Gold (2006)
by Donna Karan

except for the color of the actual perfume, i don;t find anything "gold" smelling about his. not that that's a bad thing, but perhaps a bit misleading.
this remind me of alberto VO5 balsam shampoo, voluptuous lily and gardenia scent with hints of cucumber....yes, i swear, cucumber!
not donna's best but then again cashmere mist is the only fragrance she's made that comes close to anything respectable.
more for an older woman than a young, might be to overwhelming.

Gold is a nice peppery-floral with a lovely twist of cucumber in the drydown. Unfortunately, it's nothing original.

If perfumes were like boyfriends, that you could have just one, then my old favourite perfume would be seriously threatened now... Donna Karan Gold is just soo irresistible and spellbounding to me, I keep thinking about it when I don't have it on, and when it is on me I walk around smelling myself in a perfume trance...
I imagine a really hot summers night...standing in a small garden surrounded by flowers and bushes, making a barbeque. It is a really black night, and the garden has few lights... I am really sweaty from the heat and the barbeque but the sweat is smelling sexy and sweet. The smoke from the barbeque is spreading through the garden and through my hair, and suddenly all the white flowers in the garden open up and release their heavy fragrance. I take some black pepper and spread it over the meat on the grill. It's aroma blends with the flowers and the sweat and the dark night, and it is...GOLD!

I have a love/hate relationship with this one. When the drydown gets no farther than watery cucumbers ( a scent better for the kitchen than actually ON someone), I hate it. When the drydown gets through the cucumber to amber lily, I LOVE it in spite of the fact that I am not passionate about many florals. Long lasting and especially good for summer, Gold doesn't seem common to me. It's really kinda nice!

I adore florals and love lily notes in a fragrance. They can sometimes go badly wrong, or be too blended with and eventually drowned out by other florals. As with any perfume, it comes down to wearing it on your skin and seeing what happens.

Gold doesn't impress on the blotter, but on my skin, it becomes the perfect lily fragrance, supported by a darker, softer edge later, but not in any way out of harmony or unpleasant. It becomes sexy, sultry and wearable. It lasts for a long time and small squirts are enough.

Lys Méditerranée by Frederic Malle is a very similar take on the lily, but on me, the lily of the valley takes over in the beginning and the drydown becomes honeyed and too sweet. I enjoy both, but prefer Donna Karan Gold.

Gold is sharper, a little more rigid and not too sweet.

Yes, Gold is lily, but….doesn’t the very first note remind you of something familiar?? I' m not sure if people in other countries are so widely familiar with these wild flowers as we here in Latvia ... springtime, grass full of small, yellow circles… dandelions!! Lily comes later, the first sniff is golden dandelions!!! That’s what Gold is for me - spring in Latvia.