KIKI
Kiki is French, very French indeed.
(picture: KIKI, interpreted by Andy)
Kiki is a fragrance where the wild, green freshness of lavender melts with the softness of freshly baked croissants, with a little sugar crust. Kiki is musky elegance, a fragrance that is light and never offensive but nevertheless reaches out; it captures you like a look into green eyes that tell you: I am the one. It lasts for ever on my skin, and makes me dream of times when perfumery was less a business but an art. So, Kiki is much about lavender. But it is more. The lavender helps making it light and Vero managed the most difficult task when working with lavender: To bring in this clean, crisp lavender without suffocating the composition by herbaceous head notes. There is a powdery, musky, bodily base that balances the lavender. And there are light fruity, almost floral notes in the middle that give it this little bit of sweetness that it needs. Not a drop too little, not a drop too much. I get lilies, powdery lilies, that are innocently linking the head and the base and…again…balance the composition. In a sense, Kiki is simple and pure, and yet it is a highly complex perfume, where the notes are harmoniously bound together.
Kiki is taking a promenade along the Seine, returning from Grasse, where you bought a bouquet of wild lavender, picked on the slopes of dry, rough hills in the evening under a gentle June sun. You returned to the city, with its elegance and its parties, its flower booths selling white summer lilies along the streets. You walk along the Seine with your lover, wearing your 50-ies gloves that make you feel like Audrey Hepburn, arm in arm, in love. You realize how urban Kiki is and how sexy, like your lover, who might well wear it too. You walk along the Seine and think of your breakfast with fresh croissants after a long morning in the bed. The memory of freshly backed delights waves into the green, crisp lavender. You dream the scent of linen, white and scrambled at the end of your bed after a warm night, the sun shining through drapes, caressing your skin. The bed is still warm where his head left a little impression. You can smell him. You are in love.
You like lavender? You will love Kiki.
You do not fancy lavender? Give Kiki a try, you might well fall in love!
KIKI: Designed by Vero Kern.
For the time being, KIKI is only available in Switzerland and neighbouring countries from veroprofumo. Sales to the US is anticipated by mid 2008.
May 30th, 2007 at 11:40 am
I hope I did catch the time limit on the quizz, because you two are set to make me love lavender with your obviously great renditions.
It sounds positively smashing and not in the least “phruity phloral” (LOL!), so it has us all at rapt attention.
Thanks for the lovely review!
May 30th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Ahh Andy. Very beautiful and tempting description. I wish to taste it.
May 30th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Sounds like your dear friend did a splendid job !
A very exciting scent.
Salivating here, naturlich.
BTW- very interesting-
My Jacob, wears your Reverie as I believe you hoped it would be worn…
On him, it is a thing of whispering beauty, glorious.
On me- it’s nice… but not like THAT.
I’ll have to mail him to you !
[He’d like that !]
Kisses to you and W.-
May 30th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Andy, I’m so happy for you and Vero. Lavender is such a beautiful material in the right hands. Obviously you’ve both done well by it. I must say, I read your review a short time after eating a bowl of Special K Berries. I had to think back to make sure I’d had breakfast.
Last weekend I tried Patou’s Que Sais-je. You were right: fabulous oakmoss!
May 30th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Dear Helg
Not ph-ph…that’s for sure! thank you and: you made it into the quiz, but I can not tell you yet whether you or someone else won. I will do it in an hour or so….
Der Vladimir
It is pure, beautiful and somehow just yummie!
My dear Chayaruchama
Vero (you would love her!) is more than doing excellent, she is very gifted and -contrary to me-very patient. About the RĂªverie au jardin: Isn’t it nice to know that there is a scent that waits for you, but not on you? Hugs to you and to good smelling Jacob!
Dear Maria
Thank you. Glad you liked the oakmossy que sais-je! and maybe it is not a good idea to eat while reading perfume reviews; suddenly you start chewing on galbanum ;-)
Greetings to you and Mr. DH
May 31st, 2007 at 4:07 am
I’m so excited that Vero finally launched her fragrances, I always wondered why she didn’t. Congratulate her from me. I like the bottles she use. I found the letters on her website a bit small, but maybe that’s just me. I can’t wait to smell her creations.