Description
The Art of Love, a new collection from By Kilian, launches for Valentine’s Day of 2014 exclusively for the Russian market. The collection includes four new fragrances inspired by love, desire and passion: Killing Me Softly, Dangerously in Love, Kisses Don’t Lie and Criminal of Love. All of the above compositions are built around the ultimate symbol of love – rose. Each fragrance comes with a sexy and provocative gift intended for “adult games “.
Killing Me Softly is described as an expression of delicate fragrant roses that caress your skin. The composition includes accords of aldehydes, blackcurrant, litchi, buchu leaf, rose, hawthorn, bitter heliotrope, iris and vanilla. The gift that comes with this fragrance is a large feather for tickling the senses.
The bottles represent a modern interpretations of Faberge egg
The nose behind this fragrance is Calice Becker.
matvei331 – :
It is so so beautiful, that I went on to try and get it seven times, on all attempts I got fake copies of this beauty. I desperately ask if anyone here doesn’t like it, and surely has an authentic bottle I will be so so grateful to buy it. Also I have about half of Some Like it Hot full, if anyone wants to trade somehow instead.
It smells like fresh roses with a hint of some dry scent of black currant. It really is beautiful, and at times even something in it reminds me of the Chanel 5, not that they are similar, but something. Maybe just those aldehydic notes.
Uhmah74 – :
Beautiful powdery perfume!!! Very long lasting
kolyanich – :
It smells like an expensive shampoo. That’s all.
prernepaype – :
I’ve made at least 5 approaches to this perfume at different seasons, different states of mind, well, in totally different circumstances. I had that feeling that there was something special about it that I wouldn’t get. I thought: there must be more to it. But no way.
It opens with a sour greeny note that reminds of vinegar and… silage feed for cattle. Is it buchu + aldehydes that make this weird effect? This lasts at least for one whole hour. To be honest: it stinks to the point that even the shop assistants get despaired.
At the moment when I finally lose my patience and get up to wipe it away from my wrist – opppa! – it’s already the base there: iris and vanilla. Well, the base is quite nice but would it be reasonable to wait every time for one hour or more to get some iris and vanilla? I don’t think so…
I don’t get any rose, any hawtorn, any litchi at all. Are they all eaten up by the creepy buchu (does anyone have a notion how it smells in reality?). No heart notes whatsoever.
After that horror of the first hour the rest stays on the skin forever. I’ve put hand lotion all over my hands; after a while it reappeared with a matter-of-fact face; then I took a shower… it emerged again. I went to bed again applying hand cream. When I woke up – no cream smell, but still that bloody iris/vanilla base. Definitely surprising will of the perfume to stay with me. I give up.
v.i.k.t.o.r – :
Fragrance Review For Killing Me Softly
Kilian
Top Notes
Aldehydes Currant Litchi Buchu Agathosma
Middle Notes
Rose Heliotrope Hawthorn
Base Notes
Iris Vanilla
The bottle!
Nothing like it in most American fragrances. This was an exclusive fragrance that sold in Moscow. My Russian girlfriend Marina, a model, has this fragrance and it smells so beautiful on her. It’s a sweet fruity floral aldehyde with a modern slant for a floral aldehyde. It’s very pretty. While I was in Moscow and St. Petersburg during a Russian Fashion Week (which is now becoming more common every year) I bought this perfume. It was expensive. Kilian is the most preferred fragrance line among the Russian perfumistas. I don’t know why that is.
The bottle is a work of art and I do like to collect perfume bottles as if they were objets d’art. However the fragrance is much lighter and less complex than the artsy bottle.
This is fragrance based on powder. The notes in it become powdery as it wears on your skin: rose, heliotrope, iris and vanilla. The whole thing is a boudoir perfume of powder. I do like those type of scents however. Delicate, floral, and easy on the nose. It’s like a little nightie and of course I’m wearing this with lingerie.
The first spritz is a modern aldehyde which only means that it’s not a blast, it’s not heavy. It is a good intro to aldehydes. It’s fresh and bubbly. When these aldehydes join the currant note, it’s a champagne or wine made of cassis. It’s a delicious currant and it has a fruited flavor with that sweet litchi to provide it with sweeter scents. The heart is floral with rose and heliotrope, beautiful powdered roses and heliotrope flowers. Heliotrope is my favorite flower so I’m always going to love a heliotrope note in perfume.
The one thing that I don’t get about this perfume is the agathosma or buchu. It is supposed to be herbal and green, like galbanum or perhaps a bit like patchouli and it would have been far more fascinating to me if this scent went into the “green” direction and had a bigger dose of this stuff. But alas no. It is a note that I have experienced once before in La Belle Otero. It’s very much like green herbal shampoo made up of real extracts of this stuff. But it would have killed the powder in this scent.
Killing Me Softly is just like it’s moniker. It’s not slaying you or stabbing you with aldehydes and flowers. It’s soft and subtle, it’s killing you softly – with powder.
Very pretty girly and soft and so comfortable like scented lingerie to induce sweet dreams.
vgruber – :
Among a bunch of blotters (niche and luxe) my dad chose Killing me slowly saying it is the only worthy fragrance: high-end and exquisite and it smells of some fruit.
miss.katerina40ina – :
Really nice, tender cloud surrounds after spraying this. I love it! Need to go with your skin though.
postmaster24 – :
it smells so nice, people always ask what perfume it is, i purchased it at gum moscow, wish i could get it online 🙁
sosedofcamel – :
Cats …( No, sorry(((
vf37ru – :
this one is unfortunately all top with little mid and no base. it comes across as quite nice and a sweet, but it doesn’t develop nearly enough.
it will suit a a younger crowd, possibly female, but in saying that they may find this too sweet for their tastes also. nice enough, don’t get me wrong, just not ‘massive’…
arernebroma – :
Am I the only one who thinks the bottle is a rip-off of My Queen by Alexander McQueen?