Noir Toscane - Vanille Raisin La Maison de la Vanille 2017

A purchase I didn't actually want to make.
I was on vacation & had actually banned myself from buying perfume. But like every vacation, there was this one perfumery. The sales clerks already knew me as I came by every evening, day after day, on my evening stroll. There was an amazing selection of fragrances, especially fragrances that are difficult to smell in Germany. And yet I was drawn back to the same shelf every evening. It was at the bottom right - the Noir Toscane - Vanille Raisin. I had never heard of the brand before, but I have to say I was really pleasantly surprised! Great fragrances with good longevity. I had been looking for a strawberry fragrance for some time, as fragrances such as Mukhallat are just too synthetic for me.
I smell strawberry, even if it's supposed to be grape. Not a sticky sweet strawberry, but rather a sparkling strawberry. Like a strawberry-flavored lemonade or fizzy drink. The fragrance then becomes more vanilla in the drydown, which I really like.
Who would have thought it - despite the "purchase ban", the Noir Toscane - Vanille Raisin had to come with me & will be my everyday companion in spring.