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01/05/2013
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In the city of Hyperbole
Is By Kilian IN THE CITY OF SIN a reissue of LIAISONS DANGEREUSES? I ask because it has precisely the same (eccentric) effect upon me. I smell hyacinth very strongly in the opening, after which the perfume becomes more of an unsweetened fruity chypre. Where is the sin in this, for heaven's sake?
I may be in the minority, but I never really connect the By Kilian market hype with their perfumes. In this case, the tag line is: "The temptation which leads to carnal desire." Huh. I have yet to detect a single animalic note in the entire By Kilian line-up, so either I'm anosmic to their erotic inducements, or we simply have wildly divergent views on what the word 'racy' is supposed to mean.
Honestly, the snakes and all of the clumsy pseudo-erotic writing does nothing to make this composition anything more to me than a reissue of LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, as tame as plum pudding--but much less sweet.
In the end, I am forced to conclude: I just don't get it. At all.
I may be in the minority, but I never really connect the By Kilian market hype with their perfumes. In this case, the tag line is: "The temptation which leads to carnal desire." Huh. I have yet to detect a single animalic note in the entire By Kilian line-up, so either I'm anosmic to their erotic inducements, or we simply have wildly divergent views on what the word 'racy' is supposed to mean.
Honestly, the snakes and all of the clumsy pseudo-erotic writing does nothing to make this composition anything more to me than a reissue of LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, as tame as plum pudding--but much less sweet.
In the end, I am forced to conclude: I just don't get it. At all.
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