Pure DKNY Verbena Donna Karan for women

For some reason or another I never really paid much attention to Verbena until I gave it another whiff yesterday at Nordstrom. I absolutely love it!!! I enjoy Verbena far more than I do the original Pure. I cannot wait to get me a bottle of this fresh little fragrance! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! : )

I love the way this fresh scent smells. I get tons of verbena and not a lot of white florals, which is just dandy for me. Oddly though for whatever reason this scent kind of literally hurts my nose when I smell it sometimes. I think the smell is prehaps just a little too sharp and "slap in the face" like. However, it really does smell divine.

Some reviewers have discribed this scent as being unisex. While this is probably not going to a appeal to the "ultra feminine" type, IMO, it is just barely on the fringe of being unisex and definately falls more to the feminine side.( I honestly don't feel a guy could pull off this VERY pretty scent, but that's just me. )

Pure DKNY Verbena, opens with an exhilaratiing burst of grassy green and herbal basil and not just a drop of, but more like a BUCKET LOAD of lemon verbena.( Mmm, love that verbena.) As the dry down progresses, you begin to detect that softer, aquatic seaweed note, along with, delicate, aquatic undercurrents of the floral notes honeysuckle, peony and jasmine.
But what you really end up with here, is an AMAZING aquatic lemon verbena scent.

Pure DKNY Verbena is Fresh with a capital F and casual yet sophisticated, which means that it is as perfect for a carefree day at the beach as it is at the office, when working in close quarters with others.
How could you possibly go wrong with such a fresh, clean, just out of the shower scent!

Just recieved a sample of this fragrance and it was love at first sniff!!.It is such a fresh scent and what i want to smell like on a day to day basis.To me it smells like a really elegant beautiful women who just stepped out of having a shower..i know weird but honest : ). Love it and cant wait to purchase it!!

Does not last very long. Does not have good projection. The scent, specially the top noes are priceless. I love lemon verbena and basil together. Indeed pure scent, light and cool.

I came across it last week at a perfume shop and loved the smell from the bottle. I was wearing a different fragrance at that time so I sprayed it on the testing strip only. Then, unconciously I put the strip in my bag pocket... As a result my bag smelled absolutely lovely for days! Today I remembered not to use any fragrance before heading for shops and with great expectations rushed to the store to test it on skin. And.. what a letdown. I could smell the top notes which I love all right, then floral notes appeared, completely flat and uninteresting though, and... the smell was gone. It simply disapeared from my skin after an hour. I've experienced it with all the Delicious variations so it must be something about the chemical compositions, carriers etc. that DKNY use. What do you gyus think?

The first Pure DKNY fragrance (based on jasmine and vanilla) didn’t move me, but I really enjoy Pure Verbena. The first spray is very citrusy with the lemon verbena at full strength. It’s not long before the basil kicks in with its characteristic sweet-herbal aroma, and the citrus becomes much more subdued. The florals are smooth and nicely balanced. Dewy honeysuckle is the most prominent, followed by the peppery peony and soft jasmine. I also smell the vetiver which helps to anchor the lighter notes, and gives the scent a bit of earthy, woody pungency.

For me it is also aquatic, a feeling I get from the seaweed mixed with the dewy florals. The salty seaweed note is quite noticeable in this scent, and it’s one of the things that makes this perfume unique. For me it is reminiscent of the scent of kelp that grows in the ocean around here.

There’s nothing sweet here – this could easily be a unisex fragrance. It’s cool, fresh, and invigorating. I find it quite comforting as well. Kind of like a fragrant spring garden near the seaside.

Original Pure I quite like it feminine scent with decent Power life, this is not it a bit but not like - it's a unisex embroidered. It is a light, I think rather than the fresh aquatic scent, unfortunately, soon it come out at me strange melon tones that I do not have too and I feel that was an hour away. Will definitely sell very well because it is a conflict-free fragrance, plus if you replace it with any men's lightweight - just attacked me Kenzo Power Cologne so no one know.

Guys for some reason it reminds me of Burberry Touch for woman! It must have some pepper in it!
It's fresh but harsh enough, not mild.

One of the first times I wore this perfume I had a girl sitting by be shout, "It smells like an old man!" I guess the owner of this perfume just has to be careful to use a small amount so that the smell isn't too strong. My mother also commented on the strength of this perfume's smell.

Smells lemony and green. There is no actual citrus in here according to the notes, but the verbena does play a trick on your nose. It smells difffernt than the original Pure, but it does have a similar feel about it. It's cooler and not as sharp as the original but both have a unisex quality to them.

I was given a bottle of this by a friend who thought she had been given Pure (original vanilla) for Xmas but had been given this instead and hates citrus! I love it! The verbena is fresh and vibrant but dries down to a soft light floral with a warm heart. Gorgeous!

I sprayed some on me at a store to see how it smelled with my body chemistry. I came home after 4 hours and the i like this smell. On my skin, it smells really soft and powderish.

This scent is beautiful, but VERY expensive when compared to how long it lasts. It is less effective than drug store body spray. The packaging indicates "fragrance" but does not state whether it is perfume, toilette, or cologne concentration. Since it doesn't indicate, I guess cologne and it is WAY too much money to pay for cologne that last at most 1 hour. Sorry.

Where the original DKNY PURE boasted the inclusion of "socially conscious" Ugandan vanilla (though each bottle contained about a microdrop, according to my nose), PURE DKNY A DROP OF VERBENA (as my manufacturer's card reads) basically changes the entire composition. The white jasmine core is still intact, but the vanilla has been switched out for a huge dose of Togolese lemon verbena, along with a fairly big bunch of basil (not sure where that's supposed to be from).

The floral elements in this new flanker are so light as to be pretty much overwhelmed by the strong verbena and basil. So the flanker, although vaguely based on PURE, has actually become a unisex scent, unlike its namesake, which was a clear jasmine (feminine) perfume.

Unfortunately, this composition takes something of an "industrial" turn on the way to the drydown, which I find much less pleasant than the invigorating citrus-aromatic opening. In the mid-stages, PURE VERBENA smacks vaguely of something from the house of Clean or perhaps the new Jennifer Aniston perfume. The difference is that PURE VERBENA does not bottom out as a soap scent--it simply fades away.

It doesn't say so in the notes but I smell a good bit of violet in this. It's very pretty and floral. It only lasts about an hour though.

NICE CLEAN SCENT....but hated the floral drydown...morphs into too many funeral flowers after an hour...clean...but annoying...im not a flower girl..lol!

I first smelled this at Nordstroms, around the end of July. I sniffed it, loved it, bought it.
This is how I wish that I smelled when I was in my late 20's (a LONG time ago). It's beautiful, natural, effortless skin scent.
The citrus is not so much sweet as it is a healthy musky citrus. Like you rubbed lime rind on your sun-warmed skin.
I took this on a beach vacation on the coast of Maine, and it was in perfect harmony with the sun and the ocean and the pines and the fragrant firs.
Clearly, this scent brings up happy, contented images for me, I hope it does for you, too.

This scent is beautiful! I liked the original but LOVE this version! A very pretty, soft floral...well done!