Want to smell like Carolyn Bessette Kennedy? Prepare to pay over $1,000

FX’s “Love Story” has sent fans clamoring for Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s favorite fragrance. The late Calvin Klein publicist and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. was known to pair her minimalist designer looks with Abdul Kareem’s Egyptian Musk Oil, a skin-like, subtly soapy scent that’s been out of production for years.

Elizabeth Beller wrote in her 2024 biography of CBK, “Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy,” that “If Carolyn ran out to the drugstore, she would bring back a lipstick or a vial of Abdul Kareem Egyptian Musk Oil, which she would buy from street vendors and share with the other girls.” “‘Try this oil.

Doesn’t it smell like clean, first love?’ This was Carolyn’s signature scent.

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