Pure DKNY (2010)
by Donna Karan

Pure in this case means white, light, flying, slightly green and barely milky and honeyed. The ugandan vanilla is one of the main ingredients but the fragrance turns out soaring and averagely sharp. Pure smells very clean and dynamic as a white dressed young joyful girl in the course of a sunny day. The blend of rose, benzoin, sandalwood and amber produces a white-woody indolic composition enriched by lazy freesia and jasmine. The other mentioned floral note is orchid that with its almost human and acid feel, transmits moderately that kind of floral gassy and powdery sultriness that makes the smell suitable for the hot sunny wheather. The synthetic feel is not overbearing. Unpretentious but not bad for your easy spring time days.

4th October, 2011.

I like the idea, I like that the container is recycled, though I have no doubt that it contains pthalates and many completely non-natural chemicals. I even like the scent itself. but to me it does smell very floral. I smell the vanilla, but it seems almost drowned by a honey-suckle or gardenia scent.

24th July, 2011.

Simplistic yet likable, Pure by DKNY will leave you feeling feminine, clean and pretty.

Pure and 'white' is really what this fragrance conveys to me. It's a subtle blend of florals with only a slight touch of sweetness.

There is something very soothing about this scent, however it may be difficult finding an occasion to wear it. For me, personally, it's extremely casual, like something you'd wear if you chose to spend the day at home.

I can't pinpoint any particular notes in Pure by DKNY. They all seem to blend together nicely making an all-round, pleasant and clean floral blend.

The lasting strength is so-so. Not particularly long-lasting but not fleeting either. I'd recommend Pure by DKNY as being a good choice for those women that dislike anything too strong or too 'perfumey'. This could be that perfect, gentle and inoffensive floral that they may have been searching for.

5th July, 2011.

This smells like a variation or some lighter version of Mugler's Alien. You got the vanilla, jasmine, and wood mix. Aside from that, this perfume is a bore. Its generic and uninspired and smells like all the other newbie perfumes on the market. Its like someone ran out of ideas and just smelled some popular fragrances and made a variation of it. Nothing original. Its not bad, its just not that good.

17th October, 2010.

its smell is really nice i love it but i can only smell it for an hour after i wear it :(

30th July, 2010.

Just editing to note that I no longer understand why I was so enthusiastic, I now find this too stridently chemical, and I've since come to love much, much, much more interesting vanillas, like Vanilia and So hooked on Carmella.

Vanilla!! A very very nice vanilla indeed, they use Ugandan vanilla harvested by hand, according to promotional materials. This starts of with a touch of sweet stridentness, but just a little bit, for a few minutes. Then it settles down into what smells to my nose like pure vanilla, I really, truly do not get anything floral, and definitely (thank goodness) nothing aquatic. The flowers I suppose add something, but this is NOT a floral perfume, not by a long stretch.
Don't let the 'a drop of vanilla in water'-catchphrase scare you, it's not a calone-monster at ALL, though the phrase does ring true in the sense that this is soft and not too deeply saturated. The vanilla is slightly 'dusty' and not edible-smelling, quite ravishingly lovely and it should sell very, very well. It doesn't seem as resolutely young at all as the Be Delicious-series; I think it could be worn by absolutely anyone, man or woman, young or old.

21st January, 2010. (Last Edited: 1st June, 2011.)