Kenzo World

This is my first review here in Fragrantica as this time I felt that I really must share this with you fellow Fragranticans. :) Because... I need to tell you that I BLIND BOUGHT this eye fragrance! I’ve been laughing at myself whole morning thinking about this. This is kind of a long story but I think that there might be someone who enjoys this as much as I do. It all began a couple of weeks ago when I was at a perfume store and saw the new Kenzo World Eau de Toilette. I had seen the famous commercial before and it gave me a good laugh so I decided to test the cute looking pink edt. As I adored the powdery, innocent almond blossom note I bought the edt immediately. After that also the original Kenzo World began to interest me. I watched the video again realized that this story is exactly like my thoughts sometimes when I feel contradictory and couldn’t care less what others think about me. So somehow I knew that I will love this fragrance and ordered a full bottle from the internet. It arrived yesterday. I had some fun with myself, again, as I wanted also to “blind wear” this. That means that every time when I blind buy a fragrance I try it on skin before giving it a full wear but this morning after showering I sprayed Kenzo World for the first time full sprays to my all pulse points. And it was love at the first sniff. This fragrance is really like me. Or, actually, my World. The controversial commercial video describes perfectly the whole evolving of the perfume. The fragrance opens with a sophisticated accord that somehow reminds me of Tom Ford Velvet Orchid Lumiére (which I adore). It fits well to a gala night but there is a little sad, kind of a mourning like undertone. Slowly, as the overwhelming ambroxan note reveals itself, the fragrance begins to change more and more modern and even schizophrenic. It begins to bloom and shows it’s empowering heart that makes you feel very confident and free! There are moments when those super feminine floral tones come forward just to make you feel feminine but at the same time the darker tones remind you all the time that you are not only feminine but also a true power woman. The nose that blended this one must be a genius! The bottle was for me a pleasant surprise as it is made of nice frosted glass and in real life it looks much more beautiful than in the pictures. I also adore the symbolics of the name and the bottle. When you really think about the whole world and universe it makes you feel very small and meaningless but on the other hand you look at the world through your own eyes so that the world will be there for you, just reach for it by looking it eye to eye.

I think the people who call this perfume unoriginal are selling it a bit short... it's pretty rare to find such an unapologetically shallow perfume, I think. Vapid, even, or soulless. Those don't have to be bad things. This perfume is a vindication of shallowness. Almost lonely in how delicious yet insubstantial it is. So sweet and addictive yet disconnected from real life, head in the clouds. A lone girly girl. This is the perfume version of Red Bull for breakfast. I grow nose-blind to this very quickly, probably because the fragrance is so shallow and doesn't mutate much. So this tends to be something I will wear more to smell nice for strangers than for myself. It does have good staying power. It starts off more salty and punchy but it dries down to be more cozy and ambery. I agree with scentualmango: I sometimes do get a Barbie doll smell from this. But I like Barbie doll smell, and anyway I think it goes well with the perfume's whole persona. I feel ambivalently about this scent, if you can't tell. I started craving it soon after I took home a spray card, and somehow now I have a bottle. It's so addictive, but there is no depth to it. This is a perfume that will arouse your appetite but never satisfy it. Like Tantalus thirsting in Hades... like anyone in love, really... I love it. I have no choice.

This was a blind buy, and I am so happy I risked it. The deciding factor was someone said it was like My Burberry Black. To my nose, it must be the same jasmin that Kurkdjian uses in both to make it have that familiar yet mysterious scent..... Some sort of Kurkdjian magic! My Burberry Black is my favorite perfume of all time, and my perfume addiction is because of my pursuit of perfumes that give me the same feeling. If My Burberry Black is a beautiful woman in a black dess entering a wet forest while eating an overripe peach that drips down her hand as she transforms into a Burtonesque dark fairy with the sunlight streaming through the trees while the moss and the wet leaves crunch underneath her feet. ... Then, Kenzo World is the same beautiful woman leaving the wet forest, dressed in a see-through white dress, entering a field of flowers, and floating up into the clouds. This is special. I'm getting a backup bottle. If anyone can suggest other perfumes like this one, I would love to experience them.

I purchased this blindly and it has turned out to be the BEST blind buy of my life! I already had an idea of what it would smell like as I already have Kenzo World Intense and Kenzo World EDT. This beautiful deep scent lasts forever on my skin and I have received more compliments on this than any of my other 200 frags. Every time I wear it people are stopping me to ask what it is and where they can buy it. Tonight I sprayed about 4 sprays, did some housework and then went grocery shopping. About 2 hours into my shopping, the lady at the deli counter that was BEHIND the service line commented on it and had me write down the name. I bought mine at QVC because of the easy pay options, I LOVE Qvc. My signature scent is Chloe New EDP and this one is a very close runner up. It does not smell like Chloe but has the same kind of vibe and is the same qualify and long lasting scent. This is lovely but the intense is EVEN BETTER. If I could give this 10 stars I would.

I love Kenzo’s eyes, their personality and performance, this ones too. Funny in itself, I was looking for a watermelon / cucumber scent for the summer that would be absolutely smooth, watery and sweet, yet not being very youthful ... after a few failed attempts I gave up and ordered this berry scent, but ... No good Day! this was exactly what I was looking for! For me, this opening is mostly a fresh cucumber and the drying resembles a sweet cucumber or melon/berries on a maybe a bit milky and mostly kind "plastic" base, which I also smell in the intense version, and which I really like very much! On my skin, that milkiness dries slightly acidic (but not bitter at any point! ) and together with the wooden base, it balances the sweetness without any sharpness, which, for example, notes of tea / tobacco in fragrances of this style usually do. Pretty plain scent? maybe, but for me this Baby is full of unique.❤️