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A slightly spicy, slightly smoky, and embracing vanilla scent
Hm, what is this? Next to my labeled test strips from the last perfume tests, there is one without a label; that can't be right, I always label everything. Well, whatever, statistically speaking, about 95% of the fragrances I test are not for me for various reasons. That this unlabeled test strip would fall into the 5% of scents that I truly like, and then also into the subset that I absolutely need - very, very unlikely.
So much for the theory. The discerning reader may suspect it - exactly that (i.e., the subset) was the case. Such a beautiful vanilla scent and - even more tragically - in the drydown, it smells to me like another fragrance that I love, which has been discontinued.
Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
I believe that only a perfumer can understand my state; a 'normal person' won't get it: I had a full-blown crisis.
And first, I compared: Does the scent really smell like the discontinued fragrance - Yes!
I need to find out what I sprayed on the test strip!
I'll skip the middle part for now, just this much: It took me a few days to figure out what I had sprayed on the unlabeled strip in a moment of senile dementia:
It was "Vanille Dorée | Alexandria Fragrances." I had a manufacturer’s decant of it for ages, which I always thought was nice but didn’t pay much attention to. Only to find out that the drydown of this fragrance smells to my nose like "Le Vestiaire - Velours | Yves Saint Laurent" (just without the leather).
I know it is a dupe of "Spiritueuse Double Vanille | Guerlain," which I also perceive. The alcoholic note in SDV always bothered me a bit, as it smells more like medical alcohol than rum.
Vanille Dorée doesn’t have that. A soft, slightly spicy, slightly smoky - and for me, a very, very beautiful, warm, embracing - vanilla scent.
Wait a minute. And this is the conclusion after the whole backstory?
Yes, exactly. Sometimes the simplest things are the best :)
So much for the theory. The discerning reader may suspect it - exactly that (i.e., the subset) was the case. Such a beautiful vanilla scent and - even more tragically - in the drydown, it smells to me like another fragrance that I love, which has been discontinued.
Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
I believe that only a perfumer can understand my state; a 'normal person' won't get it: I had a full-blown crisis.
And first, I compared: Does the scent really smell like the discontinued fragrance - Yes!
I need to find out what I sprayed on the test strip!
I'll skip the middle part for now, just this much: It took me a few days to figure out what I had sprayed on the unlabeled strip in a moment of senile dementia:
It was "Vanille Dorée | Alexandria Fragrances." I had a manufacturer’s decant of it for ages, which I always thought was nice but didn’t pay much attention to. Only to find out that the drydown of this fragrance smells to my nose like "Le Vestiaire - Velours | Yves Saint Laurent" (just without the leather).
I know it is a dupe of "Spiritueuse Double Vanille | Guerlain," which I also perceive. The alcoholic note in SDV always bothered me a bit, as it smells more like medical alcohol than rum.
Vanille Dorée doesn’t have that. A soft, slightly spicy, slightly smoky - and for me, a very, very beautiful, warm, embracing - vanilla scent.
Wait a minute. And this is the conclusion after the whole backstory?
Yes, exactly. Sometimes the simplest things are the best :)
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