Straight to Heaven, White Cristal Kilian 2007 Perfume
The vodka accord at Straight to Heaven's core—sharp, icy, almost medicinal—lands first, a shock of cold clarity laced with rum's deeper sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Cedar45
- Patchouli35
- Ozonic25
- Incense20
- Tobacco18
By the editors · 2 min readThe vodka accord at Straight to Heaven's core—sharp, icy, almost medicinal—lands first, a shock of cold clarity laced with rum's deeper sweetness. Within minutes, cedar and patchouli emerge beneath, woody and resinous, grounding what could have been mere novelty in something darker and more substantial. The spirit notes never quite vanish; they hover, creating an odd marriage of bar cart and incense burner.
This reads less like conventional perfumery than an experiment in translating intoxication itself into scent—the warmth spreading through the chest, the mingling of rough wood and refined alcohol. It skews masculine in weight and mood, though anyone drawn to boozy fragrances or unconventional woods might find it compelling. The white cristal flanker reportedly softens the original's rum intensity, emphasizing the vodka's crystalline edge and pushing the composition toward something cooler, more abstract, slightly less sweet.
