Women - 900

No. 900 is The Essence Vault's take on Calvin Klein Women, the 2018 Raf Simons-era launch built around a deliberate push-pull between crisp eucalyptus and warm florals. The dupe opens convincingly, with that same eucalyptus-and-black-pepper brightness giving way to orange blossom and jasmine, capturing the daily-wear, office-friendly energy the original was designed for. The difference shows in the mid-development: Calvin Klein's original relies on hedione and ambroxan to keep the florals airy and diffusive well into the drydown, while No. 900's cedarwood base arrives sooner and flattens the composition into a more conventional floral-woody-musk shape. It still reads as confident and modern rather than sweet or heavy, so the overall mood holds up, but the radiance and lift that made the original stand out among mass florals is noticeably reduced. A solid, wearable everyday option in the same family, without quite the technical polish of the Calvin Klein original.