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Eternity for Men
Where the toilette is bright and brisk, Calvin Klein Eternity for Men Eau de Parfum is the fuller and longer wearing way to own this scent, and for most people it is the better buy. The composition is the one Carlos Benaïm wrote in 1990, carried at a concentration that lets the lower half of it actually show.
Lavender leads, clean and herbal rather than sweet, with lemon, bergamot and mandarin orange giving the opening its lift. Together they make the kind of start that reads as soap in the best sense, immaculate and slightly old fashioned.
The herbs arrive quickly and they are what the fragrance is really about. Sage is dry and dusty, juniper berry resinous and cold, basil green and faintly peppery, geranium sharp and leafy, and coriander adds a dry spice that ties them together. Behind that sits a genuine floral heart, with jasmine, orange blossom, lily of the valley and lily softening the herbal edge and giving the middle a rounded quality that very few masculine scents of its era bothered with. The base is warm and smooth. Sandalwood is creamy and dry, brazilian rosewood adds a sharpened peppery wood beside it, vetiver brings a rooty bitterness, amber a resinous warmth and musk a soft skin finish that keeps everything close.
The extra concentration shows as hours rather than volume. Expect most of a day from two sprays, with a quieter and warmer trail than the toilette gives. It is aimed at men, suits cool weather and evenings as well as the office, and it is the version to choose if you have ever found the original too fleeting.
The label began in New York in 1968, became one of the best known American fashion names, and passed to PVH in 2003. Coty makes the perfumes under a prestige licence.
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