Straight to Heaven, white cristal is a men’s fragrance by Kilian, composed by Sidonie Lancesseur and launched in 2007 in L’Œuvre Noire, a collection of six fragrances. Rum is its common thread: with nutmeg, it opens onto a heart of patchouli, set on a base of vanilla and cedar.
Gaia Fishler, writing for The Non-Blonde, loves its spiced rum and cedar base, which take her to the Caribbean; Kafkaesque smells mostly cedar in it and faults its medicinal, synthetic character.
What critics say
Gaia Fishler, The Non-Blonde, April 10, 2012
Gaia Fishler describes a dark, boozy and spicy opening with a smoldering character. The fragrance soon shows that this is no ordinary alcohol: “it’s not just any booze but rum.” For her, rum remains the note that defines Straight to Heaven.
The fragrance glides toward a smooth cedar base, where she seems to smell the salty air of a beach and the warmth of a tanned body. She concludes that Straight to Heaven offers her, in a single whiff, the Caribbean vacation of her dreams.
Kafkaesque, February 16, 2013
Kafkaesque challenges the usual reading of the fragrance: “This is not a scent that is predominantly rum in note.” The blog smells cedar above all, along with a whiff of medicinal alcohol, and finds that the materials seem neither rich, nor luxurious, nor soft.
Kafkaesque ends on a touch of humor: Straight to Heaven would deserve, in its view, the name “Straight to the Doctor’s Office.” The review faults the fragrance for a synthetic character, far from the warm image of rum that the house promises.
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