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Eternity Flame
Three materials and nothing else: Calvin Klein Eternity Flame Eau de Parfum 50ml is a short composition, and that is a description rather than a complaint. Laurent Le Guernec assembled it in 2019 from a single contrast, and what reaches you in the first few minutes is broadly what remains an hour later. Mandarin orange opens it, and the version used here is the sweet, slightly candied one rather than a sharp citrus, so it reads as warm from the first spray. Sweet pea follows, which is a soft and faintly green floral with a watery delicacy to it, and it keeps the fragrance light at the point where it could easily have turned rich. Then labdanum, which does all the heavy lifting: a dark, sticky resin with a leathery warmth and a honeyed depth, and it is what gives the whole thing its weight and its name.
Because there is so little in it, the fragrance depends entirely on whether that resin suits your skin. On some people it stays warm and smooth, on others it turns slightly sweeter and heavier. It is worth trying on skin rather than ordering blind, particularly since the resin is the material you will be living with for most of the wear.
At eau de parfum strength it lasts well and sits moderately close, which makes the 50ml a sensible size: enough to wear regularly without committing to a large bottle of something this particular. It belongs to cold months and to after dark, and it is sold to women. The house is American and dates from 1968, when it set up as a New York clothing label. It changed hands in 2003, to PVH, and the perfume licence now belongs to Coty, which ranks it a prestige name.
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