![]() ![]() I really do hate ragging on Calvin Klein because I feel a lot of their efforts are misunderstood in the greater scheme of things, but there is nothing saving this vacuous cash-in from criticism, not even its badging.Įternity Aqua isn't the worst thing ever, but you could have the same effect for peanuts from Avon or Nautica, and the only thing making this a designer juice is the fact that a designer released it. With these new notes powering freshies to make them richer and longer-lasting, what chance did a crisp short-lived and apologetic hold-over from the previous decade have in the market? Well, evidently this had better success than I could have ever expected, and has remained in production, which is a testament to the staying power of the Eternity brand no matter what's in the bottle. As if things couldn't be worse, this also got completely steamrolled by Bleu de Chanel (2010), which launched in the same year and added faux ambergris plus a host of woody aromachemicals to the palette. What makes this more sad, is that Eternity for Men Aqua followed in a very tired semi-dry "second generation aquatic" theme still reliant upon merging fruit with the dihydromyrcenol, laundry musk, and linalool as the base of older aquatics, and was a style that outside of the Nautica label, had almost run its course by 2010. Unfortunately, there was no way in Hell this was going to live up to the hype of the seminal "fresh fougère" that literally acted as a reset button on the way male perfumes were composed for many years to follow. The first seasonal variations of Eternity for Men started in the previous decade, which were still about 20 years late to the party even then, but as the first official permanent flanker to a legendary line that was past the two decade mark by the time this hit shelves, Eternity for Men Aqua had big shoes to fill. A nice summer freshie and excellent value.Įternity for Men Aqua (2010) is the first non-seasonal flanker to Eternity for Men (1989). Eternity Aqua lasts a good 6 or 7 hours on my skin and projection is arm length, becoming a more intimate skin scent by the end of the day. I've really enjoyed wearing Eternity Aqua and although the original Eternity for Men is also great and has more nostalgic value for me, I think I now favour Eternity Aqua more. ![]() For a cheaper fragrance Eternity Aqua is excellent, not an outstanding composition, but a very nice fragrance that has a decent trajectory. As the fragrance settles on my skin I detect a little of the pepper and then later in the dry-down it settles to a nice fresh scent with prominent floral and woody notes. The opening really catches me with some nice sweet fruity and fresh notes, smells almost unisex and brings to mind a sunny spring day. Eternity Aqua is a fresh blue scent with reasonable longevity and performance and a very wearable, pleasant scent that is suitable for most occasions in the warmer months. Eternity Aqua is a great fragrance in it's own right and the scent is more contemporary than the original Eternity. Yet another of the many flankers to the classic 1990s aromatic Eternity by Calvin Klein.
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