By Kilian · 2013
Apple Brandy
Longevity
Long-lasting5-8 hours
Projection
ModerateFills your personal space
Polarising
Mixed
amber-forward
warm
cozy
sensual
Warm rum and apple, smoky vanilla barrel
Scent Notes
Warm & Amber
Heart
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The full profile.
About This Perfume
By Kilian Apple Brandy smells like Warm rum and apple, smoky vanilla barrel. It opens with apple, rum and sugar, moves into oak, wood barrel and smoke and settles on vanilla, labdanum and texas cedar. It reads unisex.
It is best in fall and winter and is an evening scent. Reach for it for date nights. Released in 2013.
Wearers report that it lasts a solid half day on skin, and projects to about arm's length.
Is it right for you?
- Best for: anyone after something amber forward and warm for date nights.
- Sample first if: woody is new territory for you.
- Skip if: you dislike vanilla fragrances.
Around $415.
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Occasion
Date
Projection
Moderate
Gender lean
Leans unisex
The verdict
Best for
Best for
- Date
By Kilian was founded in 2007 by Kilian Hennessy (of the Hennessy cognac family) and now belongs to Estée Lauder Companies; the house is defined by lacquered refillable bottles and a heavy gourmand-oriental catalogue that leans cognac, vanilla, tobacco and rose. Scendira lists 125 Kilian fragrances with 43 in stock, priced $9 to $460. The lean is gourmand-unisex, Angels' Share and its "On The Rocks" variant are the modern anchors. Community's top five in stock: Angel's Share On The Rocks (citrus-cinnamon cognac amber, 2025), Musk Oud (oud incense rose, 2013), Angels' Share (cognac cinnamon vanilla, 2020), Princess (marshmallow-tea, 2022) and Smoking Hot (tobacco-vanilla, 2023). If you want the house at its most-loved: Angels' Share is the flagship, Good Girl Gone Bad (florals) is the biggest feminine, Black Phantom is the gourmand-dark tent-pole.
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FAQ
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It smells like Warm rum and apple, smoky vanilla barrel. It opens with apple, rum and sugar, moves into oak, wood barrel and smoke and settles on vanilla, labdanum and texas cedar.
Wearers report that it lasts a solid half day on skin, and projects to about arm's length.
It is best in fall and winter. It is an evening scent. It suits date nights.
It reads unisex.
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