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Be Delicious
Green apple and cut cucumber give Donna Karan Be Delicious Eau de Parfum its opening, tart and watery together, so the first minutes read cool and almost edible. Grapefruit adds the bite and magnolia softens the top with a white floral note, and none of it is sweet in the way the name might suggest. The fruit here is tart and watery, closer to a salad than a dessert.
Once the fruit recedes the flowers take the middle, tuberose and rose carried on lily of the valley with violet behind them, clean and dewy rather than heavy. Sandalwood, white amber and musk form the base, soft and skin-close, and they are what the fragrance leaves behind after a few hours. Fruit, then flower, then musk: the green, fruity and aquatic accords define it, with ozonic freshness, citrus and a thread of fresh spice running the length of it. It is a quiet fragrance by design.
The fragrance was composed by Maurice Roucel in 2004. Donna Karan launched her label in New York in 1984 after leaving Anne Klein and introduced the younger DKNY line in 1988.
Moderate longevity and moderate sillage make Be Delicious a close-wearing scent rather than a room-filling one. It is a summer and spring fragrance above all, though the musk and sandalwood carry it through autumn and winter, and it suits casual days, professional wear and an evening out.
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