Beyond Love
by By Kilian

Really pretty scent. A bright, fresh and invigorating scent of tuberose. Seamlessly integrated and showcasing the tuberose, it may not thrill those perfume users hung up on complexity. Stops just short of being a little loud. I have trouble not comparing BL with Carnal Flower which I also admire. Beyond Love is not as deep a floral as CF. It doesn't create the dreamy 3D enveloping effect that CF does, but this may not even be a negative for some wearers. There is a very faint buttery quality to BL but it does not add heaviness to the scent in the least. BL always remains crisp and bright. Because of this aquatic quality and in spite of my fondness for Carnal Flower I think that Beyond Love works better for a man.

12nd December, 2011. (Last Edited: 28th December, 2011.)

Given the price tag of this fragrance, I tested it already hoping to not like it, but the high quality of it spoke louder. My nose is delighted but my pocket is desperate.

The opening of this fragrance makes my mouth water! This have never happened before with perfumes! At the top I can smell a very rich tuberose note, the best I have ever smelled, accompanied by a delightful coconut. So creamy, dense, rich in a way that I couldn't believe it was possible to a fragrance to achieve it.

Through time the coconut aroma disappear leaving space to the star of this fragrance, the tuberose with it's sweet, velvety aspect. Beyond Love has a perfect name! Indeed, as Kilian said, it is the forbidden pleasure of narcotic tuberose.

In the future I will obligate my girlfriend to use this as a signature fragrance. Hahahah :)

4th December, 2011.

Well, on my fragrance journey I’ve come to conclude at least one thing. I’m not a fan of tuberose at all, but keep trying them to see if there is something I’m missing from this genre. This one is all about tuberose from the get go, with some sweet elements mixed in. I detect a hint of coconut, but really can’t pick up much more over the tuberose. It isn’t a scrubber as some of the others, but it is generally something that does not interested me at all.

8th November, 2011.

Kilian BEYOND LOVE is touted by some as the best tuberose soliflore around, but I myself detect a significant jasmine note, in addition to a touch of coconut and a dash of dirtiness (apparently imparted by synthetic ambergris?). Although this composition is a bit thick, it is nothing next to Serge Lutens DATURA NOIR, which offers hefty doses of both tuberose and coconut and ends up rather clunky (and unwearable by me) as a result.

I do not recall having sniffed another quasi-tuberose soliflore before, but maybe that's because there are so many much better and more complex tuberose-centric perfumes around. Perfumers probably figure: what's the point? Versace BLONDE is darker and dirtier, Robert Piguet FRACAS is brighter, juicier and more vibrant, while CARNAL FLOWER is vegetal and green.

Next to such masterful tuberose perfumes, BEYOND LOVE seems somewhat opaque, linear, and unidimensional to me. Wearable, yes, but not compelling to my nose.

31st October, 2011.

Beyond Love brings a fruity-creamy vibe to the table, almost reminds me of peaches and cream,very good and the longevity is spectacular 16 hours!!!.

22nd September, 2011. (Last Edited: 8th October, 2011.)

A very beautiful tuberose bomb with jasmine notes that sums up spring in my eyes...

Love it indeed...

Great longevity and sillage.

Big thumbs up...!!!

25th March, 2011.