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mksapfira – :
Top Note: Flower of Vanilla
Heart Note: Greedy Vanilla, Vanilla Pod
Base Note: Vanilla, Benzoin
Sooooo, basically, the most vanilla’y vanilla that’s ever vanilla’d!
I never cared much for one or two note perfumes. I thought they were boring and overpriced (cough cough, Jo Malone), and figured I’d just buy some nice essential oils and spend my money on more inspired frags, instead.
Then I discovered the Molinard Les Elements Collection.
This is serious vanilla perfection. Not too syrupy – more along the lines of warm vanilla extract with a teeny drop of sugar and a touch of benzoin to give it some bite. Bears no resemblance to that sickeningly heavy artificial vanilla you find in so many gourmand fragrances nowadays. This is cozy and soft.
I could talk about how delicious this perfume is all day long, but I gotta get back to sniffing my arm.
mr19800804 – :
Sugar, sugar, how you get so fly?
Years ago I had a bottle of Alyssa Ashley’s Vanilla. I wore it during my first year in college and it was the perfume that started my obsession with sweet scents and vanilla note in particular. This perfume instantly reminded me of those good old times and I absolutely adore it.
The Vanilla is very sugar-ish and candy-like, slightly artificial, but not cloying. I hoped for some darker notes, since it is presented as unisex perfume. However, Molinard’s Vanilla is lovely and feminine scent that lasts between 3-4 hours. Not overpowering and it stays close to my skin.
My profession includes working with children and I have never before received so many compliments on a perfume. They say I smell like cotton candy and cake. 🙂
PS: The bottle is beautiful.
mory4ok – :
I’m a big fan of vanilla. I’ve been looking for something similar to Perry Ellis black vanilla absolute. I love it’s mature, boozy, masculine take on vanilla without all sorts of weird notes added to make it more “interesting.”. Just a mature, masculine, plainish vanilla.
Well, this is not it. It says for men and women but it’s awfully sweet for men. Don’t get me wrong, it smells great! A somewhat powdery, sweet vanilla absent of the aforementioned “interesting” notes. As a vanilla lover, I love just smelling it and sometimes spray it as an air freshener in my bedroom. But it is very feminine with that cupcake sweet take on vanilla. Even though I can’t really use it because it’s too sweet, that doesn’t mean it’s cheap. No, no. This smells high quality and has a real depth to it that cheap fragrances don’t have. It’s deep and rich, very rich. I still have a use for it, actually. I mix it (half, light spray!) with other cologne with vanilla base notes, like my Tummy Bahama St. Bart s for example. The vanilla base note in it is kind of slight (to me anyways) so just a half spray of this mixed in sets off the vanilla. Except for the holidays, I’m not sure I’d wear this by itself as it really is just too sweet.
Averryvot – :
Take cake-mix-from-a-box powdery sweetness; add a little smoke and a pinch of earth. Bake at body temperature for approximately 3 hours. Bask in Madagascan vanilla heaven and smile.
zhongguo – :
A delicious warm vanilla gourmand, sweet but not cloying. Creamy with some caramel and white chocolate notes. It reminds me of a vanilla body spray from Bath & Body Works that I had in the 90’s. I had to use a lot of this to be able to feel like it wasn’t fading off me right away. Scent stays close to the skin on me–very low sillage. This could just be my chemistry, though; my sister sprayed it on her wrists and I could smell it on her all evening. I love this, but since I need to use a lot to be able to smell it on myself, I have a feeling I’ll be going through it very quickly. Good thing it’s a big bottle.
adh160InsuffBooni – :
Interesting scent. It’s a good plain-ish vanilla, but it’s not perfect. When you smell it close up, it smells a bit like black/burnt rubber. It’s not that it’s watery/bitter like cheap vanilla scents, but it smells like a particular type of plastic or even asphalt. Other things I’d compare it to is burnt candle wicks or the black Mr.Sketch scented marker. I wouldn’t call it a powdery vanilla though. From far away, it smells a little like a vanilla candle…it’s quite gourmand, but not cloying. I think I might be a little anosmic to it actually, but I’m a little anosmic to Hypnotic Poison as well, and from what I’ve heard, Hypnotic Poison is cloying to many others.
Edit: Ooh, this actually is pretty long lasting, but sillage is not the best. It does become more powdery as is dries down, but in a sweet, non-irritating way. I enjoy it.