Kenzo World Power

It's in my top scents for a reason. It's one of a kind and works amazing with my skin. I prefer wearing it on sunny days with a light dress, reminds me of a salty beach and heat, being barefoot in the sand. I can understand people saying it resembles sunscreen, but only a bit. For me it's a salty, sugared lemonade which dries down to a... custardy floral. Cream soda, salt and fresh air and something green. It's fresh but warm, not gourmand, I think it's the woody and ambery notes which makes it this way, warm. But not warm as cosy, but warm as sunny and cheerful, beach, sun, waves, just HEAT. This probably makes little sense. I can smell some lillies (?) and something "cold", it's like a breeze of fresh air when laying on the beach in the sun & having a nice coctail. Fresh flowers but with warm tonka and salt, the salt here makes a HUGE difference and defines the whole fragrance, but it'sno way marine. There is a lot of vanilla, but not the mainstream type sweet vanilla, it's not as sweet, as I said this is a savoury salt, at least in the beginning. Later on it melts into the skin and you get the sweetness. It last for hours on me and develops from sweet salt to green and vanilla to salty, heated skin and this vanilla custard if I sniff it closely. It's a suprising one, definitely not mainstream, hence it never got popular and I never heard anyone really talking about this... i love this scent to bits and have backups of it. The similar fragrances listed I don't agree are similar at all. Olympya PR is much warmer and less original than this scent, heavy on honey, less salty than Kenzo Power! Olympea is very nice, but defo more powdery and mainstreem. Kenzo Power has a lot more better sillage and less "sunscreen" than Juliet has a gun or Floral Street Arizona which fades on me within 5mins. I really don't have anything in my collection which smells like Kenzo Power or works with my skin the same way.

WOW ! I LOVE this one ! Kenzo World Power EDP is strong, super long lasting, unique, refreshing, and not for the shy. A strong cloud of salt rushes to the front with first spray, as if an ocean wave has hit you hard enough to knock you over. Suddenly, tonka envelops the salted air for a few minutes, then fades to the background, hiding behind the cedar. For the next 8 hours, densely salted air radiates around you in a pleasing way, as if you've just come out of the ocean, wet, warm, refreshed. Sweet hints of vanilla-like tonka lift into the air around you, intermittently fading, mingling with the cedar notes. Lasts easily 8 hours with moderate projection. You only need one or two sprays. This stuff is powerful ! In cold dry winter air, the cedar and salt notes are most prominent. The sweet vanilla tonka radiates increasingly with dry hot summer air. It smells like salted caramel ice cream melting in the sun. I find World Power a very intense, yet pleasant scent. Comparatively, for me, Calvin Klein Reveal is less sweet, more like a real sand beach and ocean scent, more unisex than World Power. Bvlgari Divina is softly sandy, dry, almost powdery, with a gentle floral sweetness, timid, calming and wears closer to skin than World Power. All are beautiful scents for any season.

The best bottle of the "World" flankers. It is fucked up that such a wonderful perfume has been discontinued. "World Power" and "Womanity" are prime examples of less is more. They only have a few notes but they are both beautiful, bold, powerful and unique scents. Very rich as well. "World Power" opens with a strong, piercing sea salt note that nearly makes your nose bleed. It is the saltiest fragrance I own. Super potent and refreshing. When it dries down, the saltiness gets weaker but never disappears. The fragrance is aromatic, woody and herbal throughout its longevity. There is also a little sweetness similar to a vanilla accord in the dry down. I sprayed this on my chest then changed my T-shirt a couple hours later. The scent had barely faded and even transferred on my second T-shirt. I have clothes that I wore more than 24 hours ago that still very clearly smell like this fragrance. This is a testament to its quality. It lingers for several hours without reapplying. It could be unisex and the opening is even masculine. I am keen to try the "eau de toilette" version as well.

I bought this blind (will I ever learn?), as I was as intrigued by this as I was by the original; I love that advert! I own - and like - CK Reveal and there are definitely similarities with KWP; BUT the notes listed both here and elsewhere on the internet smell incomplete to me. On Kenzo's website the perfume is described thus: "The lightness of the peony is embraced by the deeper notes of Egyptian Jasmine. The captivating Ambroxan® brings the perfect finishing touch to this self-confident women style." This is actually the description of the original World, and I suspect the powers that be at Kenzo may not have edited their site correctly (and WP is advertised as being flower free...) but there is a woody edge to World Power which cannot be attributed to cypress, sea salt or tonka. I'd swear there's sandalwood and Ambroxan in this perfume. Whilst I like Kenzo World (and don't understand why it is so generally reviled), I love World Power; its sillage is huge; spray with caution! If you like Reveal, World Power is dissimilar enough to justify owning both.

The best, the strongest, the most complex, nuanced out of the entire World collection! I had tested all of them and owned Power EDT 2018 edition but this is something else. This perfume is unmatched. Superb work on tonka beans, salt and cypress! Nothing else like World Power!!! Yes, I agree with people mentioning OG Olympea and Reveal as perfumes close to World Power, but this is powerful. Full intensity and real depth. It’s sweet, it’s aromatic, it’s salty, it’s ambery, it’s marine, it’s so multifaceted that sometimes it makes me wonder if that’s all this is all about: just tonka, salt and cypress. To my nose, smells more complex! Why was this absolutely amazing fragrance has been discontinued I don’t get it!!! It’s can’t be because it was not selling well because I remember being hyped on YT a few years back and I see here mostly glowing reviews. Kenzo, please bring this flanker back! Please!! Discontinue all the other (average) perfumes you’re selling and put World Power back on market!! It’s a masterpiece in the designer world.