Love and Tears

I blind bought a 30 ml decant, and very pleased. If your looking for the best Lilly of the Valley fragrance, this may be it. Guerlain Muguet may be the best LOT-Valley by itself, but this has some nice complexity. I'm a guy who's Mom was a florist. I grew up picking lilly of the valley for her bridal bouquets. So I like gardenia, lilly of the valley, jasmine. But most are too feminine for me to comfortably wear. This is not too feminine. Almost is, but mostly gender neutral for a very floral fragrance. UPDATE: After an hour in; the floral dominance fades some, and the fragrance get more complex and interesting, and leaning more to masculine side. The styrax and cedar become more prevelent. Styrax having a floral nuance. The narcissus becomes stronger, with a tobacco and hay nuance, as fragrantica describes. There is a cooling/ watery vib to it, as someone mentioned. Maybe what a "water jasmine" is... I think the orange leaves, petitgrain stays throughout, and gives an orangy green freshness. There are some sharp or bitter, waxy greens, maybe from galbanum. There is a light resin in the base, styrax, which is very nice. I don't pick out lilly of the valley, but I get a non-listed butery Gardenia note, reminding me of Tom Ford Velvet Gardenia. But this gets more floral and feminine as it develops initially, mostly jasmine;. Refer to update. You do pick up the nice supporting notes to the florals, making it unique. It has good quality floral notes. PS: Wearing it today, early September, 21. This is the best white floral, that is not overly feminine, I will enjoy on occasion. I wrote my review from a 20 ml decanter. I just received a new 50 ml bottle, and it's fresher and better. I bumped my rating up to 10/10 because it's an exquisite Springtime freshy. Great citrus and light white florals, and some interesting depth, great blending. Rating: 10/10 God bless. John 3:16

Fantastic!I received my Love and Tears travel set few hours ago. On this fragrance, I totally agree with StellaDiverFlynn: Because I am fond of jasmine note(and tuberose/gardenia etc.), I have tested quite a few jasmine-themed fragrances.One of my favorite is Olene from Diptyque, which is also a scent that combines jasmine & narcissus & green notes, but compared to Olene, the jasmin note of Love and Tears is pretty light and mild, while Olene has a very aggressive trait in the beginning.Love and Tears used lily-of-the-valley to express the green and natural atmosphere, while Olene used honeysuckle. However, after I thought it over, I realized that Olene is not the one that has the highest similarity with Love and Tears——you know what?It is Eau de Givenchy.But the version I got has extremely poor longevity...though I have to admit that the narcissus and lily-of-the-valley notes are super similar to Love and Tears. In short,although I believe it is overpriced,the scent itself is vernal and affecting(maybe a bit melancholy). -

Lovely lovely lovely. Totally a must for white flowers/jasmine lovers. It's an explosion of lily of the valley and jasmine. It's flowery, spring like and joyful. Uplifting, a perfect spring daytime scent. Elegant, reminds me of Diorissimo (having them one on the left hand and the other on the right) but even more of Joy (the Patou one, i don't consider the other). The jasmine here is not indolic as in SL A' la nuit, for example. It's well mannered and serves the purpose of establishing the correct image of an elegant, polished, and even posh person. It's a fragrance for a young mother or for a wedding day. I would have seen Grace kelly wearing this instead of Fleurissimo. Lovely cedar styrax resinous base. Good longevity, medium sillage. Very well executed, not unique but a sure bet if you like jasmine and are looking for a spring fragrance.

Well, this is a nice, clean, raspy-green, cooling white floral. Mostly jasmine. Properly swoony and lush without being the slightest bit sweet or sticky. The drydown gets a touch sweeter, with the “slightly funky stewed fruits” note of styrax. Some people might call yet another jasmine soliflore boring, but there’s real value to a floral that doesn’t compromise on quality but is polite enough to wear to work. Calice Becker knows the way to my heart is these sturdy, clean-cut fragrances. God I love her.

Opens briskly green and aquatic before it becomes a massive fully bloomed bouquet of white florals, specifically jasmine and lily-of-the-valley, and a heady narcissus that veers like hay. Very strong as it mingles with body heat, gets a touch sweeter but not by much. Lasts all day, projects quite well and leaves a trail. Perfect for warm months.

I simply just fell in love. I didn't think I'd love any jasmine other than beloved No.5, but this one is tempered by the ylang ylang. Just gorgeous. It's just so feminine and surprisingly more Love than Tears. Besides, Kilian himself sold it to me during a visit--even wrote me a little card saying something very sweet. No one says no to Kilian.

This is one of my all-time favorites. As a lover of white floral scents, this one is quite satisfying, with a verdant, cool quality reminiscent of walking out of the sun into a shaded courtyard garden on a warm summer day. While not overpowering, the perfume has surprising staying power. In my opinion, it is better for evening wear.

This is the best fresh white floral fragrance. It's also my favorite Lilly of the valley. Because it's gender neutral. I don't like wearing feminine florals, but enjoy great florals. It's rounded. It has some richer base notes, and great green notes. Well blended. Grab it if you can find it.

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!

This is a lovely white flower scent in which orange blossom and jasmine do the tango! Cypress and petit-grain bring fresh green undertones, keeping the animalic and indolic tendencies of the big white flower divas in check-

This is blended to perfection. A jasmine that is gender neutral. Touches of Moss, and styrax, fresh, from petigrain and bergamot.

Aquatic with jasmin is definitively not my combo, I'll pass this one !

Though not elegant or complex, this is a jasmine scent journey with a twist of unexpected, and certainly an interesting adventure worthy of a tester. On first application I closed my eyes and smelled the scent of rain on white flowers, on a sunny morning in the tropics (where we get rain with sun at the same time). After a few minutes this scent took me along a path lined with jasmine vines in full bloom - clean, clear and STRONG jasmine. Nearby I caught glimpses of small orange trees in flower. These were subtle and not over-riding the jasmine. Now and then a broken stem of bitter orange tree gave the scent journey a bit of contrast. And there .. what is this now? ...crushed sweet-tarts on the ground! As the dry down progressed, the pungent oil of lime skin wafted through. And ylang ylang came in with a mild custardy smoothness. For about 5 minutes I could all most taste custard with green lime peel grated on top! But this was fleeting. 15 minutes into this interesting scent adventure a sharpness of Winter began to assert. Perhaps this is the juxtaposition in the fragrance contrasting the "Love" of tender white tropical flowers competing now with the brace of cold mountain air bringing in crushed cedar leaves, and a dab of the aromatic lotion one rubs into sore muscles. If there are hidden unmentioned notes, I would guess Kilian sprinkled a dash of capsaicin to bring out the "tears". A friend sniffed my arm closely and commented "ummm, smells nice, but it kind of bothers my nose up close". A note on the supposed unisex nature of this scent: I rather like jasmine on a man (my son smells wonderful in BVG Jasmie Noir), but this one is too sweet in the whites (even with the Winter note contrasting). I think better on a young woman.

The name: Love and Tears doesn't refer to the smell- it refers to THE EFFECT. Hard to wear - best worn in your room - alone. I get it now - it's "unisex". That's why it's sO COLD. To be more wearable it's gotta be warmer - that is, HAVE warmth. At least some. It is a cold perfume but that doesn't mean that it'd be easy to wear in the summer. nO not at all. It's for wearing when YOU feel hot emotionally or at your core she is good at cooling things down in that way. It's a "must have" but definitely not a must wear. Here's why she is true to her name: Opening: WHOO! Bright, happy (ecstatic even), then as roots take hold of you that is when she gets darker. & then, melancholy settles as her final base, which, lasts (excellent silage). Yikes :/. I think By Kilian confuses " unisex " with androgynous. This is by nO means wearable for a man. It's flowers! And nO way is it feminine either, too cold. Unwearable by either gender. Don't be disappointed by her effects- she was upfront with you from the beginning. ...Peace...

Love and Tears is a luminous, radiant jasmine soliflore to me. It opens slightly citrus tinged, adorned by green bright lily of the valley nuance and a tiny bit of indole rendering it natural and vivid. When these shimmering aspects gradually attenuate, Love and Tears becomes silky with a sort of lotion-like nuance of ylang ylang and tuberose. There is a galbanum and moss undertone keeping the jasmine grounded on the branch. Although the evolution of different nuances is detectable, Love and Tears is unmistakably an innocent, fresh jasmine. It's feminine, envelopping, yet non-demanding, airy and ethereal. The sillage is moderate and the longevity is at least 9 hours. I find Love and Tears a beautifully executed jasmine soliflore, fresh, clean, but not soapy or overly synthetic. I'd recommend it as a relatively natural interpretation to those who adore jasmine and would like explore different facets of this lovely flower, or to those who find jasmine too demanding as a refreshing change.

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.

I get a blast of jasmine that smells natural and neither rotten (like Lush Lust) or sour (Bvlgari Mon Jasmine Noir). This gets a little more aquatic due to the water jasmine, and then the lily of the valley starts peeking through. To me this smells like a spring wedding: all the floral decorations and bouquets, along with the perfume that each and every woman and girl is wearing. Pretty smell, but too much for one person to be wearing. One spray of this left a huge cloud of white floral surrounding me...I am waiting for it to tone down before I leave the house or else I have a feeling people are going to be sneezing and wiping their eyes around me.

On my skin it is just as much about lily of the valley as it is jasmine. And I find this to be a tad soapy in comparison to the 5 other jasmine soliflores I have sampled lately. This is a very white perfume, but rather than making me think of the exotic jasmine flower, this smells very conservative to me, like a perfume that a sweet and well-dressed English woman would wear to church. It's the soapy quality that lends to this image. I recommend at least a sampling if you are looking for a bright white scent. The longer it wears, the more beautiful it becomes. Feminine and elegant. The sweetness of the galbanum is very apparent on me.

I must protest! Jasmine = feminine is not really a thing; conventional wisdom be damned! Case in point, Love & Tears. Sure, it's top heavy on jasmine, though in most other respects this fragrance conforms to a classic men's cologne formula (and lasts a helluva lot longer, too). Bergamot and pettigrain are accounted for, galbanum delivers a musky undertone and you've got cedar come the drydown. The jasmine itself? More green than white, fresh, clean and definitely with an outdoors-y vibe. I also get a sense of water, cool and clear like that of a babbling brook. I like it, anyway. A lot.

Just a note: The sillage on this fills two rooms. My boyfriend yelled out "I can smell your perfume!" from the bedroom when I was way out in the living room, and there was no way he could possibly have seen me spray it... I sprayed 2x (this is the only perfume I have ever experienced that kind of massive sillage with) Anyway, lovely jasmine soliflore but not full bottle worthy for me, at least not at this price. Too plain. I prefer Serge Luten's jasmines I think. However, the performance on this is really not to be reckoned with...