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So I was reading OlfaOmega's thread about under appreciated frags & was SO HAPPY that a lot of people mentioned CK Be!!!!! This is my "signature" frag and have loved it ever since it was released. I've heard it referred to as an "anti frag" because it smells so natural. I love all the musk it releases. Tell me why you love this frag!

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CkBe was one of the first scents that I went nuts over. I found that it had a kind of grapefruit quality in the topnotes, and something sweet and syrupy but not sweet in an Oriental way. Something like canned peaches and pears. When it came out I found it to be really novel. And at the time, the Calvin Klein brand was all the rage.
It was my signature scent for a time as well, Cologne Junkie. I had received a bottle of Polo as a Christmas gift from my first girlfriend (I had meant to tell her that I wanted Polo Sport, but I just said Polo...and so she got me original Polo. As much as I liked the smell, it gave me a severe rash everywhere I applied it. So I exchanged it for that bottle of CkBe I wanted.
CkBe was the only scent I was wearing back then when I lost my virginity. So I equate it with that. That and Escape for Men, which I wore alot on dates (though I only had it in sample form, eventually I bought a bottle which I never even wore -I just bought it because of the association with good times.
Actually Escape reminds me the most of my first sexual encounters, because in addition to being something I wore, it smells kind of like how my girlfriend smelled, all youthful, dewy, and like a new car... well not like a new car literally, but it's a kind of analogy... it smells like that tangle of youth where lipstick is smudged, hair is messed up, and going by smell, you can't tell where you end and she begins...
Now I'm some hardened creep who wears Kouros just to push the boundaries...

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Indie! You´re back!!!!?
CK be is awesome, and as I mentioned earlier the only bottle I have finished in many, many years. Especially after the gym, when you´re exhausted and hungry, not in the mood for heavy stuff, it´s a lovely invigorating tonic. Junipery, white musk freshness - will be in my warddrobe always.
MMM

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I agree that there are times when a heavier fragrance is just not desired--cK be is the perfect scent because it is warm and discreet and just melds into the natural body fragrance.
Sorry I don't have a story to tell about it.

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i really like cKbe but i haven't worn it in a long while and once i finished a small bottle i didn't get it again, i would in the future but i'm not sure when...it really an unmistakable scent and there's a shadowiness and something goth to it that i really like...
whenever i smell it outside i turn my head to see who is wearing it or where does it come from!


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Well, my story with CK Be is short. *when my mother came back from paris she brought a bottle with her. *I knew It was an Unisex fragrance and tried some... It seemed to be a weak and feminine scent at that time. (I was used to wear Azzaro, Polo, Lacoste, Lapidus) and It's the memory I keep of it.
After basenotes I'm a new man. I even bought CK Crave!!! * And I LIKE IT! ;D

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You all got me thinking -- I used to wear CK Be all the time as it was my signature scent for a while. And I loved it. Thanks for the inspiration to reunite me with this lovely uplifting frag. MMM is right, after the gym is perfect - not too heavy, just right and refreshing -- and never cloying. ~mm

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I love this fragrance for the reasons already mentioned: it's subtle, clean, musk and fruit. One of the few fragrances I have been complimented on. I never get tired of this one.

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I loved it back then (was one of the faves on my ex-girlfriends list, together with allure woman),
now it has made it to the classics alltogether with her too, lol
back then when I didn't know how to describe it, it smelled 'electrifying' somehow (mainly becuse of the tonka notes)
a refreshing 'tonic' that stays close to the body
every now and then I smell it on girls that pass by here in Vienna and it's absolutely gorgeous

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tried it today for the first time. Its just like everybody's saying, and reminds me very much of Bvlgari PH or even Gendarme. cleeeeeean. I think I prefer it to both Bvlagri and Gendarme.