Reviews of Single Malt by By Kilian

The grain and sweetness combine to an accord that's whisky-like in nature. But not overtly boozy. There's a ghost of tobacco that drifts in and out of the composition. Very enjoyable, but the dry-down fell flat for me. It's turns into a mere powdery vanilla after several hours on my skin.

Sweet, rich woody fragrance without much connection with malt whisky in my opinion. Smelled blind, I doubt you would identify a connection with that drink. Like Femininity du Bois and all these similar woody oriental compositions, it doesn't do much for me.

This is indeed a Whiskey scent.
If you spray it on your neck you will walk around being aware of this subtle delicious smell. Its linear in this respect for a good 3 hours. However. If you put your nose close to your skin where of course you hope your partner's nose will be you get this skanky urinal vibe. Not pleasant at all.
Maybe that gives it the power to project and enjoy at a distance rather like an impressionist painting.

Imagine the scene though where you get a compliment and someone says wow what are you wearing and they lean forward to savour the smell and you've lost before you've even said a word! There is no coming back from that. So null points in fact penalty points for teasing us with a would be masterpiece.

Fragrance: 8/10 at a distance. But real life is different.
Projection: 8/10
Longevity: 7.75/10

Such a shame:
This really gets the projection right. You could pull it off day or evening as opposed to Frank Muller's excellent Conquistador which is a delicious Cognac scent but strictly evening only. I went to the gym and after a while it was so strong (one spray!!) it began to annoy me. That said spray it under your clothes and its more subtle.

Boozy at first, earthy and fruity (dried plums), sweet. I am not much of a whiskey drinker, but the aroma is there and I'd say more like one of those whiskey's that are blended with honey/vanilla. Immediately it starts to feel balmy, while maintaining the booze. The vanilla is becoming prominent in the dry down and the plum is still there, the booze is gone; now more resinous and woody.

Kilian is at it again with this one...boozy,sweet,and an odd note I cant put my finger on. I've only tried a few kilians of the ones I've tried none of them are really my taste. Another review said it well. Like walking around smelling like a drunk. It is somewhat complex but again its overly so.

Boozy and smokey opening. Later it's a boozy vanilla, but not as heavy on the vanilla as other popular vanilla-boozy combos.

Single Malt is an appropriate name as this really does have a prominent whiskey smell. It's also sweet enough to be considered a modern fragrance but this feels more refined and mature than a casual scent. Probably best for nighttime.

This projects decently and hangs around all day.

The opening few seconds really got me fooled. It smell as if I was holding an oak cork of an old bottle of brandy(not rum).

Don't burn your money yet. The boozy initial blast quickly transition to a dried-sugar preserved-fruity notes: the brandy travel upstream in time, converting back to its ingredients. At some point I can perceive a sweet-cocoa like herbal undertone.

That cloying sweetness persist for god knows how long, finally fades away.

I love boozy scents and this one according to Fragboy Stewie is very good and better then Pure Malt...well i think not.This stuff is just really bad,very pungent whiskey note still soaked in barrels...very strange and had to wash it off fast.

Single Malt by By Kilian accomplishes excellently the balance between sweet and boozy, evoking just enough syrupy, honeyish sweetness simultaneously with aspects of whiskey and scotch. I'm not even an aficionado of scotch or whiskey, but much like coffee before I drank it, I enjoy their aromas and notes, and they come through in Single Malt.

Projection is certainly strong for several hours in but beyond that it's not a beast all day / all night. It reminds me of Herod by Parfums de Marly in its pure sweetness most of all, actually, despite the notion that Herod is linked to tobacco and Single Malt is linked to booze; the type of sweetness strikes me as similar.

Single Malt is the only By Kilian I've given much consideration to buying, as I've usually found that their fragrances are more comparably done elsewhere (Intoxicated is replicated in the A*Men line, Back to Black is not quite as good as other sweet tobaccos like Herod or TV) but in this case, I find Single Malt unique enough to merit real consideration at its considerable ($295 for 50ml) price point. Peculiarly, it's an exclusive to the London boutique but seems available online all the same (unlike the Le Labo, Tom Ford exclusives).

9 out of 10

ill add this to the Kilian "im trying to make some frags that smell like a drunk" list of slight failures.

i was hyped to try it, i love boozy notes, (rum and congnac are nice scents) but i got this, apple brandy and vodka on the rocks as samples, and dissapointment would be the nice words to use!

this opens with whiskey, and you get some whiskey notes, along with some whiskey, and then later a little whiskey.......

seriously smells like someone has spilled their glenfiddich on your shirt, granted its a NICE single malt, but id rather drink it than smell like it!!