Straight to Heaven (2007)
by By Kilian

I don't disagree that this fragrance veers more toward the masculine but I love it on me as well. There's enough sweetness, I'm guessing from the nutmeg/patchouli combo to not be overly masculine. But, I also love to wear Bvlgari Black and Hermes Vetiver Tonka which cross over into masculine scents as well. I find this to be a comforting scent.

11th January, 2012.

"A rum inspiration, a life-giving alcohol blending the heat of the Caribbean Islands."

This one indeed opens up with a boozy rum note combined with an intense resinuous woody smell. Caribbean Islands makes me think about fruity, juicy and most important, light notes. Coconut? Lime? None of these notes are present here.

Instead we have in the opening a blast of dense resin dipped in alcohol. But hey! I'm not saying it is a bad smell. Not at all. Straight to Heaven is the most masculine fragrance from the whole Louvre Noire collection, and so, it is just different from the others and also different from the description Kilian gave us, that's it.

After a couple minutes the resinous opening decays a bit leaving space to a spice chord derived from nutmeg which lasts until the end of this fragrance.

24th December, 2011.

Those guys at ByKilian have to be kidding us. Straight to Heaven is a clearly synthetic woody oriental done in the most conventional, designer-like, manner. They added a boozy rum note on top and called it niche...

Straight to Heaven? Straight to Jail!

Seal your wallets.

9th December, 2011.

As far as ingredients and the craft, Id give it a thumbs up. But on me, it went straight to the dried fruits and cedar, way too much cedar. I was thinking of cherry pipe tobacco but the cedar in it came out. A nice scent, and not like anything you are going to find in the department stores like Macys, but for the price, I guess I am maybe judging it a little harder.

19th November, 2011.

stopped by bergdorf in nyc today. was on the hunt for spice + wood by creed. sales rep had me sample this scent from kilian. wow. powerful. complex. delicious. loved it.

bought the travel set. great value and gorgeous dispenser. perfection.

17th November, 2011.

A boozy rum opening quickly joined in the heart with some sweetness from the dried fruit accords. The rum from the opening dies down a bit, but is ever present. Some patchouli and then some warm wood accords and a touch of nutmeg accompany the sweetness. The base has a little vanilla and musk enter. An overall warm, boozy, spicy, wood fragrance that is very well done and of high quality as with everything in the Kilian line.

9th November, 2011.