Love Don’t Be Shy - Extreme

• Romantic
• Evening
• Special occasion

Love Don’t Be Shy – Extreme opens on a luminous sweetness with neroli, quickly wrapped in orange blossom. Then rose arrives in force, denser, almost liqueur-like, giving the fragrance real floral depth.

Over time, marshmallow returns to soften the whole, though it is less dominant than in the original. It blends with musks and vanilla to create something very comforting, more grown-up, almost creamy and sensual.

This is a more intense, more sophisticated floral gourmand that keeps the sugary DNA of the original but with more depth and longevity.

Kilian Paris is a perfume house founded in 2007 by Kilian Hennessy, an eighth-generation direct descendant of Richard Hennessy, founder of the cognac house of the same name, and grandson of the patriarch who oversaw the creation of LVMH. A heritage he chose to honour in his own way, by taking a radically personal direction. It all began with a final-year dissertation at Celsa on the semantics of scent, then training alongside the greatest noses, Jacques Cavallier and Thierry Wasser, before years spent at Dior and Armani. The decision to create his own house came from a visit to the Baccarat museum: faced with a century of perfumery condensed into bottles that were objects in their own right, Kilian realised that something had been lost along the way. He handed in his resignation the next day. His founding conviction fits into one sentence: 'True luxury should be eternal.' Every Kilian Paris bottle has been refillable from day one, in 2007, long before sustainability became a selling point. The collections are organised around dualities of sin and innocence, light and darkness, love and the forbidden, all across four olfactory families: Fresh Citrus, Narcotic Flowers, Cellar Woods and Smoke Trails. Angels' share pays tribute to the vapours of the Cognac cellars of his childhood. Love Don’t Be Shy – Extreme has become a modern classic of sensual vanilla. Kilian Paris perfumes all carry a story and fully live up to their motto: Don't be shy.