Liquid Cashmere Black
Donna Karan Liquid Cashmere Black opens darker than the original Liquid Cashmere — black cherry and raspberry give the opening a ripe, slightly brooding fruitiness cut through by rose.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
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- Sweet100
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Black Cherry
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readDonna Karan Liquid Cashmere Black opens darker than the original Liquid Cashmere — black cherry and raspberry give the opening a ripe, slightly brooding fruitiness cut through by rose. The pivot to the heart is where the composition earns its character: iris, jasmine, and patchouli create an earthy-rooty floral that has genuine depth, and the patchouli grounds the heart without going musty. Praline and heliotrope at the base deliver the promised cashmere warmth, a sweet-dry softness that carries the florals into a comfortable close.
This reads as an evening feminine for fall and winter. It's more complex than the standard Donna Karan offering, and the patchouli-iris combination gives it an almost niche-adjacent dark-floral quality.
Scent twins
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