Kors (2002)
by Michael Kors

Very nice - unique. KORS Eau de Parfum is one of a kind. The first note I encountered is the boozy wine note; it is very enjoyable and was such a pleasant surprise. Smells to me like red wine – 1996 Gevrey Chambertin, Domaine Serafin, to be exact. I really enjoy the Burgandy note and the soft underlying rose / rosewood accord. About the only sweetness in the fragrance is supplied by some berry notes, and I could almost swear I smelled strawberries in there along with the other berries. KORS EDP is a bit on the subtle side; it’s quite casually / sophisticatedly feminine; stays close and lasts an average length of time. Unique and precious.

Wine and Roses, the stuff Kors is made of! CALCHIC's got this one pin-pointed & detailed. I will look for just the right occasion to wear my sample of this luxury frag. It's special!

Evocative is the key word here... this one always seems to bring back memories of a summer night in Mykonos, Greece. It's quite Mediterranean in feel, luxurious, sultry, warm and exotic... yes, maybe even a little heavy. The rich wine notes combined with the berries make it almost gourmand, but not quite. A unique scent full of character and style.

Smells like having cognacs in the wood paneled, mahogant furnished library of an English manor after a sumptuous black-tie dinner, with huge arrangements of almost too-ripe roses and red fruits scattered about the room and a thread of cigar smoke drifitng through the fireplace-warmed air. This is an evocative scent if ever there was one, and if inserting yourself into a scent-scape of this lifestyle appeals, Kors is for you. Note highlights - cognac, pomegranate, red berries, roses, rosewood, balsam, incense - set the scene that Kors himself must have had in mind when he worked with Lauder on this composition. Personally, I love this scent, though it took me a while to get accustomed to its weightiness, its traces of booziness and the occasional intrusion of what could only be called dirty ashtray (that's the incense - supposed to be cigar-like, sometimes takes a little wrong turn on those "bad chemistry" days. Incidentally, the shape of the bottle itself is modeled after that of a cigarette.) It's just tremendously luxurious and alluring in only the way something very expensive can be, not out-and-out sexy but something a bit more - well, rich.