Reveal Calvin Klein perfume – a fragrance for women 2014

This is a real pearl, especially coming from the Calvin Klein repertoire, and for such a low price, I almost can not belive it!
Do not get me wrong, l like many of Klein offerings (Eternity, Euphoria, Obsession, Truth, One, Beauty…and many more) but this one is so special and so different from the usual Klein style. I must say though that it fits the heroin chic, early 90’s, Klein/Kate Moss aesthetic so very well…in particular the naked dewy shots done in sepia by genius Testino! Or the Obsession Sorrenti’s ones.

This is a salty peppery iris, cold and detached, perhaps even a bit dreamy…nothing sterile or aseptic however because it indeed reveals itself little by little, showing a peculiar warmness and intimacy that you were just not prepared to deal with.
The opening is very peppery, black dusty pepper in particular, and it has a punch of salt. I don’t find it fishy or swampy at all, it’s more like a dusty saltiness, and it has on it a vapor-like veil of iris. This iris is not too floral, not yet powdery (and surely it has nothing of cosmetics). It is as if something a tad aromatic accompanies it.
A very modern and niche like rendition of iris, I find.
The ambergris material they used makes this so very special, I can smell warm human skin, a touch of sand and just a tinge of animalic. The smell of something intimate, of two body meeting under the sun in in a salty sweaty embrace. The cold/warm dicotomy works really well here, very balanced.
The dry down never looses the saltness and it is a little woody. Sandalwood is nothing creamy, more dry I would say, but there is a fuzzy velvety quality…and I would bet on it that it is cashmeran. The amber I don’t pick up. I think some type of musk is in here too, even if not declared in the notes (could it be something related to ambrettolide?).

It is not a overly complex perfume in the execution but it was special in concept, I think. When it came out this must have seemed avant-garde for the designer public because the “your skin but better” genre had not yet been so loved and explored, and to add to it this was a salty peppery rendition of that. Of course there was already many musky and ambergris fragrances on the designer market but so very little that fitted in the “human skin” genre . I would like to read more about the making of this perfume, I wonder what the intented result was.

I am enjoying my bottle immensily, more so because a 100 ml costed me just 22,00 €. I absolutely need a back up. Such a shame this is discontinued. I even love the packaging very much, and the way my hand can grip the bottle. The color of the liquid brings to my mind just the color of wet skin under the sun.
Lasts quite well, but nothing exceptional, sillage is ok during first two hours but then it is intimate, wich is ok for me, and coherent with this type of fragrances style.
It is truly unisex, genderless, a perfumes for humans, no sex distinctions needed.

This is special also of another reason: it completely changes with the weather. A truly reactive fragrance, wich I find it is not so common as we think it is.
During fall, with the high quote cold of a mountain city, this is a peppery bomb! The iris and the ambergris translate as foggy. A salty stone cold experience. With spring it opens ever so slightly, and the iris becomes more “purplish”. During summer magic happens!

This perfume is well worth it. I now understand why it is so loved. Get it while you can.