Apple Brandy New York Kilian 2013

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Carré Basset

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A popular perfume by Kilian for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is woody-spicy. It was last marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Sweet

Fruity

Gourmand

Fragrance Notes

Oak barrel

Spanish labdanum

Texas cedar

Ambroxan

Chinese white cedar Vanilla

Vanilla

Perfumer

Sidonie Lancesseur

Ratings

Scent

8.0173 Ratings

Longevity

7.8147 Ratings

Sillage

7.2152 Ratings

Bottle

8.6164 Ratings

Value for money

6.151 Ratings

Submitted by Freeestyler, last update on 07/13/2025.

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/05/2021

9
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Itchynose
41 Reviews

Itchynose

Helpful Review 2

Partying with Mr. Bond

Sidonie Lancesseur, the perfumer behind Kilian's Apple Brandy is also the nose responsible for many other wonderfully boozy scents such as Straight to Heaven, Single Malt or Frapin's 1270. To say she has mastered the alcoholic genre would be an understatement.

Here Madame Lancesseur has created yet another quintessential masculine Kilian fragrance: boozy but classy, sober yet playful, elegant and mischievous at the same time like a James Bond in party mode. In that sense the scent shares more similarities with the sweet Single Malt than the drier Straight to Heaven, although if the former featured whiskey and the latter rum, in Apple Brandy the protagonist drink is a more laid-back calvados or distilled cider liquor.

The sharp, tannin-filled opening is followed by the deep aroma of old oak barrels and smoke, and the balance of this simple and effective combo shifts as the scent dries down, from a rather fruity and very alcoholic opening to a much woodier, comforting and subdued final phase. Performance is discreet throughout but acceptable, perhaps a necessity for a subtle scent that invites a few chosen ones to come closer if they want great things to happen.

All in all another beautiful creation worth celebrating with the right company and a drink or two.

07/13/2025

3
Pricing 5
Bottle 3
Sillage 5
Longevity 5.5
Scent

NicheOnly
88 Reviews

NicheOnly

2

Underwhelming to say the least

Before Kilian released Old Fashioned, the decently executed product adjacent to the discontinued London exclusive Single Malt London, Kilian had already been selling Apple Brandy on the Rocks (AB OTR) for years. Similarly to Old Fashioned, AB OTR came as a worldwide alternative to Kilian's New York exclusive Apple Brandy New York, yet in a way, I'm not sure there even was sufficient demand to remaster this.

These are some of my thoughts on my first wear of a recent 50ml full display blind-buy.

With 4 sprays on my left hand, Apple Brandy New York opens sweet-fruity-boozy. Within milliseconds you can spot the resemblance to Apple Brandy on the Rocks as it has that exact same sweet-crisp Apfelschorle type smell. AB NY's top smells spicier and boozier than the fruity-fresh ambroxan-driven profile of the On The Rocks version.

However, it is in the transition where the differences between the 2 products really begin to distance themselves. Very much like the dry-down of Single Malt London, there is a present amber tonality incorporated into Apple Brandy New York as it features the same style of medicinal-smelling labdanum, albeit in lower quantities than with Single Malt. The key aspect of AB NY's dry-down, however, is the dominating presence of woodiness. I would dare to say that the woodiness featured here is even more prevalent than in the re-released version of Single Malt, i.e. Old Fashioned, as you get a hefty dose of oak with a moderate amount of cedar and a mild accompanying feel of booziness.

Ultimately, that's where Apple Brandy New York ends up at: in this very woody dry-down with moderate medicinal ambers and that bitter-boozy touch. The re-released version, i.e. Apple Brandy on the Rocks, retains the opening of the original version and takes the scent in a fresh-fruity direction with zero ambers and mild-to-moderate woodiness, losing out on performance (which isn't great to begin with) in the process. I'd rate the performance here to be subpar much like with many of the other scents mentioned in this review: I'd give it around 6 hours of longevity on soft sillage.

As a somewhat unexpected takeaway from this review; I would dare to say that Old Fashioned, the relaunch of Single Malt London, actually smells more like Apple Brandy New York than it does like Single Malt as the wood-dominant base tones and the bitter-boozy touches offer strong overlap between the two, esp. on-skin. Unfortunately, even with that overlap, AB NY has fewer nuances in its execution, making it inferior to Old Fashioned and miles off the highs of Single Malt. I would conclude by saying that this is discontinued for a good reason.

03/20/2020

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Sinairq
17 Reviews

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Sinairq

9

Party tent, village disco and sophisticated gentlemen ?

So, thanks to the momentary crisis and the free time I gained, I finally decided to write my first comment on a fragrance.
My nose is not too experienced, but with this fragrance, which I feel is very one-sided, I dare to express an opinion
First :
The house Kilian has actually taken me very quickly, a certain class and elegance is not only conveyed by the name Henessey, but also generally by the presentation and presentation.
Beautiful boxes, specially made with velvet lined boxes with lock and flacons that look very valuable. All in all very nice, if you combine this with my preference for boozy fragrances, you can imagine that I feel very much at home when it comes to "sniffing" the fragrances the house has to offer. After Single Malt, Intoxicated, Black Phantom and Back to Black I felt like something new :

Performance Apple Brandy !
As expected, the name is Program.
At the first sniff, however, memories came up that absolutely did not match the image of the "noble brand" that Kilian would like to create so much.
I woke up as a village child and there's not much to do in the village, romping around in nature and driving the neighbours crazy when you shoot a ball against a wall with half a dozen other kids in the playground next door At the latest from the teenage age on there was a shooting party, village disco and......exactly alcohol Sometimes mixed up, sometimes too much, but always somehow there : Korn, Berentzen or Obstler.
Take a tent and combine this with hit songs, wool petry, stuffy air, smoke, pretty girls and blurry vision and above all this flag of liquor that comes out of almost every face Apple Brandy brings back exactly this feeling and even more.
With the first spraying this alcoholic kills me and a light apple note gently wafts in the background Yes Moin and off in the head with the material. Shortly before closing time, but we got a bottle of sour apple from Edeka before we go to celebrate and it must be all before you can go into the tent.
So get it down hard, intense and short. The bottle is empty, but the flag remains Waiting at bus stops, warm air and the guys around one. The smell of the drink surrounds us like a cloud, while we squat crowded in the small wooden house You feel adult, virile, intoxicated and ready for more One of them takes out a small bag, tobacco that he has stolen from his father's package and some leaves. Cool as we are we try to turn our own butts, more bad than right, tobacco lands everywhere the smell mixes easily into the air. Before we infect the first one, a group of girls squeezes itself to us It smells slightly of vanilla, pleasant
The fragrance remains something beautiful for me Many describe him as a gentleman-like person, perhaps even distinguished as an adult.
I can fully understand that and see why jmd describes this fragrance that way, because he is a Kilian, boozy and impressive, but not much more. Schnapps, to be exact apple schnapps and I personally associate this with village feast and unrestraint. Good mood.
Sure, Kilian is too fine for this level and of course, with this perfume you don't smell like a drunken youth with a bottle of Obstler in his hand, but really somehow a little more "sublime".
But unlike whiskey or cognac, brandy mMn simply does not have that gentleman's club / bar flair that so many would like to perceive as distinguished.

Sillage and durability are completely within the limits With a performance (on my skin) of about 9h and a silage that is noticeable enough not to be obtrusive, you can wear it like this. Maybe not straight to work.
Comes certainly very well in the cold season, but can also introduce him to me on a warm summer evening in nature.

All scented alcoholics will definitely enjoy this thing.
Whether the ladies like it, I would rather doubt, but the perception of fragrance is always rather subjective and dependent on the person anyway

02/09/2023

8
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

DarkWinterCS
145 Reviews

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DarkWinterCS

5

Apple delirium dreams

Apple Brandy New York
Like sides of a coin.
Young, fresh, energetic.
Mature, elegant, eloquent.
Sweatpants, oversized sweater, sneakers.
Suit pants, turtleneck, loafers.
Developments from young to old.

Tangy apples in rough quantities,
energetic, warm and cooling at the same time.
Wooden barrels as far as the eye can see.
Burnt out, alcoholic residue.
A brandy that is able to absorb the flavors of the apple.
Not burning, rather caressing.
Dark shadows from resinous clouds.
Enveloping around the barrels of strength.

Kilian, leaning on Hesperides.
Guardian of the golden apple.
Guardian of alcoholic desire.
Wild and unbridled,
elegant and charming at the same time.
Two sides of the same coin.
Kilian created a fascination with the trio of unbridled narcotic fragrance. Straight to Heaven Extreme, Apple Brandy New York and Single Malt London are dreams of excessive enjoyment of alcoholic worlds. Fragrances that polarize, yet are wearable. Both in casual clothes and imposing expressions.

Apple Brandy embodies this even more than its brothers. Does he but even more tangy, younger and wilder by its sour impression of an extravagant apple grain. Thus, with apple, wood and alcohol, the three main components are also quickly described, which create a wonderful fragrance that trumps here with an appealing linearity. Apple and alcoholic notes determine the first minutes with a hint of cinnamon. That's where the fun comes in and shows how the energy pulsates. After a few minutes, the whole thing swings around to a woodiness that reveals hints of labdanum. Not creaky, rather dark resinous underpinnings to present more. More feeling of a burnt out barrel that held precious alcohol. Remnants of apple are still perceptible and give again and again a bright flash in the otherwise dark-woody course.

I'm glad to have secured this discontinued fragrance yet and enjoy this expressive DNA. The fascination with this type of fragrances lives and offers even more than the already good Apple Brandy on the Rocks .

02/24/2021

7
Pricing 9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Duftmeister
18 Reviews

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Duftmeister

Less helpful Review 2

A flatterer

It is next to Intoxicated one of my Kilian favorites. Very warm spicy slightly alcoholic note with the beautiful riefen baked apple tone like fresh from the oven. Lasts long and makes you want to autumn / winter mood. When the sample is empty comes to me a beautiful bottle in the collection.