Eternity Flame
Pineapple and rosemary is not a pairing anybody would have predicted, and it is the reason Calvin Klein Eternity Flame Eau de Toilette 50ml is worth a look even if the rest of the line leaves you cold. Five materials in total, so this is a short composition, and the oddity of the first two is doing most of the work.
Pineapple opens it and is handled dry rather than as a tropical sweetness, tart and slightly green, with none of the syrup you might expect. Rosemary then arrives across the top of it, camphorous and herbal and distinctly savoury, and the collision between the two is genuinely unusual in a mainstream release. It should not work and largely does.
The second half is warm and dark. Amber gives a resinous sweetness, leather is dry and smooth rather than tarry, and labdanum underneath both of them adds a sticky, honeyed, faintly animal depth. That resin is the material the name is pointing at, and it is where the fragrance ends up after the fruit and the herb have burned off. As a toilette it is lighter and shorter than the eau de parfum version of the same name, giving four or five hours with a modest trail, and it suits cooler weather and evenings. Laurent Le Guernec composed it in 2019. It reads as masculine leaning, though the pineapple keeps it from being severe, and the 50ml bottle is about right for something this distinctive.
The parent company started in New York in 1968 and sells apparel, denim and underwear beside its scent. PVH has been the owner since 2003, while Coty holds the fragrance licence and counts the label among its prestige brands, Obsession and Escape included.
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