Love and Tears

Very beautiful white floral. Opens with a very intensive lily of the valley and water jasmine. The orange blossom is certainly present. Very calming fragrance. Most often a daily wear for me. Very happy with the house of Killian and very well worth the price tag!

Love and Tears is a beautifully refined, almost haunting fragrance. It smells clean, soft, and dreamlike with jasmine definitely taking the lead on the list of ingredients. Love and Tears would be perfect to wear for a relaxing and special evening with your significant other. I personally love jasmine, and while this is a strong jasmine, it's the soft blossom of jasmine without much interference from any other scent, the heart of it. I don't really see how it could be unisex though. It's too floral for a man to wear. I like this fragrance!

Upon first sniff, there was a unique familiarity (which I realize is an oxy moron, so please indulge me) I caught a tinge of a fragrance reformulation of Aveda's Love in this scent. Perhaps it was the petitgrain dancing with the ylang ylang, but with a heavy smattering of gardenia. Fast forward a few days to today and I revisited my sample so kindly received on my recent shopping excursion. This time it was a different familiar scent.... More of the blend of flowers rather than the stand out notes of gardenia and petitgrain. Still lovely, the sillage is closer than I expected. Despite the fact that it kind of does remind me of Anais Anais, it is still a lovely, soft floral with good, steady longevity (about 9 hours) It is quite linear so you know what you're getting right from the start, but I had hoped for something with more depth at that price tag. I will continue to enjoy my samples but it won't be a FB but enjoyable just the same.

Applies rich night-blooming jasmine and orange blossom flowers. Dominant white floral + green is intoxicating like a humid rainy night. Lavender shampoo adds a generic streak in an attempt to provide dry balance. Faintly warm cedar pairs with deep floral base. Overall…strong, pleasant, easy. As a dude, I prefer Jo Malone’s “Orange Blossom” - linear, but sunny + more pure. For more compelling/masculine floral, try: Both Bois 1920 “Come L'Amore”, Marissa Zappas “Flaming Creature”, and Amouge “Library Opus IX.” Dry down improves as a woody spice harmonizes. Moody. Delivers on the name. Smells like the singer Morrissey - sexy and sad.

So many things to say: We got a dabber! A little dab will do ya! It's loud and proud! I can see this causing tears if applied too liberally to the wearer or by those in the vicinity. Lord knows the potential for a migraine sized headache is here. All that being said; in moderation I find this beautiful and charming. The jasmine is fresh and dewy and at the peak of their bloom. Orange blossom and lily of the valley faithfully support their leading lady and are detectable once you become used to the jasmine. It turns a touch green from the narcissus, galbunum and petitgrain about 45 minutes in. Then I get a stong licorice note that sticks around thanks to the lavender. And that's about where it stays on me. I'm not a huge licorice fan, but it balances out the jasmine quite nicely and gives it a clean quality. Not soapy, just kind of after a shower clean, a touch medicinal clean. Make no mistake; this is jasmine through and through, but I do not find it to be linear by any means. And I don't get any of the cedar or oak moss. Will I buy a bottle, no. Do I think it is a well done perfume, absolutely. It is well-blended, well-rounded, well-balanced. It's a big floral! And by big I mean HUGE!