K de Krizia Krizia 1980 Eau de Toilette

Version from 1980

K de Krizia (1980) (Eau de Toilette) by Krizia

Bottle Design Pierre Dinand

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K de Krizia (1980) (Eau de Toilette) (Krizia)

7.5 / 10 101 Ratings

A popular perfume by Krizia for women, released in 1980. The scent is floral-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by FlorBath / F.P.d.P. SPA.

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Main accords

Floral

Spicy

Animal

Chypre

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Hyacinth

Bergamot

Neroli

Peach

Heart Notes

Lily of the valley

Orange blossom

Carnation

Narcissus

Iris

Jasmine

Rose

Tuberose

Orchid

Base Notes

Civet

Moss

Musk

Ambergris

Leather

Sandalwood

Styrax

Vanilla

Vetiver

Perfumer

Maurice Roucel

Ratings

Scent

7.5101 Ratings

Longevity

8.374 Ratings

Sillage

8.075 Ratings

Bottle

5.772 Ratings

Submitted by Murcielago, last update on 14.10.2023.

Interesting Facts

In 2012 the scent was re-released with a new design.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/14/2023

8
Sillage 9
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Dennis1104
290 Reviews

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Dennis1104

1

Floral sea with light freshness and woody base

The K of Krizia was enclosed and I was very curious about this fragrance due to its age.

Yes what can I say?
In advance I want to note that this fragrance is quite well done and elegant daherkommt.
Nevertheless, I see the fragrance definitely rather on a lady, better said on a lady in the somewhat set age.

I take here a sea of flowers with slightly fresh notes was.
Various floral notes and peach I take at Most war.
An orange blossom is also well noticeable and quite finely used.
The whole also wanders the longer the fragrance lies on the skin, more into a woody theme.
Woody impressions are added without, however, forgetting the primarily floral notes.
These are still very present.
The word chypre really fits perfectly here.

The performance is really good.

Unfortunately, the fragrance still does not meet my taste, because he is simply rather feminine to classify.
I just associate it with older ladies, certain hair salons, etc.
But that is not to make the fragrance bad at all. He will definitely have his fans.

04/13/2021

BrianBuchanan
355 Reviews

BrianBuchanan

2

K for overKill

Peaches and cream used to be a thing in perfumery.
This is Maurice Roucel's version from the early 80's. It's a pink floral, thick and creamy with peach and a whiff of tuberose.
There are aldehydes, which lead Michael Edwards to call it a soft floral. Along with moss, they can be used to give an edge to a profile, in the same way that Roucel uses magnolia with its silky petal and dark bitter nuance.
On paper, there's a fantastic range of textures in K : syrupy, fluffy, castor sugar, aldehydes, dusty-woody and waxy ambergris, and as these merge into powdery-versus-sharp, a complex fruity-floral takes the stage. This leads down to a sweet powdery base with a funky animal facet and the mossy chypre note.
It seemed like Roucel set the mould for this type of bosomy floral, one that was still being used by the end of the decade with Spectacular (1989) a similar type of aldehydic tuberose with peach, amber and incense (but not half as good).
K was great stuff, but after a decade of this kind of thing it's no wonder people wanted a break from the erotic charge. There's only so much a guy can take...

06/19/2014

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Top Review 8

lost chypre

Discovering a chypre from the early 1980s that you've never tried is dicey. While it's new to me, it's by no means a new perfume, and has lived, loved and likely been reformulated a number of times, probably fatally. Hand a new fumie a current bottle of Diorella, she'll sniff and then look at you and say, "This is the shit you've all been talking about?" And she'd be right to ask. The current stuff isn't anything to rave about, or really even discuss.

There's a whole generation of fumies for whom the the tragedy of reformulation means that their Miss Dior Chérie (or whatever it's called at this point) has been tampered with and their Badgely Mischka has been unceremoniously discontinued.

IFRA (International Fragrance Association) regulations diminish the perfumer’s palette. However you come down on the ethics, evidence and outcomes of their restrictions, the IFRA hinders perfumers and takes perfumes away from those who relish them.

The fun for all of us, though, is finding what slips through the cracks.

K de Krizia (perfumer, Maurice Roucel) starts and remains beautiful. There's a bit of a dry fruit feeling upfront, and an appropriate amount of Amber in the far dry down, but all the way along this baby is a soaring floral chypre. What seem like aldehydes provide the lift off, but once at altitude it's the cold flowers that give buoyancy. I don't know the ratio of oakmoss to treemoss to [insert mossy analogue], and god only knows what has been done to modulate the other toxic aromachemicals like bergamot, labdanum, but K de Krizia passes all the functional tests of a chypre. It's dry like a good martini, it's florals are buttery yet sharp in tone, and it makes me want to take it in like a long drag on a cigarette. Now THAT to me is a chypre.

K reminds me quite a bit of Miss Dior. Or at least the reformulation circa 2005 that I have. God knows how many variations of Miss Dior are out there. The floral tone to the two is similar. The petals aren't so much dried as freeze dried and the effect makes them bite back a bit when you sniff your wrists.

Your gift at the end of the day of a wearing of K is a starched soapy climax that seems as thought it might be hissing at you. If you like chypres and like the floral tone that Ivoire de Balmain strikes, try K de Krizia. I found a 100 ml bottle of edp for the price of one snort of an overpriced niche perfume.

One for any list of under-appreciated, inexpensive darlings like Ivoire, Rochas Tocade, Bal à Versailles, Geoffrey Beene Grey Flannel and EL Azurée.

05/26/2014

7
Scent

BronxBeauty
58 Reviews

BronxBeauty

Helpful Review 6

Roucel's Ode to Joy

This was the perfume that put Maurice Roucel on the map -- a dark floral chypre that Luca Turin identifies as an homage to "the world's most expensive perfume." I first encountered it (in the perfume concentration) in Paris in the early 1980s on the dressing table of slightly bohemian but still impeccably turned out Frenchwoman. Then I thought it was the most lovely perfume I'd ever smelled, better than the No. 5 with which I'd grown up. Poor K has grown tatty over the years and reformulations; how the beautiful have fallen.