Starry Starry Night

In 2016, Paul Kiler released three fragrances. They were: Heaven Fresh, Cuir Moderne and this one, Starry Starry Night, which pays tribute to Vincent Van Gogh and one of his most famous paintings: The Starry Night, painted in 1889, which portrays the view from his window in the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The name of the fragrance becomes obvious when we remember the song "Vincent" by Don McLean and its opening line. In the painting, 10 twirling stars are depicted along with a yellow moon, with a lit city in the background, a church with an elongated steeple, and in the foreground the silhouette of a long cypress. In the fragrance, the perfumer tried to bring this perception of spinning lights in the sky, fireplaces lit inside the houses, the routine of a life that does not stop, while an artist watches everything through the window. For this, he combined notes of ylang-ylang, cucumber, orange blossom absolute, clove absolute, Meyer lemon, petitgrain, frankincense, smoked pinewood, leaves and absolute of cypress, green myrtle, cardamom, sandalwoods from Australia and Mysore and choya loban (a species of Indian frankincense). How to describe art? How to translate, in words, your vision and sensitivity when you see a painting? This feeling of free and personal interpretation corresponds to what I feel when I wear this fragrance. Starry Starry Night is almost a spiritual ritual. There is a lot of citrus vigor behind the petitgrain and the absolute of orange blossoms, but at the same time, there is a melancholy, as in a rainy afternoon, represented by the huge amount of woods. But the real beauty of Starry Starry Night is in the smoke accord, which escapes from the context of incense to which we are accustomed. It seems someone has set fire to an orange grove and the smoke is rising to the heavens, along with hot flames, which seem to touch the sky. The smoke does not cease; the smell does not dissipate; the scent spreads through the air. It is citrusy and woody with an incense base. What a journey! What a fragrance!

From its onset, PK Perfumes Starry Starry Night feels like a fresh, spicy orange blossom fragrance, which gives me a versatile, unisex, year-round-friendly, and friendly to lots of situations. It feels as appropriate on this cool fall morning as it might on a summer evening, as it blends a lot of interesting accords, not only the orange blossom, petitgrain, and various woods, but also spicy and smoky hints. Starry Starry Night is an interesting intersection of various notes and notes, a real perfume, not just one note or concept but the blending of a handful of ideas and directions. There’s more spice than smoke on my skin, presumably due to the cardamom and clove, but there’s certainly a smoky edge to it, perhaps via olibanum. Overall, it feels like a pretty strong performer, as well. Starry Starry night is priced at $115/$75/$55 for 60ml/30ml/15ml sizes on the website, so it’s great that there are plenty of options available, and it’s under the $2/ml mark that I consider to be very reasonable for indie/niche fragrances. This particular fragrance is very practically useful, too, a bit of a jack of all trades, hitting the fresh marks but mostly settling into a spicier dry down within an hour or two of wearing. It’s sold (I believe) only the via the house site. This is one I’ll have to continue to try some more but I quite like it. 7 out of 10

Great orange blossom scent, with an underlying accord that smells like the green aroma of warm summer air. Probably from the petitgrain, cucumber and citrus mix. Really lovely, makes the orange blossoms smell fresh and fragile. Has a tiny acerbic edge that adds realism to the greenness. As if you crushed the leaves while picking the flowers. All the notes add to the nature-centric feeling. Good sillage and longevity. Adding this to my summer line-up!

Green herbal smoke.. I get that green floral smoke all over. The smoke is mingled with cardamom, & few cypress. The ylang is hazy a bit, petitgrain, and oamkoss. It's fair and i don't see any starry night vibes in here! if there were some gardenia, tuberose, or maybe magnolia it would have turned the table around as i detect allot of smoke instead of cloudy night with sharp stars that shines through those shear clouds.

Natural-ish smelling yellow-green fragrance. Petitgrain definitely noticeable throughout making it a clean smelling fragrance then tuned with greeness (you do feel a bit of the cucumber that zoologist dodo had) but the citrus and ylang is also there in the background and a bit of smoke. Not bad, I can see this being like sitting on the grass near the ocean but not on a cold night, more like a mild day.