raspberry, Sweet Caramel and Juicy Berry — is the latest. Apologies to its fans, but the original is not a favorite of mine, and of the flankers, only Delicious Night really captured my attention — and even that one is not really something I would wear. So I suppose you should take the following with an even larger grain of salt than usual?

DKNY Delicious Ripe Raspberry Candy Apple (red bottle, shown below; with notes of apple, lime, peony, lily and cola accord) is not as berry-ish as I’d expected — there’s much less berry than in Delicious Night, although this fragrance also has a much paler, fresher base so there’s less to counteract what berry there is. A nice shot of citrus in the opening keeps it from being too sweet while the raspberry calms, and overall, Ripe Raspberry strikes me as more fresh than candied…

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Small steps to make a difference

Posted by Robin on 19 January 2010 25 Comments

A promo for the upcoming DKNY Pure fragrance.

Life is sweet

Posted by Robin on 12 January 2010 35 Comments

A promo for the new DKNY Delicious Candy Apple fragrances.

Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2009, part 14

Posted by Robin on 15 December 2009 48 Comments

More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.

By Kilian coffret

Strictly speaking these aren’t collector bottles and I don’t know if the set is limited edition (so why is it here? I suppose because it had nowhere else to go), but By Kilian will launch a coffret in February with 7.5 ml bottles of all eight of the fragrances in the L’Oeuvre Noire / Black Masterpiece collection. 95€…

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