Back to Black by Kilian

Kilian

Back to Black

Tobacco Gourmand

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Longevity

Short

Sillage

Moderate

Occasion

Romantic/Evening

Seasonality

Winter

Amber and vanilla anchor a warm, honeyed sweetness, with dried fruit and spice deepening the heart. It feels rich and slightly boozy, dense with warmth. An indulgent, wintry composition.

Taste Profile

The Romantic archetype

The Romantic

The Familiar Place

Found something that feels like home and never left.

Connection to yourself, your home, your people is what you are all about. The fragrance found you as much as you found it. May those connections remain firm.

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How Back to Black smells, measured

On Zenyra's five taste axes, Back to Black is openly sweet, in gourmand territory, and reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.

Warmthwarm, close0.68

Back to Black reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 73rd percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.

Projectionmid-range0.42

Back to Black sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 18th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.

Riskmid-range0.43

Back to Black sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 78th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.

Texturemid-range0.47

Back to Black sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 44th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.

Sweetnessgourmand0.84

Back to Black is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 92nd percentile for sweetness across 5,322 scored fragrances.

Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.

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