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BirchDKNY Energizing
Donna Karan DKNY Energizing Eau de Parfum opens on blood orange and mandarin orange, a juicy citrus lift that vodka and tomato leaf cut through almost at once, pulling it sharp and faintly green before any sweetness can settle. The effect is bracing rather than sunny, and the first minutes are the brightest part of the wear. Vodka is the odd item on the list, and what it does here is add a cold, clean bite to the oranges rather than anything recognisably boozy.
Water lily, orchid and daffodil follow at the heart, cool and watery rather than lush, with the daffodil adding a green bite that keeps the flowers crisp and the orchid giving them a little body. Birch and tulip tree close it, dry and pale, so the fruit and the flowers come to rest on a light woody floor instead of a heavy one. The movement runs from bright citrus through clean florals into soft wood, and the lifted, watery quality holds the whole way through; the tomato leaf in particular keeps showing up as a green thread long after the opening has gone.
Donna Karan launched her own label in New York in 1984 after leaving Anne Klein, and added the younger DKNY line in 1988. DKNY Energizing arrived in 2011 within that younger line. This is the 100ml eau de parfum spray, the full-size bottle, and the concentration rather than the body mist, so the notes read here at their fullest strength.
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