Reviews of cK one (1994)
by Calvin Klein

I must applaud CK for revitalizing the interest in unisex frags, but unfortunately, this is not a winner. The opening is somewhat like a traditional cologne tempered with harsh synthetics and fermenting fruits. Carries a light, musky, fresh base. I pass on this one. Try it at Macy's if you haven't already.

smells like teen spirit that's about it...a lot of lemonish, car wash fluidish, rug (foam type) cleanerish... Windex has a new fragrance? Do tell...No good!

It's already been stated that ck One has a synthetic note, but I really do have to throw in my opinion that this note ruins this frag. I could stand the florals, however the synthetic makes me want to vomit.
I don't wear this one.

As many other thumbs down review say, the stuff has an awful, sour, synthetic, chemical note. Actually makes me want to clear my throat and spit. How did something so toxic make it by the test panel? Could be one of those either/or notes that some people pick up and others are oblivious to. For instance, some, including myself, find the aroma of white pepper very repulsive. Others love it.

Too heavily advertised and therefore too often smelt on others which saturated my nose.
Don't be surprised to smell like everyone else if you wear it,

This is headache alley! I use to wear this in middle school some 14 yrs ago. I guess it was ok for that time. But If I wore this mess now O my...... This is a light yet strong fragrance if you get where im coming from. The smell is just horrible & very cheap bland like. Even when I smell this on someone else my nose instantly flares in disgust! This is 1 I would NOT recommend to anyone.

I first had the chance to smell this so called scent when it first came out. I said it smelled like LOVE MY CARPET then and I have not changed my mind!This scent is so generic that it smells the air freshener!

This stuff stinks! It's more masculine than feminine, so I smelled like a guy! Yuck! A guy at work wore this and I told him he stank awful. 'What! I payed over $50 bucks on this!' Oh, okay, like that means you're not supposed to stink, right? NOT! This is one of the worst I've smelled! And it smells cheap and sickly! It's very nauseating to smell and wear. One of Klein's worst. It's very sharp, crisp and strong when first applying, but that sweet-sour chemical odor! It's on my bug repellent list. And it stinks on everyone I've smelled it on!

It's old and unfortunatly has no timeless qualities the sooner this cheap and nasty fragrance dies the better. It evokes no sense of sophistication at all.

This stuff is repulsive. I can't see for the life of me how it became such a popular "fragrance" (I prefer to think of it as an offensive odor) and remain so to this day. It just disgusts me when a whiff of this wafts under my nose, and furthering my dismay, I discover the source of this nauseating stench is an attractive female.

I received this fragrance as a gift.Surely Ck one is for women,not for men.Although it's a unisex fragrance is still too feminine.If you want something similar but more subtle and masculine try Echo,Cool Water or Azzaro Chrome .

How funny what feuermandala said. I love my gay friends and all gay people in general, but it's true, Calvin Klein with all his advertisements, that's the image that comes to mind. I personally don't like the perfume as I don't like the citrus based, cool perfumes.

when it came out, it was a revelation to many, especially to those who didn't care much about fragrances before. a mass-market perfume par exellence and in that way well done by firmenich perfumers. it showed how far one can go by placing the hedione-helional-scentenal accord so ostentatious in the middle. rated sexy still by many, to me it is as unsexy and asexual as it can be. it always reminded me an overcrowded boy's locker room at a high school gym with the air loaden by the smell of sweaty socks and cheap deodorants. which of course could also be sexy, but rather obnoxious to me.

When I was a teenager I wore this just because it was supposedly 'cool' to do so. Actually, I never really cared for it very much. A little to masculine for my tastes. Now, I wear what I like and CK One, I don't.

Doesn't like it, a bit too girlish

I never learned to like this - it's incredibly nondescript to my nose and on top of that has a very unpleasant tenaciousness to it that I know comes from the hedione, which carries with it the power to destroy everything else in its path. Hedione is what makes every *bad* jasmine bad - the hot-breath-like, cloying, awful kind of jasmine that hounds you like a stalker and will. not. go. away. It certainly gives this fragrance a lot of staying power, that much is true! Because it's so universally well regarded, I kept this in my collection for the longest time just thinking it needed to be there; I felt as though there was something wrong with me for not liking it. But the dealbreaker came when I found out that this was the fragrance that Rosie O'Donnell self-admittedy drenched herself in - something like twenty-five sprays at a time - on a daily basis. Rosie O'Donnell. Drenched in CKOne. Need I say more? The horror, the horror. It ceased then and there to be part of my fragrance holdings and I can't say I ever regretted that decision.

boring citrus with a woody floral accord