CK One Summer 2012

By the editors · 2 min readAmong the annual CK One Summer variants, the 2012 edition has a compositional move worth remembering: rum in the base. Mint, lime, and bergamot open cold and effervescent; apple in the heart adds green-fruity sweetness; rosemary sits alongside with herbal clarity. Then the dry-down arrives with sandalwood and rum — the rum contributing a warm, slightly boozy sweetness that anchors the preceding freshness into something more dimensional. The pairing prevents the fragrance from disappearing entirely on warm skin, as lesser summer flankers tend to do. Considerably better than its format suggests; the rum note earns its place in a genre rarely interesting enough to earn anything.