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12/13/2024
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A slightly spicy, slightly smoky and embracing vanilla fragrance
Hm, what's that? Next to my labeled test strips from the last perfume tests is one without a label, that can't be, I always label everything. Anyway, statistically speaking, around 95% of the fragrances I test are not for me for various reasons. The fact that this unlabeled test strip, of all things, falls into the 5% of fragrances that I really like and then into the subset that I absolutely have to have - very, very unlikely.
So much for the theory. As the reader will have guessed, that's exactly what happened (i.e. the subset). Such a beautiful vanilla fragrance and - even more tragically - in drydown it smells to me like another fragrance that I love but which has been discontinued.
Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
I think only a Parfuma / a Parfumo can understand my condition, a 'normal person' can't: I had a full-blown crisis.
And first compared: Does the fragrance really smell like the scent posted - Yes!
I have to find out what I sprayed on the test strip!
I'll leave out 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 fit of senile dementia:
It was Vanille Dorée. I'd had a manufacturer's bottling of it for ages, which I'd always liked but hadn't paid much attention to. Only to realize now that the drydown of this fragrance smells like "Le Vestiaire - Velours | Yves Saint Laurent" to my nose (only without leather).
I know it's a dupe for Spiritueuse Double Vanille, I notice that too. What always bothered me about SDV was the alcoholic note, which to me smells like medicinal alcohol instead of rum.
Vanille Dorée doesn't have that. A soft, somewhat spicy, somewhat smoky - and for me very, very beautiful, warm, embracing - vanilla fragrance.
Like now. And that's the conclusion after the whole prehistory?
Yes, exactly. Sometimes the simple things are the best :)
So much for the theory. As the reader will have guessed, that's exactly what happened (i.e. the subset). Such a beautiful vanilla fragrance and - even more tragically - in drydown it smells to me like another fragrance that I love but which has been discontinued.
Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
I think only a Parfuma / a Parfumo can understand my condition, a 'normal person' can't: I had a full-blown crisis.
And first compared: Does the fragrance really smell like the scent posted - Yes!
I have to find out what I sprayed on the test strip!
I'll leave out 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 fit of senile dementia:
It was Vanille Dorée. I'd had a manufacturer's bottling of it for ages, which I'd always liked but hadn't paid much attention to. Only to realize now that the drydown of this fragrance smells like "Le Vestiaire - Velours | Yves Saint Laurent" to my nose (only without leather).
I know it's a dupe for Spiritueuse Double Vanille, I notice that too. What always bothered me about SDV was the alcoholic note, which to me smells like medicinal alcohol instead of rum.
Vanille Dorée doesn't have that. A soft, somewhat spicy, somewhat smoky - and for me very, very beautiful, warm, embracing - vanilla fragrance.
Like now. And that's the conclusion after the whole prehistory?
Yes, exactly. Sometimes the simple things are the best :)
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