Absolu de Vanille La Maison de la Vanille

Vanilla is, alongside patchouli, a scent that not only perfumes me but, more importantly for me, gives me a feeling of being at home. Home, not in the sense of being at my place, but in a sense of being at peace within myself.
So I have to sniff every vanilla fragrance I encounter and afterwards, I want to own many of them.
The vanilla must not be extremely sweet and certainly not artificial.
In my collection, I have many V-fragrances; some I like, others I love.
Of course, I was very curious about Absolu de Vanille, and since I had been waiting so long to buy it in Germany, I spared myself the detour of testing and placed a blind order.
I was sure that I would like it and hoped that I would love it!
Now it arrived this morning, a very noble bottle: heavy, puristic golden.
Confidently, I spray it on my wrist to let the creamy vanilla envelop me.....BUT THIS vanilla does not want to envelop me...it is not just standoffish...it does not want me to get too close to it, nor it to me!
Like a diva!
Herb and smoky.
My first impression: I do not want this scent! It is not kind to me :o(

Of course, I wait, wait for patchouli, for the other notes, for a creaminess, my feeling of being at home...
I get all of that, but not in the way I know it..differently:
the smokiness remains, a sweetness does not come, only patchouli gives me a hint of familiarity!

After a few hours, I do not just like this scent...I love it!
On my skin, fragrances either smell weak or sweet or soapy.
Absolu de Vanille smells for itself and not for me; my skin chemistry cannot affect this diva.
No fragrance has ever smelled like this on me, and I enjoy this new experience.