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IpsyMan – :
I’m so on the fence between trying this or tihota! Please please let me know what y’all think..what are the differences?
qvadro11 – :
This is a beautiful and rich, butter cookie vanilla that doesn’t focus on the sugar. Though it is sweet, it feels extremely natural. It potent as well, itll definitely leave an oily patch on your skin, however I prefer this because the longevity has been phenomenal. The sillage isn’t the best nor is the projection (I believe this may be due to the current hot weather). The dry down is a sweet caramel-butterscotch combination that has melted on your skin.
Richard – :
franciscrawford: on makeupalley.com there is a review by someone named “Amy” who compares the two. I’d cut n paste, but Makeupalley is locked at work. The reviews is located in the “Product Reviews” and is found under Tihota. I believe Amy is the first review.
geom – :
Hello all! Could someone please tell me how this compares to Tihota? I have a sample of Tihota, but have not tried West Indies. I’m hunting for a natural, vanilla that is not overly sweet. I love Tihota, but I’m super curious about this scent as well. Thank you in advance! Wishing you all a wonderful upcoming May!
disnei – :
I wanted a bottle of this for years, and finally got one. It’s as delicious as I remember, turns a bit chocolatey after an hour or so. Wonderful, and lasts well on me.
nick_13-01 – :
Mmmm I absolutely love this vanilla. It smells like homemade vanilla bean marshmallows. It distinctly smells like raw vanilla beans. I have a bag of fresh vanilla (not the pods, but the tiny black seeds that have been scraped out of their pods), and Vanille West Indies smells so much like them. In their raw state, vanilla beans smell oddly rubbery and perhaps a tad smoky. Here some sweetness has definitely been added, and voila!
I wore it in both hot weather and in moderate weather, and I never found it to be cloying. Instead the beautiful scent of vanilla bean marshmallows softly make their way to my nose throughout the day, for about 8 hours before I felt like I might need a touch-up. Delicious yet, surprisingly, rather elegant.
scrsnseabrookcui – :
If not the best, one of the best vanilla perfumes out there! I love it <3
papiroska – :
What a beautiful vanilla!
Extremely sweet but some vanillas seem plasticky and synthetic next to this.
The hint of chocolate in the background is of the dark and creamy variety.
I think it’s a great mix between Orchidee Vanille VC&A x Vanille Bourbon Il Profvmo.
Great longevity and silage.
Drammoveckiy – :
Simply delicious!
Three notes is all it takes to create this wonderful gourmand fragrance.
It surely smells like caramel & vanilla and can give off a chocolaty-vibe due to the orchid playing with these two counterparts.
Longevity is good, sillage on my skin is soft.
I would not purchase this, due to it’s high price tag and there’s plenty of similar scents out there for more friendly prices.
♥♥♥
maxchuvak – :
This is incredible, but impossible to find these days.
maratoriy – :
Sadly overlooked these days,this is a sweet,satisfying vanilla scent with a milky drydown.For me it’s the ultimate natural smelling high quality pure vanilla scent.It smells of cakes coming fresh from the oven, nothing sophisticated about it,but oh so delicious!
azoner – :
I dare say (with sorrow) that I used to see this perfume as a reference vanilla fragrance. It would be the dream-frag to those who are keen on the sweet “side” of this ingredient according to a sort of metropolitan fairy-tale that regards vanilla – often and obviously – as “gourmand” (do you remember the 2 schools: Guerlain’v. opposite to Caron’s “creme brulée”…) In the reality vanilla is all but sweet! (see for example P.de Nicolai’s Vanille extreme, or Mona di Orio’s Vanille) or do this experiment at home: try a genuine vanilla’s bean (normally we don’t do it!) and you’ll discover a bitter unsuspected flavor! Anyway. When it first appeared I fall in love as I’ve never tried any astonishingly over-more-over lasting fragrance (2 days, showers included!) than this before, which was also very beautiful and perhaps it’s still the best frag in their line (apart from an unsurpassed Tiaré and a wonderful Sandal that unwisely they decided to “fire”.) But now things are not so anymore and I suspect that also this Firm is doing something “strange”…..not to say “normal”….
The new bottle I re-bought keeps a memory of the precedent (let’s call it a vintage….only after few years?!? Yes!) always the same oily consistence, that I love!, the aroma is still good (but no more ‘so good’) that I hear every body asking ‘what ‘s this good smell?’ but the previous released V.W.I. was even better. Much better. Much more better for sure. So… I’d recommend to those who adores “sweetness” in perfumery and are not too afraid if they’re wasting their money or not……
Long lasting.
At least.
matveev2505 – :
I have been looking for a good vanilla scent. When i first put it on it was very sweet i thought it was going to be one of those i was scrubbing off right away! Im excited to say it actually smelt beautiful after awhile. I always get alot of people asking what im wearing.
sveta81k – :
It’s a bit ago when I tested this and the other scents. They were “ok” but not great. This one smelled like Vanilla, Orchids and Caramel, like the description says. If I remember right, I had the impression that the scents were very light and quickly fading. All in all I had more the impression of a body sprays or aroma sprays than of a perfume.