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Somewhere in New York City…

Posted by Robin on 30 July 2009 27 Comments

The new ad promo for Donna Karan’s DKNY Be Delicious ‘Delicious Art’ edition. The first part is live action; midway it switches to an animated version of a pop art comic strip developed by illustrator Brad Hamann. See the print ads below the jump.

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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2009, part 7

Posted by Robin on 29 June 2009 58 Comments

Kenzo Ryoko 2009

Kenzo’s yearly Ryoko collection (travel-sized “fragrance pebbles”), done up in a high-gloss finish for 2009. This year’s fragrances include Flower by Kenzo, Kenzo Amour and L’Eau Par Kenzo for women, L’Eau Par Kenzo Pour Homme and Kenzo Homme for men. $29 each for 20 ml at Kenzo USA…

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DKNY Love From New York ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 12 May 2009 44 Comments

DKNY Love From New York

Donna Karan will launch DKNY Love From New York, a new travel retail exclusive duo, this coming July. The new fragrances hope to “embody the excitement and energy of New York”.

DKNY Love From New York for Women features water lily, freesia, mandarin, black currant, magnolia, white lily, violet leaves, sensual skin accord, blond woods and apricot…

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Men’s Night Out at Bloomingdales NYC

Posted by Robin on 21 April 2009 4 Comments

On behalf of the new DKNY Men fragrance, DKNY, Bloomingdale’s and Details Magazine are holding a “Men’s Night Out” at the 59th Street Bloomingdales on Thursday, April 23rd:

Enjoy a beer tasting by Heartland Brewery, a spin on the roulette wheel and a Nintendo Wii gaming station…

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Donna Karan DKNY Men ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 2 April 2009 36 Comments

Donna Karan DKNY Men 2009 fragrance

We are living in the age of Queen Melon (née Calone) and King Violet Leaf; those two notes are dominating so many releases of the last year and a half that when I smell those notes in a fragrance I lose interest almost immediately. I don’t dislike melon and violet leaf, but smelling them in fragrance after fragrance over a long period of time has dulled their effect on me. So here comes Donna Karan’s DKNY Men (late to the violet leaf party) lagging behind other recent violet leaf-heavy scents such as Narciso Rodriguez For Him, Dsquared2 He Wood, Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme and Burberry The Beat For Men (to name just a few).

DKNY Men was created by perfumers Alberto Morillas and Harry Fremont and contains bergamot, mandarin, juniper, sage, white pepper, cardamom, lavender, violet leaf, jasmine, cedar, patchouli, orris and vetiver. DKNY Men opens with warm bergamot, violet leaf, and a touch of mandarin. The fragrance does not change much after the first few minutes on skin, and as the fragrance dries down, it resembles a slightly happier Burberry The Beat for Men…

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