Back to Black By Kilian for women and men

Honeyed tobacco. Warm, quite dense and a spicy undertone. Makes me think of a thick, Aran knit jumper, leather Chesterfield sofas and a traditional gentleman's club in London full of well-to-do ex-military men and public school, Oxbridge graduates in their sixties.

I can see why other people get cherries, I think it's the combination of honey and raspberries.

cherry pipe tobacco that my dad smoked in the fall. Same feel as Chergui. I layer these for an interesting effect.....actually quite nice. Definitely a sultry, hypnotic sexy fragrance. wouldn't wear it to Sunday School or church.

Top note on me - pure sweet sweet almond... Then it disappears. Rats :(

I was excited to try this and disappointed to say I didn't smell anything of much interest to me, just a very nice perfum.

I'll finish up the sample I have to see if a deep love kicks in and I revise my opinion but I think there is something lacking in my body chemistry or nose.

I love Kilian fragrances. I really do.
This...on the other hand...ehhhh.
Not my cup of tea.
I like my tea a tad bit sweeter and sipped in a cafe that does not allow that much tobacco.
The only fragrance I find this mix tolerable is Pure Havane by Mugler.
Back to Black has an opening that I just cannot tolerate. Period. This will piss a lot of people off but man..it's pretty rancid..from start to finish.

Then again, I like things overly sweet. Not overly sweet as Love by Kilian, but on the verge of Sweet Redemption.

Back to Black begins with Honey..definitely there...and Tobacco..definitely there. The thing I cannot stand is that the two are just not blended well enough for me...I feel as if right nostril is getting all the tobacco, and is using the left nostril to make up for it by absorbing as much Honey as possible.

The notes are phenomenal..saffron, oakmoss, patchouli, bergamot, cedar, etc etc..I mean it's why I tried it in the first place. But the melange is just off-putting honestly. I will never promote blind buys...and this is no damned exception.

The SA at Saks told me herself this is a fragrance she wonders why there is such rave about...I agree. But that's just little ol' me. I very much prefer Sweet Redemption and Straight to Heaven.

If you're looking for sweet tobacco scents...I would go with Pure Havane or Tobacco Vanille.

Soapy honey. It's sweet and pleasant enough, but bottom line, seems like another niche disappointment of a "skin scent" for me. I dont want to blast the room with my cologne, but i DO want at least the people near me to notice that i'm wearing SOMETHING!
At these prices, it seems a shame that the only person that can enjoy the scent is the wearer... If you continuously sniff yourself... which people start noticing after a while... i need to stop.

BtB is very cloying honey is a smoke bomb and nothing else, almost reminds me of the disgusting Miel du Bois by Serge Lutens, might not be as expensive perfume this overdose cheap honey you busting your nose, not detected raspberry, chamomile, cedarwood, patchouli anything like that, only honey honey honey and smoked more.
Duraccion Sillage low and medium.

Seems no one haven't voted saffron generously! The smell of saffron spice and not the flower is so clear, mixed with honey and tobacco odors.
This is a VIP scent, this is so special, the aphrodisiac itself! Although it doesn't arise me I think it make women fall down!
So oriental, so much oriental, so mystic, so rich and so masterly balanced. Its immense oriental theme is for the intense smoky tone which overpowers the display and I die for it and makes it supernatural and isolated.
It's superb on my skin, seems something is burning gradually but potentially wild; something, some familiar thing, some part of me burns divinely and emits dense slow-moving mystic smoke full of seductive elements. Each moment of it is an joyful experience till it subsides in dry down.

By the drydown, By Kilian BACK TO BLACK seems closer to Jesus del Pozo IN BLACK than it does to Tom Ford TOBACCO VANILLE (to which some people are comparing it). Well, except that the ingredients used in this composition are of significantly higher quality than those used in IN BLACK...

Initially the tobacco and honey notes see very dominant, but the saffron is also conspiring with the olibanum and woods to produce an odd rubbery myrrh-like facet. This aspect becomes more pronounced as the perfume dries down, and eventually reaches the point of reminding me of IN BLACK.

I realize that this may smack of heresy, given that Jesus del Pozo is something of a low-brow juice factory, while By Kilian is one the hoitiest and toitiest of niche houses. However, it's important to bear in mind that Jesus del Pozo does enlist the services of good perfumers: Christine Nagel designed IN BLACK, and had she been afforded a "sky is the limit" ingredients budget, her creation would have been every bit as good as this one by Calice Becker.

This is absolutely, hands down, the most comforting, yet sophisticated, mesmerizing addictive perfume in existence! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!!! My beautiful, model daughter bought this for me (she owns it too) and language fails to accurately describe this magical concoction. It is so evocative that it just has to be experienced as words fail to describe it accurately. It is pure experience......a wonderful, transformative, fantastical, sensuous experience. It is warm and smokey, exuding dark chocolate and a slight hint of raspberry, then the purest patchouli appears, enveloped in incense, and wrapped up in the richest honey you could imagine. It's perfect. Everyone wants to know what this is when I wear it. And others who are too timid to ask seem hypnotized by it and come closer. It's expensive but worth every penny. It's absolute magic in a bottle, makes my eyes roll back in my head!

Update: The sillage is great but is not so strong that everyone can smell you coming before you arrive. The longevity is INCREDIBLE! On my sweater, this stays for a week. On my body, I can still smell it the next morning. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

i am not so much impressed as I thought I would be. I really like the honey notes coming about 2 hours later of spraying, but some ppl said I smell like a furnish protecter cream ( due to the beeswax I guess ).
It is surprisingly not longlasting, on me a max of 3 hours but very small sillage. It is too expensive not to be perfect technically...

"A tobacco inspiration, an aphrodisiac aroma with sweet undertones of honey"

Reading this description you can almost imediatelly think about Tobacco Vanille by Tom Ford, well and they do share similarities, but here right after the first spray we have a very evident, natural and bright honey note accompanied by a slight and very lluring raspberry aroma and a not so hard to detect chamomile note giving to this particular fragrance a different dept compared to Tobacco Vanille. Lovely opening!!

After a couple minutes the tobacco kicks in without disrupting the beauty of this fragrance. Despite the official description, it just appears as a back component to this beautiful honey fragrance. But sadly nothing that is too good lasts forever. Back to Black after a couple hours loses potency and becomes a slight watery honey skin scent different from that beautiful drydown.

BUT, anyhow, the thing that grab my attention and makes me love a gourmand fragrance is balance. I hate overdone sweet fragrances and thanks god this mistake was not made in Back to Black. The semi-sweet combination is just perfect.

Chamomile tea with honey. Little tobacco for a luxury! And a little raspberry jelly to be delicious. It doesn't worth $225 for 50ml!!

NYprospect, you made me laugh out loud. Thanks for the chuckle.

I have a sample on the way, will document my remarks later.

Oh honey,not tonight,i have a headache.See what i did there?It smells lush and sexy but oh damn here come the bees.....

I prefer Tobacco Vanille over this one and do indeed find them a bit similar.

To me, this dries down a tad too resinous, and is less comforting as TV's drydown.

To me Back to Black is almost identical to Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille (which I usually layer of Tom Ford Tuscan Leather, a personal favorite this time of year). I love the scent and it wears very well on my skin. I have to say the Tobacco Vanille does last longer on my skin though. The couple of Killian scents I've sampled don't last very long and after a few hours I can't tell they were applied.

I really love the scent and I love Killian's presentation, but the pricing is more than I would spend based on its longevity.

This is a marvelous scent, so rich and smooth! I don't see how this could be unisex however, as the pipe tobacco note is so front and center for me. It smells perfectly male, yet cultured and intelligent.

This would certainly be an aphrodisiac on a man wearing a starched white shirt, the collar unbuttoned, with his dinner jacket over his arm and me on his other one!

Utter crap, headache inducing honey that never stops.

Honey should be a beutiful, rich but transparent sweet note with fruity hints, instead here it's quite chemical with sweetness dialled up to Space, and and almondy tone that starts the headaches.

I'd rather just stop there, this thing is £150+ per 50mls, and I'm wasting my energy typing, that could go into writing more good stuff about Boss Bottled. Like how it could actually make you pleased and smelll good AND actually still allow you possess your bank account.

1/5.

Una de mis favoritas, me recuerda el hermoso poema Los Amorosos de Jaime Sabines... Que creen en el amor como una lampara de inagotable aceite.
"for some reason this one, more than a sweet fragance" is a latin poem, a love one.
kilian always gives the best.

*Nice* scent, but if you want me to spend over $200 for 50ml you have to be more than merely *nice*. For having a name like Back to Black this is surprisingly tame. It starts off with barely-there skin musk and honey note that I initially despaired at, thinking I was anosmic to most of the notes. After 20 or so minutes the honey pushes out in stronger force alongside some vanilla...and stays like that. Indefinitely. Where are all these other notes I see listed above?

On another note, Back to Black smells alarmingly similar to BPAL's O/Womb Furie/Snake Oil, to the point where for a minute I wondered if Mr. Kilian might've ever visited the Lab and jacked their creations being that BPAL has been around much longer than By Kilian. The aforementioned Black Phoenix blends are actually more complex than Back to Black on my skin, so I would recommend those over this $225 overpriced juice.

smells divine. powdery, soft, honey drizzled, back drop of tobacco it reminds of a wearable Thierry Muglers Angel without the stench of patchouli.

This will be my first review of the Kilian house. I will first start by saying I believe Kilian to be the best fragrance house under $300 per bottle (I will never go above that). Let me explain why. By far he has the best presentation, by far he has the best marketing. Now I want to add a little known fact. Disposable income is suspect today and making quality affordable is the key to incremental income. Kilian has done an awesome job making this heavenly fragrances affordable by providing us with refills and travel packs.

This is what is going to propel Kilian into god like status. You and I can have a couple of these special scents to wear every so often (but enough) for $70. Most of these fragrances are not everyday scents, heck you can get 5oz for 350, dang there the same for a 3.4 Bond or Creed which I feel to be inferior fragrances overall (Creed lacks in the unisex and Bond's scents are okay)

Finally on to Back to Black. In some wierd way it comes off as hair grease (wave grease like Dax, Murrays....) but what it really is, is the rasberry, vanilla comined with the spicy notes at the top. As you wear this throughout the day you get whiffs of the sweetness and on me it begins to warm up and even project a bit more. It is definitely unisex straight down the line, neither too masculine or too feminine. The fruity notes stay throughout coupled with sweetness (honey/vanilla) and nice hint of tobacco and I think ceader (some woodsy notes).

Overall this fragrance does not calm down for some time, so you will be smelled a few feet away. You don't have to dig your nose into your shirt or wrist to catch hints of the fragrance as it jumps off the skin even hours later. The longevity is superb. Finally I don't nkow where mediocre comes in. Good silliage, great longevity, nothing I have smelled is similar and very sexy. 5/5 for me on this one.

This is straight up metro sexual I bet P DIDDY got this.Its pretty tight.

Well, I have long suspected that Luckyscent's samples are more diluted the more expensive the FB costs and this one's a prime example: little to medium longevity and zero sillage for this one, when most people describe it as a sillage monster:)

So, longevity and sillage aside, I'll try to focus on the fragrance itself: honey, tobacco and rasberry in the beginning, but after an hour or so, the rasberry leaves and the vanilla takes its place but tobacco always keeps the lead role. It's an elegant, warm and also comforting fragrance that's almost impossible to annoy anyone since there's nothing sharp about it. I like it, it makes me feel more confident and as if I'm wearing my best dress instead of shorts and flipflops which I actually am. At the same time, I don't detect anything black or noir about it. Also got a sample of Cruel Intentions along with this one, and I find that one much more dark.
I like it very much, but I like my perfumes with a bite; this one's too smooth for me right now. CI is my favorite of the line so far.

Update: I was wrong, my husband is very annoyed with this one & even more by Cruel Intentions. He thinks them too heavy and cloying and asked me not to wear them again in his presence. I guess it's a good thing I haven't bought a FB yet.

Why is it that every fragrance I fall head over heels for is one that is out of my price range!!!!!

This is warm honey drizzled over naked skin while I'm munching on chocolate covered almonds in between smoking a pipe.

This is my guilty pleasure, my favorite evening perfume. I love it so much I could wear it in the morning and I have because I can not get enough of it at the moment. I have heard a person on youtube reduce it to just one thing: too much honey in your tea. Well, first of all if I were to reduce it to just one thing it would certainly be expensive pipe tobacco, which is different from cigar tobacco. Now, if you consider pipe tobacco, the honey is much of a background noise. Having said all of that, back to black is more complex than just one or two obvious ingredients. It is a savorous blend of spicy, creamy sweet (not sickly sweet), woody and musky. All of those things at once in my opinion. Having someone tell you it smells like honey is a crime considering the complex blend. I would put it in the powdery gourmand category. Fortunately, back to black is not a typical gourmand. I am not one who likes to smell like she wants to be eaten.
Like all by Kilian perfumes, it is evocative of a vip, lush environment. It makes me think of a Costes place decorated by Jacques Garcia, decadent but ultimately chic. I find all of by Kilian's perfumes to be elegant, just like the handsome sales person that sold it to me. If you are one who is into "clean" scents these will scare you away as they are all dense. In fact the dense and dramatic edge to them is like a signature to the entire brand.
Glamourous in a botte!

Let's start with the byname, Aphrodiasac. Well, not really. It has moments of sultryness but their is no Spanish fly here!

Matter of fact, I find By Kilian's sobriquets mostly off the mark. While the concept is a cool one (not sure if any other perfumers uses this idea) they do appear clever for the sake of being clever which as we know is usually lame (hipster light?). Decide for yourself.

That being said, this is one of their better one's.
A well executed, first class gourmond scent.

The yummy honey and rasbeery stand out at the top end with the smokey Virgiian cedar and vanilla crossing paths giving it a soft powdery drydown.

Sillage is good and longevity is even better but the price...

Ok boys and girls, you have my permission, go for it (or get a sample)!

After a long anticipation, I finally had a sample and gave this one a try yesterday. Thanks God I didn't buy this blind because to my nose it was "1 Million light"

Some fragrances are too hyped up!

I really luv Back to Black! This fragrance reminds me of cough syrup liquid of my childhood. :)

This is a bit like a relationship with a nice, sweet, moneyed, competent, fragrant person you never quite fall in love with. They offer comfort and reassurance but nothing that really draws you in, excites or stimulates you.

It's okay; it smells like sweetened vanilla and fruity tobacco and is obviously well crafted... but it's certainly not worth the jaw-dropping price they're asking for it IMO.

My nose is discerning but uneducated. It is difficult to articulate the notes that I smell without a good knowledge of the perfumer language. However, this scent reminds me first and foremost of Smarties brand Halloween candy shaven or dusted onto a orange cream push-up. The first time I smelled it I thought of Sweet Tarts but it's definitely Smarties. Not a lot of difference between the two but the distinction is important. As it settles, the raspberry note is prominent. I find use of the word "Black" to be exactly opposite of the impression the scent gives. It is neither dark nor intriguing. It is round and fruity.

In my skin I feel little Shalimar.Next I feel rum, vanilia and spicy dark honey accords.
And ...this is not heavy scent , really:)

Oh Yes, rum, cherry tobacco. A man's library lined in dark mohogany wood. It conjures up an evening in the study with a good book and a snifter of fine cognac, Hennessy XO perhaps, ah, now that would be fitting since it is by Kilian Hennessy. I keep the refill by my computer and take a hit of it every now and then, and the bottle is empty, but the vapors are still there. I would consider this a masterpiece. The ladies at work have complimented me on the fragrance. One lady in particular thought it had a wonderful, clean smell of a fragrant honey and an expensive liquer, she didn't get the tobacco. It's just great! If anyone remembers the great scent of the pipe tobacco Flying Dutchman and like it, you will love this.

I smell cherries, tobacco, honey and smoke. I find this perfume to be so unique and special. One of a kind for sure. For me, this is something to be worn at a night club or maybe a piano or jazz bar. So unique and very beautiful, yet oddly comforting. Very sexy but also dark and mysterious. I only wish it lasted longer on me.
Also, try before you buy as this is quite different and unexpected.

A very sexy jazz lounge fragrance. Rich, smooth tobacco, but not dark and heavy. More like a golden-colored, moist, honey infused rub.

The warm earthy spices are perfectly pitched and add to the layered smokiness. Raspberry gives a lovely, alluring dried berry infusion without being too 'fruity' and compliments the tobacco really well.

I love chammomile in this too which contributes a dreamy softness--the type of feeling that takes you out of your current time and place and puts you right in a velvet tub chair listening to the hypnotic groove of casually incensed saxophony.

A bottle? A little pricey, but I love the feeling it gives me. I'll have to think hard on this one while I finish my sample.

** UPDATE: As delicious as this fragrance is, I decided that the longer it lingers on my skin, the more self conscious I become of the tobacco--very warm and rich. I think I'd really enjoy smoking it better than wearing it.

Nice but not last long on me.

Essentially, I get a mild baby-powdery warmth that dries down to an animalistic flat base. I'm disappointed that I don't pick up any of the other notes here.

Freshly-sweet opening, a cherry liqueur and honeyed tobacco, a bit of nutty fruitiness, amber/vanilla in the drydown...
Nice and smooth, I like it a lot, but there is nothing really exciting (for such a price, especially considering its short life on the skin) or new: one of perfumes that jumped to my memory - Oblique Rewind by Givenchy...

Luxury packing!

I received a sample from the Perfume Court today. I would have loved this perfume if it would have just left out that annoying tobacco note! Next....

In this one, I smell nothing but a cup of warm milk spiced with a big spoonful of honey. Warm, cozy, delicious, irresistible...

Mmm... Yawn... Back to bed...zzzz... ❤

L'art romantique

"It is at once by way of poetry and
through poetry, as with music, that
the soul glimpses splendors from
beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite
poem brings one’s eyes to the point of
tears, those tears are not evidence of
an excess of joy, they are witness far
more to an exacerbated melancholy, a nature
exiled among imperfect things, which would
like to possess, without delay,
a paradise revealed on this very same earth."

Charles Baudelaire
L'art romantique, 1869.

This perfection is given to the humans by the gods. In fact, we can be grateful to Kilian.
The gods on Mount Olympus are feeding themselves with nectar and ambrosia. The honey is given to humans for refreshment and spirit, and honey is the main ingredient of this fragrance. The best sentence that describes this perfume is; it is a paradise revealed on this very earth itself.

Engraved Achilles shield on the box and bottle - to protect me the
key - that only I can get to it

Perfume is magical. It opens very gentle with notes of wood and cream flowers. In fact, honey is mixed with various components. This change occurs thrice. First change is honey with light flowers and something sweet - that is cardamon. Then the honey mixed with wood and sweet tobacco which makes the heart of perfume that is very similar to the base. Finally, pure aphrodisiac, tobacco and honey that lasts and lasts...A gentle, non-aggressive and seductive perfume. The perfume which is very well composed and intended for the enjoyment of an artificial paradise.

I do not know how anyone can dispute the quality of this perfume. This is a perfume that lasts for days, even longer than APOM from Francis Kurkdjian. On the second day it is still sensible on the skin, especially on clothes, as it is everywhere around me. But it is true that this perfume is holding close to the skin. But that was done intentionally. It depends on us who will get access to our neck. It depends on us who will also enjoy the perfume...;) Intimate perfume for intimate moments in which we enjoy.

This fragrance combine the divine and secular, a link between heaven and earth. Every time I can enjoy as well as those on Mount Olympus.

Roan.

A few months back I was lucky enough to have gotten two samples of Kilian, Back to Black and Beyond Love from an extremely helpful no-pressure SA. Tested them a few times, couldn't decide which I liked better (too much at once to decide) and put them away, moved on to other perfumes. At the time Bond was on my radar and nothing was getting in the way of that. Sometimes it's hard to made a decision when you're constantly bombarded with perfumes, some, however wonderful they are, fall through the cracks.

Back to Black is THE one I'd buy, it's rich, deep, tobacco with a touch of sweetened fruit with resinous amber and honey. Unique and not something you'd find yourself smelling on other people, at least not in the circles I travel in. Long lasting with decent sillage. To justify buying a bottle, I could share it with my husband, it smells sensual on a man. But my husband isn't up for that, neither is my wallet at this point in time. *sigh*

This is a disaster for me!
Smells good at first moment to the end... This end is short on me! Just 3 hours. When its drying smells like a honey, a lot of honey. Nice, yummy, but to short...
So bad

BtB is to die for !
Red wine, tobacco, plum and honey, magnificent in their composition and the most "grown-up" gourmand scent I know.

Dorian Gray would have loved this stuff and so would have had my darling Oscar Wilde !

When wearing BtB you smoke, drink and devour wonderful creme brulee at the same time - this is an orgy of deliciousness ! Speaking of it, BtB really is an aphrodisiac. Its sensuality will haunt you if you have smelled it only once.
Semi-sweet and absolutely suitable for girls and boys.

If you basically like gourmand scents but hate them sweet, if you prefer extravaganza over mediocricy, if you love the fine smell of unsmoked tobacco, superb red wine and some delicious sweet accessories then Back to Black is for you.

As I also know Tobacco Vanille very well I must add that there are no big similiarities. Unsmoked tobacco, yes, semi-gourmand background/base, yes.
But chances are, if you like one of them the other might be for you as well :-)

By the way : Kilian also offers a travel size spray containing 7.5ml x 4 which is a lot less costly than the 50ml bottle.

OMG...this thing almost EXACTLY like Tom Fords Tobacco Vanille...Thats all I have to say. If you like Tobacco Vanille, ur better of with that. Back to Black is WAYYYYY overpriced for a 1.7 fl oz bottle. TV lasts longer and is a stronger richer scent.

Djarum cherry clove tobacco mated with an unlit honey roasted lucky strike and back to black was born...Its just like smelling a hybrid of those two unlit cigs of my past fresh from the box- although it is never without an element of honey. It's still a sweet soft scent. I compared it wrist to wrist with TF tobacco vanille and it is much less fragrant than TF with more honey, less spice and less presence. This stays closer to the skin and is a tad sweeter. I think they are both worth trying and proudly have both in my collection. My mood would determine which of the two I prefer. I think it would be fair to not buy one because you had the other, but I think if you love them both and have the money, it is justifiable! Back to Black is an intimate scent, and it is full of honey, but it doesn't smell sticky sweet- almost has a dry quality to it, like the tobacco is toasted with the honey(like lucky strikes!). I love the killian packaging, it is so luxe- even in travel size! I believe killian is a quality line with skilled perfumers that use high quality ingredients and it is reflected in the lasting power- which is substancial. The price might be high, but I bet if you get the packaged version versus the refill, you will admire it like an art piece forever (Thats the way it goes for my FB Cruel Intentions!) I ended up purchasing the travel sized version of black to black, which is still a spray. It comes with a beautiful engraved black, magnetized bottle and 4x.25 vials of the perfume. I think this is also a good way to buy killian scents in a smaller size without sacrificing the beauty of killian packaging. I also have heard luckyscent will not send you a killian refill without proof of you buying the box and bottle- although I do not think they mind if you refill your bottle with a different perfume than you had originally purchased. It would be nice if they gave you the option of the fancy packaging, but I am a sucker for pretty perfumes- in terms of both smells and aesthetics, and I dont have a choice! Too beautiful to pass up.
-As a side note, killian also makes beautiful looking candles that cost around $85 and are not terribly fragrant, so I would not buy those candles without smelling them first unless you are looking for something very subtle.

I sprayed it on my wrist and all I could smell was honey. That's it. When walking down the street, I expected to be followed by bees :)
I'd rather be followed by girls, but that's unlikely to happen, unless one wants to put you in her milk :)

Recently went to Las Vegas and they have By Kilian at the Saks there. I was in awe.

Sultry, honey, sexy goodness was at my fingertips. At first sniff of Back to Black I knew I had to buy it - but at the price - WHAT???? Are you kidding me? So - I bought the refill - for HALF the price. Same liquid - just not the pretty bottle and box - but let's be realistic - did I really need another pretty bottle? And a wood box? What to do with it? I only really NEEDED the liquid inside...

I am very happy with my purchase and not sorry about buying the very boring plain bottle version. I got home and happily decanted in 5ml roll-on bottles that I carry with me in my purse.

This is ambrosia from the gods. First scent is beautiful meld of labdanum, tobacco, honey with spices. I am usually not a fan of tobacco but in this perfume, it is just perfect. After a few minutes I smell the saffron, raspberry and chamomile more clearly. It lasts for over 12 hours on my skin, which is a record, and the sillage is lovely, just wafts up from the skin. I am going to be so sad when my dinky little sample is gone. I used 1 tiny little spray for 12 hours of delightful scent. The price is so high that I will be only able to purchase it in a tiny quantity----sigh. It should be sampled by all, I believe.

So this is aphrodisiac? Mmm, this goes to show once more how eroticism at any stage is a very personal and subjective matter.
I was given a vial of this while I was asking for Beyond Love which is much more my type of scent. I grabbed it of course!
I sprayed it a couple of times and was not so impressed. It's not bad, but I don't feel in tune with it.
I smell a lot of black pepper that kills my nose.
Then I happen to let fall the vial from a shelf... OMG! I expected all the room to reek of Back to Black, instead the vial broke up on the floor and the cloud of half-Shalimar baby diaper+black pepper stayed quite confined to that corner. I wiped it out and in about 2-3 days it was gone.
Ok, I lost a vial but it was not of my favourite. It seems much more of a masculin fragrance, kind of powdery for men. Test before buying, especially with these crazy prices that By Kilian charges.

On my skin I feel cherries and cholocate. It almost feels like smoking cherry tobacco with cholocate scented papers. It is very unique and smells absolutely amazing. The silage is wonderful and I enjoy what I'm feeling. I actually think that there is no way and chance to find anything else like this in perfume world. I can only agree that this is "sexy" and "seductive", because the scent is very gourmand and edible, but not in jummy way, but in a way that everyone will try to come closer and take a sniff of this lovely scent.
It's very sweet, but spicy. I can't imagine this on a man, but that's just me. I find this very feminine.
After the first 10 minutes the scent goes to "honey" phase, where I get amazing, sweet and natural smelling honey. It's beautiful and very addictive. Good job.

And actually I think that the price is very good...for the refill. 65 euros for a 50 ml? It's a steal, I might consider checking out if it works good to decant in a clear glass atomizer.

I don't think any perfume house is going to list every one of the ingredients they use to make a fragrance. SO, if you detect some scent not on the list, it might just be in there after all.

This remind me a lot cherry blossom chocolate and also cherry tobacco pipe from grandfathers. This is not a bad scent; yes it is well balanced between sweet,fruits and woods but it smell too much chocolate-cherry to me. I'm smelling some woods but more on the drydown, background of this craft. This is nothing I could wear but could tolerate on others for sure. This is a good scent but not for me.

Another minus to buy this; 200$ american dollars for a 50mL bottle. This is 60 to 80$ more than Serge Lutens bottles! WAY TO HIGH!


8,5/10

I got a sample of this and all I could detect were the cedar, olibanum, & honey. I didn't like how it smelled on me but I came to accepting it after it cooled down.

I would not buy this because it reminds me so much of this cheap perfume they blend and sell at Mecca that is supposedly extracted from the "black rock." Everyone who buys it to give away as a gift knows it is a scam, but because the scent has been associated with the place, it seems so natural to bring it home as a gift.

I like spicy notes, but i didn't like this much and founnd it too strong

The most delicious honeyed fragrance I have ever smelt.
It starts soapy, woody and spicy (I thought it could contain cinnamon), and the drydown is like honey candies, but those who don't like too sweet fragrances don't have to worry: Back to Black is not sickly nor cloying at all.

Unisex and longlasting. It's my favourite in the line together with Straight to Heaven and Prelude to Love.

Personaly, i dont enjoy wearing a honey smell! i tried back to black many times , the smell is not bad, it is honey-something smell, like all have already said,but i dont think i will apply it on myself , it is between like and dislike to me but no way love ....

I ahve to agree this is AMAZING. I got this sample over a month ago and for some reason, thought I hated it without smelling it ( I was smelling the little bag that the sample was in ). It was actually another scent that I hated. So, I dragged tbhis one out today after reading these reviews and OMG! My nose is not at all conditioned to know each individual scent, BUT, I can say this...it is like a beautiful buttery ball of honey with some tart fruity powder stuck to it. I LOVE this and the bottle is beautiful too. I am gonna give it an hour or so to make sure but this could be fb worthy.

I bought this today. It is definitely not my typical scent. I really do not go for the the sweeter smells nor do I generally go for scents with tobacco, but there is something very special about this. After I put it on I could not stop smelling it. It starts out so clean and quickly evolves to become this scent I can only describe as a tobacco leaf dripping with honey. I could eat this stuff.

"I Need You Like A Drug"
Highly addictive I kept applying a bit on my wrist .. just to smell it!!
...stealing private "scentual" moments to myself .. while riding the bus...!

To breakdown and pin point all of this fragrance's complicated notes belittles it somehow....
but this is my impression...
fruity at first ...
Raspberries ..a touch of honeydew melon...
then it settles to a sweet candy ...could that be the honey and the olibanum, everybody mentions...
settling in a combo of ...
vanilla,amber and light tobacco.

To quote Claudia
from Interview with the Vampire
"I want some more!"

What about a cup of tea with a tea spoon of honey,Darling?That's exactly the description for back to black.Deluted herbal honey in water.

I've tried B to B several times now, and it's definitely somewhere in the front-runner pack of fragrances that I love. The real clincher is the fact that I keep taking my sample out and using it - back to Black. This is a warm, haunting fragrance with incredible staying power - about 18 hours on skin and days on clothing. The notes are so well integrated that it's hard to pick out the individual spices and fruits. They all meld together with the honey, tobacco, woods, and vanilla to create a scent that starts out drop-dead gorgeous and stays that way to the very end, through a series of fascinating changes held together by a strong thread of continuity. I've found that each time I use B to B it evolves in a slightly different, but always beautiful way. I'm not liberal with my praise, but this is a masterpiece.

Meet the son of Angel and A*men!

This scent is very similar, from its opening notes, with Angel…in a good manner, of course.
Definitely, I love those gourmand scents. However, although the similarity, this one has “something special”, something Aphrodisiac, addicting, which made me keep smelling my arm all the time.

It evolves to a delicious smell, which stays between the raspberry, the honey and the olibanum, with a foundation of vanilla and tobacco. It is not linear, but keeps the main scent for such a long time, where the heart notes exhale magnificently.

About ½ hour after it has been applied, it shows a base softly powdery, like “baby smell”. But you can only feel this by breathing over the part where it was applied. It is completely subtle this “baby smell”.

Unfortunately, in RJ is always 40° Celsius, because this is my type of scent.

Yum, at first application I felt like this fragrance was all fruit (reminded me of dried plums) and raspberry tinged with a bit of powder. Not strong powder but the more mild scent of Johnson baby bar soap. I can really smell the honey and vanilla. I only detect a tinge of spice - I think it's very mild - at least it doesn't jump out at me but just leaves a slight tingle to my nose. I don't know if I'd personally call this a really woody scent, I think the sweetness tempers that definition at least on my skin, but after a few hours, the woods are more evident.

Back to Black is the most rich, beautiful, colorful and warm scent I own. I am on my second bottle already in less than 6 months. The smell is a surprise hour by hour enveloping your skin with a velvet smooth cognag-tobacco-powder scent.
I have a dresser full of wonderful expensive, exotic perfumes and none compares to the beauty of Aphrodesiac. It truly evokes a fall to your knees kind of feeling. Beautiful and sensual. Guaranteed with the right body chemistry to make you come back for more. The price is worth every drop.

While in high school and college I worked the fragrance counter for a fancy department store; needless to say, I very picky about my fragrances. Being a man I find my choices rather limited, and often the scents all smell very similar or commercial or should I say cheap. My last scent for the past three years has been etro's UMBRE which I believe stands for AMBER, but the local department store where I bought it has stopped carrying it. So I had to find something new and after many contenders I ended up with "BACK TO BLACK" because it was fresh, rich, deep, complex and attractive. It was the uber scent. I bought the bottle which was twice the cost I would prefer to spend on a scent but the bottle is refillable and the refills are much more in line with my budget. I really recommend everyone give this scent a try.

Greeby the fratings,
I recently obtained a sample of Back to Black while purchasing another fragrance. Well... I was perfectly satisfied with my purchased, but when i tried the sample. I couldn't put It down. It kept bobbing and weaving like a prizefighter starting off with smoke and leather then calming slightly to light notes of rasberry and then with pipe tobacco and chocolate. It changed slightly but constantly, every nuance as delightful as the last.i was and still am mezmerizesd by this fragrance.

I just purchased Back to Black. It's seductive, alluring, chic, suckle-honeyed, addictive and keeps calling me back to black. I love it!

One more thing i'd like to add about this frag, is that it has a Cinderella type of an effect (on my skin, that is); for the first 7 hours or so, it's truly magical, but after that, it turns into something really ugly; the tobacco clings onto my skin in a very unrefined manner, like an old ashtray...

Nevertheless, i still think this product is quite powerful, there may be people out there (with the right skin chemistry) that can pull this off quite nicely right to the very end. Sadly with my skin's chemistry, there's a time cap...

I've received a sample of it a few weeks ago. It was after i've listened to a (lengthy, yet interesting) romancing of this product by the fragrance department's sales associates...

When i first tried it on my skin (at the store), the OPENING (and the opening ONLY) really reminded me of how L de Lolita Lempicka opens but more grown up, without all the intense sweetness, innocence and shall i say... humour.

The store clerk mentioned that it proceeded to develop quite eloquently on my skin. However, she also mentioned that on her skin, it turned into a cough-syrup type of smell...

To be honest, i was wondering if this is truly how it should smell on my skin, because prior to that, i desperately tried to spray the last few drops of a Miss Sixty Elixir tester at another counter. Problem that day was, that i literally ran out of fragrance-testing spots on my skin...

Anyway, i had to try this at home, on fresh skin, while there's no sales lady around... and so now i can truly confirm that this is really something!

I'm not too sure if this scent truly describes my personality, but i seriously can't stop smelling myself!

Basically when i sniff this off of my hand, it really reminds me of an ornate turquoise and gold Rococo/Baroque wallpaper... in the dark. With dim green light shining somewhere... I see a whole empty vintage Ballroom from several centuries ago, with a beautifully dressed tall lady standing in the dark, by the window, smoking a slim cigarette, all while it's raining outside... hmmm...

It's a very antique kind of a smell, strictly for classy (with a subtle hint of mature, sophisticated sexiness) grown ups who know what they want in life.

For some reason i smell Licorice, and looking through the notes of this frag, there is none! Not even Star Anise! I guess it's only my nose identifying and trying to make sense of the intermingled notes of Tobacco/ Chamomile and a few of the other sweet notes.

I can see how this concoction may turn out to be highly addictive for me, i feel hypnotised while wearing it and my imagination breaks loose.

It's REALLY dreamy, but in an elaborately mature manner. I like the fact that it's sweet and sexy with an androgynous flare. I guess those androgynous qualities stem from it being a unisex frag, heh...

This is an artistic masterpiece. Should only be worn to special occasions, preferably during the evening/night.

I smell tobacco, dripping with honey and later joined by a dark chocolate.

This fragrance opens with the insistence of bright, ripe raspberries. At least on me, this is the most dominant note, and the presence of the fruit never disappears, but becomes more of a whisper in the latest stages of development. In fact, any time I wear this I am reminded of raspberry truffles—fruity on the inside, with the vanilla, honey, and creamy chocolate (the patchouli, I guess) gently wrapping its raspberry heart on the outside.

It is a darkish, warm and fairly sweet gourmand scent, but certainly one that doesn’t evoke anything black. My family members have described it as “yummy!”

I am one of the few people that did not care for this perfume. It reminds be of going into a vacnt house that was occupied by, let's just say, "very Mature" people. I go into many vacant homes of older people, estate sale homes etc... in my line of work and this is what it smells like to me.

Oil spill on rainy asphalt, reflect the light as a rainbow, you can´t stop staring, it looks so beautiful... You want to catch the colours with your bare hands. Forgetting about that beyond the beutiful surface, oil is sticky, harsh, black and both poison and black gold.

Back To Black could be one of the most beautiful scents I´ve ever smelled, even tough I admit I have a tendency to think that when encounter new, incredible perfumes. The only thing it actually have in common with oils spill is it´s beauty and also a strange ability to be kind of sticky. Back To Black sticks to me all trough the night and become a companion even in my dreams.

Full-bodied, fierce, soft, singing, blackest of black, caramelle, razorsharp cheakbones, tobacco as a molten golden syrup, aooooooud as soft as an arabian night but as bitter as narcotics at the same time, haunting, restless, can´t get enough, fruity sweetness trying to escape the darkness, the forgotten crypt and the things hidning in the shadows, erotic, serious, edgy, must have been there before, honey yeah honey, and tough her skin is so pale...

Yes, I do love it. Recommend it, be warned... you will get lost in it´s intricate beauty.

Resistance is futile. You will need more of this. I do. Can you give it to me? ;)

A new fragrance by Kilian, a French perfumer. I would like to try it since I like nutmeg and ceder ( but that sound not that (female girly.)it has bergamont and ambery labdabum and powdery vanilla. That is how it was described in an advertisment.

I was called by my fragrance sales person at Saks Fifth Ave to inform me they had received a tester bottle of Back to Black and taking pre-orders.

I decided to check it out. Supposedly, Kilian was inspired by Amy Winehouse's song "Back to Black". I enjoy her seductive voice and bad girl image. I was expecting a fragrance that would throw a drink in my face, slap me while saying "don't forget to call me."

The opening of this scent is seductive with the spicy accords. Then the fruity notes come to play for a short time. One is left with a woodsy, earthy honey fragrance once it dries down(after a couple of hours).

As I keep smelling this scent on the back of my hand, I only thought of the sultry ballads from Amy Winehouse singing about getting on without her guy: "I die a hundred times as you go back to her as I go back to black"

I can see this scent enjoy by all. I would say if you are looking for a seductive spicy honey accords mixed with earthy woody notes. This may be a fragrance for you.

I am still trying to narrow down which Kilian perfume to purchase since they are on the pricey side ($200+ US dollars). I can say with confidence this scent is in the running. I did not pre-order it today.