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Calvin Klein Downtown — perfume review and quick poll
Calvin Klein is calling Downtown a woody floral, and maybe it is, although the top notes are nearly candied enough to qualify for a more edible classification. The opening is a pile of sweet fruit, weakened slightly with an aquatic note (the notes: cedrat, bergamot, neroli, pear, watery plum, pink pepper, violet leaf, gardenia, cedarwood, incense, vetiver and velvet musks). Early on, a mild but persistent undertone of cotton candy keeps Downtown from stepping wholesale into pear shampoo territory, but it also keeps Downtown from smelling like anything you might imagine Rooney Mara, or indeed, anybody downtown, wearing with a black leather jacket.
The heart is the usual nondescript florals with the usual dollop of pink pepper. The base is pale and musky and soft. I would not go getting excited, either way, about the gardenia, or the cedar, or the incense, or the vetiver: "flowers" + "muted woods" + "velvet musks" pretty much covers what action takes place. It warms up with longer wear, and the sweetness does calm significantly, but Downtown is far too tame — it's awfully quiet after about an hour, and I found I had to apply it heavily to get any sense of the later dry down — to qualify as edgy, and it lacks the sultry vibe of the brand's last assault on this age cohort, Euphoria.
Verdict: It's fine. If you'd told me Downtown was a modern designer fruity fragrance geared at a young audience, I'd think it had done its job perfectly adequately. Yes, it's too sweet for me, and no, it's not terribly interesting or unusual, much less superaspirational (really, isn't aspirational enough? do we need superaspirational?), but someone who likes sweet and who just wants to smell nice (and who finds Euphoria maybe too much of a presence) might find it just the ticket. Probably not perfumista-bait, though.
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