Back to Black, Aphrodisiac Kilian 2009 Perfume
Raspberry, cardamom, bergamot, and nutmeg open in a warm, spiced-fruity accord — the raspberry providing bright fruit alongside bergamot's citrus, nutmeg and cardamom adding immediate spiced depth.
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.
- Amber55
- Mossy55
- Smoky55
- Honey
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry, cardamom, bergamot, and nutmeg open in a warm, spiced-fruity accord — the raspberry providing bright fruit alongside bergamot's citrus, nutmeg and cardamom adding immediate spiced depth. A rich opening that signals amber and resin to come.
The heart is where Back to Black becomes serious: oakmoss, vetiver, frankincense, honey, and patchouli together construct a dense, smoky-earthy accord of considerable weight. Honey softens the incense; frankincense adds ceremonial depth; vetiver and oakmoss provide the earthy grounding that anchors everything.
Ambergris and labdanum close it with rich, warm resin. A Kilian of considerable depth and ambition — dark, complex, and deliberately aphrodisiac in the classical sense. Few fragrances in this price tier achieve this level of coherent darkness.
Scent twins
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