CK One Gold Calvin Klein perfume – a fragrance for women and men 2016

When I first tried this a year ago, I liked it a lot. The scent struck me as sweet but classy. That is why when I saw a 200ml bottle on sale at a department store six days ago, I decided to get it, assuming the scent would be as I remembered.

What. A. Freakin’. Disappointment.

It certainly has been through reformulation. The sweetness is much lessened and the smell is VERY funny. I get a funny bittery soury opening, which lasted for three minutes, and then…

Nothing.

No freakin’ thing!!! The opening wasn’t that good, and there’s nothing that comes after. I sprayed SIX sprays consecutively on the EXACT same spot (right arm, to be precise), and another SIX on my left hand, and still got that nothingness after that funny bittery opening.

WHAT THE FRICK, CALVIN KLEIN?!?

I took it back to the department store’s counter brand hoping to return it but the sales representative tested it against the shop’s tester bottle, and, to my surprise, the two were identical. Exactly the same bittery opening and nothingness. As a consequence, they refused to accept the return because they believed this was how the fragrance was meant to be and there was nothing wrong with it.

I know something was wrong. CK One Gold used to awe me the first time I put it on, only next to CK All (which I think is just brilliant). But now, it’s just funny watery nothingness.

I really want to complain to CK about this blasphemy. How could they ever hope to sell this sacrilege when it’s ultra-weak as it is? This HAS to be the weakest of the weakest I’ve ever tried. It’s not even a fragrance!! My Yves Rocher fragrance mist that I bought for $3 actually smells longer and more properly. Shame on you, CK!

Guys, don’t buy this, unless you get an older bottle. I believe the new reformulation is much, much worsened. Shame that they marketed this as EDT, when in reality, it is Eau de eau de eau fraîche.