Series 3: Incense - Avignon Comme des Garçons 2002

First of all: I like incense. I really like it. I used to have a lot of contact with church incense, as an altar server you have it right under your nose, and frequent visits to church do the rest.
Unlike my peers, I enjoyed it when the dosage was exaggerated and every last corner of the church was filled with incense. It was nice when there was expensive incense, but I liked smelling the cheap version (often derided as "rat poison" by my fellow carol singers) almost as much.
I recently discovered frankincense as a perfume note and am very taken with it:
First the cool cassis incense of Hermann à mes Côtés me Paraissait une Ombre, then the cardamom combination in "XJ 1861 Zefiro | XerJoff", almost pure incense in Mortel Noir and Oliban.

With Series 3: Incense - Avignon, I actually knew in advance that I would like it. But:
A far too dominant acidity hits me right at the beginning. And it stays for the first few hours.
Behind this is a fairly original church incense (not the expensive one, but the black one with the red and green crumbs in it). Yes, it also has a sour note, but nowhere near as dominant as here.
When it fades after a few hours, the most beautiful part of the fragrance comes briefly, balanced and round, only to be ended by a simple, sweet, ordinary vanilla.
I don't know what that's supposed to be good for. I guess the intersection between incense lovers and vanilla lovers might be rather small.
I'll stick with Team Frankincense.

Happy holidays to you all and a happy new year!