Calvin Klein
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Lychee arrives with synthetic brightness, slightly metallic on the opening breath, quickly joined by a faintly bitter quince sorbet impression that lasts mere minutes before fracturing into something altogether softer. Within moments, the fruits feel less like actual produce and more like a concentrated flavouring agent dissolving away.
The floral heart settles into a predominantly sweet peony-led arrangement, with peach blossom contributing a candied, almost cough-syrup sweetness whilst neroli struggles to provide counterbalance. This phase feels interminable—the composition seems reluctant to progress, circling the same fruity-floral territory without developing substantive character or direction.
As the fragrance finally retreats, the musk and ambrox base emerges thin and unconvincing, offering little more than a faint, skin-scent residue devoid of particular character. Within four hours, Eternity Now has largely evaporated, leaving behind a ghostly suggestion of sweetness that feels less like lingering elegance and more like olfactory amnesia.
Eternity Now presents itself as a fragrance caught between two impulses: the crisp, almost puckering brightness of Asian fruit and the soft, powdery embrace of spring florals. The lychee and quince sorbet opening suggests something tart and alive, yet the composition never quite commits to that citrus-adjacent sharpness. Instead, it pivots almost immediately toward a floral middle where peach blossom and peony create a distinctly feminine sweetness, while neroli attempts to anchor proceedings in something approximating sophistication—though it reads more as a decorative flourish than a structural element.
What emerges is a fragrance of surface appeal rather than depth. The fruity-floral accord dominates with such straightforward earnestness that there's little complexity to discover on subsequent wears. It's neither fruit-forward enough to satisfy those seeking gourmandise, nor sufficiently refined for those drawn to classical florals. The synthetic notes (ambrox and musk) sit uncomfortably in the base, providing a slightly plasticky support structure that prevents the composition from feeling genuinely airy or genuinely sensual.
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