Reviews of Liaisons Dangereuses
by By Kilian

I was carrying a single rose and dropped and in my haste to turn around and pick it up, I stepped on the bud, crushing it under my shoe. This smells like a crush rose under a shoe. Way too perfumey and harsh not to mention "fake" and trying to hard not to be a perfume. It so makes me want a martini because there's just so much of alcohol smell.

Liaisons Dangereuses was, to be honest, a letdown. The only other By Kilian I had smelled previously was "Cruel Intentions" which was an oddly fascinating ever-changing perfume slideshow. In contrast, Liaisons Dangereuses was a boring fruity plum chypre perfume that never really developed into anything complex or piqued my interest. I did not catch cinnamon which is supposedly one of its key notes. Fresh's "Memoirs of a Geisha" is quite similar smell-wise to Liaisons Dangereuses and blows it away in terms of creativity and sillage. And of course, price. Also, for some reason, 06130's Yuzu Rouge came to mind when smelling this and I liked Yuzu Rouge better.

Here are the notes of Liaisons Dangereuses, per The Perfumed Court: plum, geranium, cinnamon, sandalwood and musk.