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Be Delicious Latte Matcha
Donna Karan Be Delicious Latte Matcha Eau de Parfum 50ml takes a tea note that usually turns up in light summer fragrances and gives it enough warmth underneath to work across the year.
The opening is crisp. Mandarin orange is sweet and soft, pink pepper adds a dry glitter without any burn to it, and apple keeps things juicy and green at the edges. The heart is the point of the fragrance: green tea, dry and faintly bitter, with the slightly grassy quality that real tea has, set against jasmine and rose. Those two flowers do something useful here, because tea on its own can smell thin, and the jasmine's fullness and the rose's soft powderiness give it body without sweetening it. Underneath, sandalwood is creamy and smooth, amber adds a warm resinous depth, and musk holds the whole thing close to the skin.
The eau de parfum concentration makes it last considerably longer than lighter treatments of the same idea, with a moderate trail for the first hour and a warm, close drydown after that. Two sprays is enough. The tea is clearer here than in a lighter preparation of the same idea, because the concentration gives it room to sit beneath the flowers instead of burning off the top.
It reads as feminine, it is comfortable in an office, and it moves between seasons more easily than most compositions of this kind because of the base. The 50ml size is the practical one for regular wear, large enough to last and small enough to finish.
The New York fashion label was founded in 1984 by Donna Karan, whose earlier work was at Anne Klein and whose signatures were soft fabric, neutral colour and the bodysuit. Be Delicious has been a well known name since 2004, and the fragrances are made by a licensee.
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