Top Notes 
Peppermint
Lemon
Heart Notes 
Green leaves
Magnolia
Base Notes 
Vetiver
04/05/2018
QuercusAlbus
72 Reviews
QuercusAlbus
3
Kilian Seriously Stepping Up
I have not hitherto been greatly fond of Kilian perfumes: I have found them a bit tepid, to be perfectly honest - certainly as-considered-in their price-brackett. But these two (this and the 'feel' one, are a different matter! Yes, I know it's a triumvirate; but it is these two I am talking about, and to my mind they form a complementary pair. A description of one, except insofar as they differ in the sheer ^content^ of their ^flowery^ component, is effectively a description of the other. Both are extreme musk (or quasimusk) bombs, and such floweriness as they possess is perceived not but through a shimmering haze like unto a force-field such as they have in Frank Herbert's ~Dune~, or some similar thing.
Actually (it is now 5th of April) I am not supposed to have these yet, as the official release-date is 16th if April; and I think I was genuinely at least somewhat privileged to get them.
Also, the getting them has serendipitously rehabilitated Kilian with me more generally speaking; as whilst I was settling for them, someone squirted themself an assay of another Kilian 'fume - one that I have already got (rose oud), & the düft plucked me askance; and, "whoa! that is so gorgeous! I seem to have misprisen it somehow all this time!": but, not insuchwise that these became anytheless outliers by virtue of it; and they remain that to my mind - outliers in a big way. I do really very strongly emphasise that.
So, basically what happened here is that my Kilian apothecary, who has suspected for a long time that I have been unquick about her produce, despite my efforts to conceal it (perceptive, she is!), has placed these (and the third one of the triumvirate) in front of me, and I, with a (probably scarcely concealed) inner sigh said "alright I'll give them a try then" ... go through the motions somewhat reluctantly ... but then! what's this!? (the 'Feel' one) ... now this is actually ^something^! Try the next one (the 'Taste' one) ... same effect! To be perfectly honest, the third (can't remember what it's called now) doesn't grab me in the same way; but we have an epiphany here - suddenly we have two outstanders! My Kilian apothecary is ^well^ pleased, I can tell you.
I know I hadn't exactly been brutally honest with her all that time; but I had been honest 'in a sense' - in the sense that whenever she had asked me what I thought of her produce I would try to find in my mind some real good thing that I could say about it, rather than actually ^fake^ a high opinion; but she could always tell I was struggling to find that ^good thing^. So such honesty as I had broached unto her now payed-off big-style, coz she knew my rapture was real!
I do emphasise again that I very strongly recommend these, as they are to my mind ^really very^ good - even for the price, which is
^well into^ the high-end brackett.
They are also different ^in detail^; but the respect in which they are different is to my perception secondary to that inwhich they are similar. This one is more of the fresh-æry-aqueous kind: it's actually got mint in it! and that usually puts me right-off; but in this the mint is so exalted by the quasimusk it just _doesn't_ matter!
[As for the particularities of its °partner° (the ~Feel~ one) I would say the following.
This one is thick & heavy & perhaps even a tad narcotic - the ylang-ylang note is prominent. It is rather on the sweet side, but not gourmandy - no, this stuff way transcends the gourmandy÷not-gourmandy dichotomy! But I think even were it a lesser 'fume with a similar profile it would not be gourmandy forall its sweetness.]
These twain are a complementary pair. I normally abhorr that idea as a marketting stunt; but in this case I _do_ think they actually are.
And then I did something really bad! She kindlily invited me onto the waiting-list for the limited supply the store was appointed ... but I hesitated ... and then (but at least at the same store) another apothecary (my chief) one, arranged, by °irregular° means, to get me them in my hand!! The Kilian apothecary was ^very^ cross - she tried to conceal it just as I had tried to conceal my thitherto-unfavour towards her produce; but she failed, just as I had failed! I know it wasn't exactly ^nice^; but it didn't do any real hurt, & when uwr paying that sort of minlet for perfumes ...
Actually (it is now 5th of April) I am not supposed to have these yet, as the official release-date is 16th if April; and I think I was genuinely at least somewhat privileged to get them.
Also, the getting them has serendipitously rehabilitated Kilian with me more generally speaking; as whilst I was settling for them, someone squirted themself an assay of another Kilian 'fume - one that I have already got (rose oud), & the düft plucked me askance; and, "whoa! that is so gorgeous! I seem to have misprisen it somehow all this time!": but, not insuchwise that these became anytheless outliers by virtue of it; and they remain that to my mind - outliers in a big way. I do really very strongly emphasise that.
So, basically what happened here is that my Kilian apothecary, who has suspected for a long time that I have been unquick about her produce, despite my efforts to conceal it (perceptive, she is!), has placed these (and the third one of the triumvirate) in front of me, and I, with a (probably scarcely concealed) inner sigh said "alright I'll give them a try then" ... go through the motions somewhat reluctantly ... but then! what's this!? (the 'Feel' one) ... now this is actually ^something^! Try the next one (the 'Taste' one) ... same effect! To be perfectly honest, the third (can't remember what it's called now) doesn't grab me in the same way; but we have an epiphany here - suddenly we have two outstanders! My Kilian apothecary is ^well^ pleased, I can tell you.
I know I hadn't exactly been brutally honest with her all that time; but I had been honest 'in a sense' - in the sense that whenever she had asked me what I thought of her produce I would try to find in my mind some real good thing that I could say about it, rather than actually ^fake^ a high opinion; but she could always tell I was struggling to find that ^good thing^. So such honesty as I had broached unto her now payed-off big-style, coz she knew my rapture was real!
I do emphasise again that I very strongly recommend these, as they are to my mind ^really very^ good - even for the price, which is
^well into^ the high-end brackett.
They are also different ^in detail^; but the respect in which they are different is to my perception secondary to that inwhich they are similar. This one is more of the fresh-æry-aqueous kind: it's actually got mint in it! and that usually puts me right-off; but in this the mint is so exalted by the quasimusk it just _doesn't_ matter!
[As for the particularities of its °partner° (the ~Feel~ one) I would say the following.
This one is thick & heavy & perhaps even a tad narcotic - the ylang-ylang note is prominent. It is rather on the sweet side, but not gourmandy - no, this stuff way transcends the gourmandy÷not-gourmandy dichotomy! But I think even were it a lesser 'fume with a similar profile it would not be gourmandy forall its sweetness.]
These twain are a complementary pair. I normally abhorr that idea as a marketting stunt; but in this case I _do_ think they actually are.
And then I did something really bad! She kindlily invited me onto the waiting-list for the limited supply the store was appointed ... but I hesitated ... and then (but at least at the same store) another apothecary (my chief) one, arranged, by °irregular° means, to get me them in my hand!! The Kilian apothecary was ^very^ cross - she tried to conceal it just as I had tried to conceal my thitherto-unfavour towards her produce; but she failed, just as I had failed! I know it wasn't exactly ^nice^; but it didn't do any real hurt, & when uwr paying that sort of minlet for perfumes ...
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