Les Volutes des Fumées

Smoking Hot 2023

Smoking Hot by Kilian
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7.8 / 10 202 Ratings
A new perfume by Kilian for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is smoky-sweet. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Smoky
Sweet
Fruity
Spicy
Gourmand

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Shisha tobaccoShisha tobacco AppleApple CinnamonCinnamon
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Kentucky tobacco absoluteKentucky tobacco absolute OakmossOakmoss
Base Notes Base Notes
Bourbon vanillaBourbon vanilla OrcanoxOrcanox

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7.8202 Ratings
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7.7176 Ratings
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7.6174 Ratings
Bottle
8.1173 Ratings
Value for money
6.0146 Ratings
Submitted by TheBladi11, last update on 08.04.2024.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance is part of the "Les Volutes des Fumées" collection.

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Svartir

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... too hot to handle ...?
Okay, so at this point a small admission: Kilian was until then by and large foreign to me. A free addition of the "Rolling in Love" was the first contact to the fragrance house - and it followed first perplexity.

Rolling in Love I actually liked, so that I dared some time later, in the perfumery to dare a look at the Kilian shelf.
There I learned that Kilian arranges its fragrance creations in fragrance families and assigns the respective members of a category a corresponding color or in the case of the Liquors just also filled in special flacons.

As the name already suggests, Smoking Hot belongs to the "The Smokes".

Kilian wrote himself to the fragrance:

"There is not one way of being hot. Maybe you are good, maybe you are bad. Maybe you are better when you are bad... Maybe you like to be you, or a different version of yourself. At night, there are no rules but one, just be Smoking Hot!" - Kilian Hennessy

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Creator of the creation is Mathieu Nardin. In addition to this, he is, for example, the nose behind the famous ManRose and "XJ 1861 Zefiro | XerJoff".

Further it says on the website:

"Evoking everything from European clubs to Eastern hookah lounges, Smoking Hot redefines what a smokey scent is today, going almost where it's too hot to handle."

Obviously, with Smoking Hot you want to create a modern, smoky DNA without the classic incense....
And. this part of the mission has definitely succeeded!

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My impression of the fragrance:

Especially after spraying on, there is an entertaining, exciting development to sniff. Please do not stone me for the following classification of the events in visualized form:

A wild, cinnamon-y apple briefly tries the baked apple, but burns within a very short time in a tobacco embers. There it lies now, the burned apple on half charred tobacco leaves, the embers in the meantime smothered. To drown out the consequences of this mishap, Mathieu now throws in vanilla essence and amber notes. The emerging sweetish warmth actually saves the mishap. Out comes the overall picture, which Kilian probably also called Shisha.

I had at my first test at the beginning quite strong licorice associations. In the course resulted subjectively again and again the smell of these Haribo "Jelly Berries". Only after I had really dealt with the individual notes and the course, this image read after.

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Artistically, Smoking Hot is a really well implemented fragrance. I also like to sniff my wrist, but it is followed by the realization: I do not want to smell like that.

Speaking of which, who actually wants to smell like shisha?

Good question, but I would cliché the fragrance actually most likely to see or want to smell younger gentlemen.

I like that the fragrance does not come with a brute sillage. That could become namely extraordinarily exhausting.

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As a classic lark, non-smoker and party pooper, I will probably not be tempted to test Smoking Hot in its species-appropriate environment. But who does, I wish you already a lot of fun with this extraordinary creation.
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Duftglatze

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Very good, but can also be too much of a good thing
When I saw that there was a new Kilian and read the fragrance direction, I thought: Blindbuy! And I was not deceived. You get exactly what you expect.
I always have to smile when I read Shisha Bar fragrance etc. here. Yes, it's true. But for me, this fragrance smells like my father. Older people (like me) can certainly remember that smoking a pipe was very fashionable in Germany in the 80s and many men always carried a small leather bag with their pipes. My dad also had this "hobby". As a child, I loved smelling his tobacco and my favorite was the one that smelled like apple shisha. For me, it's exactly the smell that the Smoking Hot

I'm not a smoker myself, but I really like the smell of this apple tobacco. This is where it becomes critical.
It should be dosed carefully, with more than 3 sprays I get a headache after a while, it is already very intense. Lasts me a good 8 hours and is definitely too strong for the office. There are also days when the scent itself bothers me after a short time, it's just too much.
The apple fragrance fades over time and the smoky note in particular remains.

But you should definitely give it a try if the scent appeals to you.

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JustusSaid

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Smoking Hot? More likely Smoking Sweet!
To put it briefly and succinctly:

This Kilian is not particularly complex. But that's not a bad thing. Because he rides the line he rides very well and there's nothing against it in principle (except maybe the price :D )

But one thing has to be said: the fragrance has nothing and really absolutely nothing to do with "Smoking Hot". Rather, it is "smoking sweet"!

A dominantly sweet apple meets an incredibly delicious licorice note...

Definitely worth trying!
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GinBell91

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But yes...
I immediately fell in love with this fragrance. It's creamy, sweet, smoky
and really sexy, but in an elegant way! It really reminds me of a kind of shisha bar but you can wear the scent wonderfully in combo. It could last a little longer but overall this is a great scent.
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NicheOnly

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Not as innovative as they were pre-Estee Lauder
I don't usually blind-buy fragrances, mainly because I dislike landing in situations like the one I think I am in with Smoking Hot. After my first wear, I'd say that I like the scent but I don't love it. Take your current wish list and look exactly in the middle - those are scents that you like (and may eventually buy), but don't need. That's where Smoking Hot would be on my list.

The wearing experience offers some layers. Upon first spray, I guess the surprising part is that there is zero smokiness, incense etc. I mainly get fruity & a little bit bitter/sweet. Shortly after, the sweetness starts to accumulate & the fruity/bitter accords turn into a clearer apple note. The scent begins to mimic a winterized version of Apple Brandy on the Rocks.

Thereafter, it's the dry & warm spicy tobacco notes that star with the apple for the next 2 hours. The key comparison here is to think of Smoking Hot as the apple-tobacco equivalent to how fragrances like Herod, Manhattan Eau de Parfum, and Boundless use their cherry-tobacco tonality. You could even think of the latest Kilian as a blend of (1) an amped-up Apple Brandy, and (2) a milder Herod. Worthy of note is that this scent doesn't actually offer me any resemblance of Angels' Share.

I think as a whole it's blended well. I think it offers some unique edges, as it isn't just another play in the Herod ballpark nor in the Manhattan/Boundless ballpark. I think in the air it's really nice - it's approaching niche-smelling niche much the same way like a Russian Tea, or an Aquila Absolute in that it combines accords in non-standard fashion.

But simultaneously, I don't think it's that innovative. And post-Estee Kilian as a whole isn't putting out anything that has me in a chokehold, much like how Maison Francis Kurkdjian is riding on the coattails of BR540 & Grand Soir. Fall-winter fragrances are the only thing Kilian is objectively great at, but just like MFK, I wonder how much of my sentiment is just nostalgia and the brand living off their household names.

There's no doubt that I need more time with it. But I will start (in my opinion) conservatively and rate it an 8/10. It's a like, not a love. While the performance is subject to change, I'd say I get moderate-to-strong sillage for a couple hours. Longevity is on the lower end of good; my 7/10 ranking is 7 to 8 hours but I did feel like the scent does actually die off far before 7 hours with shred ounces of the warm spicy & tobacco accords remaining for upwards of 10 hours.
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MrKaraMrKara 7 months ago
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8.5
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A nice apple hookah
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NicheOnlyNicheOnly 7 months ago
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Warm spicy, fruity, sweet. Think apple-tobacco vs. cherry-tobaccos of Herod/Manhattan/Boundless. No incense or resemblance of Angels' Share.
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CrazyupsCrazyups 8 months ago
Honestly, a little let down with this one…..I received this and PDM’s “Althair” the same day. Althair the superior fragrance IMO
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BodomicBodomic 3 months ago
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The apple + shisha notes are self explantory. "Smoking" part's nthg to do with cigars but with shisha coal. Drydown vanilla is rich.
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HerakObamaHerakObama 5 months ago
Smells like sickly sweet green apple mixed with the black scented marker that us 90s kids used in kindergarten. Pass. 3.5/10.
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