Kilian is the namesake perfumery of Kilian Hennessy, heir to France’s most illustrious fine liquor dynasty, who translates his legacy of luxury and a convention-defying approach into the brand’s five olfactory families: The Fresh, The Narcotics, The Cellars and The Smokes and its latest creation, The Liquors. His childhood memories of dark cognac paradis are revisited in fragrances centred around the sweetness of alcohol and the woodiness of ageing barrels while others find inspiration in an adulthood immersed in the elegance and sensual freedom of Paris. The label’s storytelling concoctions are shaped by the interplay of dualities – darkness and light, sin and innocence, love and the forbidden – tapping into the ineffable, encompassing power that scent possesses to create coveted eau de parfums.