Kilian
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The orange blossom and paradisone create an initial flash of citrus-floral brightness, but it's strangely muted, almost powdered, as though someone's run a soft filter over what should be radiance. Within five minutes, something honeyed begins surfacing beneath, but it carries an odd, slightly bitter undertone that prevents immediate sweetness.
The honey absolute dominates with an almost savoury intensity, developing a subtle spiced warmth as vanilla and labdanum weave through. The frankincense becomes evident here, adding a resinous depth that makes the honey feel less dessert-like and more like something amber-tinged and medicinal—think honey infused with incense smoke rather than drizzled over pastry.
What remains is a sophisticated, predominantly smoky-amber base where the oakmoss and frankincense intensify into a leathery, slightly woody dryness. The vanilla and bourbon notes recede into the background, functioning more as softening agents than primary players, leaving a fragrance that's closer to burnt amber and wood smoke than sweet gourmand.
Can't Stop Loving You inhabits a peculiar territory between honeyed gourmand and smoky incense—a fragrance that feels simultaneously comforting and unsettling. Alberto Morillas has crafted something that subverts the expected trajectory of a honey-focused composition. The orange blossom and paradisone opening promise brightness, but this is a feint. What emerges is a Proven Al honey absolute that refuses the typical warmth such notes deliver; instead, it reads almost savoury, acquiring an almost medicinal quality before the base materialises.
The Somalian frankincense and oakmoss combination creates a deliberate roughness that prevents this from becoming a crowd-pleasing amber-honey affair. There's a distinctly masculine restraint here, despite the unisex classification—the bourbon vanilla and labdanum sweeten without cloying, anchored by smoke and resinous shadow. It's the scent equivalent of taking your coffee bitter, your honey in small measured amounts, your amber grounded in earth rather than floating in vanilla clouds.
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