Eternity Air for Men
Calvin Klein (2018)

I can understand where this will work in warmer weather. Eternity Air is clean, light and a bit fruity. However, projection is minimal at best and longevity a couple of hours to my nose. I smell similar notes to Perry Ellis Aqua which has much better projection and staying power. PE Aqua is not as refined but both are nice summer frags worth a try.

Purchased this recently looking for a nice blue fragrance. I like Eternity for Men, it's EdP, and I've even worn the women's edp. It's all good. It's also better than Aqua, which is more “aquatic” to be sure, but whereas Aqua lasts all of 10 minutes, Air stays with you.

The “blue”ness of this scent is really saturated, feeling - not smelling - like Versace Eros or Dylan Blue. A lush, sweetness permeates Eternity Air. There's green apple and mint up front and through the heart, with something rich I don't know how to define giving it backbone. It dries down to a soft golden sunset of a scent. Warm, a little cinnamon. It's not “splashy”. Nor “freshie”. But it's certainly light hearted.

It's a more grown up blue composition, and one that I'd be comfortable wearing almost anywhere in any weather.

The upfront strength dies down in a couple hours, but I fell asleep with skin scent and woke up 7 hours later with some still there.

Ride the friendly skies. Recommended.

EDIT: I always get compliments when I wear this. And I hardly ever get compliments for my fragrance choices.

I am a huge fan of Calvin Klein fragrances, especially from the 1980's through the 1990's. They made excellent, all-season powerful scents that had great performance at a reasonable price point. I own almost 200 fragrances, and 'Eternity', 'Escape', 'Contradiction', 'Truth', and 'CK Shock' are some of my most complimented older scents.

I received 'Eternity Air' as a gift, and being a big fan of 'Eternity', I was so excited to spritz this on and experience it. I kept seeing a lot of bottles at discounters everywhere but never bought it, and now I see why its there and I am glad I never purchased it.

This scent is a massive failure by Calvin Klein and a huge disappointment. The last decade for CK has been full of poor performing flankers from the brand. 'Eternity Air' is no different and this one is easily one of the worst ever.

I gave myself ten sprays (neck, shoulders, chest, wrists) and went to an indoor house party, and never got one compliment. No one could smell me. I couldn't even smell myself. The initial blast smells like a mix of 'Eternity' and 'Eternity Aqua' blended evenly. I don't pick up any ambergris or patchouli at all.

For about five minutes, this smells amazing. Very fresh, very similar to 'Eternity Aqua', but watered down to basically a body spray because in less than 30 minutes you don't smell anything. I had to bury my nose into my shirt to smell this one an hour after applying. Maybe in high heat this would project or last, but I highly doubt that. It is extremely weak and light.

There is no middle or base to speak of, as it doesn't last long enough to experience it. This is one of the weakest scents by Calvin Klein ever, and a total waste of money. At $10, this would still not be worth it. The sad part, is it smells amazing for about the first 15 minutes.

The second time I wore this, I used about 20-25 sprays (neck, wrists, chest, shoulders, thighs). Smelled amazing for about 30 minutes but became a skin scent within one hour. I left the house for work and by the time I got to the office it wasn't projecting at all. No compliments, no one smelled anything and commented on anything. No projection, no sillage. Terrible.

Unless you plan on bringing the bottle and applying every 30 minutes, just buy 'Eternity Aqua' and skip this. That fragrance last a good 5-7+ hours and has fairly good performance for a fresh scent. This scent is a light blue colored bottle of water with a very small hint of 'Eternity' and 'Eternity Aqua' DNA and nothing more. Not recommended under any circumstances.

Calvin Klein's ever-expanding repertoire almost always involves roping the buyer in with the first few minutes with something exotic or uncommon and petering out at the base, perhaps hoping its buyership won't possess the attention span to care or notice for that long. They have made some great releases over the years, but every one since CK One has floundered at the tail end.
Eternity Air may as well be a Tommy Bahama fragrance, as it smells nearly identical to earlier explored waters. That being said it is refreshingly pleasant for what it is; a saline, ozonic lavender aquatic with a hint of seaweed. For those who like oceanic-fresh but feel that Kenzo is too challenging and Horizon is too old-school, I suppose. I can at least say it is potent without being screechy and smells gentler than most of the house's recent releases. Certainly nothing to write home about, but not really bad in any way.

Eternity Air for Men (2018) is at once Calvin Klein up to their old tricks, but also has a clever amount of postmodernism in it, at least if we look at anything from the turn of the millennium as originally considered modern. What this reminds me of most is a redux of Eternity Aqua for Men (2009), which was a ramshackle aquatic that served no other purpose but to give the aging Eternity line a proper first non-seasonal flanker, and another aquatic under Calvin Klein's belt since that was one area where they were weak as a house; this is surprising considering their otherwise futuristic and off-the-wall abstract olfactive style. By saying redux, I mean this is like a do-over and improvement of the Eternity Aqua for Men vibe, however marginally. Despite the title, Eternity Air for Men is an aquatic-style fragrance that merges the ever-popular style with an ambroxan base which is used in the same capacity as natural ambergris instead of being overloaded, which is the very best quality of this fragrance. Eternity Air for Men is in effect, a melding of Versace Man Eau Fraîche (2006), Creed Green Irish Tweed (1985), and the theme of Eternity for Men Aqua (2009). This takes the few elements that worked from the latter, applies the crisp oceanic elements of the Versace, the violet leaf from Green Irish Tweed, then uses the ambroxan in a manner similar to Creed's ambergris finish, giving Eternity Air for Men remarkable sophistication and the kind of complex dry down Calvin Klein fragrances just don't have. Sadly, you're reminded that this is still a Calvin Klein in other ways too, particularly in the performance department, but this is otherwise a surprisingly solid flanker guilty of being only a bit boring. If this juice had appeared in the bottle of Eternity Aqua for Men instead of what we actually got in 2009, recent history might have been a little kinder to Calvin Klein.

This house has really been trying to regain some of its reputation from the glory days of the 80's and 90's when it was the poster child for advancement in the art of mainstream perfumery, but after getting just too far "out there" with its own success, Calvin Klein has struggled to regain relevance, resorting to pumping out endless flankers and abusing old nameplates in the process. The cK One (1994) line was arguably built for this kind of homogeneity, but little else under their banner has fared well with this business model. Fortunately, whoever created this juice knew what they were doing, giving us a bona-fide ozonic entrance rarely seen anymore since the mid-2000's when that genre died out. This ozone gives away to dihydromyrcenol, which is the "aquatic" note for those in the industry, before moving into dry mandarin and tones of cade oil. The heart has that lovely violet leaf advertised in the pyramid flanked with French lavender and green apple, the latter also being a primary note in cK One Platinum (2018), but actually being used better here. The base is the aforementioned light ambergis note supplied by the ambroxan, with Iso E super, a dry patchouli, and a peck of oakmoss to fill it out. This is a light, lovely, fresh, and well thought-out ambroxan/aquatic hybrid that will scratch a specific itch for somebody into the modern style but not ready to leave behind the previous decade's freshies, nor swamp themselves in tons of amberwoods toxicity. The very lightness of Eternity Air for Men is both its greatest strength and biggest weakness though, since longevity is nearly on par with an eau de cologne, making this become a skin scent in under 3 hours. Keep Eternity Air for Men to summer casual use if you come into ownership of it, as it will fail you in any other context. The smell of this is nice, and a far cry from the weak sauce Polo Blue (2002) clone that Eternity Aqua for Men sought to be, but nice will only get one so far, and with the performance of an Axe/Lynx spray, nice just won't do for most folks shopping in the designer price segment.

Fans of vintage Calvin Klein masculines, or even just the original Eternity for Men (1989) are better leaving this alone, as it is still too modern, in spite of its use of the arguably "throwback" ozone accord. Was that really twenty years ago? I guess it was, yet some still consider it a newfangled accord. In any case. this is a good generalist casual scent for summer use among guys who don't have such reverence for the Eternity line as to be miffed by its abuse, and don't already have Versace Man Eau Fraîche, plus maybe won't want to spring for the Creed. This touches many corners and does it well, it just needs a tiny bit more performance for its price, or else I might consider biting on it myself. I do like this, so I will be giving it a thumbs up, but this is not full bottle worthy to me personally only because I already have a half dozen things which could serve in the place of this, and they aren't flankers of anything else. The postmodern observation mentioned earlier, for those still curious, refers to the scent pulling main accords from noted recently-past styles and blending them within the context of a contemporary composition rather than pushing for modern styles, but is otherwise made from modern materials. The perfumer is sadly unknown here, but whoever it is must have had fun making this, even if the results are really just another freshie in an immense ocean of such fragrances, with no chance to make any mark of its own. At least with Calvin Klein flankers, you can rest easy knowing these weren't meant to do anything but instigate an impulse buy from the clueless, with no new ground broken. At least the label has sense enough to reserve that honor for its pillars, which have become few and far between anymore since the 2000's ended. If you absolutely need an aquatic and it absolutely needs to be from Calvin Klein, this might be for you, but test before diving in.

Strong blast of mandarin starts this fragrance out with a fruity orange sensation, with a slight aromatic touch of juniper berries appearing on the edges. The slightly metallic "ozonic" note appears in the middle of the head note flurry, lending a definite light and airy quality that fits the name.

I then sense lavender and patchouli naturally creep in together, sans IMO any noticeable presence of violet. Green apple skin is now dancing gracefully about the heartnote horizon, giving the initially tangy fruity experience a more subdued apple-y one, accented by the unfading sweet and spicy partnership of the lavender-patchouli. A slight salty sea touch emerges with the sea moss, and the ambergris adds a tiny bit of animalic charm. After about 15 minutes or so, the intensity of Eternity Air fades and remains simply and subtly clean and aromatic.

A pleasant warm weather flanker of the original classic Eternity, being far less tangy but retaining much of the aromatic flair. Seems more of a mood / skin-scent by design than a powerhouse retake of the original. Though it's in a different house and category, I get a similar parallel lightness in Givenchy's Pi Air vs. the original Pi. Worth a try, though it's nothing revolutionary IMO.