Posted by Robin
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3 February 2011
It is a testament to the ongoing deluge of new perfumes, niche and not niche, that Love and Tears (Surrender) launched last year and I promptly forgot all about it, even though it’s a jasmine soliflore, a category of perfumes that I have some interest in, and even though I apparently got a sample shortly after it launched. Love and Tears is by perfumer Calice Becker, an obvious bonus, and it’s from By Kilian, which might or might not be a bonus depending on your point of view (By Kilian makes me a little cranky, as I’ve mentioned before).1
The back story, according to Mr. Kilian Hennessy:
Only the jasmine flower, with its endless spectrum of facets — citrus, green, floral and animalistic — was able to express the profusion of emotions that I wanted to communicate with this scent: the beginning of love marked with excitement, the fear of the unknown, and, ultimately, the surrender to love!
Mostly, though, they left out the animalistic part, and arguably even the “surrender to love”, and certainly the tears. Love and Tears is, perhaps, too richly floral to be the early, innocent days of love, but it’s too easygoing to be anything like surrender…
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Posted by Robin
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7 January 2011
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
From Hermès, a limited edition bottle of 24, Faubourg inspired by the first-ever silk scarf from the brand, Jeu des Omnibus et Dames Blanches…
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Posted by Robin
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23 December 2010
Niche line By Kilian will launch Incense Oud in March. Incense Oud is the third fragrance in the Arabian Nights collection (see Pure Oud, Rose Oud). Two more fragrances, based on amber and musk, are still expected…
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Posted by Robin
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2 July 2010
By Kilian will launch Love and Tears (Surrender), the 9th fragrance in the Black Masterpiece / L’Oeuvre Noire series, in September.
Love and Tears, surrender is the last chapter of my « Love » theme and my most personal scent…
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Posted by Robin
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28 January 2010
By Kilian will launch Rose Oud, the second fragrance in the Arabian Nights collection. The first was Pure Oud; reportedly Rose Oud will be followed by three more fragrances based on incense, amber and musk respectively…
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