Playing with the Devil

The fourth perfume of Kilian’s In the Garden of Good and Evil collection, released in 2013, Playing with the Devil is signed by Calice Becker: blood orange essence and a rose-tinged lychee are set ablaze with allspice berries, over a smoldering base of creamy sandalwood, which the house now ranks among its woody scents.

Brand: By Kilian
Launch year: 2013
Perfumer: Calice Becker
Gender: Unisex
Olfactory family: Woody
Concentration: Eau de Parfum

Published November 11, 2026

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Kafkaesque, in September 2013, presented Playing with the Devil as the fourth creation in the In the Garden of Good and Evil collection, launched by Kilian in 2012. Calice Becker composed it, and The Candy Perfume Boy counted it among the house’s two new releases that year.

A scandalous encounter

The house speaks of a playful twist on a scandalous encounter, whose fire is kept alive by the creamy sandalwood of the base. It now places the perfume in The Cellars, a family it describes as woody.

Kafkaesque and The Candy Perfume Boy describe it as an eau de parfum, the latter in a 50 ml bottle. The house now offers it in 50 and 100 ml, in a bottle it wants endlessly refillable.