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 14 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.
- Tonka55
- Rose55
- Sandalwood50
- Jasmine45
- Musk40
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.
