Eternity Summer 2014
Fragrance notes
Character
This one opens with a bright, crisp flicker of bamboo leaf and watermelon, a splash of mandarin and pear that feels less like fruit salad and more like the cold sweat on a glass of iced tea. The heart wades into water lily and peony, gardenia and neroli, all of them somehow both plush and dilute, as if the flowers are being viewed through a rain-streaked window. The dry down is a whisper of musk and white woods, clean to the point of transparency. The entire composition is a neatly ironed linen shirt drying on a sunny clothesline, the fabric snapping in a breeze that carries nothing more complicated than laundry detergent and a distant hint of gardenia. It smells synthetic in the way that most mainstream Calvin Klein summers do, which is not an insult, merely a fact: this is a product designed for pleasant ubiquity, not depth. The longevity hovers around three hours, the sillage barely a forearm's length, so you will be refreshing it by lunch. This one suits someone who wants a breezy, unoffensive floral aquatic for a daytime picnic or an office where heavy scent is frowned upon. Skip it if you crave complexity or any kind of backbone, because this fragrance evaporates faster than the enthusiasm for a department store sale. Wear it on a scorching Sunday when you plan to do nothing more strenuous than sit in patchy shade and let the day dissolve. Would you really expect more from a perfume named after a season that never lasts?
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