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.
Kafkaesque and The Candy Perfume Boy praise the idea of Playing with the Devil, pretty in places, but find it too tame to win them over.
What critics say
Kafkaesque, September 11, 2013
Kafkaesque finds the concept clever and the perfume “pretty on some levels,” but admits that nothing dazzles her and ultimately finds it rather boring; she would rather, she concludes, play with the devil elsewhere.
The Candy Perfume Boy, October 7, 2013
The Candy Perfume Boy, who reviews it alongside Musk Oud, sees in it a pale, overly tame exercise, “style over substance,” where form wins over content, far from the magic he expects from the house.
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