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Vanilla Touch La Rive

7.1 / 10 347 Ratings

A perfume by La Rive for women. The release year is unknown. The scent is sweet-gourmand. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Creamy

Synthetic

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Fruity notes

Hawthorn

Heart Notes

Caramel

Coumarin

Lily of the valley

Base Notes

Vanilla

Amber

Musk

Sandalwood

Cedarwood

Ratings

Scent

7.1347 Ratings

Longevity

7.1312 Ratings

Sillage

6.9312 Ratings

Bottle

5.4315 Ratings

Value for money

9.1257 Ratings

Submitted by Evelin, last update on 09/21/2025.

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Reviews

23 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/28/2025

7
Pricing 3
Bottle 7
Sillage 6
Longevity 5.5
Scent

Gourmandgrl
302 Reviews

Gourmandgrl

Helpful Review 4

Memories of childhood play & baking

It's a weeknight after school, and you're helping Mom bake. She asks you to pour the vanilla extract into the bowl, but you spill a bit on yourself and the table. You rub the extract off of your skin - but the scent still lingers.

You return to your Play-Doh to mash the lightly-salted dough into a shapeless mound, squeezing it in your hands. Taking a sip out of your Coca Cola can, and watching Mom in the kitchen, it feels like all is right in your world. Childhood play, memories of baking... this is Vanilla Touch .

The comparisons on social media to other fragrances aren't accurate (to my nose) - it isn't Eilish Eau de Parfum , nor is it a dupe for anything high-quality.

It's very simple: mostly vanilla baking extract (softly boozy/sweet), a subtle Play-Doh-like undercurrent, a whisper of cola. Not a fully-constructed dessert (no ice cream, cupcake, or biscuit/cookie) - but still has a gourmand vibe from the vanilla extract.

Slightly synthetic, and occasionally veering towards a vanilla-scented scratch-and-sniff sticker - but in a nostalgic, youthful, and comforting way (and still a decent pick for $10-ish USD). Best suited for cooler weather.

For a more gourmand, higher-quality (but still budget-friendly) vanilla extract without the Play-Doh: Pharmacia - Côte Vanille

08/05/2023

7
Pricing 4
Bottle 4
Sillage 5
Longevity 3.5
Scent

PetitePinup
28 Reviews

PetitePinup

2

For when you want to smell like Barbie, *a* Barbie...

I own a variety of La Rive fragrances by now, some excellent, others acceptable, and a few downright disappointing to worse.

I'm a sucker for a good vanilla scent and everyone and their mother raved about this one being awesome vanilla- ness. And in some circles on another forum it was said to be a sister of Billy Eilish (imho those people need to visit a nose doctor).
Combine that with a promising pyramid, and the fact my first La Rive (Eternal Kiss) was a nice one after some maceration and another is now one of my favourite perfumes, and I expected a lot.

Well, we all know life is full of disappointments, don't we?

While the "after months of maceration scent" was a tiny bit better, I initially got "Old clothes that have been dumped in a garbage bag on a dirty attic floor and then taken out several years after the fact": that's the majority of what I smelled when spraying Vanilla Touch. That musty, dusty, mothballs, earthy scent. I don't know why, but the Vanilla didn't Touch any part of me! Nor any of the fruity notes, flowers, Caramel, coumarin, amber or woods.
I got a bit of musk, the cheap kind, and a teeny tiny bit of unrecognisable skanky flower. About 2 months later I got the same result, just stronger. I put it somewhere and forgot all about it...

[Fast forward about 8 months, March 2023] I'm reorganising my perfume bottles and my eye catches the loathed tiny bottle. "I still have that sh*tstain? Away with i ---" Before I can put it on the sale/ giveaway/throwaway pile I suddenly see it is much, much darker. Like what true vanilla fragrances are often prone to do when they've been sitting a while. Curious I spray it on my hand... and what do you know! It's actually oka...Ha! Got you there, didn't I?

With that luscious dark shade I had expected to get the Billy Eilish - Eilish miracle. Nope...
After all this maceration Vanilla Touch has become a fragrance that still won't give up most of its pyramid, thereby skipping over a possible fruity-floral vannilic, or a true gourmand. It's a perfume that leans less dusty old clothes now, and more synthetic gour-mess.

I get a hint of coconut flakes and a hint of musk in the opening and when these fade into the background - and if I put my nose to skin a gazillion times - I might, barely discernible, catch a whiff of the idea of a floral accord. The dry down is where the edible vanilla is supposed to shine, but base notes Vanilla, Sandalwood and Amber aren't giving me the creamy, possibly boozy, warm almondy or caramely vannilic blend I thínk La Rive went for. Instead I'm left with a fragrance that loses all strenght there was - not that much anyway - and gives me a rather particular smell: new plastic toy leg.
I believe sometimes referred to as Doll Head, or even lipliner pencil shavings. There's Barbie for ya!

I know certain people actually love that smell, so this could be great news to you. And who knows: perhaps your skin chemistry dóes turn Vanilla Touch into a warm gooy sweet vanilla with a nice floral heart and edible opening. Or maybe you're like me and you wish you'd bought another La Rive Angel Clone, because you luuurve that one.
Regardless, with these prices (€4 for 30ml) that's a risk most are willing and able to take.

Vanilla Touch went from a "strong dislike" to a "not my kinda thing". But if I had gotten a gourmand perfume to my liking, the projection and sillage would still be nothing to write home about; both intimate. Nor is the longevity - after 30min skin scent and staying like that for 2-3 hours max until it is gone altogether - worth cheering about.

Due to the disappointing SPL I think you can't wear it when it is truly cold, even though the pyramid leans more toward a Fall- Winter fragrance than a summer one. If you like the plastic vibe then it might be ideal as a bedtime scent on its own, or as a layer for 'another' gourmand.

Moral of the story: if you really disliked Vanilla Touch for the same reason as I did, then don't chuck it just yet. Once that liquid starts to turn dark yellow, bordering on light orange, then you know that the vanilla has had all the time to up its game. You could enjoy it then. For me it remains a blind buy fail, both in regards to the scent as the quality.

Vanilla Touch goes back to the sell/gift pile and my search for the perfect vanilla continues on...

06/03/2021

5
Pricing 2
Bottle 7
Sillage 9
Longevity 2.5
Scent

ElysaShades
63 Reviews

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ElysaShades

Top Review 27

I don't think La Rive's gonna work out for me..

At La Rive I have already missed a few times quite nasty. But you never know if you will find something interesting at some point... Vanilla Touch has here really phenomenally good reviews. But unfortunately, this also does not work for me.

In principle, I sign everything that my Vorposter have already described here. Only smells at me just permanently unpleasant synthetic. Probably I must not wonder at a fragrance around 3 € / 30 ml. I finds halt not sensible to wear something like that, just because it costs so insanely little. Unless of course, you like the fragrance, or he works on you and, if you look at the reviews, that's not so far-fetched.

The vanilla starts dark and smoky. Would have guessed something resinous in the top note. Hawthorn I find a little strange. Smells the not quite unpleasant?

Over long stretches Vanilla Touch smells like heliotrope. So a sweet vanilla-almond scent mixture, is eh known from many fragrances. Something fruity but would have been good, then the whole thing would probably not seem so pappig. I have to think of cheap scented candles here, unfortunately. It is not totally unpleasant, but for a perfume inappropriate, in my opinion.

The base then serves up the custard. I think it smells pretty much like the one from Dr. Oetker, the one from the powder. Maybe a little too much sugared and somehow suddenly way too authentic. I don't like smelling like I spilled pudding on myself.

But if you like the scent, you can consider yourself lucky. I think I have never come across such a cheap fragrance with such a flawless durability. 2 spritzes and you come through the day. Sillage is present, but moderate, which is certainly not a disadvantage for sweet gourmand fragrances. In addition, you really have aVerlauf, which is not always the case in the price range. Often the fragrance falls after half an hour in itself to an indefinable mishmash. Vanilla Touch is not the case: smoky top note, heliotrope in the heart and pudding in the base. Therefore, the quality here should not be so bad, only smells at me just not like a perfume that I want to wear

04/03/2021

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Taderfit
12 Reviews

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Taderfit

Top Review 20

This fragrance needs time

When I first smelled the fragrance, it reminded me of vanilla pudding. A little artificial-plastic-like he came to me but also. Otherwise, a very creamy vanilla. I found him at the beginning not so good, but with the habituation he became significantly better.
It is interesting with this fragrance that it changes its smell after longer storage. Now it is much sweeter and the slight plastic tendency is completely gone. For this, it smells very strongly of marzipan in addition to vanilla. This is really a very nice sweet-gourmand smell. There you can probably speak of "matured" rather than "tipped" with this fragrance. So a good tip, for anyone who has it and doesn't like it, just try it again later. Of course, you should generally have a desire for a sweet heavy fragrance.

04/16/2024

9
Pricing 3
Bottle 3
Sillage 4
Longevity 8
Scent

Efey
4 Reviews

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Efey

Top Review 17

I carry you on everything.

I have loved and breathed vanilla for as long as I can remember.
I sweeten my coffee with vanilla syrup, have a weakness for vanilla crescents and vanilla sticks, could sometimes eat a packet of cold vanilla sauce from a tetra pack for breakfast.

The first fragrance I bought and opened my interest in the world of perfumes was the Lord of Misrule Perfume a wintery vanilla patch scent.
When I met a young woman who told me in an aside how much she loved vanilla (and vanilla fragrances), I set out to find the purest, purest vanilla fragrance possible. I was pretty bare at the time and was delighted when I saw Vanilla Touch in my trusted drugstore.
The first time I sprayed it, I was convinced. THAT was the closest thing to an intense, sugary vanilla.
Unfortunately, the fragrance wore off after just 2 hours...which frustrated me a little.
So I started layering Lord of Misrule Perfume with Vanilla Touch: Lo and behold - the fragrances blended incredibly well together and added a long-lasting vanilla to the patch base of one of them!
I kept experimenting...and soon I realized that Vanilla Touch may not be a particularly powerful fragrance on its own, but for the small money, it really comes into its own when you mix it with other fragrances, if you (like me) are a vanilla fanatic for whom there can't be enough of that soft, creamy sweetness.
This is a fragrance to layer, to try out and to experiment with.
Vanilla sugar to go, so to speak.
We will be spending a lot more time together.

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