KILIAN PARIS Love, Don't Be Shy Eau de Parfum

This smells like fruity pebbles with vanilla and caramel. I don’t get any top or mid notes (except I do pick up on the civet) Just fruity pebbles. Extremely intoxicating and addictive. I want to eat my arm, it’s the most gourmand fragrance I’ve ever tried.

This is Rihanna's scent!!

Sugar, sugar, sugar...sweetly glazed florals that are crystallized with supreme vanilla, caramel, and marshmallows. Oh...and did I forget to mention - sugar?! I find this unmistakably "pink" and "orange" in it's hue when I smell it. Then a more amber hue in it's drydown phase.
Love is a bold but very pretty, feminine, somewhat sensual scent. Although it is very sweet, it is actually never childish or juvenile but more sophisticated and posh. Upscale and classy. I believe that's the civet note way in the background making it feel more grown up. I will tell you right now, you WILL get compliments! You WILL get noticed! I love the blend of Jasmine, vanilla, rose and caramel together. Orange blossom plays a big factor here that smells beautiful and a little tangy, candied even. It's of high quality.
This performs extremely well and is best suited for autumn or winter months, at night. I choose to wear it all year round, except for summer months.

Initially, I loved Love by Killian. It is insanely sweet - think chocolate and candy-floss. I'm a gourmand lover, and I thought nothing could be too sweet for me. When I first wore this juice, I happily bathed in the super-sweet wafts and I really dug the animalistic quality in the dry-down. I thought it had an amazingly sexual edge - a dirty, slutty bite to the sweetness. It made me think of a woman on heat, and it was kind of sexy...

Then my husband ruined it all. He gagged when he got close, his face truly went grey. When I crossly asked him to explain WHY he should recoil from such a mouth-watering scent, he eventually explained that it was just plain old yucky sweet. Not 'nice' sweet like a baking cake, or vanilla icecream, just that it smelt 'of all things sweet, and no one particular thing at the same time.' He said it was a headache inducing mess of EVERYTHING in the world that was sweet just lumped together and turned synthetic. And even worse, underneath it all, he could smell 'rotting corpse'.

Once I got over the hurt of it all, (one does take it personally when one's perfume is disrespected; dis my perfume, dis me) I kinda took his point. The sweetness IS synthetic and overbearing, like cheap perfume sprayed on to hide the odour of poo. Because that's all I can smell now he pointed it out to me. Poo. Not a sexy, musky, animal smell, but straight up sh*t beneath the cloying sweetness.

Still, a bit of me is still strangely drawn to it. And if he ever pees me off, and I don't feel like a cuddle I know what perfume I'll be reaching for...

I loved love by kilian since first sniff but I couldn't think of buying it because of it's price.more than 300$ for a 50mil perfume is really too much.I think it worthes it's price because it's the best sweet perfume I have ever tried(I think it's price was fair if it was 100 mil) but I didn't have that much money.I loved it so much that I sniffed my empty sample bottle million times a day and I wanted to order another sample of it(just a 1.5 mil sample of it is 9$ here!)it made me feel good.happy,pretty and relaxed.what did I need more?!I couldn't believe my eyes when my mom bought it for me as a birthday gift
Now I'm a proud owner of love by kilian,my first by kilian perfume.it's bottle is small and simple but all in all it's bottle and box is heavy,very luxurious and looks very pricey
It's one of my most longlasting perfumes.stays more than a day on my dry skin! I thought it's sillage to be moderate,but it's one of the rare perfumes that I can actually smell soft,sweet clouds of it around me the whole day! but it's so smooth,so marshmallowy soft that I thought others can't smell it.wrong!it's not shy and others can smell it even from meters away but it's still soft and non-invasive
I expect caramel dominant perfumes to be kind of gooey and buttery,you know what I mean.but love has a powdery sweetness.it's powdery but it's not dry in a chalky way,not at all
I thought it's a simple fragrance but notes dance on my skin the whole day.there isn't anything dirty and animalic or clean and detergent like here.still you can feel pretty contrast between clean delicate florals and sexy animalic notes,like something naughty and sexy also something shy and kind.honestly this is the best perfume I ever had and a great scent for love.warm,sweet,conforting.sexy.naughty,pretty.this is love of a girl
Love by kilian,don't be shy babe,come and sit in throne of number one favorite of my collection ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Edit:
It's been two years that I have Love by Kilian and even now after owning more than 500 bottles of different perfumes it's still my top one favorite.
I had no choice but to save it for very special occasions and each time I wear it I wish that I had a backup so that I could wear it more often.it has the best longevity and sillage I ever saw in a perfume but br careful as it can stain your white clothes
If you love vanilla,caramel and orange flower you will love this baby.one of the best sweet,gourmand-powdery,floral perfumes out there,very sexy and a compliment magnet
By the way it's totally feminine IMHO.had I discoverd it sooner,I'd chose it as my wedding perfume

I have loved, Love by Kilian for 3 years now and it's finally mine!!!
I got my first taste of love from fellow fragrantican museum gal. At that time (I'm not sure her thoughts now) she was excited to finally find a gourmand she liked, and I told her it was the sweetest thing I had ever smelled lol! And I still stand next to that opinion to this day. Love by Kilian to my nose is the sweetest perfume I've ever smelt although Sugar Shack by AlchemicMuse sure did come close.
Sugary orange blossom nectar high concentrated in mountains of caramel, neroli syrup, marshmallows, and more sugar.
There is a nice spicy underbelly adding character, but when it comes to kilian love I think SWEET.
Aside from Love's fabulous, earth shattering, sweet scent, I appreciate the quality of this fragrance. Nothing makes me grumpy like a great smelling fragrance that is poorly made and overpriced. Kilian's $160 refill kit (50 mL for me!) was a bit of a bullet to gnaw on, but I've got to say I love that their fragrance is THICK. Potent, amazing lasting power, heavy silage, moderate projection. All I need is one spray from the black tester bottle I became very well acquainted to from all my trips to Saks 5th Ave (for the intent of spraying and walking away, I'm that kind of jerk). One trip I went with my boyfriend and he was surprised to see me spray only once. "Aren't you going to put on anymore?" And I was like "Trust me, this one spray is all I need, I don't want to kill you." And he understood 10 minutes later LOL, but he did say he liked the scent on a side note.
In summary, Kilian Love is an extremely sweet and powerful fragrance. Not for the faint at heart.