

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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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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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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A promo for the upcoming DKNY Pure fragrance.
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A promo for the new DKNY Delicious Candy Apple fragrances.
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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.

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€…