Top Notes 
Lemon
Mandarin orange
Heart Notes 
Vanilla
Strawberry
Base Notes 
Woods
08/12/2025
ClaireV
958 Reviews
ClaireV
1
Soft, sparkling lemon sugar cream that disappears too quickly
Vaniglia del Madagascar is a very simple, soft vanilla that evolves slowly and without drama from a sparkling, lemon-sugar opening to a warm vanilla-sugar end. It's as linear and as slow-moving as this description implies. The opening is perhaps my favorite part, as it dances deftly between lemon-scent sugar and a cool, blond, sauna woods accord that is attractive and calming. It feels airy, cool, and strangely enough for a vanilla scent, effervescent.
The warm place the vanilla ends up is not tooth-achingly sweet, nor does it pick up too many extraneous notes - it's just pure vanilla sugar. Many people talk about this scent as something that only reveals its true beauty after a full twelve hours. Well, I am not one for delayed gratification, but I waited it out patiently anyway. To be perfectly honest, the degrees of change between its starting position and its final destination are so infinitesimal as to make the tortuous wait utterly unnecessary. To its credit, the vanilla here is very natural in feel, and never candy floss sweet.
But to my mind, there is a major flaw that rules it out as a possibility for me, and that is performance, or more specifically, projection. Within a few minutes after spraying, the scent is barely perceptible on the skin.
The warm place the vanilla ends up is not tooth-achingly sweet, nor does it pick up too many extraneous notes - it's just pure vanilla sugar. Many people talk about this scent as something that only reveals its true beauty after a full twelve hours. Well, I am not one for delayed gratification, but I waited it out patiently anyway. To be perfectly honest, the degrees of change between its starting position and its final destination are so infinitesimal as to make the tortuous wait utterly unnecessary. To its credit, the vanilla here is very natural in feel, and never candy floss sweet.
But to my mind, there is a major flaw that rules it out as a possibility for me, and that is performance, or more specifically, projection. Within a few minutes after spraying, the scent is barely perceptible on the skin.
