Sweet Redemption By Kilian for women and men

This is my favourite from Kilian. I am in LOVE with it. Gorgeous, gorgeous sweet orange blossom and vanilla perfume. Very longlasting lasted from 8.00 PM last night to this morning at 8 Am when I woke up. I went for the travel refills this time and I am very satisfied. The price is acceptable with the refills and I can put them in another refill bottle which will cost me way less than the original travel atomiser.
The main reason is they remind of soaps when I used to be little and my grandmother would make a bath in the garden for me and my cousin, they smell like these memories, the smell of soap combined with flowers from the garden. This is not a simple orange blossom/neroli scent but it is a delightful combination containing these notes plus vanilla. Resembles also with Love but that one is way sweeter, like a marshmallow.

Woah.... There are a couple of other By Kilian fragrances which I have described as sweet but this one goes waaaaaaaay beyond sweet. I find this overwhelming, too heady, too many resins and balms battling with the vanilla for supremacy. Stifling. It's just too much.

On my skin, it seems to have a faintly medicinal kick.

The whole thing makes me feel a little queasy, to be honest. I keep waiting for the incense to come through and make the composition a little drier, smokier, but it never does.

I'm afraid this is a scrubber on me.

I just received my sample from Lucky Scent! It reminds me of a summer night party circa 1975. Incense is burning to hide the clouds of special herbs that are being passed and enjoyed by party goers as the orange trees in the back yard are making their presence known.

I've worn this 3 times now, twice at home (and I love it at home) and once to work (I'm a server at a local diner) Maybe the smell of waffle's and bacon in the back ground disturb the fragrance that I smell on me right now, but I didn't care for it at work.

I'm still on the fence about purchasing it. May buy another sample and wear it in the fall?

By Kilian SWEET REDEMPTION seems like a very simple perfume to me. I smell orange blossom, I smell benzoin, and I smell vanilla. Each of these components seems very clear and identifiable, what is rare in composed perfumes. The overall effect to my nose is that of cooked-sugar glazed orange blossoms.

I think that whether people like this perfume is going to turn on a question of taste: do you like orange blossoms pure and unadulterated, or are you open to a sweetened version? In my case, I am so enamored of straight-up orange blossom that the addition of a vanilla benzoin coating seems a bit disruptive. That is most likely because I can think of few things in the universe as wonderful as the scent of fresh orange blossoms...

Try before you buy.

This smells a lot like love by kilian with more of an orange sweet smell, love being more marshmallowy. I do prefer love. They are both fluffy sweet fragrances. My fiance says it smells like candy, and it does. Very expensive, delicious candy- I love this gourmand from kilian.

This is an amazing fragrance, and my signature scent! I don't think there is anything like this out.

If I could sum this fragrance up in one word, it would be : Inviting. From start to finish the scent exudes comfort. Smells initially like a harmonious blend of Orange Blossom, a hint of a medicinal quality, and a vanillic sweetness.

Overtime, the sweetness becomes more dominant, while the biblical base of myrrh and opoponax anchor the scent from becoming unbearably sugary (ie Love Don't Be Shy), and the orange blossom mellows out.

A gorgeous scent, with a scent trail that will demand those who have the privilege of experiencing it to stop and wonder "why more things don't smell like this." Longevity: 12+ hours on my skin and days on clothing. Extremely versatile in my opinion.

Sweet Redemption opens up with an intense sweet suggary orange flower, a soft and delicate note almost without any citrusy aspect into it. A very pleasant and relaxing aroma if I may say.

There isn't much change on my skin trough time with this long lasting fragrance. The sweet orange flower note just loses a little bit of it's suggary smell and that's it. Is is bad for being linear? No way! But a little evolution would be awesome.

As it is with the by Killian line, I'm a fan. Always classy.

Ok, Sweet Redemption does not breaking new ground but that's not the point.

Since I love orange/ neroli, I love this one. Some do it on the cheap and some do it right. Right? Well, it's done right, here.

Spring/ Summer is the best time for this wear. In the Fall/ Winter months I move on from the neroli but I do look forward to it in the warmer months.

I understand the popcicle comments but that is really just surface sniffing. You need to let it breath. The vanille and incence does keep it from going down candyland.

Not many notes here and that is fine. Keep it simple stupid, right?!?

Sillage Longevity are really good.

Here is my second stab at the Kilian house (see Back to Black). Let me first start by saying I try to get a great deal of feeback of a fragrance the first couple of times I wear it. I typically get this from coworkers as I am around them for 8+ hours per day in a Corporate setting. I will wear a fragrance once then come back a week or two later to see what they think. Sweet Redemption got the same comments both times.

The first response was you smell like a popsicle, this is something I would wear (women) and you smell great. So what do I think? Something in the combination gives this a very sweet, but not pink sugar/blue sugar, sweetness. It isn't really gourmand either which is wierd. It is the sweetness of a fresh orange without the tangy/citrusness of it. I think the vanilla really tames the tangyness which should come from the orange flower (unless the orange flower doesn't have the brightness of citrus orange found in most summer frags).

As the day goes on it gets sweeter and the incense kicks in about halfway (3-4) and you have a vanilla, sweet orange incense vibe that stay with you for the next 7 plus hours. I get about 10 hours of real scent time and at least 6 hours of this projecting very well.

This was my favorite Kilian but now has become number two behind Rose Oud (smell it, you have to) and then Black follows this. That may change if Incense Oud is as good as everyone says but for now this is number two. The entire Kilian line is well worth a try as it is my number one house. Sweet Redemption gets a 5/5 for accomplishing what it set out to do and doing it superior to the others!

Just got my sample ...
and I like it...
its an Orange Popsicle or something similar
....that hits you first
yet on second smelling ....
it's not that sweet or candied ..
even though the vanilla
in it gives it a very youthful and summery...feel
thankfully,there is complexity to this scent..
a Root-beer note that seems
to slide in and out
perhaps that's the incense, benzoin, working its
spell.....

A fragrance that makes you go... hmmmmmmmm!
I will wear it to bed and perhaps have a better idea come morning.

I'm just tuning into the house of By Kilian now, at the supposed end of the L’Oeuvre Noire series with Sweet Redemption. I had heard a lot about this house being on the strong side, and seeming that I like bold and somewhat outrageous smelling fragrances, I find that this house, and fragrance in particular, suit me.

Sweet Redemption is either a love it or hate it. I personally adore it, however I have had many wearings of it, so ultimately the scent grew on me. It opens with a deliciously zesty and juicy mandarin orange, slightly sweet but also very natural. Once settled, Sweet Redemption has a somewhat medicinal accord, slightly antiseptic but strangely likable.

The scent becomes darker and richer as the fragrance develops. My nose seems to detect a hint of creamy benzoin, chocolate, vanilla icecream and smoky myrrh. Honestly, it is a bit of a gourmand experience, especially with all the vanillary and orangey sweetness.

The base is quite sexy, with the myrrh, incense and opoponax creating something quite animalistic and gritty. I've been game enough to wear this to quite a few social gatherings, where men in particular have gone bananas over the drydown of this fragrance on my skin. It is unisex after all, and although sweet, I wouldn't call Sweet Redemption entirely feminine.

This fragrance clings to fabric so well, that I can smell it on my coats and jumpers for days. The longevity is of course, very impressive as is the sillage, which could knock someone out if applied too heavily. All in all, I'm impressed.

Alright, I know I"m supposed to love this line because I just met Kilian, but...

This has been done before. It's burnt sugar kissed wiht orange blossom, and ho hum for that.

I think it will take a gourmand lover to bring on the accolades. I wanted incense here, sandalwood and vanilla, which sounded sexy. I think the marshmallow note from 'Love' worked too well and they decided why fix somehting that ain't broke.

But this is too 'I've smelled that before' and for the price point this sentiment doesn't cut it.

Bitter orange leaf with slight hint of vanilla. The drydown reminds me of MFK APOM pour Homme. Refreshing your day, would be great for summer vacation.

I immediately smelled the orange flower in the opening, but it mellowed out fairly quickly when the benzoin, incense and vanilla notes took over, and laid in a murky thick puddle. My final impression of Sweet Redemption; sweet redemption? nah, sweet menthol root beer concoction? Yup. Very odd, this one's just not right for my chemistry...

I so want to try this one out I love by Kilian fragrances you spray it at 9 in the morning and by the evening the scent has gone through about ten changes, it is like going on an olfactory journey, just a wonderful and bizarre experience.