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Red AppleBe Delicious Fresh Blossom
Red apple in the base is the detail worth knowing about Donna Karan Be Delicious Fresh Blossom Eau de Parfum 100ml, because it is what makes the drydown unusual.
Most fragrances settle into something earthy or dry at the end. This one settles into fruit. The apple is crisp and sweet rather than stewed, and it holds the bottom of the composition on its own, which gives the last hours a brightness you do not often get. Above it, rose, lily of the valley and jasmine form the middle, a clean and fairly traditional floral arrangement with the lily of the valley keeping it green and the jasmine giving it warmth. The opening is the sharpest part: grapefruit tart and a little bitter, blackcurrant green and sour at the edge, apricot soft and sweet enough to hold the other two together.
Our records date the fragrance to 2009, and it has stayed in the range ever since without being reinvented. As an eau de parfum it lasts well into an afternoon with a moderate, close trail rather than a loud one.
This is the 100ml size, which works out as the one to choose if you already know you like it. It is pitched at women, it belongs to warm and mild weather, and it is comfortable at a desk, which not every fruit and flower composition manages. Two sprays in the morning will still be faintly there in the afternoon, and the bottle is large enough that nobody needs to be careful with it.
The New York label was founded in 1984 by Donna Karan, who had worked at Anne Klein beforehand and made her name on soft fabrics in neutral colours. The Be Delicious name dates from 2004. Fragrance has always been licensed out rather than made within the fashion house.
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