Vanille West Indies Ligne St Barth 2007

It's almost the end of April and the weather is going crazy - the blossoms on the apple trees are freezing under the snowflakes and I'm snuggled up in my woolly sweater again. Despite the cold, the wonderful, warm vanilla scent of "Vanilla West Indies" by St. Barth has been wafting around me since this morning... I sprayed it on this morning, one spritz per wrist and can still smell it this evening, 10 hours later - that's never happened to me before... The longevity is incredible, but that's a known fact with this fragrance anyway.
I would never have thought that I would find a clearly sweet and creamy vanilla fragrance so pleasant... although the sweetness is not sticky, but has a dry, slightly tart note, like a vanilla pod... Until today I was more into tangy, tart and complex fragrances. I was given St Barth's Vanilla as a gift and it had been in the cupboard for six months - because I thought I didn't like vanilla. Then I was recently looking for a new Nishane fragrance in a perfumery and sprayed Hundred Silent ways. A very beautiful, elegant fragrance, a great composition, but in the evening I could still smell it on my wrist as a sweet vanilla. And I couldn't stop sniffing...and asked myself: do I like vanilla now?
Apparently you do! I decided against "Hundred Silent ways" because the opening with peach came across as very sharp on the second try and made me tense. On this second visit to the perfumery, I sprayed St Barth on my other wrist. And then thought: why not this natural, soft, warm vanilla without detours, instead of the complex way of Nishane (which is admittedly very layered and sophisticated)...I have not regretted unpacking St Barth, and the warm beautiful scent has comforted me all day today, about the delayed spring, the cold, all the dreariness of a rainy Sunday...it will do that until the sun's rays warm up again so much that I need something fresher!
P.S: I look forward to ideas on what to layer it with..