Top Notes 
Honey
Bergamot
Indian jasmine sambac
Heart Notes 
Malayan oud
Ceylon tea
Indian sandalwood
Base Notes 
Amber
Bourbon vanilla
Musk
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Can't deliver relative to its price bracket
This review was revised on the 18th of January 2026 as I aim to re-rate everything I've ever sampled.
Ceylon, a fragrance in Xerjoff's Oud Stars collection, was one of my Black Friday purchases in 2024. While Xerjoff has a handful of less wearable fragrances in the collection (primarily the white oud fragrances), I believe there are two things that I liked about Ceylon at the time: the wearability and the fact that it's a top-of-the-line product within the collection, implied by the €545/50ml retail price. However, relative to many of its competitors within this price bracket, Ceylon doesn't deliver the type of showstopper experience I'd expect.
At its core, Ceylon is an oriental-woody honey fragrance with moderate animalic nuances. In the top, there are some boozy touches to the execution which I'd say have some overlap with Kilian's Back to Black, Aphrodisiac Perfume. Within Xerjoff's own catalogue, Ceylon also shares strong overlap with Mamluk which happens to be in the same collection as well. The structure of the scent is fairly simple: unlike Mamluk where I can sense the jasmine, Ceylon primarily delivers a one-two of honey and Malayan oud with touches of musk and Indian sandalwood in the mix as well, given there are spicy aspects to the wearing experience. All-in-all, I find Ceylon to be a fairly easy-to-wear oriental honey fragrance that in wearability terms isn't much more complex than some of this scent's primary competitors from Kilian, those being Back to Black, Aphrodisiac Perfume and Gold Knight.
What I really struggle with re: Ceylon is the combination of product, price and performance. Ceylon's retail is €545/50ml which places it on-par with showstopper fragrances like Nefs, Jump Up and Kiss Me Hedonistic and XXI: Art Deco - Blonde Amber, yet in terms of feel, Ceylon's complexity is merely expressed through the notes themselves and not the scent having above-average depth. This is before noting that Mamluk, sold by Xerjoff within the same line, costs €275/50ml (effectively half). The overlap in notes and accords between the two is north of 80%, albeit Ceylon manages to deliver the final result in a more smooth and less daring fashion. The primary differences are the jasmine in Mamluk, the higher quality honey in Ceylon, and Mamluk using a mixture of ouds that don't smell as smooth as the Malayan used in Ceylon. I believe the two aforementioned Kilians would cover most of the use cases where you'd wear Ceylon as well, meaning the product's utility is also matched by a lower-priced competitor. With Ceylon I get around 8-9 hours worth of longevity with sillage that temporarily peaks at strong, but likely actually landing around the upper levels of moderate projection. I ultimately settled at rating the sillage a 6.0/10, driven by the lack of projection beyond the opening 30 minutes or so.
Ultimately, while the product itself is good-to-great, there are many ways in which Ceylon fails to deliver. While a lot of these issues can be brushed aside through grey market pricing, those same pricing aspects can also be applied to the aforementioned products from Nishane and Clive Christian, meaning in an apples-to-apples comparison, Ceylon is not there with its primary competitors.
Ceylon, a fragrance in Xerjoff's Oud Stars collection, was one of my Black Friday purchases in 2024. While Xerjoff has a handful of less wearable fragrances in the collection (primarily the white oud fragrances), I believe there are two things that I liked about Ceylon at the time: the wearability and the fact that it's a top-of-the-line product within the collection, implied by the €545/50ml retail price. However, relative to many of its competitors within this price bracket, Ceylon doesn't deliver the type of showstopper experience I'd expect.
At its core, Ceylon is an oriental-woody honey fragrance with moderate animalic nuances. In the top, there are some boozy touches to the execution which I'd say have some overlap with Kilian's Back to Black, Aphrodisiac Perfume. Within Xerjoff's own catalogue, Ceylon also shares strong overlap with Mamluk which happens to be in the same collection as well. The structure of the scent is fairly simple: unlike Mamluk where I can sense the jasmine, Ceylon primarily delivers a one-two of honey and Malayan oud with touches of musk and Indian sandalwood in the mix as well, given there are spicy aspects to the wearing experience. All-in-all, I find Ceylon to be a fairly easy-to-wear oriental honey fragrance that in wearability terms isn't much more complex than some of this scent's primary competitors from Kilian, those being Back to Black, Aphrodisiac Perfume and Gold Knight.
What I really struggle with re: Ceylon is the combination of product, price and performance. Ceylon's retail is €545/50ml which places it on-par with showstopper fragrances like Nefs, Jump Up and Kiss Me Hedonistic and XXI: Art Deco - Blonde Amber, yet in terms of feel, Ceylon's complexity is merely expressed through the notes themselves and not the scent having above-average depth. This is before noting that Mamluk, sold by Xerjoff within the same line, costs €275/50ml (effectively half). The overlap in notes and accords between the two is north of 80%, albeit Ceylon manages to deliver the final result in a more smooth and less daring fashion. The primary differences are the jasmine in Mamluk, the higher quality honey in Ceylon, and Mamluk using a mixture of ouds that don't smell as smooth as the Malayan used in Ceylon. I believe the two aforementioned Kilians would cover most of the use cases where you'd wear Ceylon as well, meaning the product's utility is also matched by a lower-priced competitor. With Ceylon I get around 8-9 hours worth of longevity with sillage that temporarily peaks at strong, but likely actually landing around the upper levels of moderate projection. I ultimately settled at rating the sillage a 6.0/10, driven by the lack of projection beyond the opening 30 minutes or so.
Ultimately, while the product itself is good-to-great, there are many ways in which Ceylon fails to deliver. While a lot of these issues can be brushed aside through grey market pricing, those same pricing aspects can also be applied to the aforementioned products from Nishane and Clive Christian, meaning in an apples-to-apples comparison, Ceylon is not there with its primary competitors.
Updated on 01/18/2026
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