By Kilian Moonlight In Heaven

I don’t get any citrus or pepper in this; on my skin it’s a creamy, sweet salty heliotrope with a delicate peachy undertone. The peach is very understated and the vanilla and tonka are a subtle backdrop. The rice and lactones are adding a creamy richness and all of the ingredients are well balanced. It gives a nice scent bubble that I can smell in the air and goes skin scent on me within a few hours. I find it to be pleasing and easy wearing, although not particularly interesting. Not overly sweet, not overly floral, not too juicy, not at all opinionated. I’ll admit I got this sample by mistake and was pretty salty about it; it took me a few tries to give it a fair chance, but I think it’s a really safe and inoffensive reach, if not something I would personally buy. But it does smell "good" and could work in an office or in any casual setting.

When I first tried a sample of this, I loved it. It smelled like drinking a mango smoothie in freshly laundered clothes while it's raining outside. I bought the bottle and... eek. Very strong grapefruit and green notes that I wasn't getting before. Very generic smelling. I kept using it and trying to like it for about a YEAR. It finally matured over that year and became the scent I originally tested. It also definitely shines in warm-ish weather... too hot and it disappears, too cold and the rice and coconut doesn't seem to unfold the right way. I'm sitting here wearing it on a North Carolina fall day and it smells so gorgeous. But for something so finicky, I'm not happy with the price.

For years I've wanted to try this fragrance but either no one had it in stock, airports didn't carry testers or I couldn't get a decant of it anywhere. I have finally managed to get my nose on this and it's a love at first sniff. A lot of the reviews talk about how this is a mango, coconut, rice fragrance unlike any other mango fragrance and they're all wrong. This is not a gourmand fragrance at all and the name of it is extremely apt. Moonlight in Heaven is a beautiful floral fragrance that captures the smells of numerous night blooming tropical flowers. It's probably why the official Kilian website doesn't list the mango note in its breakdown.

The most soothing fragrance i own. Love this stuff, but i can see why a lot of people dont. The earthiness gives me a lot of nostalgia, and then more of the tropical notes settle in. I already have a lot of bias going into this, but I think that’s alright, feelings can be shared. This can be a bit floral in the very very late drydown. The strong earthy opening definitely stops me from saying this leans more fem. Performance I’d say is okay, sometimes sticks to my neck, but then other times itd disappear fairly quickly. Got a lot of “you smell nice” compliments with this, because that’s just the nature of the fragrance

This one is weird to me, because I've had it for a couple years, wear it semi-regularly, and still have never gotten the "fresh" or citrus parts of this to come through. On me, it's a creamy/milky mango-peach with vanilla and coconut. I also get a little dose of the rice notes. It definitely tracks along the lines of a toasted mango sticky rice fragrance, which is thankfully what I had hoped for when buying blind. It's very comforting and ultra-subtle. Not a lot of projection, wears close and intimate.