Back to Black
Back to Black by Kilian is an unisex eau de parfum from 2009 in the luxury price tier. It opens with tobacco and honey, moves into cherry, vanilla and hay and dries down to cedarwood, musk and sandalwood. Expect around 10 hours of wear, and it projects strongly.
Notes, explained
Opening
- Tobacco Sweet, dried and honeyed. Nothing like a cigarette.
- Honey Sweet, waxy and slightly animalic. Can smell dirty in large doses.
Heart
- Cherry Sweet, syrupy and a bit almondy. Currently everywhere.
- Vanilla Sweet, creamy and warm. The most comforting note in perfumery.
- Hay Sun-dried grass and tonka. Warm, rustic and comforting.
Dry-down
- Cedarwood Dry, pencil-shaving woodiness. Clean and structural.
- Musk Warm, skin-like and slightly sweet. Makes a fragrance feel like you.
- Sandalwood Creamy, milky wood. Soft and almost edible.
Smells like this
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