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хгромх – :
The bergamot really stands out in this one.
It’s really not a bad scent, but to me it smells like greasy hair products that we as African Americans put in our hair. I really don’t want to smell like hair grease, even if it is a nice smelling hair grease. This correlation gives it an artificial smell to me. That’s the only reason I put dislike on this.
It has a subtle tropical feeling and is soft and demure, which is why I believe it has poor longevity.
Sillage moderate, longevity poor.
vacyaa – :
Can any one tell me what a grown up perfume is.does it start with a baby not liking perfume and then someone in there early twenties discovering there not a baby with baby taists anymore.cant wrap my head around this saying.what is a grown up perfume.im 68 and have never found a grown up perfume even when i was14 and got thrown out if class for overspraying some horrible concoction called Manhattan.this was in england.is there a perfume tbat will make me feel grown down.this one will please my love of vanilla which is supposed to resemble breast milk.happy hunting for grown up perfumes.i suppose their the 50 years younger than old lady perfumes whatever they are.i have my eye on the vintage of Mexique .i wonder if it differs from what is produced today.
47jwzzwj74 – :
Indeed not very dark, the bergamot adds a sparkly, effervescent character to it. Somewhat sweet, but not cloying. A vanilla for people that don’t like vanilla.
foy429speagoessenda – :
I am surprised how much i liked this one. Got it from a lovely swap and was thinking to use as a comfort scent for colder days at home or after shower, but I seem to be comfortable wearing it more often than that.
I am not really into vanilla or sweet scents and usually try to avoid it because it often smells like food. But I like to have some vanilla scents for colder seasons, autumn and winter, they seem to give me comfort and help to feel secure. i find this one very wearable. It is sweet but simple vanilla scent. The opening is a bit sweet for my taste (and because I am not used to scents like this) but it dries down to dry slightly powdery vanilla. It is not very dark as the name may imply, but is lovely anyway.
alex2562 – :
Vanille Noire du Mexique might very well be my favorite of the La Maison de la Vanille sample set quintet (I still need to try one more). It’s a dark, almost resinous vanilla that, while certainly overall vanilla-dominant, involves subtle influences of rose, jasmine, and patchouli. It almost comes off slightly boozy (in the direction of Perry Ellis Black Vanilla Absolute) but with more floral and spicy influences–again, subtly–in the mix.
I don’t explicitly get anything sharp like iris, either. The fragrance is unusually smooth (smoother than Vanille Givree de Antilles, even) without the big floral brightness of Vanille Divine des Tropiques.
Solid performance like the others, definitely above average for an EDT. Again, the pricing on the whole line seems pretty reasonably priced, at $60 for 100ml on Luckyscent, so this might need to be one that I nab.
8 out of 10
DINAMIT07RUS – :
This perfume was a gift i received recently and i’m really glad for it as i love vanilla. At the beggining i smell something intense-i think it’s the opoponax.A little of jasmin and bergamot then. And finally,it remains a very natural scent of absolute vanilla. On my skin ther is nothing patchouli,rose or iris detectable.It’s not foody or sweet,the vanilla is natural and remains a lot of hours on the skin.Very good choice for the lovers of vanilla!just give it a try!Also the bottle is 100 ml
koctymen – :
Vanille Noire Du Mexique
Na saída é pura baunilha em pó.
Sinto um fundinho de íris e patchouli que num chega a trazer o seu toque canforado, é patchouli bem discreto, escondido mesmo nele e de resto, só baunilha e tonka.
A tonka deixa a baunilha escura, nebulosa, poeirenta, menos comercial e evidente, num tem aquela vibe gourmand.
Apesar de ser um perfume composto principalmente pela baunilha, num é um perfumão que exala ou deixa rastrão como HP por exemplo, é mais discreto, nem tão rente à pele, exala portanto, medianamente.
É uma baunilha marcante, em pó, c/ poucas outras notas que apareçam além dela, mas embora as notas num sejam gritantes, essas notas lhe deixam baunilha equilibradinha, sem ter a nuance baunilha pudim.
É um bom perfume, mas eu ainda prefiro Un Bois Vanille. Se fosse comprar hoje uma baunilha, iria nesse com a vibe pudim evidente sim…rs, e principalmente pelo cheiro de coco gritante dele que adorei.
b.s.valeri – :
Vanille Noire du Mexique opens with a fresh, almost spicy, bergamot. This top note is very fizzy and almost like those dissoluble cold medicine tablets that I used to have when I was little. After a few minutes this settles into a powdery and velvety iris with a touch of patchouli. I find the patchouli, which some sites don’t list but is definitely there, more prominent and sweeter in warmer weather than colder.
I, thankfully, don’t get any jasmine but I do get the faintest whiff of a dry and dusty rose. It’s rather earthy and I’m happy when the tonka-bean and vanilla finally appear in the base. It’s not too sweet and certainly not gourmand. This is possibly the darkest scent of the set – hence the noire. It has a slight soapy aspect which parallels with it’s slightly spicy aspect.
It’s exotic and powerful but also contained. It can be alluring and dangerous. Something a warrior ninja would wear. The kind of person I imagine this on wears a ribbon in their hair, has a sad darkness to them, wears black clothing and has a femininity to them. I imagine someone like Blake Belladona from RWBY wearing this. It’s also slightly gothic ivy, stone and velvet aspect. It has medium sillage with about 4 hours of longevity similar to the rest of the collection.
sirius5599 – :
Mexique is a fantastic addition to this collection, it’s a really nice and earthy sort of vanilla. On me the opoponax and patchouli are very present and i think in the first 2 minutes of wearing it almost smelt very similar to A*Men by Thierry Mugler but then it started to come into it’s own and it’s just really well done. The vanilla is sweet but earthy and the opening with the Bergamot is both inviting and very refreshing but what I really love is the beautiful iris note which adds a sense of powderiness to this scent. It almost makes it sophisticated in a way. I don’t detect to many of the floral notes- perhaps some of the Jasmine but it’s not very present which doesn’t really bother me because I think the fragrance is perfect the way it is. It’s so well blended and all the notes on my skin work very well together. I think this could easily be worn by both men and women- It’s gorgeous!
evsevij – :
It’s funny when you revisit your first niche fragrance many many years later after putting aside and assuming you were done with it. This scent is so much history in it: my first boyfriend and the fall into the epic never ending quest to find the perfect vanilla.
But let’s begin that it is only years later that I can fully appreciate only because certain expectations have been put aside. First of all this does not smell like true Mexican vanilla (oh how I would love for someone to do a true Mexican vanilla perfume), but it is quite a lovely wonder on its own.
What this fragrance is: this starts off with that delicious candied bergamot that is so iconic in Shalimar, but unlike Shalimar it is not accentuated by civet (thankfully), instead the support is musky rose and vanilla. The scent eventually evolves into caramelized iris opoponax vanilla with light support of patchouli with bergamot still accenting. It is quite a lovely little vanilla that is grownup but easy.
malyga – :
My first thought when trying this was that it reminds me of Shalimar Ode a la Vanille Mexique, but with much stronger vanilla and much weaker…everything else, and no incense. Well what do you know, besides vanilla, this quite a few of the notes here are major players in Shalimar-oppoponax, bergamot, iris… I don’t think this smells anything like Lavanila, which is candy sweet. This is sweet but more in the sense that vanilla extract is sweet, it’s not sugary, it’s just very, very vanillic. Vanilla lovers have to try this, if you’re looking for a very vanilla centric perfume, this one is great. No coconut, no almond, no strong florals, no sandalwood, none of what usually is found in vanilla perfumes that ruins the pureness of it. The other notes here add to the vanilla, rather than fight for the spotlight.
klaus1243 – :
vaniglia bourbon scurissima e vellutata, leggermente affumicata. c’è bisogno di dolcezza gotica.
sponk – :
I used to wear this ALL the time and then ran out. Years later I just received a bottle today after buying it online. I still love it. Once you first spray it on I can notice the patchouli more than I recall, but it is not prominent at all. It is NOT overly sweet. I have some that smell like food or candy or pure sugar and this is not like that. My friend said it smelled unisex (but she likes pure florals).
I still adore it. Warm, spicy, slightly sweet smokiness that is my favorite vanilla of all time. So happy to have it again!
yuriy_kov – :
Enormously citrusy and earthy vanilla. I enjoy this – it is a sweet vanilla but not sugary or overly foodie at all to me. It has a bit of a tropical feel.
The prominent notes on my skin are the bergamot, vanilla, iris and opoponax. The patchouli is there but it’s not in your face. This lasts really well on me! I don’t wear it all the time but when I do I enjoy it!
скрал – :
Mmmm I think this has sated my Un Bois Vanille yearning.
A fresh vanilla but not a sickening one, it’s the real thing, not cheap ice-cream. The ‘comfort’ space is now filled in my wardrobe.
Thank you to swapper DawnySparkle for this lovely surprise gift!
Longevity: Tenacious!
Update: Hmm, All the above is still true but I’ve started to go off this a bit because I’m not keen on the ‘unwashed’ quality at the end of the drydown. If you’re into ‘skank’ etc. in your frags, give this one a try!
sikeys – :
I’ve fallen in love with skanky delicious Vanille Sauvage so this was the next on my list from the house. Unfortunately I’m getting lots of excessively sweet vanilla, just enough pachouli to make me believe it’s in there and an overall soapiness that’s loud and rather unpleasant. If I didn’t know what I was wearing I’d guess this was Coty Vanilla Fields that had turned. The “noire” member of this family would be the Sauvage de Madegascar; the only thing noire about this one is the print on the box. Pink Sugar is a much cheaper better version of this. Onward and upward.
Longevity: unknown, scrubbed after 4 hours
Sillage: 2-3 feet
Fabulosity: prebagged cotton candy
Value to price ratio: bad
2/10
bloodmilk1 – :
I forgot to mentioned that my skin chemistry sucks so I have to spray this in my clothes to be noticed and it lasts all day
egorca83 – :
When I was in my 20s I loved straight sweet vanilla scents, specially if they were foody; however, I didn’t wear fragrances much so I didn’t realize my boyfriend didn’t like many perfumes, specially vanilla ones. Well now in my 30s I don’t love sweet-foody vanilla scents, I do enjoy perfumes with vanilla notes and grown up vanilla perfume like this one.
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I find this a dark vanilla and not foody at all. It is not sickening sweet and I like that as I do not like sweet perfumes. This is for cool days and it can be worn at night. I find this suitable for casual settings. I think of this as a comfort perfume; I have to be in the mood for this and I crave this once in a while. I wear this mostly when I’m at home when I feel cold and down and it lifts my mood. This is a perfume to use when you just want to smell nice. It is a grown up vanilla!!!Moreover, my boyfriend does not seem to mind this scent!! What I love about this is that I find it smokey!!!!! Mmmmmm
This is one of my must haves as I have not found a better grown up vanilla scents that my boyfriend does not mind.
Dober1991 – :
On my skin, this is a very close duplicate of LaVanila’s Pure Vanilla. The powder in this is more prominent than the powdery note in Pure Vanilla. It is a big boozy patchouli.
miks – :
This doesn’t strike me as a “noire” scent at all, but I do like it for what it is – a sweet, citrusy vanilla fragrance. Besides the vanilla, the bergamot is the strongest thing going here…especially as the fragrance opens, it gives the vanilla an oily, sweet, sharp bite. As it warms, it becomes very creamy and smooth. The patchouli is there in the background, adding a slightly green, medicinal scent…but overall it has quite a mellow vibe.
Although I like it a lot, I can’t help feeling like it’s very familiar. The fragrances from this house remind me a lot of the Lavanila line; they both make simple, natural-smelling vanilla scents. For me Vanille Noire du Mexique is along the lines of Lavanila Vanilla Grapefruit, but I prefer the latter. All in all this is a likeable and satisfying scent, I just wouldn’t say it’s something particularly different from what I’ve smelled already.
vsemprivet77 – :
A nice vanilla in the bottle and for about 15 min on the skin…and then *poof! Gone. I can’t find a hint of it on my skin an hour later. Boo.
turox – :
This is a sweeter version of Yves Rocher’s Organic Vanilla. I noticed that this is less smoky and not too woody.
Ynet23 – :
I bought mine through a seller on Amazon it looks right.
I find it much sweeter than I expected from the reviews.
Burnt caramel to start and more of a cookie smell later.
I do like it and the whiffs of scent that come along are delightful but not a complicated or “real” vanilla to me.
huk499 – :
this one is very nice. dirty dark vanilla, strong Patcholi. to me its very much like La vanillas Pure vanilla.
rich , strong dark and sexy almost spicy . like it
SASHA1967 – :
This is the darkest vanilla of the series, luscious and warm and intoxicating. While the others I tried could be worn every time of the year, I would suggest this one for the cooler season. It’s more foody and also IMO, more long lasting than the rest. In fact, I put it on yesterday evening and could still smell it when I woke up. Being a fan of louder scents, this and Vanille Tonka from Parfums de Nikolai, are my favorite vanilla scents. I love the darkness hinted underneath the innocent vanilla.
Unittt – :
Despite the fact that both this fragrance and Vanille Givree des Antilles, by the same house smell very similar, this is another vanilla scent well done.
Vanille Noire du Mexique is a very rich and concentrated vanilla. The vanilla is complimented by a delicious, chocolatey rose, which reminds me slightly of a more tamed version of Angel Rose from the Garden of Stars collection by Thierry Mugler.
This fragrance has an interesting mix of both sweet notes and spices. The patchouli, opoponax and bergamot are important in the way they keep this fragrance from becoming too sweet or too generic.
For some reason, Vanille Noire du Mexique makes me think of Winter and mugs of white hot chocolate, my new favourite beverage. The way in which this fragrance sits on the skin is both velvety and luscious.
I’d sum up this fragrance as being a rich vanilla with a touch of mystery. The sillage is strong with this one, so I’d spray lightly. This fragrance is yet another thumbs up for La Maison de la Vanille.
golink – :
I like it at first application. Fresh sweet vanilla. Unfortunately after 5 minutes, it was rotting fruit sweet. That didn’t last luckily and I was left with a pleasant, soft sweet vanilla with just a tinge of tonka in the drydown. I never found the florals real apparent. I don’t find much about this fragrance that’s marketly better than other vanilla fragrances.
angelika – :
This is kind of a “gothic” vanilla. It’s almost like a normal vanilla perfume had a run-in with a bottle of Poison and came away relatively unscathed, but changed nonetheless. If that makes sense.
Helen190463 – :
This is one of the best vanillas I have ever smelled! The guys at work loved it.
dreadful – :
Sultry, alluring…reminds me of Mexican Hot Cocoa laced with Kahlua on a warm, summer evening. The vanilla notes are nearly identical to Lavanila Vanilla on me, but Lavanila Vanilla gets overly sweet and headachey, and somehow gets stronger throughout wear.
Mexique stays balanced and enticing with its cinnamon, rose, and tonka base. I found this at a boutique in the Montage, Laguna Beach, in 2003, and I’ve replenished my bottles ever since. I especially love to wear this as night, to inspire the sweetest, calmest dreams. It’s a special scent for me, and I do enjoy smelling every bit as tempting as creme brulee.
alimagamedov – :
When I first tried Vanille Noire du Mexique, it immediately reminded me of Angel by Thierry Muegler because of the rich, chocolate, vanilla scents mixed with patchouli. Unfortunately, patchouli and I rarely get along. I hoped this scent would transform into something better on my skin as it dried down, but it remained tainted with an acrid bitterness. That single note ruins it for me, but it may provide a balance to the sweetness on others.
malkout – :
Wow. This is an interesting Vanilla! The notes are vanilla, rose, jasmine, iris, tonka bean and bergamot. But I can’t really smell the flowers, I smell food! Well, Mexique is supposed to be the most edible of the scents and to me it’s slightly spicy and slightly soapy on the drydown. Actually, it reminds me of a delicious Mexican Cheesecake I’ve had which is tortillas layered with cream cheese, nutmeg and cinnamon. I also smell semi-sweet chocolate too, but it’s not sugary sweet at all. Yum!
Дёсич – :
I get a dark, velvety vanilla with a touch of smoke. I love this one and it’s workable for any season.
toobamakemn – :
I thought because of the notes I would love this one the most, but I don’t. It’s really nice, though! At first it smells like vanilla and orange dish-washing soap. The bergamot note wasn’t a very attractive bergamot, but it does mellow down into a soft citrus with a tiny bit of jasmine and some patchouli in the dry down. It’s also perfect for hot days when the sun is shining bright. Sweet and fun, exotic and full of happiness.