Lose Control

Lose Control opens on aromatic cardamom that quickly entwines with a deep mocha-coffee accord, the unmistakable signature of By Kilian Intoxicated. A spiced heart of nutmeg and cinnamon adds warmth and a faint sweetness, keeping the composition cosy and largely linear from start to finish. On skin it wears as a comforting, grounded coffee-spice gourmand, intimate and a little sensual. Where the original projects strongly in its opening and feels luxuriously smooth, the dupe is more straightforward and skin-close, the coffee reading slightly more bitter-synthetic and the spice less refined. Longevity and projection are the obvious compromises, but for autumn and winter evenings and cosy dates it delivers a convincing, affordable echo of a cult spiced-coffee scent.