Ck One Summer Daze

Personally, I love the CK One Summer fragrance series. Every year, they renew this series of fragrances. It comes with innovative, refreshing scents that are suitable for summer and suitable for both sexes, and its price is very reasonable. CK One Summer is a very refreshing fragrance that contains kumquat as the main scent. The idea of the fragrance is completely based on it, hence the light orange color of the bottle. Then come the scents of iced tea and then light mint on a base of Sorbettolide (musk): comfortable, soft, fruity, clean, powdery, and sensual notes... similar to the smell of skin. Overall it gives the feeling that you are drinking a can of Fanta orange. This fragrance is suitable for after showering in the summer, and it is also suitable as a first-class refreshing home fragrance. The fragrance performance is below average and lasts for about an hour or two with a very close scent on the skin. If you are a fragrance collector, a lover of fresh scents, or a fan of unconventional scents, then know that this fragrance will satisfy your taste.

Beautiful orange mint tea, dripping with condensation. Taking it all in, not at a hot beach, but on a classic pool chair at a backyard cookout. Sunny, bright kumquat, maybe some kumquat leaf in there, dries into warm, earthy vetiver. A brach-y presence and near pine-y citrus composition remind me of the orange harvest season in Florida, where ripe kumquats always grow nearby. This is what a fragrance is supposed to do: Take you back - Summer Daze indeed. Typically, CK One Summer gives us an outstanding alcoholic lime cocktail on even years like 2012, 2014, 2016 & 2018. 2020 came with a pandemic, as a result, a less-social and forgettable Summer entry. Expecting a new summer beverage this time around, CK One gave us a refreshing, booze-free citrus mint tea that takes on the creamy, nostalgic, orange character of a melting Creamsicle as the afternoon fades into twilight. The base has a rarely used but gorgeous, fruity Sorbettolide musk from Firmenich, one of the world's premier perfumers. Unisex joy in a bottle. As usual, ignore the over-sprayers.

It's going to be a small review but this perfume screams Kumquat in every ways possible. It is citrusy, fresh, smells like freshly washed linen hanging outdoors to dry on a sunny and windy summer afternoon. The Tea note and the Mint also helps the Kumquat for the freshness. Then you get an aromatic slight undertone with the vetiver. And a clean finish with the white musk. But all your going to perceive mainly is the Kumquat and the Tea. Don't get me wrong, the review isn't short because I hate the fragrance, it is short because I feel like it is so effective that you really just have to try it. It is so cheap and affordable, if you think the OG CK ONE has to many notes, this one can be a cool alternative. It represents the hot sand, hot breeze during a nice trip to the beach, while its 2021 brother seems more aquatic and cool. They represent each aspect of spending a whole day at the beach. It is an 8/10 :)

I am very biased towards the old style ck summer (2006-2014). The last years releases have been pretty much crap. This on the other hand, sort of returns to the ”right” formula. Not 100 % like the old days, but the closest in about 10 years. It’s a ck summer frag allright, but goes into the direction of Aqua Amara from Bvlgari (maybe the tea?). After 30 minutes I finally the sweet fruits come out. At this point it's summer bliss. This is the one that I have missed all these years. Summer in a bottle. Dry down is the best. Not expecting performance but it doesn’t matter. It’s made for dumb reaching during hot humid days when you just want to rock a white tee and head to a beach. A personal summer pick me up, not a fragrance that you wear for others to smell. My final verdict? The warm weather king is back. Buy it.

I've never been into CK One or its flankers, but as the bottle looked so tempting (crazy about the colour orange), I just gravitated towards it. I can't really explain what it is about this fragrance. Is it something unique? No. Something revolutionary? Definitely not. Do the notes speak to me? Not at all! But there's something incredibly addictive about it. A bit bitter and zesty, however kinda sweetish kumquat and I'm so glad it's the most detectable note. I wouldn't have imagined that there's also the tea note, as I don't usually like it and I'm so glad it doesn't stand out. The performance is not the best, but a very uplifting, lovely scent for summer. I have a feeling it will perform better during warmer days. I'll grab this one as soon as I find a good deal during sales.