Kilian Love, don’t be shy

Kilian Love, don’t be shy is sold out right now; the last price was ৳797 for 1.5 ml. Join the restock list on this page. We do not sell full bottles; a decant lets you wear it for weeks before buying one.

They overlap on the sweet-floral idea rather than the formula. Yara is built on orchid, heliotrope and tangerine over a gourmand accord with vanilla, musk and sandalwood, so it reads creamy and fruity. Love, don't be shy is an orange-blossom fragrance first: neroli and coriander into a huge honeysuckle-and-orange-blossom heart, with marshmallow, caramel and a thread of civet underneath. Yara is the softer and rounder one, and it has none of the animalic edge this carries in the base.

Not in the way the word suggests. Civet here is a trace note doing structural work, adding a faint warmth and body under the sugar so the marshmallow and caramel do not read as flat candy. You are unlikely to pick it out on its own, and nothing about the wear is animalic in the way a vintage chypre would be. What it does is stop an extremely sweet floral from feeling weightless.