Playing With The Devil
Playing with the Devil opens fruit-forward: black currant's characteristic green-dark tartness alongside blood orange's deeper citric warmth, a combination that reads as richer than either note alone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Rose55
- Sweet55
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Blood Orange
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readPlaying with the Devil opens fruit-forward: black currant's characteristic green-dark tartness alongside blood orange's deeper citric warmth, a combination that reads as richer than either note alone. The heart is a classic rose-jasmine duet, handled with the luxury polish you'd expect from By Kilian — the florals are full and present without going opulent or heavy.
The base is where character develops. Tonka, sandalwood, and benzoin form a creamy warm trio; cedar adds structure; patchouli provides the faintest earthiness to prevent the whole from becoming too sweet. The result is a polished, well-constructed fruity floral oriental — ambitious in its layering, disciplined in its execution. The name promises danger; the fragrance delivers sophistication instead, which may itself be the point.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
