Love...don't be shy...was the fragrance I thought I preferred when I smelled it on each of my two previous trips to Vegas (the only access I have to Kilian fragrances.) It didn't surprise me that I loved it again.
I generally give fragrance several tries before I commit, because I find that sometimes they are scrubbers on me, when I had thought they were not.
Love...don't be shy is another play on words. If you wish to find or experience love, you have to put yourself out there. Don't be shy. Risk a little. (Maybe that would be a good name for one of his fragrances.) Or, express your love, don't hold back. To have love, you must give love.
Here's the description from the insert booklet:
L'Oeuvre Noire [in English, Black Masterpiece], a collection of 10 fragrances composed with the most expensive and rarest essential oils. A deca aroma that revolves around three themes: Love and its prohibitions. The artificial paradises. The temptations.
And here's a quote from that same insert:
Perfume should be the essential in the excessive. Kilian Hennessy
I think I'd love to sit down and chat with him. ...essential in the excessive -- isn't that an interesting way to describe one of the pleasures of life!
And here's another quote I like of his:
Perfume is a messenger that opens a thousand doors in the memory. Kilian Hennessy
I think we can both create and recreate memories with perfume. All I have to do is smell a certain fragrance to feel once again that someone I knew is near, though she is no longer living. She created an aura with fragrance. I prefer my aura to be lighter, but nonetheless there. She wore hers too heavily. I don't think that is possible with these. They have a cap on how strong they are.
Created by perfumer Calice Becker, here are the notes:
Top notes: Marshmallow, Neroli
Heart notes: Sambac Jasmine with Rose and Iris
Base notes: vanilla and musk.
This is not a dreckly sweet marshmallow concoction, but rather mature and intoxicating. Again, a bit boozy, definitely intoxicating. The vanilla is not sweet. It's not like Shalimar; no, this is darker.
I was off-put by Iris after Guerlain's Iris Ganache. I might have steered away from this one after that one. But this is what I hoped IG would be, even though descriptions didn't necessarily match my idea.
Again, on me, this is a deeply resinous fragrance. It is no Mariah Carey, and it certainly is not Pink Sugar. It's a night time fragrance suitable for day time. It insinuates rather than shouting. It isn't shy, but it doesn't hit you over the head -- those are fragrance types I prefer not to wear. I believe it would layer well with any other Kilian fragrance. It is very smooth, but it also ruffles. This is a fragrance for a woman who knows her mind.
Do you wear it? Have you tried it?
You can see an overview of all his fragrances here.
Karin
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