DKNY Golden Delicious Donna Karan for women

This perfume is so fresh and clean - not quite what I was expecting from a fragrance marketed with the term "delicious" and an apple. I was expecting more sweetness, more juiciness and maybe a bit of tartness. But while it's not what I expected, it certainly is a delight! I get only a slight golden apple undertone with hints of warmth and sweetness. But for the most part, it smells I-just-stepped-out-of-the-shower clean.

It belongs to my MUST HAVE list :) I spray it once in the morning and the scent stays on my skin for around half the day. Just feel the warm breeze of wood and the soft touch of flowers. Pretty good one :

Similiar to J´Adore but with less flowers and more fruits IMO. I like this one better.

This indeed is very golden, very fizzy, feminine, floral, but not in a metallic-y screeching way, but in a style of J'adore, which I love. Except J'adore is much more expensive and slightly sharper in the jasmine department, this one is warmer and plushier. I am testing the longevity, and if it holds for 6 to 8 hours at least, like J'adore does on me, I will definitely buy it. Will go well with J'adore's body lotion, I think. Will provide an update on lasting power later.

Update:
Sprayed at 6:00 pm on my wrist, one spray only, went to bed around midnight - it was still there! Fainter, but very soft and plush, very seductive. I will be definitely getting it.

This is rather lovely and smells of very ripe golden delicious apples, in fact they are so juicy and so ripe they are almost mushy and oozing sweet delicious nectar. I can smell mirabelle plum and faint orange blossom but mainly this smells like a delicious warm apple pie.....yum yum yum. Not great longevity on my skin but not poor either, think it would work really well when layered with shower gel and body lotion.

Oh how I love the scent of orange blossoms in bloom!
This fragrance captures the aromas of spring in bloom.
The floral blend consists of the prevelant scent of blooming orange blossoms blending with lily of the valley, and orchids, combining with a fresh under current of fruits. This is a very warm, friendly, and inviting scent. Not intimidating or overpowering, but impossible to ignore. This scent is appropriate for almost any occasion, or season, and brings a warm sense of well being to the wearer.
Longevity is quite good on me.

This smells so sophisticated. If I was a business-woman, this is the perfume I would wear.

Golden Delicious is a classy and radiant scent, it does not have the sourness of the original 'Be Delicious', instead it is a little sweeter and in my opinion a little more mature.
It still has the scent of apples, but as the name suggests, more 'golden' apples and less crisp and juicy. The drydown is a pleasant woody musk.

This scent makes me feel special while wearing it, and in my opinion can be worn day or night. An absolute favourite.

Longevity is average and the scent stays close to the skin.

I was excited to try this. I thought it would smell like spicy fall apples or something. It instead smells really heavy, nothing like apples, and the smell continues to be overpowering and just gross when I put it on. Thankfully I only have a large sample. I've only worn this twice and regretted it both times. Too bad.

I don't like Golden Delicious. I don't really detect any apple notes and it is more of a heavy scent.

I LOVE THIS ONE IT IS A BEAUTIFUL FRAGRANCE, I LIKE THIS ONE ALOT BETTER THAN THE FIRST ONE.

I tried this today at ULTA. It's really a nice fragrance but I have smelled this somewhere before. Maybe 5th Avenue by Elizabeth Arden? It's a nice clean fruity scent with great lasting power so far. I have had it on 3 hours now and it's going well. Smells like a tart apple with other fruits added. I don't now if I would spend money on this though.

Just tested this for the first time today and I am quite surprised by it, in a good way! I was expecting nothing special, just another flanker of be delicious (which I own but sadly never reach for anymore) but this is a very nice, warm, special scent. I can, ofcourse, smell the resemblence to be delicious, but find this way more alluring and sexy. I am even considering buying a bottle right now..

Golden delicious wonder!

As a matter of fact, I was a bit skeptical about yet another flanker by DKNY, but to my surprise it's really good. It's extremely feminine and bright, and very long-lasting. The aura that it creates around you is very subtle but noticeable. It's not a choker that can be recognized within a mile away. Reminds me Dior J'adore, but softer, and a little more fruitier. It's appropriate for an elegant dinner, office, or a date.

*****

one of my favourite perfumes... just perfect, refreshing and makes me feel good...

I find this perfume to be a very light, fresh, scent with a little bit of sweetness underneath. I can't say that it's my favorite scent but it is definitely likable. It reminds me of a laundry room to tell you the truth, lol. But who doesn't love the smell of fresh, clean laundry right out of the dryer? It's a very pleasant warm scent that would be perfect on a warm spring day.

The way this smells to me would be like washing a sweater that had the original Be Delicious on it. Soft, laundry-like, reminiscent of a juicy apple, but just barely.

This is a very quiet yet pleasant fragrance. Doesn't have much throw, but throughout the day you may catch an intimate whiff. It does have more of an autumn-type feel, but because of how light it is, I think I'll give it a go this spring. This isn't too original or memorable, but very inoffensive. Nice.

It's lovable but I'm not the man for it.
It's blossomy and elegantly chic. But there's a neat and tidy soapy sugary theme which isn't my taste.
But on a proper dress, in a proper time, it's dynamic perfume which can be worn in official and casual, day and night and indoor and outdoor.

I love this! I have the fresh blossom juiced perfume. I think the golden delicious is so pretty. It is floral, slightly fruity and a bit woody. It works well in fall/winter but I think it could work all year round. I hated the original green apple version but golden is my favorite perfume of the moment. I couldn't wait until xmas I bought it already!

This would be a pretty scent... on someone else. This disappears on my skin almost immediately. I can tell that it is a quality perfume, though I don't think it's very distinguishable. It's elegant, it's pretty, and on someone else maybe even glamorous. But... not for me. Not different enough. Then again, I'm kinda impartial to dominantly "apple-y" scents. Oh well.

This is much better on me than on the test strip. In fact...it's YUMMY on me. I wouldn't knock it without trying it on first.

Mmmmmmmm its so nice, i didnt expect this from DKNY. I dont like any of the other apples so this is a lovely surprise. Smells devine, the name suits it, golden. Imo one of the better in the golden category.
Im terrible at picking out notes, but there is def apple in there, but not the old typical shampoo smell, much more elegant.

This smells like shampoo: specifically the Garnier Fructis brand.

A magazine flyer sample of this (and the original "Delicious") fell out of the mag onto my floor last night, so I picked it up, opened it to sniff it, and put it on my night stand. Well I woke up in the morning and my whole room smelled so DELICIOUS! I wish they made a room fragrance oil of this or something! Man, so mouth-watering!

i have and i like so much its so creamy crispy yelo apple sweet but not overpowering its the best fron DK

I like this but it smells almost exactly like Juicy Couture on me.

like the smell but it is so common, so imitative and unoriginal floral. i have the feeling that i've smeled it many times ago. the smell contravenes the name a lot - there's nothing golden, nothing luxuriuos what associates with gold.

I think its time to stop with the variations of Be Delicious. The idea may be great but it gets boring after two three of them and the original and Delicious Nights I believe will always the best ones......for their originality!

Its nice, fresh and smells floral but not exotic, unique and sexy on my skin.
However I noticed that its much more better than other DKNY Delicious Apples

I got this at the duty free yesterday. I was planning to buy LÍmperatrice but my mom said it's not a scent for a 13 year old :S Whatever. So then she picked this out for me. It wasn't very expensive and she liked the scent, so I took this. Only when I sprayed it on myself (well, into my eye, actually :)) I figured it out... The most noticeable notes for me are apple, lily of the valley and lily. I can't say it's good for one particular season. I'd wear it in the spring'summer because the flowery and fruity notes make it fresh and juicy. It's good for the autumn and winter, too, because the woody/musky notes make it warm and cuddly. This is exactly what I was looking for, thank u mom! :D

This is actually really nice! This is never a perfume that I had any interest in but I got a tester of it and decided to try it and it's really lovely. Don't know if it's buy worthy yet but def go check it out! It's warm and cozy but also fresh at the same time.

Wanted to like this. I was hoping the white flowers would be more balanced by apple, but this is a really white floral type scent. Great for someone else but not me. Wonderful top notes, shame they don't last. But, I'm sure someone else will find this a treasure, I am a fan of more fruity scents.

Mix of DKNY's traditional apple and any white flowers. A bit deeper and not so crisp as original Be Delicious, so also would work in colder seasons. Nice, safe and very usual, thus boring perfume.

Its sweet and cute, not so sharp but ok. Its absolute yellow apple but after 1,5 hour fades away.. Not warm and i think its wrong time to release this perfume it should be a spring scent.

quite floral
can't smell any apple

poor longevity and sillage

this is very good .sweet litll frech

Unfortunately a bit of a disappointment for me. It starts off with a very sweet, juicy burst that smells kind of like herbal essences. At this stage, it's hard for me to really discern specific notes. It stays quite sweet, but I don't pick up on any apple...or anything fruity for that matter.

A strong, sweet orange blossom/jasmine scent is what dominates. Up to that point I don't mind it...it's nice but nothing unique. Then the drydown moves it into the "dislike" category for me....it becomes a fuzzy, chemical, bland shampoo scent (somewhat like the drydown of Incanto Bliss or J'Adore). Overall, I would characterize this as a sweet, non-descript floral scent. It's not crisp or clean, and yet it doesn't evoke any sort of warm autumn coziness either. Fresh Blossom remains the only offering from the Be Delicious line that I enjoy.

i don't know, it smells good but nothing different or special, and there's nothing fruity to me

This is not for me. I guess the "Be Delicious" fans will like it, because it has this basic apple note that almost all of these scents have. It's a softer and autumn kind of scent and it is not unpleasant, but I'm simply not into the "base line" of the DKNY Delicious scents.

PS: I tested it again on my skin today. The staying power is quite ok. It is a Delicious scent that I like more than some other Delicious directions, but it still reminds me of Shampoo or something similar.

PPS: I have a 15ml sample now and what I like to add is: the staying power is only about 1 to 2 hours on me. Also I get a rather masculine drydown. I still think of shampoo when the scent is in its' top and heart notes. So I wouldn't buy more of it :)

This one smelled fantastic on the paper tester i got, but sadly, on my skin it smelled horrible. Totally wrong chemistry for me. Can't wait to smell it on some other woman, though, to see what is can really be like :)

This is in my book, apple perfection. The original DKNY Be Delicious, was for me, too sharp and green and the Red Delicious, while I loved it, turned all berry jam and shampoo on my skin. DKNY Golden Delicious is different, it's more believable, a much less synthetic interpretation of a crisp apple.

The apple note smells like the real thing. A yellow apple picked straight from the tree. Juicy, crisp and refreshing. Floral notes have been intermixed into this composition, with orange blossom, lily of the valley and rose creating a soft and clean finish.

I can easily wear this fragrance and not feel nauseated. I don't usually wear fruity scents, so for me to like DKNY Golden Delicious is a huge thing. It has a slight pear accord as well, that makes me adore this fragrance even more.

This is not necessarily a teen fragrance, I find elements of it somewhat mature, and I mean that in a good way. It would wear well all year 'round, perhaps even being versatile enough to be worn formally. It's wonderfully inoffensive and incredibly lasting on the skin. Really, what more could you want?

Far better than any other DKNY Be Delicious frag! It's like when the original Be Delicious meets Be Delicious Fresh Blossom. Nicely done and with decent lasting power. Fresh & light but a little deeper than other members of this fragrance family.

This was such a nice surprise.

I definitely agree with the previous reviewer. This fragrance does nothing to comply with its name "golden delicious"...I was expecting something as warm as Burberry the original EDP plus a nice note of apple. This is definitely a floral, clean smell, but I was left wanting more of the juiciness and warmth that a fragrance named like this should definitely have.

synthetic, cheap and boring with no crisp freshness or juiciness, just the usual mainstream stink. How did the same company that made Chaos, Donna Karan, Gold and Black Cashmere get rid of those wonderful scents and carry on producing flanker after flanker of this anonymous rubbish?? Capitalism over quality reigns supreme!

I tested this the other day and to me, it really does smell like golden delicious apples. Not a bad smell, but just not for me. I have tried to love DK frags for a long time, but the only one that I remotely like is DKNY Pure. Sorry for the (kinda) negative review guys, but even though I love to eat golden delicious apples, I just don't want to smell like them. :P

This is the first of the 'be delicious' range that I really like. Much more fresh than the others, and floral rather than fruity. Smells beautiful on my skin for day wear and has good lasting power, DKNY has finally brought out a fragrance that impresses me!

Got a bunch of mini-perfumes couple of days ago so I'm in heaven...:)
One of them is DKNY Golden Delicious.I wore it first, because I was kinda curious how is it comparing to Be Delicious which I have some years ago.
Not my style. Blank, boring, lifeless. I almost forgot I was wearing it after one hour or so. Absolutely no drydown on me. To be gifted to somebody younger...

The apple note fades along with the other top notes. After that, it becomes a musky floral with a sandalwood base. I'm not sure my skin is making the most of this one, but I enjoy it more than the original Be Delicious!

Once again I've only smelled this via the new issue of Cosmo but it smells pretty good (if you ignore the glue and paper smell) I can't wait to actually test this one out!