Very sweet vanilla! Smells like vanilla ice cream. Perfect cuddling perfume. Doesn't smell powdery, it is more creamy. I am not vanilla girl myself, so i am not expert in these but i do have at home real vanila pod and it does smell similar. I would describe it as gourmand, I have the tester sprayed on paper and I started craving something sweet. That's why I think this would be perfect date fragrance, you want to bite the person wearing this. As picture I see wafer with vanilla ice cream in May.