Love, Don't Be Shy Eau Fraîche

Yay!! She is finally here!!! Do you know how long I have been waiting for this? Years!!!✨🥳🎉🎉🎉 This is absolutely gorgeous! A much more wearable Love, Don’t be Shy, there is still the sweetness from the marshmallow note but a true “airiness” and luminosity from the “greener” notes that open this fragrance. The neroli and petit grain are so deliciously decadent, I am so happy to smell these notes! The marshmallow and musks come later and the scent becomes softer and slightly powdery as it dries down. The longevity is decent; 5 hours, I’d say. But the skin scent after that is wonderful and oh so cozy!!! Projection/Sillage: moderate. This isn’t the OG, it doesn’t radiate like it. It’s subtle and I L O V E I T !!!!! Price: yes, it’s Kilian...I had a ‘use it once’ 15% off code with Nieman Marcus so that helped a little but yeah, it’s freaking expensive 😓 Season: Spring, Summer and even early Fall. Beautiful and airy and greener. This is a beautiful fragrance, I am very happy to finally have it in my little collection! It is a gem and I am wearing this Baby on heavy rotation 🥳🥳🥳

Love Eau Fraiche is truly the lighter, more delicate version, while still capturing the DNA of the original. It is a warm, floral marshmallow with a delicate touch. The whole fragrance line is addictive to me, but Eau Fraiche is less cloying (to others, I love sweet fragrances) and I don't worry that I am giving people headaches. This is especially true in warmer weather or indoors with a lot of people. It has slightly less longevity (lasts 4-6hrs) and sillage is moderate. I get lots of compliments! It is a more flirty, playful scent rather than a sex bomb fragrance. It is much more expensive than it should be, but that's Kilian and a lot of other fragrance houses these days, unfortunately. I don't have enough money for a full bottle, but I keep buying travel sizes because it's just such a pleasing, easy to wear perfume that I always get compliments on. I've realized I've gone through more of Eau Fraiche and the original than I have any other fragrance in my collection.

This one is a very nice version of the original , it’s much greener with more neroli and dominant orange blossom in the opening. It almost is a silk layer of portofino ( TF) layered over the original Love , minus the chivet. It’s very beautiful and has more of a cologne vibe yet it unmistakably resembles Love. The bottle suits the scent perfect it’s a lighter brighter fresher marshmallow scent almost like an edt of the original. I don’t like it AS much as the original but I still love it as it’s better for daytime and it’s nice to spray onto clothes and hair which I don’t like doing with the orig red juice. This one is a limited addition to celebrate Loves 10 th anniversary :) As this dries down it’s almost the same as the original , super creamy amd musky. As it dries down it’s a huge love for me and equal to orig. without the chivet. Winner! Too bad it’s limited.

I'm obsessed with this scent. I've been on the lookout for airy, light, ethereal 'princess' scents with decent projection and longevity. And I got exactly that. On my skin it opens up as fresh sugary white flowers, and dries down sweet and fluffy without being cloying. Definitely a fragrance that needs to macerate, the marshmallow note is much more prominent in the sample I got than the new bottle. Can't wait to try more eau fraîche scents by Kilian. Update July 2024- Wow, I have to say- allow the fragrance to macerate! The bottle I have just keeps getting better and better, the scent isn't as fleeting anymore and the marshmallow note is developing beautifully. It's becoming less green without losing its initial burst of freshness and the white flowers are still present but more in the background.

I think it's interesting that everyone says this is a less sweet version of LDBS because this is just a fresh, squishy marshmallow on me. I smell nothing other than that after the initial dry-down, but I am not complaining. I wanted LDBS to be sweeter and softer, so this is perfect. I think it lasts decently long, about 5 hours, and it's strong enough to be smelled by others. I do think this will be too sweet in 90+ degree weather so I won't be wearing this in the summer, but there are 3 other seasons. To me, I smell like I just spent all day in the kitchen, making marshmallows for my loved ones.