Eternity (1988)
by Calvin Klein

A very dated white floral that always fails to wow me. Try as I have to like Eternity for Women, I've always ended up finding something in it cloying and synthetic. It should (IMHO) be light and airy and crisp, but it always seems to end up smelling very heavy and fake.

A failed experiment from CK.

I think this smells horrible and I really can't work out why anybody would like it. Just one big strange fake horrible smell, yuck.

Complete turn off for me. I thought this would be much better than what I experienced. Most would say its better than the male counterpart, but I think this wasn't even close.
Smelled like an astringent to me...but maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance to open up to me. Oh well...probably wouldn't have been very impressed either way.
Thumbs down.

I don’t dislike this one as much as I used to. It used to be so much worn by so many women that it was about the only woman’s fragrance I smelled, and things get annoying under those conditions. Eternity is quite floral and it keeps a good control on the floral notes – it has the tendency that the masculine Eternity has to get a little synthetic... but to a lesser degree. The florals are nice – I could do without the violet note in it, but even that doesn’t bother me too much. There is some green in the opening and that’s the only non floral I find in the top two levels. The base is nice too – a standard sandalwood, musk, patchouli, and amber: it’s quite well balanced among the four notes. Eternity is an okay fragrance, nothing exciting, nothing annoying anymore now that it’s not ubiquitous.

It's about time that I reviewed this. I bought a bottle of Eternity when it first came out. It smelled so good in those magazine inserts. I only used about one inch of the fragrance out of the bottle before I had to give it away. I'm afraid it smelled alot better on paper than it did on me. I got alot of freesia, orange, and rose, in a big, open, airy, spicy bouquet. It was both warm and cool at the same time, but it became obnoxious on my skin, overwhelming in fact. I cannot rate it negatively, however, because it was amazing at the time, and I still sneak spritzes of it now and then at the store. I just could not own a bottle of it.

Smells really good on me. Very floral. So much so that if I had known it was floral I would have likely never tried it. Does not smell artificial on me, but rather like a big lily in a bouguet. I can see why someone might not like it..reminds me of the flowers I got when my son was born..w/lily's. The nurse who came in had to immediately leave due to being allergic. But the smell was still lovely. And it smells warm, clean, crisp lily-like in the warm summer evening.