Kismet For Women | Eau De Parfum 100ml | By Maison Alhambra

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The tuberose note is reminiscent of salted meat and heavy cream, especially the moment when ghee (clarified butter) mixes with pork; it’s gourmand in the most unconventional way. A strange combination that is both attractive and repulsive to me. It’s like stepping into an Indian household after the owner had already prepared dinner and is now spraying air freshener to get rid of the scent. Moustache is typically twice the price or more VS Kismet, and for that reason I think you are better off going with Kismet for the money. On my skin, the opening is a beautiful bouquet of fresh white flowers, enough sweetness, enough deepness without giving away the presence of wood. Petals everywhere.

Anyways, I randomly tried this one and big, stupid smile froze on my face. Like people when they are desperately in love over heels. I would not splurge 200 € on for a 50 ml bottle of something I only enjoy for the first few minutes. I also love cedar, and creamy ambers, and soft tuberose. I love Cedre, and Fred Hayman’s 273. This has an ethereal lightness but is still grounded with that amber that almost has a spicey vibe, but is still fresh and green, no dried spice at all. It’s like when sweet and sad or hard and soft collide in a striking way that is an extremely well-balanced tightrope walk that doesn’t leave you conflicted or in tears. Kismet is warm, but the vanilla is not sweet and eatable , it is powdery and classy. Later becomes creamy, complex ... like a mixture between otherworldly and "something old and comforting" . The creaminess makes it feel like there is tone of musk in it, but other notes create the feel. It's something that a lot of women, myself included, would be happy to wear everyday in warmer months.

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Contrary to others, I have not observed any change due to masceration. Smells and performs the same as when I opened it. To be perfectly honest, I generally disregard claims about masceration, since there's no way to reliably know how long it's been since a particular batch was made when you're buying it. In addition, I expect a quality fragrance to perform out of the box - I'm not in the market for scent bonds that need to mature (and if it needs to mature, the manufacturer should mature it and sell us the finished product). The vanilla accord is at its most fascinating in the drydown of Kismet. On my skin, it is velvety smooth, sensual and dusty. Kismet is easily one of the prettiest oriental vanilla scents I have smelt in a long time. I don't, however, find any similarities between Guerlain's Shalimar and Lubin Kismet. Shalimar is far more powdery and has a much more prominent lemon accord. Kismet is its own stand-alone scent. I decided that I would give it a try this morning since I would be in a temp controlled environment all day. I still put down a base layer of "By the fireplace" and put about 4 spritzes of "Kismet" on top.

Kismet is a beautiful combo of tuberose and narcissus, with amber, wood, and a touch of rose. The apricot adds a beautiful fruity jammy brightness to the overall fragrance. The performance is not bad (4-5 hours or wear with moderate projection) and for the size and cost of the bottle, I wouldn’t mind having to overspray it. Actually, if this had been a cheap perfume, I would probably have been less lenient and would have attributed such a drydown to poor quality. But this is Kilian, so they're allowed to be strange.I thought this was the most delicious, sweet, sexy, slightly animalic white / yellow floral and I knew i wanted a bigger bottle. I couldn't understand the people complaining it smelled like "spicy hot milk." The difference is subtle, they are so close with Moustache having only slightly better performance and quality that it isn't even a factor in my opinion. Fragrantica editors have allocated this to the "Floral" category; if you buy it on the basis that it's a floral perfume, you are going to be desperately disappointed. Kismet is an Oriental. It DOES bear similarities to Shalimar (allocated to the Oriental Spicy category); they also smell as if they're from the same era. It may even be that the original Kismet helped inspire Jacques Guerlain's Shalimar, as it predates it by four years or so. This Kismet is more "user friendly" than the current Shalimar. I'd love to get my hands on the original in that gorgeous bottle, to compare it to its current formulation. First spritz... And I was hit with an overwhelming scent of hairspray. Whuhhh. I was so confused. Can't figure out what's causing it.