Davana & Vanille Bourbon 100BON 2017

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6.8 / 10 33 Ratings

A perfume by 100BON for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is sweet-fruity. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Sweet

Fruity

Floral

Gourmand

Creamy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Davana

Heart Notes

Bourbon vanilla Rose

Rose

White cedar

Base Notes

Patchouli

Perfumer

Robertet

Ratings

Scent

6.833 Ratings

Longevity

5.227 Ratings

Sillage

5.127 Ratings

Bottle

6.535 Ratings

Value for money

7.310 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 05/04/2025.

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7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/10/2017

5
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 6
Scent

StellaDiverF
213 Reviews

StellaDiverF

Helpful Review 2

Waxy patchouli and decadent apricot liqueur

The opening of Davana & Vanille Bourbon is quite peculiar on my skin. I was not prepared for a deep, bittersweet herbal scent when first spraying this perfume, slightly reminiscent of the gothy, waxy patchouli in Annick Goutal Mon Parfum Chéri. Having tried all 10 initial launches from this house, I find it the most challenging opening among its siblings.

This almost resinous, bittersweet quality gradually mellows during the first hour, and a rich, decadent fruity melange of apricot and peach rises and gets splashed upon by a few drops of herbal Chartreuse liquer, which seems to be the major characteristic of davana. There is also a few litchis and black currants here and there, but I don't perceive vanilla as a distinctive note, more like a reliable supporter to smoothly carries the scent to the base.

The sillage is moderate at first, but quickly drops close to the skin. The longevity is barely 6 hours on me.

Being unfamiliar with davana, I was really surprised the first time to find out a hedonistic apricot/peach liqueur fragrance upon applying Davana & Vanille Bourbon. I was also taken aback by the somewhat brutal, waxy patchouli opening. But once I know what's to expect, Davana & Vanille Bourbon is actually quite daring for fragrances at this price range. If you happen to be looking for an affordable, rich apricot liqueur fragrance, and don't mind a waxy patchouli opening, I think it definitely worths a try.

05/05/2025

5
Pricing 9
Bottle 5
Sillage 4
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Akira1005
194 Reviews

Akira1005

2

Closer to banana than vanilla

It's similar to something but I can't explain it. It's just like the banana flavoring in candy. It's the very cheap kind. For example, a hard biscuit with yellow icing that has a slight fake banana flavor. Or a fake powder that you mix with milk to make banana au lait, that's the unique "fake banana" smell. Banana toothpaste for kids.
Not vanilla at all. Smells like a cheap fruit candy (I don't know what fruit it is. A mysterious fruit mix). But strangely, it's all natural flavoring so it doesn't give me a headache.
It's really airy. This is in my "fresh fruity" category. It's not "fresh fruity vanilla".
It's a common scent that has a title but no vanilla in it. There's a famous movie called "Vanilla Sky", and when I saw it as a child I thought, "Where's the vanilla?" I watched it for a long time, trying to fight off sleepiness, but I couldn't get any vanilla in it.(so cute lol
Well, if you're interested, you might want to try it at the store. I don't think it's worth the trouble of trying a sample. Of course, the lasting effect is very weak.

10/08/2023

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

ScentStudio
156 Reviews

ScentStudio

1

One of my absolute favourite summer scents

I always go for the vanilla fragrances when I discover a new fragrance house, it gives me a quite good impression of what is in store for me, because vanilla is such a recognisable and impressionable scent. If the vanilla note is too artificial and sticky to the nose, I know that the fragrance house is not for me.
And I absolutely adore vanilla fragrances too.
I reached for Davana & Vanilla Bourbon and was immediately enamored! What an amazing fragrance that smells like cutting fresh Sicilian lemons rolled in a little bit of sugar and vanilla.
The balance between sweetness and citrus is done to perfection.
It has become a sincere staple of mine and I cannot imagine a more simple go-to summer fragrance.

Despite being one of my favourite, this fragrance does not have many layers or original notes, however, I prefer simpler scents for summer. Sometimes, not always, multilayered fragrances for summer can be too heavy or nauseating.

Davana & Vanille Bourbon reacts very well with hot and humid weather, it really shines during summer days. It is by no means a childish scent despite its olfactory profile, but it is not for the all-year-round mysterious woman. This fragrance is playful and feminine, you will most definitely rake in some compliments.

Top notes are litchi, plum, mandarin orange; middle notes are patchouli, jasmine, rose; and base notes are vanilla and cedar, however, I do not smell any of those except for vanilla. These notes are as stated by Fragrantica, whereas 100Bon describes this fragrance as "a fruity and liquorice fragrance" with "aromatic wooden and vanilla hints". The notes stated on the 100Bon website is davana, bourbon vanilla, white cedar, rose and patchouli.

I am very surprised about that considering the lack of depth and spice in this fragrance.
Sometimes less is more, and Davana & Vanille Bourbon definitely proves that. This is and always will be a need-to-have fragrance. Before I even got through half of the bottle, I already had bought the refill size. Today I am almost out, which does not happen very often.

10/19/2018

7
Bottle 4
Sillage 3
Longevity 7
Scent

Meggi
212 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 16

Drum Pressing Made Easy

A chewing gum-like sweet fruit note opened. She quickly moves towards the canned fruit/fruit cocktail with a light touch (like after two or three days in the kitchen), while a fruit candy rose appears that makes it easy for me to push around the Davana theme - because I never smelled that stuff on its own. For the rose, on the other hand, I have a comparison ready at once: I'm thinking of "Falstaff" by David Austin. A deep dark red dream beauty with an opulent sweet-rose scent. Of course I have them standing in the garden.

In the usual 100BON reliability there is also something creamy, for which the reference to vanilla is certainly not enough, it smells more floral. In a style close to Delial sun cream, but not so exotic and South Sea like, but rather held in a more domestic obscenity, so to speak. I beg your pardon? "Native" doesn't go with the idea of a canned fruit cocktail? But of course, since this summer pineapple grows even behind the Hamburg Senate Chancellery!

Back to pressing: I'm not the only one who's bumming, our mysterious fruit is too. And it's squeezing away. After two hours I simply ended up with vanilla. Almost spicy, on the threshold to smoke - as already reported. And this really beautiful, not too sweet vanilla says goodbye in the course of the morning just as surprisingly quickly to a level close to zero, as the end of the commentary has already been reached quasi at an untimely moment.

That offers room to draw a brand conclusion: In my opinion, the 100BON fragrances show predominantly solid mediocrity. Little is below, one just above. The above-average tendency to cream went to the McNuggets in the long run
What is particularly unfortunate, however, is that 100BON can hardly call up the big plus of good natural fragrances, namely high-quality aroma density all the way to the back. Lack of quality of the ingredients used? To deny them naturalness would be a pure insinuation, which I cannot prove. Perhaps in principle it is the same difference as the difference between Aldi-Bio and Demeter-Bio.

It is astonishing that this manufacturer has succeeded in advancing into the range of distinguished houses such as "Printemps" or "Oberpollinger". I'm sure it was the nature track.

I'd like to thank Bellemorte for the rehearsal.

06/15/2018

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Gandix
95 Reviews

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Gandix

Very helpful Review 8

Between flower and dessert

Whoops, what's that? - Fruits preserved in Bourbon
i thought and gone it was again.
The fruit disappears far into the background,
a wonderful vanilla scent emerges:
A very brightly presented flower, the Davana
on a dessert, made of foamy vanilla cream, not too vanilla
mixed with a drop of rose liqueur
and to round off the taste a pinch of Bourbon.
The whole thing is briefly flambéed, a very minimal smoky note is created (through the patchouli?)
but so minimal that it almost only looks powdery.
At the edge of the bowl there is a cedar branch, which does not smell woody here, but contributes a certain freshness.
Except for the strange fruit prelude, which is already loud, the remaining fragrance journey takes place rather very closely.
I find these fragrances from 100BON soo interesting because they conjure such vivid images into my head.
Let the prelude pass you by and enjoy the rest.
A summer dream.

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