Empire Victor Khadlaj 2024

This perfume puts all other citrus vanilla fragrances to shame. It is fluffy and sweet but not cloying, and the citrus makes it feel fresh and lighter than most vanillas. This is so smooth and beautiful even before being aged. It smells nothing like Devotion, Victoria, or other lemon vanillas that have gained a lot of popularity. Can’t recommend it enough.

Empire Victor smells like warm, vanilla-ry skin. This is what another version of TF Vanilla S*x could be but without the playdoh note. *However* I have the oud version Jan 2024 which I think is anything pre April 2024 from SiminShaikh on YouTube. I've only had it a couple weeks so will see how it changes over time but right now it's a beautiful deep vanilla essense with a touch of toffee caramel vibe, but the oud is giving it a sultry feel, like the smell of skin all warm under the covers in the morning. It's defintely a very musky animalic oud but not overly to my nose. It's also amazing for layering with other fragrances, anchors them down and gives them extra oomph!

I love a good vanilla blend, but this is definitely not it. When it comes to vanilla, I love a realistic essence, like Perris Montale`s Vanille de Tahiti Eau de Parfum, or an effervescent, lemony vanilla like Franck Boclet`s Vanille or Nishane`s Ani Extrait de Parfum and Ani X. This Khadlaj vanilla is too sweet and lacks the cloudy fluffiness of the lemon verbena cheesecake I adore in Ani. The lemon-vanilla duet ends rather abruptly and all you're left with is a cloying, gummy caramel that is slathered all over a supermarket sponge cake. It`s not a gourmand I'd ever wear.

I love love LOVE this fragrance. It's heavy on the vanilla and pretty light on the lemon.
I usually wear it to work, and have gotten a few compliments. It lasts the majority of my shift. By the end, it's faded to the point where you can only smell it close to the skin, so maybe 7-8 hours. I'm satisfied with the longevity.
It smells like a perfect, slightly lemony, vanilla fluffy cake. It's everything I wanted iced lemon pound cake from bath & body works to be. I even like it more than my samples/dupes of Lira. (I have an oakcha dupe, they're pretty similar) It doesn't have that weird licorice note that Lira has.
I don't get any of the jasmine, and I smell some of the caramel, but yeah. Mostly vanilla and lemon.

Mapittsa few seconds ago

Empire Victor? Oh, it’s that girl. It starts off fresh with lemon and bergamot—real clean and uplifting. Then outta nowhere, that caramel and jasmine slide in, soft and a little sweet, like you just walked into your soft era. And the vanilla and musk at the end? Whew… it sticks with you in the best way. Grown, sexy, and effortless.

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