Caramel
Vanilla
05/30/2025
ClaireV
833 Reviews
ClaireV
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Plain vanillin
Golden Sand possesses the same sort of candle-wax vanilla used in drugstore vanilla scents by Brittney Spears, Madonna, and Halle Berry, which is to say, a rather plain vanilla synth dressed up with a touch of gooey caramel and blond woods. It occupies an amorphously creamy-sweet register in an amorphously creamy-sweet structure - beige layered on beige.
There is little of interest here, but if you are a fan of something like, say, Madonna’s Truth or Dare Naked or Couvent des Minimes Cologne des Missions, both of which are composed almost entirely of vanillic basenotes like benzoin and vanillin, then Golden Sand is a low-risk blind buy.
For others, I would recommend using this oil as a layering agent to boost the longevity of ambery orientals and vanillas. As long as you don’t look in this direction for a rich, standalone vanilla-amber that could compete with your favorites, Golden Sand is a decent option.
There is little of interest here, but if you are a fan of something like, say, Madonna’s Truth or Dare Naked or Couvent des Minimes Cologne des Missions, both of which are composed almost entirely of vanillic basenotes like benzoin and vanillin, then Golden Sand is a low-risk blind buy.
For others, I would recommend using this oil as a layering agent to boost the longevity of ambery orientals and vanillas. As long as you don’t look in this direction for a rich, standalone vanilla-amber that could compete with your favorites, Golden Sand is a decent option.
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