Description
Calvin Klein made a hit with its unisex fragrance CK One from 1994, which marked the urban youth of the nineties. It was followed by less popular unisex edition CK Be in 1996. In 2016, Calvin Klein returns to its tradition and presents a new scent that is gender free called CK2, intended for the generation known as the Millennials.
Announced as an urban woody – fresh scent, CK2 begins with unsual combination if wasabi, mandarin and violet leaf. Wet cobblestones and concrete accords are mixed with orris root and rose absolute and placed on the woody base of vetiver, sandalwood and incense.
The bottle, a cylinder of thick glass set on a clear base that allows the fragrance to be viewed either upside down or right side up, is marked by minimalist design. The fragrance is available as 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette.
The nose behind this fragrance is Pascal Gaurin.
димон80 – :
The pebble and wasabi notes intrigued me. However, I was really surprised to find this smelt like Reveal, just less salty? I think they have the exact same drydown.
It smells like hot summer rocks before the rain for a moment, a little spicy too, then just powdery and becomes a skin scent. I wish that pebble smell lasted longer and it had less orris/hedione, I was hoping it to be wetter!
SweettyGelm – :
I put one spritz on my reluctant husband the other day and every time I walked by him was greeted by this wonderful scent. I think he enjoyed the attention I gave him because of the scent more than the scent itself.
To me it is citrus and cobblestones, on him. It smells like really good expensive men’s deodorant on a rainy summer day.
When I wore this it was citrus and metallic. It definitely suited my husband’s chemistry better than mine. It would have smelled amazing on my college roommate; CK Euphoria was her signature scent. This smells nothing like Euphoria but I can picture her wearing this one in the summer and Euphoria in the winter.
sexyforum – :
The opening is.. very odd. I wonder how some of you doesn’t smell wasabi in it. The opening is full of wasabi, smells like fermentation.
It dries down to a synthetic metallic smell, in a good way. I think this is what people describe as a pebble + violet leaf. It’s very refreshing in this 2nd phase. It gets a bit sweeter than the opening, like a hint of fruitiness inside it. I don’t know where that came from.
Bought a 10mL decant for my SO, but she doesn’t seem to love it. She said it’s nice though.
Arribence – :
The bottle concept is so unique and I really want to like this juice but after just spraying it on my skin as soon as I got home from the store,,, it’s mosquito repellent. Sad to return it, but the does not mix well with my chemistry whatsoever.
Metqj982intitytek – :
I enjoyed several tester vials before springing for a full bottle. This is a lovely, wet pebbles during a thunderstorm scent. It’s not sweet and is rather ephemeral, but I like it just the same. I get no wasabi from this, but there is a refreshing crispness to the fragrance. Would re-buy at a bargain price, as this is one that needs over-spraying and frequent reapplication.
Re. notes listed with the fragrance – I don’t get any wood from this at all. It’s a fresh aquatic scent.
oboltus35 – :
White Musk blast in a bottle ..
Molnij2 – :
The mineral notes give this a frisson of gunpowder smell. Gunpowder, wet rocks, and a modern edge. What’s not to love? This is great!
Longevity is short, but while it’s detectable it smells like fresh air near a wet rock in advance of a thunderstorm. I wish I could smell this all day and fall asleep to it at night. Makes me feel like I am camping.
I love the bottle cap and design.
Petromakitra – :
I love it. It’s a modern, barely-there salty mineral fragrance with subtle herbal, woody, musky, floral, aquatic notes to add some body. It feels very synthetic but at the same time triggers memories of very natural things and places. I wear this when I want something that isn’t loud or a statement but is comforting, close and clean.
nikola34 – :
I now have a bottle (50ml) and I kind of wish I’d have gone for the larger size! Hmm maybe I’ll get another if the price is right.
This just hits me with memories of a special time and place, so on a personal level it was an awesome purchase. I definitely recommend this fragrance, but well, we’re all different, with different experiences. It is a lovely subtle scent which somehow conjures a feeling of endless summers, the sea and rain.
Yesterday I tested Ck2 alongside Mercedes-Benz Cologne and whilst this one didn’t project as much (MBC is already fairly soft), it easily outlasted MBC on my skin even with it’s very delicate but alluring and ever-so slightly salty (skin)scent.
I love the bottle design too.
Edit: get it while you can!
BeDrave – :
I just tested this today, about 3 hours ago and it’s still there on my hand.
Upon the opening blast I found it nice enough but it was only after a few minutes that I picked up the waft again. Then I couldn’t stop smelling my hand.
In this hot weather it is just incredibly refreshing and really clean smelling although quite discreet. It reminds me of something that I can’t quite put my finger on but it could be some scented candles they sold in a well-known Swedish furniture store, some of the candles had pebbles/stones on the label, the other ones were rose-scented.
My ex-fiancee used to buy a lot of scented candles. It also reminds me of the aromas in the florists where I’d buy her flowers. At the time I lived by the Mediterranean sea (which I really miss now!) and this to me also recalls that more than the rivers and lakes which surround me now. I can definitely also picture stones after a rainstorm though.
I’m seriously considering buying this one, even though I don’t find it at all masculine. Every now and then CK produce a scent that I find refreshing and at the same time incredibly comforting (as with CK Be, the kind of scents you are willing to buy just to sniff it now and again, a comfort scent. I don’t think I’ll wear it too often, I’d rather save it & it’s nice to know it’s there for me to smell it (and reminisce). ck2 could be like aromatherapy of sorts for some people, even if it isn’t particularly natural smelling.
Edit; Just as with CK Be I find that ck2 gives low sillage/projection, so much so that you think it’s gone but it’s still there on my hand after 6+ hours, just very subtle so longevity for me is decent enough for a fresh fragrance. It smells lovely and is a discreet scent that can ideally be worn for oneself and for intimate situations.
minjik – :
I got this as a present for a male friend. It is a nice unisex smell; very suitable for both genders, which is flowery woody fresh and light. I get a little bit Chanel Egoiste vibe, but to me Egoiste has stronger flower notes. It is nice for a summer scent, smells clean..
3970 – :
Wet Cement. Brilliant. Cool as stone is true. This is one of my favorites and not just of CK line but of my entire collection. Summer in Las Vegas. right about now when we get to at least 111 degrees farenheit this is my go-to. To me, it’s colder than an aquatic. Highly recommended for anyone who lives in very hot climates.
vladimir-19-55 – :
SUPER SEXY !!
BRILIANT SILLAGE AND LONGEVITY EVEN IN HIGH HEAT AND MOISTURE .
Already discontinued thankfully found a bottle ..
Excellent summer frag .
10/10 for me .
VELS1975 – :
This perfumes makes me feel like i im swimming under the waterfall, with so muvh stones around me… That’s how i feel.
aslfqwh486 – :
Nothing so bad… if you consider how much overpreised garbage are coming in fancy bottles in 2018!
Atilo21 – :
For me, this was a combination of wet bags of sour cedar mulch in Florida August heat, dried red box wine, and sour cork. Basically, a decomposing cacophony of terpenes and acetic acid. I’m just happy that I was carrying wet wipes.
dimon011111 – :
liking this so far. I don’t get the cold metallic vibe some have mentioned, but I do like the light violet leaf and musk mixed with the pear and citrus. The sillage seems to be quite minimal…we shall see how long it will last on my skin.
jodiwouk – :
Like others, I became interested in sampling CK2 once I found out it was being discontinued. I was especially interested in the “wet pebbles” note and thought that this fragrance would really be my cup of tea. Sadly, I didn’t get anything very interesting out of it at all. It’s a perfectly pleasant summer cheapie, but nothing more than that for me. I get a vaguely ozonic vibe on first spray, but this quickly dries down into a vague citrus and soft peach shampoo smell, which, frankly, any perfume house could have produced and sold cheaply. I suspect a lot of people have been drawn in by the striking bottle design, but this is as generic as they come and its discontinuation won’t be much of a loss.
pannos – :
I smelt it when it first came out.
smells like fresh air in the mountains. very refreshing.
toliker77 – :
لطیف اقیانوسی و با کیفیت
جذب پوست می شود به طوری که به نظر نمیرسد ادکلن زده اید، بلکه گویی پوست خوش بویی دارید.
یه کار خوب تابستونی دم دستی و مسافرتی
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Scent & Qualiy: 8/10
Longevity: 7/10
Sillage: 5/10
Creativity & Uniqueness: 6/10
Affordability: 9/10
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Overall: 7/10
Smeameknimi – :
Somewhere it goes with lines of Narciso Rodrigues For Him, I gues it’s the musk and the violet, both scents kinda relate with its mineral feel and flowery sparkle. In the heart the peony starts to sing bringing the feminine side of the scent.
If the incense in CK2 would be much stronger no one would be surprised if it was coming from costly nieche brand. Discountiniued? The mass does not deserve it…
axolotllll – :
I would totaly love it, if it was not about that one note (I don’t know which one) that is annoying me. It is not constant, I can’t smell it at every snif, but it is enough to discourage me to buy it.
edl289Unlogrere – :
This is a good scent with good longevity which is unusual for CK. It is a clean fresh smell. I have no idea what pebbles smell like but what I get is light violet and vetiver.
The bottle design is reminiscent of medicinal drips which gives me the idea that there is a clean and refreshing scent inside the bottle.
It is an everyday scent, not too overpowering but mysterious enough to come back to regularly. It is one of my favourite scents in my collection.
Well done CK.
dimych77 – :
Loved it on my colleague, it left a nice and clean trail behind him and I even could tell he was there without seeing him. Tried it on my skin yesterday but the smell was too synthetic and strong. It is a nice scent that gave me flashbacks from when I was 5 of 6 but it was too much for my nose. Maybe it is the wasabi ? Oh and it has a solid longevity (6 hours before I had to wipe it out).
So definitely an interesting scent but sadly not for me.
shevaa73 – :
Lasted only 2 years ,not suprised ,smells of almost nothing ,have to cover yourself in it to get any kind of aroma! This was a really strange release by Calvin Klein ,with some exceptionally strange notes that really don’t blend well together ,never been too keen on smelling of wasabi and pebbles ,but hey ,each to their own
gruzovic – :
Based on the reviews, I thought I would smell something nice. I was wrong. I’m glad I didn’t blind buy this. This smells horrible.
Willi-zayka – :
it´s been discontinued? Oh, no! I love it. I think it is an acquired taste perfume. It is strong and masculine. I feel like a female superhero from the future when I wear this.
anton1177 – :
This somehow really does emulate the smell of wet pebbles by the river. I work in the river and get to smell that often during the summer months and it’s amazing how well they captured it! It’s a fairly clean, unisex, airy type of scent that’s great for outdoors work or if you just want to wear something without committing to something heavy. It’s a cold scent, but at the same time reminds me of the smell of pavement after it rains. Almost like a humid frigidity to this, if that makes sense. I enjoy it, but wouldn’t buy a whole bottle! I didn’t even know it was discontinued (reading the below review).
MazHaz – :
Recently people seem to be showing this fragrance a lot of love, probably because it got discontinued and people now think the fragrance is special because it won’t be as easy to obtain like it was a few months back (trends are funny that way… Hard(er) to get = best fragrance ever all of a sudden). More than likely this is a physiological result of people thinking they are more “special” because they could have a rarer fragrance, and thus take the time to truly appreciate what it has to offer.
Seeing the trends, I decided to spray some on from a bottle I got a while ago. I always loved the bottle design, one of my favorites from the ridiculously gigantic collection of fragrances I have wasted thousands of dollars on over the years (the addiction is real folks). I also notice my nose seems to change by the season, I may hate something one day, then come to love it a few months later and smell something completely different. So periodically I revisit old fragrances I didn’t care much for when I originally blind bought them in order to reacquaint my nose to the scent.
After testing this one again, I have to say that Ck2 to me is just Ok. I’ve never been fold of this particular scent DNA (too feminine, always reminds of me a generic skin/hand creme for women), and while I can appreciate it more now than I did a year or so ago, I still don’t see anything special with this one. Smelling it now, I can say without a doubt that it gets lumped into the “white bottle” fragrance category. You know, that signature “clean, light and musky” scent that smells like a dentist/doctors office. No idea how to categorize the scent other than that.
Ck2 is clearly along the same vein as other white bottle fragrances such as Lalique White, Ferrari Essence Musk, Guerlain L’homme Ideal Cologne, and Clean for Man White Vetiver (to name a few). While it’s not a bad scent DNA, it’s nothing special or unique to my nose. Every other “white bottle” fragrance has this exact same scent character, but each with their own slight twist. However in the end, they all smell similar enough to be basically the same scent.
cabrys – :
My second rewiev about the phenomenal CK2, my all time favorite. Bad news: This one goes bad too fast… When I saw that Calvin Klein discontinue this precious creation, I stocked few bottles. As of today I realized that my two bottles of 100 ml., one of December 2015 and the second of January 2016, both originals, both kept in their original package and in good conditions but both gone bad. By going bad I mean: The first sharp-citrusy-spicy spalsh is considerably weakened (and 12/2015 bottle is weaker than 01/2016) the top notes nearly disappeared, like the fragrance starts from middle notes and the overall sillage and longevity weakened too.. That reminded me that Clinique’s Happy is also famous for going bad too early. I feel sad and frustrated, this is so unique, decent creation… Calvin Klein, you must bring CK2 back, continue to produce it, may it be only for your own prestige to have this futuristic, spectacular quality in your collection.
Blurbibly – :
Cool, yet sweltering. Airy, yet suffocating…and not in a bad sense. CK2 is a modern, urban twist on the concept of opposites which fits the unisex aspect of it perfectly.
CK2 takes the concept of CK One and pushes it to an extreme. Do not try this perfume if you are afraid of leaving your comfort zone. This perfume does not mess around—it is brave, bold, and beautifully so; since it is, surprisingly enough, very subtle, much like its predecessor.
CK2 is a pleasant perfume which takes your mind to a modernistic jungle, where the trees are made out of chrome and the waterfalls spew glass. Distant, abrasive, provoking, yet so intriguing. If you are a fan of science-fiction, you will find CK2 familiar.
To put it short; CK2 is a nice perfume with ozonic, floral, spicy, and metallic properties meshed with a woody undertone. The coldness of it is balanced with the spicy and woody aspects of it. CK2 is a very interesting, layered concept which makes the CK One pale in comparison. Nonetheless, I suggest trying CK One first before trying the little beast that is CK2.
You will definitely enjoy the experience CK2 provides you.
tyriniv – :
I have spent time searching for something with this vibe, and now I’m happy to say I have found it.
As a huge fan of sci-fi and futurism, I wanted something that would smell cold, fresh, sterile, synthetic, unidentifiable but very specific.
CK2 fits the bill perfectly. On surface it smells as the bottle looks – clean and a little weird. After spending some time with it, getting to know it better, I can definitely smell the water-fire ad in it. It smells so wet and cold, but also burnt (wasabi and/or incense, maybe?) which is the perfect combination for that techy vibe I’ve been looking for. Also, as a bonus, wasabi is Japanese, which I find very fitting since East Asia is playing a big role in the cyberpunk aesthetic.
virusniak – :
Refreshing, yet a little spicy. A unisex, everyday fragrance. It leans a little masculine to me.
The sandalwood is quite present to me, and I honestly prefer other fragrances for the woodsy sandalwood scent. And there is definitely a synthetic scent. Normally, I don’t mind synthetic scents and tend to love the way it’s done with other brands. But not this time.
I find this scent just OK on my skin, and not something I’ll be adding to my collection.
Zooolanpro – :
Peculiar scent. First it smells like sweet clean white lotion with an strong undertone of minerally, metallic scent woven throughout. Then it becomes wet sidewalk concrete with green leaves and water. However, there’s just a tang of something synthetic in it that keeps it from being a “wow that’s realistically cool” type of scent. It smells better from far away than it does up close, and as someone who wears scents for myself and not for others, that matters to me. The closer I get to wherever I spray it, the more fake and unrealistic it smells. Interesting concept, but not my personal taste.
goshichek – :
Call me boring, but I love most Calvin Klein fragrances for their minimalist, unisex quality. This one is undoubtedly their most avant-garde creation. It somehow manages to be cutting edge and pleasant at the same time.
It really smells of pebbles, so that’s quite a feat in itself. Cloudy skies, an electric storm brewing on the horizon. A zen garden and a fresh stream, but not quite a picture of nature, they are surrounded by barbed wire fences and a concrete jungle.
Very post modern, I feel this should be called Millennium.
Mepnu801bedyWelty – :
I was looking for something “aquatic” when I bought a mini bottle of this.. What I got was something totally unexpected, unique and amazing! Not particularly watery, except in a rain on hot sun drenched pebbles kind of way..which is exactly the mental picture I get when I smell it.. I love this in so many ways and have had many compliments. No run of the mill, and I think it will work in cold,wet, grey weather as well as hot summer days.
7110421 – :
Unique fragrance. Smells of lily filled ponds or inland sea coves to mine, seaweed, stone, aquatic flowers. There is an old mill on a small lake I used to play on the ” shore” as a child…very similar smell. A definite mermaid scent but I like it on my boyfriend. He wears fresh aquatic and blue/ green scents well. Its unisex but I prefer it on a guy( I prefer CK One on a woman). The bottle is super cool too.
Idk what the guys talking about ” low standards” that’s kind of rude.
Salvador – :
Sometimes I love minimalistic fragrances. I think CK2 is the Queen/King in this.
My wardrobe is full of sweet (fruity, gourmand, etc) scents but CK2 with this earthy,floral, incense aura blow my mind.
Currently I think CK2 and Reveal are the best choices CK brings
Deroxczgym – :
Reminds me of wet stones. Love it as I used to “paint” stones with water as a child.
This is truly unisex but I think it leans a bit more to the masculine side and I love it.
Lasting power isn’t great and sillage is somewhere between soft and moderate that I find appropriate for this kind of scent. Works well in summer and in cold.
Mebtv268InsuffBooni – :
Finally found a scent that suits to fresh, effortless, but at the same time rich definition and again not spending big money. Love at first sniff
puh 2000 – :
Now that was a pleasant surprise! Many fragrances try too hard to smell modern, but this one does so effortlessly. It’s not overpowering, a bit minimalistic (in this case that’s actually ok), has a Japanese zen vibe like some have mentioned, smells like a spa or a beach in a ultra modern city. I love the bitter salty water accord (a bit reminiscent of Kenzo homme) and the stone-pebble accord and spicy wasabi that dominate the other ingredients; a bit floral, a bit fresh, a bit woody.
I much prefer this kind of modern interpretation of perfumery than say “sauvage” or the endless lemony aquatics.
scent: 8/10
longevity: 6/10
sillage: 6/10
insider1 – :
@CombinationCode
“The smell that came with them, was sooo hideus I could not stand to breathe near them I was holding my breath and try to breath through my mouth so I couldn’t smell that stench.”
My oh my, if I had stood next to this scene, I probably would have laughed myself unconscious.
nfyxbrb152151 – :
If it be stronger I would’t buy anything else from now on but its’s overall too weak.
I feel the fume on myself for couple of hours though I love and use it for my enjoyment cause it’s composition is so beautiful.
To me it smells like an fresh but dewy air after rain in the city, where you feel wet pavement and trees that blooms in spring like lilacs.
Bronza432 – :
The scent profile of CK2 looked (and still looks) so good to me! Since I usually wear CK fragrances really well, female/male/unisex, this was a no-brainer blind buy. CK has never let me down. Plus, the smells of ozone and wet stones are two of my favorites, and I’ll actually go out in the rain just drink them in. I’d so wanted a bit of that in a fragrance!
Sadly, I get neither of these on my skin. Or anything else. From application to dry down, all I smell is creamy lemon. It’s lemon grass without the bite, but “drier” than lemon balm, at least to me. It’s a very pleasant scent, and I love it just after I’ve showered. I smell more clean and fresh. But this becomes a skin scent on me within 15 minutes. Sillage doesn’t go beyond a foot after about 5 minutes. I’ve tried slathering myself with it, but the amount doesn’t seem to matter. My skin is just devouring this. It’s disappearing on my clothes and hair, too. I don’t regret the purchase because the little scent I’m getting is so appealing to me as a lover of clean citrus frags in general. But I definitely won’t be repurchasing when my small bottle is gone. I’m simply not getting enough scent in this.
This just occurred to me: maybe I’m anosmic to this particular blend? I’m not to most of the individual notes (can’t say with regard to the wet stones since I’ve never before bought juice with that note). Whatever is going on, I wish I could smell all the wonderful notes the rest of the reviewers smell!
sashasasha-2010 – :
Now…3 h longevity and good sillage. I feel this very sweet at this moment.maybe is the impression of a very humid and hot night.
Моня_48 – :
A grower for me. I am used to sweet, floral scents so this was off-putting at first. I thought it smelled like a hair product. But then, once I began to wean myself off of sweet scents for a few days, I started to feel the attraction and pull of CK2. Around about the 5th day wearing it I finally got the wet stones fantasy note. That was a revelation – now it’s like sunlight warmed glass windows in a sushi restaurant. I can smell the wasabi and wet stones very prominently. The violet leaf definitely makes this more masculine but not overly so. It’s just clean and refreshing. I would like to layer this with bamboo and rice notes to increase the “sushi restaurant” feel.
barkas-yug – :
The only thing bad about CK2 is the marketing. Millennials? 99% of the time this term is used as a derogatory remark for a young individual who is self-absorbed, spoiled and shallow, and Millennials most definitely don’t like being referred to as such. Another thing, it’s definitely not limited to the target age group. In fact, I think more mature people will appreciate the minimalist aspects of this scent, regardless of gender.
As far as the scent goes, it’s good stuff. Wet concrete and pebbles? Creative and kind of yes, but I get jasmine green tea. The jasmine note is clear although significantly toned down compared to it’s predecessor CK One. This pebble note smells clean and dry, and most similarly to green tea in my olfactory memory. I’ve encountered a similar note in Bvlgari Pour Homme Soir and L’eau d’Issey Pour Homme Intense(papyrus I think), although CK2 is super light compared to both of these. It’s ultra clean and very light, so perfectly safe for most situations. I’m looking forward to adding this to my collection.
olil – :
at first i couldnt smell it..then i tried again..bought it…its growing on me really fast.something watery bit spicy citrus rosy smell in it with that soft sandalwood…gorgeous unisex wear for scorching heat…doesnt last very long but the smell and the bottle design makes up for it…LOVELY inexpensive casual summer day scent…by the pool on hot tiles…imagine some pool water splash ..and then you to the juice bar and cool down with some fresh juice…
Alex_R – :
UPDATE: Unfortunately, it develops a strange sweet undertone on me, which simply ruins the feeling and reminds me of dirty laundry. Seems like that cringy initial note reminiscent of licorice returns in the drydown. I had to give it away.
DMITRI 26 – :
This reminds me of Reveal which I LOVE! This is a little more clean, like it should be day wear and Reveal, evening wear. I don’t even care what these smell like ON me I love them so much! I like to please others, and often will wear something to pleasantly accompany a companion or surrounding area. Not this time! Plug your nose if ya gotta!
I passed this up several times at T.J. Maxx….just like Reveal. I’ll never learn! I’m going to get in a swap though, so I’m happy…AND will purchase another one if I run into it for 20.00 again!
These scents to me, are like…I wanna smell like HER. WHY does she smell SO good? It’s a brand new home smell…by a cool water hitting the hot dry air breeze.
SO excited to wear this along with my Reveal.
This is a scent to share with a partner also. I’d love smelling it on a man. Except…I can’t if I wear it myself! Too bad for me!
Got my bottle in a trade. I just can’t say in words how addicted to this I am. Pebbles seem to be first on the list of what others smell. Well, me too but, it’s the smell of pebbles in a perfect dream, only saltier. I may see about putting a box in an outside area like Goodwill does for used clothing, only I will be collecting disliked bottles of this!
Andrus – :
Year ago i was working as a student in summer resort in one small souvenir shop. One day, the two ladys came in the shop, (i will never forget this) the smell that came with them, was sooo hideus i could not stand to breathe near them, i was holding my breath and try to breath through my mouth so i couldnt smell that stench… otherwise, im not sensitive to strong perfumes, they dont give me headaches or anything..to me, that smell was something like green chopped poisonous plant, something like field bindweed and as some of u say maybe metalic- more like oxidized fake jewelery. I just could not understand it. I thought maybe they use some kind of organic eko friendly deodorant or what, (not that i have anything against it, au contraire) but smell was so bad and strong i almost womit.
Last month, when i was purchasing new perfume for this summer, i tested this one and immediately remmembered those two ladys.. that was it, that stench. I dont get anything sweet or flowery or citrusy, to me it smells like swamp.
I see lots of you write good reviews for this one and i just cant understand, why to me is just like worst thing you can smell..and its a perfume!
We all have so diferent sense of smell, looks like this one, for me, its on the other end of the spectrum.
zdg715intitytek – :
When I first sprayed CK2 by Calvin Klein I didn’t think much of it. The initial blast was very citrusy, ozonic and metallic. I stuffed the scent strip into my handbag and carried on with my day.
Revisiting this fragrance again, I am amazed by how much it has developed. It’s more powdery and floral on second sniff, like a subdued floral aquatic. I may be unpopular for saying this but I actually enjoy CK2 far better than CK One.
The metallic accord remains throughout the entire composition, however it is by no means unpleasant. CK2 smells very clean and clinically fresh to my nose, almost like the scent of undiluted laundry detergent. CK2 would make the perfect Summer scent especially if paired with a casual t-shirt and blue jeans.
At this present point in time this fragrance is leaning more towards the feminine side, especially seeing that I can smell lots of powdery violet leaf and peony emanating from my paper strip. I am however curious to see how CK2 wears on a man.
I find this fragrance to have excellent staying power and moderate sillage. It’s a first in a long line of CK One flankers that I actually find interesting.
icetleTaire – :
It is not a “statement perfume”, it’s “anti-statement”. It’s saying “I’m neutral, one of the crowd, neither a woman nor a man, neither spicy nor edgy nor strong nor.. anything in particular really”.
It may sound boring (actually it is!), but it became my most wearable scent ever, because you know – office.. people around.. mornings when I don’t want to think and need to put on some decent clothes and be outside in 10 minutes… I’m coming to the end of the bottle and am hesitating whether I should buy the 2nd; normally I do NOT buy the same perfume again (too many good smells to try in life!), but here I’m really thinking (also the price now is so good when it’s no longer new, so why not)
It’s super fresh but not too aquatic, perfect balance, I’m giving 5/5.
Penka – :
A weird one. It’s not a pretty scent. It smells like pebbles or gravel. Like sea water. But much more literal than other aquatic offerings.
rom188 – :
Smells very (post)modern.
Warm and deep freshness. Beach, the one situated in the city, rather than resort.
It starts rather sweet-salty and unappealing, kind of like licorice and it takes some time for this initial strange phase to die off.
CK2 becomes very gender neutral, very “grey marl” on the skin and clothes, comfortable, warm but refreshing.
Most likely due to a pronounced violet leaf note, it reminds me of Eau de Cartier without the yuzu, and more smoothly blended.
Smooth, androgynous and very relevant, with opposite, yet blended wet and dry, cold and warm facets.
I need about 7 sprays to detect it tough.
PayncDyncHams – :
I almost anosmic to this fragrance. In some moments of the day i can detect a soft nice scent but very quicly it-s gone.
breads – :
It’s an interesting smell. Airy, bit floral and has dominant feel of sun shield lotion with soap. I detect wasabi spiciness with a wet cement – very nice. This frag makes me want to go to a beach. Like it very much but projection is questionable. Miles better then ck1.
VITALIY01 – :
I don’t know who should couple of it’s notes smell in fragrances but when first sprayed I can detect violet leaf,a hint of mandarin and something aquatic.It’s first half an hour is a very aquatic,ozonic scent to my nose.reminds me watermelon note in marina de bourbon Prince Blanche and calon in some issey miyake perfumes.I can see why some people may love it but I highly dislike this type of scents(I agree with reviews describing it as SPA’s smell)hubby also dislikes it as most aquatic,ozonic scents smell like (non cooked)egg to him
It dries down to something better thanks to musk musk and sandalwood (I can’t pick up vetiver or incense)
I need to try it again because it seems to have a drydown I may like a bit but all in all it’s not me or hubb’s type(though I love clean scents and laundry musk)and I don’t see a chance of wanting to buy it.it’s a pity because we love design of it’s bottle
Although I don’t like ck2,I see it a nice new member to Calvin Klein’s unisex family(ck one,ck be).ck2 is clean,fresh,watery(but thanks god a watrr without fish in it)ozonic and totally suitable for summer and spring.longevity is good and it’s very recommendable to people who like these types of scents
89200359991 – :
I liked it when I first sprayed it but then when it sat for a bit it became very musky/hair spray-ish it caused me a migraine soo I would say this is headache inducing if you are sensitive to perfumes all I can say is too heavy