Kilian Paris · 2019 · Pascal Gaurin

Rolling in Love

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Almond milk and ambrette seed over soft iris and freesia, resting on skin-like musk, tonka bean and tuberose.

Kilian Paris says

You’ll smell Almond Milk, Ambrette Seeds, iris, freesia, musk, Tonka Bean and tuberose.

More from Kilian Paris’s description

It also mentions Ambrette seed and Vanilla.

The house’s page

The drawn Rolling in Love bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Rolling in Love’s scent picture, a draft: almond, ambrette, iris, freesia, musk, tonka (coumarin) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Rolling in Love, top notes: Almond, Ambrette

Heartas it settles

Rolling in Love, heart: Iris, Freesia

Dry-downwhat stays

Rolling in Love, dry-down: Musk, Tonka (coumarin), Tuberose, Vanilla

What’s inside it

What the label names

8 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 herbs & lavender5 florals1 sweet1 spices

8 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoatePentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

Smells like it

For less

Good GirlCarolina Herrera · Some of its own wearers say it copies Rolling in Love$137 for 50 ml · about half of Rolling in Love’s $295

“I actually find good girl a less sophisticated version of kilian Rolling in love.”

Reddit comment, r/fragrance, 2021

Shoppers call a cheaper stand-in a dupe.

What wearers say, set beside the price each house asks. Noses differ.

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

SultaniArabian Oud · shares orris, freesia, cashmere knit and tonka$270 for 100 ml · about half of Rolling in Love’s $295
Vanilla SexTom Ford · shares almond, orris, tonka and vanilla$615 for 100 ml · about the same as Rolling in Love’s $295
Fucking FabulousTom Ford · shares almond, orris, tonka and vanilla$630 for 100 ml · about the same as Rolling in Love’s $295
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.