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sklyar – :
Don’t waste your money, get a little $5 roll on Al Rehab Choco Musk instead.. it is literally the same scent once Vanille Absolu dries down. I have a sample of Vanille Absolu and was shocked at how identical it is to Choco Musk, which is very much a vanilla scent and not chocolatey or musky at all.
jinn77 – :
This concoction is highly concentrated. It showcases an intense composition of Vanilla which lasts for a very long time.
It offers an overdose of Vanilla along with some oriental nuances which prevent it from being syrupy sweet. It’s not your typical girly pink sugar sweetness and you should feel mature enough to pull this off.
This dries down into a more edible smell. Those savory-pastry accords are pretty authentic and not synthetic at all. It’s high-quality and you get what you’re paying for.
Sinyindisee – :
I was tempted to try another Montale knowing that I’ve had so much trouble with the compositions in the past, but I was inspired by the recent Fragrantica “Best of Vanilla” article to try something new.
I hate to be the curmudgeon in the lovefest, but this doesn’t work on me. Yes this house has tremendous longevity and great projection. But again, something synthetic jumps out first and is in full-assault mode on my nose. I pick up vanilla cake batter and burnt plastic. That’s it. I’m now washing it off.
chatvvile – :
It’s a great vanilla that’s sweet but still classy.
People tell me I smell great–like either marshmallows or hot chocolate!
It’s a good scent for layering, especially for toning down more masculine or spicier scents.
This perfume is good quality. It lasts a long time and the scent doesn’t deteriorate. You can keep it a skin scent or use more and generate greater sillage.
apolo – :
Wasn’t sure about this one,,,but now I really enjoy it! It’s sweet,creamy and makes me smile and inhale deeply! I get the cinnamon note too!!! Bet this would layer well with Kenzo Elephant!
b.gudiev – :
LOVE LOVE LOVE this one!!! I hate most vanilla in perfume, because it usually smells cheap…. This starts off like vanilla cupcakes, and mellows into vanilla and sweet wood…. Tried the tester today, and now I HAVE to buy it… I got three random compliments at work on it too
arorormouct – :
I did not expect to love this one as much as I do. This is one of those bottles that I am afraid to even spray it because I do not want to waste one single drop of it, it is that good.
I do agree with other reviews that this smells like vanilla cake. It is such a dreamy vanilla! And the vanilla cake is on a bed of woods that takes it to the next level. The woods and vanilla are perfect together, and though I can’t really smell the cinnamon, i know there is something giving this a warm spicy kick. For reference, I live next door to a gas station and I am always over there grabbing milk and things like that. I had this on the other day and the guy that works there and doesn’t say much told me that my perfume smells really good. He made my day. From the first spray, this went right to my favorites shelf!
luange1 – :
This started out like cotton candy for me but as it dries down I am getting some spicier notes and a touch of something that reminds me of a yummy pipe tobacco and even some sharp notes. All together I don’t find this to be the simple vanilla that many of the reviews have stated and i don’t particularly find it to be a foody vanilla. It doesn’t make me think of cake as others have mentioned. Maybe more of an incense take on vanilla or at least it is on me. I think this is a fragrance that could morph quite a bit depending on body temp and humidity. For reference it’s a very very dry winter here where I am trying this.
Grand1 – :
This is straight forward gourmand vanilla with a bit of wood and spice to round it out. Not entirely foody, the wood notes give a freshness that keeps it from feeling cloying or sticky. While not listed, something about this seems to me like it almost has Tobacco Flower notes as well.
In short, if you are a vanilla connoisseur, this is well worth your attention, as it is quite lovely, albeit a tad linear. Not the most projection, nor is it terribly long-lasting, but it is definitely a gem.
npai – :
All I get is a sweet creamy foody vanilla. Cake batter, milkshakes, wafer cookies, marshmallow cream. Moderate longevity, but after a few hours it’s a skin scent. My husband asked if I was burning my Yankee buttercream scented candle when he came home and I was wearing Vanille Absolu.
PaRul – :
A nice, subtly sweet vanilla. I do not pick up any other notes, unfortunately (no cinnamon, no wood, no cloves), just the vanilla. Not great on longevity or sillage. But for a nice subtle sweet vanilla skin scent or maybe to layer other fragrances with, this is nice. Would be really nice for a vanilla lover, obviously.
ITL – :
When I wear this Montale everybody use to ask me ‘Can you feel this smell of cake? Is someone baking a cake?’
demaTeams47 – :
I have wanted this perfume for the longest while, after reading rave reviews about it being THE ultimate vanilla fragrance. I was rather disapppointed when I blind bought a full bottle. On my skin it is a very weak and synthetic vanilla scent with a hint of bubble-gum.
gem – :
Not what I expected, and not sure if it was the best way to enter the Montale world. It’s a soft, natural, not-so-sweet vanilla and not too much else. A little spicy, a little woody.
I don’t know if I entirely like wholly vanilla centric scents too much, so it’s probably not a fair assessment from me.
Pretty average, not exactly different. Reminds me of Cologne de Missions. I like it, but don’t love it. A must for Vanilla lovers, though. Thank you to my lovely friend for giving me a try before by sample, though! Will occasionally wear it, might even come to love it. Too soon to tell, methinks
миня – :
Beautiful complex vanilla – first blast is sweet with an alcohol vibe, but as it dries down, the vanilla softens and the spices slowly surface. There’s just enough of a woody note to anchor everything down and make it just a little bit dirty (in a good way). Nothing showy or overpowering, just enough to keep this from being your everyday plain jane cupcake scent.
I love the harmony of the spices and the vanilla, and the projection is just enough for me. Longevity – on me, it’s a full day stay and I love it from first morning spray to bedtime quietness.
The bottle is stunning and it’s a truly unisex fragrance. It’s also great for layering. I own CSP, Outremer, Missions, Pink Sugar, and Gold Sugar…and more vanilla scents – and this one is similar but executed with more passion and charm. It stands on it’s own. I would love to own Guerlain SDV, which is the crown jewel of vanilla scents, but I cannot justify spending that much money on a scent when this one is so beautiful and suits me just fine. This one may not be the “gold standard” in the fragrance world by everyone’s standards, but it certainly runs close behind.
Warm and cozy – a perfect comforting scent and I’m pleased I took the plunge and purchased it. I will rebuy when this bottle runs empty. It makes me feel sexy thanks to the spicy edge, but it’s also one of the better vanilla scents around.
griva49 – :
True to its name, Vanille Absolute is nothing but vanilla. The vanilla note here is potent and vibrant, but you can hardly detect anything else. I’d not want to go out smelling like a baking recipe, so… pass.
Scent: 4/10
Longevity: 8/10 (10 hours plus, which is especially amazing, considering scents don’t tend to stay long on my skin)
Projection: 7/10
u17r4 – :
Montale Vanille Absolu is a pretty strong vanilla entry in the heavily-populated area of vanilla-dominant fragrances, but it doesn’t quite belong in the highest echelon of vanilla fragrances.
It’s a heavy vanilla, analogous to the cake or icing that many associate with gourmand/dessert-like vanillas, so in that respect it’s not as smooth as some of the vanilla favorites – Spirituese Double Vanille by Guerlain, or much more affordably, Oud Black Vanilla Absolute by Perry Ellis, which is a mere $37 for 100ml and a great performer, though perhaps not as perfectly balanced as SDV.
Vanille Absolu is, by contrast, heavier-handed on the vanilla with a touch of cinnamon. A very good performer, as to be expected of Montale, and more ideal for cold weather wearing, but nothing superlative as far as scent or performance.
7 out of 10
Amunkshawna – :
This is lovely, semi-spicy & semi-sugary vanilla. First I get almost minty fresh cinnamony blast of pure vanilla bean, but then as it dries it gets sweeter. But not overly sweet. Just a little cotton candy/bubblegum effect in the base. Not excactly sugar but more like xylitol or ethyl maltol. Artificial but not annoyingly artificial. Makes it colder and more of a dry scent.
A great long lasting perfume that can be used alone or to make some other fragrance more vanillary or just sweeter!
For me this is spicier and a lot more potent and longer lasting version of Outremer’s (formerly L’aromarine) Vanille. But I don’t see similarity in CSP vanillas. I feel CSP vanilla scents are much more soft and warm than this or Outremer. But I do love both kinds. I just don’t see the comparison.
(If you’re on a budget and can get your hands on Outremer’s Vanille then I’d say that it’s pretty useless to buy this one. But like me, If you can, get both!You can never have too much vanilla :))))
Greenrypark – :
Gorgeous smooth vanilla with stingy spray the SA did.
Very velvety smooth. You can smell the quality in this vanilla. Definitely get that milk chocolate vibe.
I hate saying this but the dry down i get with pink sugar is satisfying that i wouldn’t need a bottle of this unless it was a gift!
FriendRebecca – :
Sweet vanilla solo. I can see the obvious similarity with Mazzolari Vaniglia but its a wee bit better. Both are rather chemically and very artificial feeling. I love my gourmands and I love vanilla but a like is as much as I can give them. Both have good longevity and sillage.
Fisher-Roma – :
Cream，preserved plum，vanilla.
OMG I love it！It is soooo delicious！
B_O-B_A_H – :
Cheap plastic on me. This one was a scrubber.
zenona – :
Sulla mia pelle parte molto speziato, con cannella e chiodi di garofano mescolati alla vaniglia.
Nel tempo… si addolcisce e lascia un fondo di pura vaniglia bourbon ed accenni legnosi.
muachungwjq – :
Montale produces some gorgeous gourmands, Sweet Oriental Dream, Intense Cafe, Chocolate Greedy and this addictive concoction. extremely similar to the more expensive Vanitas, this was love at first whiff for me. there is nothing ordinary about this vanilla, sweet, a bit cotton candy, powdery and almost edible. Personally I love it and if you love Gourmands you can not beat Montale Paris for some of the best. This also lasts quite awhile and unlike say Pink Sugar, never becomes anything harsh and offensive. If Vanilla is your thing, THIS is pretty much the Queen of beautiful Vanilla perfumes.
Smoxiamiz – :
VANILLA all right !!! I’m still not sure if it is a perfume or a cookie… :-))) Kind of too “gastronomic” for my taste, even if I LOVE a high quality vanilla perfume, but – as mentioned by other(s) before me – it suits good for layering.
Melwm076Diobtetty – :
A straight forward vanilla, soft, warm and absolutely delicious. This will always be in my collection. I have many dark, smoky and woody scents that sometimes need to be sweeten up a bit. This Montale is the solution as it is THE layering scent. It turns even the most difficult oud scent into a compliment getter. As for longevity, this outlive them all!
kot34 – :
I am in love with it. It’s irresistible. I got a sample from The Perfume Shoppe in Vancouver, BC. I was spellbound & couldn’t stop smelling it. But later, I went to the shop with my bf to purchase it, and he told me that it reminded him of his childhood, but in a weird way; like the way his aunt smelled or something, and he didn’t like it… I didn’t purchase it. Do I regret it? Slightly… (It was a bit too much for my budget anyways.)
Sokol55 – :
I like it a lot , my boyfriend told me that I smell like a Christmas cookie 🙂 , good tip is to layer this with Burberry body , it makes a good flavor ..
Peessyoccably – :
It’s an unusually cold day here in the NE, so I’m testing what I suspected to be a hearty, sweeter scent.
The opening is warm vanilla syrup which morphs quickly into a soft, powdery vanilla, almost baby like. So innocent, mild and sweet. Stays quite close to the skin and I don’t get more than 3-4 hours before it fades into my skin.
A gentle, inoffensive vanilla skin scent that’s not over the top cavity inducing sweet.
mesmere – :
It’s not a unique vanilla frag, but it’s lovely and comforting. The vanilla note is very intensive, but luckily on my skin it doesn’t smell like plastic. I appreciate the moderate sillage cause it makes the scent intimate and soft, probably because of the high quality of the tahitian vanilla used by Montale to make this nice frag. Wonderful tiny hint of spices.
Max10 Mad – :
ar first this was a little acidic, but after about 10 minutes it turned into a soft, sweet vanilla. i don’t pick up on anything else – but if i touch my nose to my wrist and inhale deeply, i sense something deeper, but very faint – something woody maybe? i agree with those who say it reminds them of CSP Vanille Extreme.
Meanp599intitytek – :
Really, really nice woody & spice vanilla fragrant.
Soft, gentle, not too sweet. I like it very much! Smells young and innocent.
newsome699 – :
Smurfberries cereal milk.
f0reign – :
Sweet vanilla + a little woody-spice. This smells like vanilla potpourri to me, not my favourite.
voltop – :
I get a very light and airy but slightly synthetic vanilla on first spray which quickly settles into a wonderfully creamy vanilla. If smelling close to my wrist it smells a bit strange and plasticy but having it 10cm away from my nose smells great – pretty good sillage and longevity as is the norm for Montale. I basically get just Vanilla from this but it’s a different kind of Vanilla than the other single-note Vanilla perfumes. It’s not sweet to me rather neutral and slightly bourbon-like. I think maybe I am getting a bit of woods to tone down the sweetness and add a tiiinyy bit of smoke. One of the lightest and coolest Vanilla perfumes I’ve come across. It’s a bit too simple for me but would be great for layering. EDIT: I like this perfume more the longer it dries down – it opens up.
Ghost_8484 – :
Boy this thing blasts off my skin, and has ridiculous longevity. I know some people say they only get vanilla period. But I do get the woodys notes, with clove. However nothing with the cinnamon for me personally. That being said this does give it a sorta chocolate feel. But it smells good… But it also has a sorta.. after taste that stings my nostrils, its good coming in but can be off putting coming out. Something that smells good from far away, but it was hard for me to bury my nose in this to really fully enjoy it myself and relax. Its just, to strong. I cant think of any other fragrance that I actually like that ive actually had to wash off. It just became to much for me. Maybe its because its so powerful, or maybe its because of that after taste of it coming out but man… I couldnt get through a whole day of it.
No idea how long it lasts for sure, but I can say I had to thoroughly scrub it off my arm to try to get it off. And there were still hints of it left. lol
Nursultan7 – :
Smells more like vanilla chocolate than vanilla. It’s super sweet- much too sweet for my liking, and quite synthetic-smelling too. I’m a huge vanilla fan, but this is just not my kind of vanilla. I will have to go with ‘dislike’, unfortunately.
KOTMP – :
I LOVE the way this smells. A nice, ‘light’ feeling vanilla, candyfloss style, that even though it sounds like it should be worn by teenagers, is perfect for someone in their 20’s-30’s. I do get the slightly spicy vibe to it, but its a sweet spicy… cinnamon-sugar-y. Like a cinnamon sugar soft pretzel. The opening is a little plasticy, but this is ONLY the initial spray – 10 seconds later it settles into the rest of the fragrance, which I do find to be pretty linear.
Unfortunately the sillage is horrible on me, I can spray this heavily head to toe and still have it barely radiating within a foot of my person. The longevity is decent, maybe 2 hours with the aforementioned sillage, after that it will last another 2-3 hours but it is VERY close to the skin. I love this perfume but don’t know that I would purchase it again just because of the sillage, I like powerhouse gourmands that radiate an arms length+ and last at least 4 hours, which you aren’t getting here. But, if you like something soft and sweet that wears close to the skin, this might be your new signature.
Shawn_Michaels – :
This stunned me! Amazing gourmand, so insanely sweet but I for one could never get sick of that smell. It’s reigned in perfectly being a little dark, this is what vanilla should be about eg: A naughty, tasty gourmand experience.
Nothing weird or spicy or like sniffing vanilla essence or anything of that sort.
I can’t tell what the contributing factors are in this scent apparently cloves and cinnamon? Well I don’t know if I get that maybe a hint which changes the character and makes it smell exactly like vanilla wafers. This fragrance is so delicious, so delightful I want it… right away!
I think it’s the woodiness of it too… it’s dense and incredibly long lasting on my skin but very soft at the same time. This is one to wear in bed with your lover and guaranteed they will adore this level of edibility!
THIS SMELLS DIVINE!!! Sweet tooth well and truly satisfied!
Update: I’ve been struggling to decide between This, Chocolate Greedy and Intense Cafe. I had a sample of this left over and after being thoroughly convinced of it’s charms myself I had my girlfriend wear it the other day. Wow!!! We went shopping and I was floating around in her sillage trail on cloud nine and so were others in transpired.
My girlfriend walked past a young couple with a baby and I stayed as I was looking at something on a shelf near them. The young lady with the baby then exclaimed to her husband…”MMMMMMMMM Can you smell that? …I just got a really strong smell of vanilla cookies! Can you smell that? where’s it coming from….it’s amazing!”
My girlfriend couldn’t hear as she’d walked off but her trail still lingered and was causing a real stir for this woman. As she said it I looked up…and she smiled I think she thought it was me because I’d heard her and had a knowing grin on my face. This is just another occasion where one of these gourmand Montale’s has had this exact effect. Brilliant!!!! I’ll probably buy this for my girl and I’ll have Chocolate greedy.
Mmmiha778 – :
Love this! It reminds me of Indult Tihota. It is a very true and pure vanilla, I don’t detect much else, despite Cinnamon and Clove being listed as topnotes. It lasts for a long time and it must have good sillage because people stop and ask what lovely scent I am wearing. I love the way it can add body and sweetness to other scents, it is great for layering.
Jordesax – :
This is like chocolate greedy minus the chocolate, its vanilla at its best. Pure vanilla with a slight hint if cloves and cinnamon. Very realistic, sweet, thick and super long lasting. It fills a room, like most Montale fragrances. When I spray it my husband says it smells like Cotten candy. My kids like it as well, I personally find it a little boring as it smells mainly just vanilla. I prefer chocolate greedy because of the chocolate, it is however quite a nice fragrance. Suitable for winter and casual wear.
kostenko41 – :
amazingly sweet cotton candy vanilla on a bed of musk and wood and hints of baking spice. Smells like a cheap very youthful vanilla from bath and body works. Competoir sud pacifique vanilla extreme is a less expensive alternative, albeit with less projection and sillage verus this montale.
andryxa2607 – :
Like others have said, this is vanilla cotton candy. Very sweet. With the vast number of gorgeous vanilla perfumes out there, why would I want to smell like this? Answer: I don’t.
chuma1981 – :
Not exciting vanilla. Rather gourmand made of sugar than real. Reminds the dry-down of Sweet Oriental Dream by Montale. The same sugar scent. I’m not impressed. Sickly sweet, but the lasting power is good as usual by Montale.
jeronimo116Rus – :
How could I forget to review this one?
This is my first Montale. I intentionally avoided the ouds in the line. Those have been reviewed to death. My goal with Montale is to try to find some of the lesser-known fragrances in the line. I feel the way about fragrance brands as I feel about rock bands: their hits alone should not dictate one’s opinion of them.
So how do I like Vanille Absolu? Let me say this – I was looking for vanilla, pure vanilla, and the fragrance really surprised me. There’s definitely a strong vanilla note, but there’s also ethyl maltol. High, high grade ethyl maltol, if this aroma chemical can be graded (and I suspect of course there’s three or four chemicals at work here) – it smells several cuts above teeny-bopper mall sugar. This results in a very strong candyfloss effect, and you know what? I love candyfloss (cotton candy). And I like how it smells – how it really smells, not how most of the cheaper designer feminines interpret it. Vanille Absolu really, truly captures that smell. I know it’s a little “young” for me, and maybe a little feminine, but I think this smells pleasant. As it dries down further, the sweetness burns off and there’s a purer vanilla note, very rich and almost bourbon-like. Very nice.
JoshuaBB5 – :
A true vanilla, with no detection of cinnamon or clove.
drulkypreappy – :
Several reviewers have compared Montale Vanille Absolu to Molinard Vanille, and with good reason. This is definitely a composition in that same style, and I’d say also similar to some of the Laurence Dumont Les Senteurs Gourmandes vanilla perfumes. If you like the Molinard, you’ll like the Montale, that’s almost a guarantee, which raises the question why you would buy the Montale, given the radical disparity in price.
I’d advise vanilla lovers to look into the Molinard and the Laurence Dumont collection and save your big Montale bucks for something from the rose-oud line-up. I like Vanille Absolu, but it’s not as complex and interesting as, say, L’Artisan Parfumeur Vanille Absolument, the similarity of the names notwithstanding. To me, Vanille Absolu is a very simple vanilla extract-type scent, which can be had for a fraction of the price from Molinard or Laurence Dumont.
This is a perfectly worthy vanilla solinote, but nothing that I would ever purchase at MSRP.
molox – :
This smells nice but it’s way too sweet for my tastes. I was expecting less of a gourmand fragrance with this one but that’s not the case here. I literally felt my tooth react to the sweetness as I inhaled it for the first time. Upon initial application I get pure vanilla extract with a sweet cooling effect. This vanilla is actually cold. It’s chilling and it reminds me of cotton candy. As the scent develops the intense sweetness mellows and cinnamon blossoms creating a soft spicy vanilla fragrance. Nice, but next!
Kumische – :
I really love this vanilla. On me it smells really beautiful – warm, spicy, dry, woody. The cinnamon really stands out and the clove is not medicinal at all. I like it a lot but it doesn’t have a lot of sillage – I can’t smell it very well unless I put my wrist to my nose. Very soft. It’s good that I have a nice sample, but there are other vanilla-based fragrances that have more oomph that I would choose to wear more often.
EthichStuct – :
Super interesting: this is the only depressing vanilla I have ever encountered. It smells neglected, like it has a musty layer of dust in the beginning. Instead of turning me off, I actually like this kind of olfactory challenge.
The cloves combine with the vanilla to make it smell like a jar of vanilla pods that has been forgotten in a cabinet for several years. However, after a while this stage fades and it just smells like a simple vanilla scent that is neither too sweet nor too synthetic.
Zloy24 – :
This is a smoky, deep, powerful, bittersweet vanilla. The opening and core is a traditional, rich bourbon vanilla similar to a quality extract used in fine cooking.
But this extract is wrapped in layers of very dark and smoky woods, burning with sizzling edges of spice. The spice is restrained and is only apparent as a complex supportive enhancement to the rich vanillic core.
The woods here are very prevalent and envelop everything in wisps of smoke like the warmth of very slowly burning charcoal bits surrounding a smooth vanilla liqueur……which lends an austere, bittersweet profundity to this fragrance.
This is not a vanilla for the lighthearted, youthful, party crowd. This is a vanilla base used for incense, just without the dollop of other resins and florals commonly used with this base. It’s a serious, meditative, dark, and quietly introspective take on vanilla with no attempt made to enhance sensuality or any flirtatious girly predilections commonly done with vanilla.
A man could wear this just as easily as a women in my opinion.
Very beautiful, very smoky, very dark, very serious, very solitary, austere and introspective as vanilla goes. I love it.
P.A – :
It smelled initially like vanilla (for about one second), and then it crashed into a clovey kind of mothball smell. It’s horrid (on me).
WhiteWOLF234 – :
The opening notes of this are pure vanilla, almost like vanilla extract. I found it nice, but nothing exciting. Then, in comes the smoke. It literally smells like vanilla is cooking on a campfire. I found it pretty harsh, but endured the hour of so of this. It finally calmed down to a basic, cookie-like vanilla with just a faint touch of smoke.
This one isn’t for me. I did like some stages of it, but could not handle the smoke. If you like that, go for it.. Longevity is good. I applied it at 7am. It’s 4:15 p.m. and I can still smell it.
aggassi_uigur – :
I love the smell of vanilla, but with my chemistry it has been a prolonged struggle just to find a few vanilla-based scents that don’t smell dusty or plasticky on me. Usually, I end up with something crystalline-sweet or oriental-boozy. So with a name like Vanille Absolue, suggesting no other notes to balance the vanilla, I think I was expecting a suffocating, plasticky olfactory mess to emerge on my skin, but boy was I wrong! This vanilla is divine!!! It’s clear and light, and my nose interprets it as almost fruity to start. It becomes slightly boozy in the heart, but retains its buoyancy. The base is the same clear vanilla note on a backdrop of soft, warm woody notes (which don’t overpower the vanilla). I don’t detect any cinnamon or cloves. Sillage seems minimal, but noticeable to myself…and it’s heavenly. It leaves my clothing scented with a wonderful warm vanilla aroma, and longevity is amazing (12 hours on skin, longer on clothes). It’s not a powerhouse vanilla, but an extremely well executed and discreet vanilla that I would feel confident wearing anywhere…even to the office, with no dusty finish or plastic overtones.
vovanvolsk – :
like a field of vanilla..with a strong character…
Kirov – :
I like to blend montale perfumes, and vanilla Extasy gets on so well with other fragrances of the collection, but the best combination so far is with the brain new Aoud Purple Rose, just awesome!!!
falDrarsycler – :
After sampling Confetto, Acqua e Zucchero and by Kilian Love Don’t Be Shy, this is a very good alternative, I think it’s better than the 2 first ones (Profvmvm) and second best after by Kilian, but the price is better!
UndodokaL – :
I’m not normally a fan of vanilla based scents, and I rushed to finish this little sample off so that I could move onto the Montale samples that I really wanted to try, but I’m very impressed by Vanille Absolu. The initial gooey vibrant vanilla melted into an enveloping mix of comforting sweetness and a slight uplift of spice. Sweet, slightly sensual, fantastic longevity and fair to moderate sillage.
ficexitz – :
The notes sounded wonderful, but the end result smells too fake, sticky and plasticky vanilla to me. I can stand it on my skin, but just barely. There are so many better vanillas out there while this, IMHO, is one of the worst.
68ksv – :
Let me just inform you that there is also another montale fragrance with vanilla, called Chypre Vanille which is quite interesting! Unfortunately its not listed!
Cane4ek – :
I am sad. I don’t like this after all.:(
I love the notes but not how they are blended in this particular perfume. I can’t wait to switch to something else at my lunch time.
ghost1985 – :
This seems to be a nice combination of sweet, foody, deep and sultry, as far as vanilla is concerned. I do not get any oud notes at all in this. (Im surprised because Im well aware of Montale’s seeming obsession with oud’s.) At first there seems to be a faint bourbon note, but this quickly settles into a creamy but sultry vanilla. It is slightly foody but not sickly sweet. It’s very nice but ultimately I have so many vanillas and this is just a bit too boring for me.
Mevxe204JeomiWogkig – :
Today i test this awesome fragrance and i must buy this scent!It’s the best vanilla scent i ever smelled,it’s not a chemical and synthetic smell,Vanilla Absolu is so natural and over delicious.When i took the first sniff my mouth is watering.This is so yummy…it smells like vanilla cotten candy taste and it also smells like hot caramel or something in that way.It’s very sweet but for me not bothersome,a very good scent for the colder day’s and absolute a fragrance to feel comfortable and cute with it.Vanilla Absolu is very warm and calming,the cinnamon gives a sensual and sexy touch,and it’s really creamy.
cnk_1 – :
this is probably one of the worst excuses for a perfume i have ever smelled! on me it smells like those cheap little plastic baby dolls you used to be able to get at Stedmans or Economy Fair (or whatever dime store you remember as a kid) – plastic, plastic, plastic! i am SO disappointed!
now, if i could find something that smells exactly like cabbage patch dolls smelled when they first came out – Eureka!!!!
Misha.Syhov – :
Oh, yes, it soft and intimate vanilla, it’s not radiant, but truly feminine.
Endolvelete – :
Soft vanilla with litte hint of spices.