Note Pyramid
Tomato Leaf
Water Lily
Coral Orchid
Daffodil
Birch
Tulip Tree BarkEnergizing
Chilled vodka is an actual listed material in Donna Karan Energizing Eau de Toilette, and it tells you what the fragrance is going for: cold, clean and a little bit sharp.
The citrus blend at the top is bright and peel like, the vodka note adds that cool alcoholic snap you get from something taken out of a freezer, and tomato leaves pull the whole opening green and bitter, which is the detail that makes this unusual. The heart stays cool rather than warm. Water lily is watery and faintly sweet, coral orchid adds a creamy softness, and daffodil brings a green, sappy bitterness with a hay like edge behind it. Then it dries out: white birch is clean and slightly smoky, and tulip tree bark gives a dry, pale finish that keeps everything crisp to the last.
Eight materials, and the character is consistent from start to finish rather than transforming. At eau de toilette strength it runs four to six hours with light projection, sitting close to the skin after the first half hour.
It is a daytime and warm weather fragrance, and it suits people who want to smell clean and awake rather than perfumed. Office wear, early starts and summer mornings are where it makes most sense, and it reads as feminine but only just. Anyone who dislikes being able to smell their own fragrance all day will get on with it, since it withdraws to the skin quickly and stays there.
The label was started in New York in 1984 by Donna Karan, who had designed at Anne Klein before going out on her own, and it became known for bodysuits and soft fabrics in neutral tones. DKNY arrived later as a second range, and an outside maker has always held the fragrance licence.
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