Top Notes 
Passion flower
Peony
Poppy
Heart Notes 
Blackberry
Chocolate
Jasmine
Narcissus
Base Notes 
Vanilla
Ambergris
Musk
Patchouli
Sternanis
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Vanilla extract, aged in a wooden barrel. No sugar!
The fragrance notes here are a pure product of imagination.
Anyone who has ever made Bourbon vanilla extract themselves (soaking vanilla beans in alcohol and letting it steep for a long time) knows this scent!
It really smells authentically like a soaked vanilla bean, with the pod and everything. A small splash of dark rum with a wooden barrel aroma and a few rum-typical fruity notes (grape?) is also present.
The whole thing is not overwhelmingly sweet at all, but very refined and mature. No pudding, no vanilla sugar.
The scent has no real progression, except that the fruity notes fade away as expected first, and over time it becomes more and more intimate. A kind of warm-spicy background scent remains (vanilla, of course). And it lasts quite a long time, but without mega sillage.
I never thought I would like a vanilla scent, and then also a cheap one, but this one is really good!
Whether it would be wearable for me is another topic.
If you are looking for a non-sugary, mature vanilla gourmand with authentic Bourbon vanilla, this could be just right. And when I see what vanilla bombs are recommended for men, I would categorize this one as unisex, especially with the rum and wood notes. It doesn't smell directly edible, but rather drinkable ;)
The fragrance concentration feels more like an EdT to me (I don't remember if it said EdT or EdP on it, but I usually have the impression that with cheap brands, they dilute to the utmost limit of every EU norm), which is not a problem here at all, as you don't smell like a bottle of vanilla extract right from the first spray and don't have to contort yourself to avoid overdosing :P
The bottle I tested looks a bit different from the picture above (without the black floral pattern, it just says "Butterfly" on it), but it has a golden spray head and cardboard (the other colors were next to it), so it should be the right one.
Anyone who has ever made Bourbon vanilla extract themselves (soaking vanilla beans in alcohol and letting it steep for a long time) knows this scent!
It really smells authentically like a soaked vanilla bean, with the pod and everything. A small splash of dark rum with a wooden barrel aroma and a few rum-typical fruity notes (grape?) is also present.
The whole thing is not overwhelmingly sweet at all, but very refined and mature. No pudding, no vanilla sugar.
The scent has no real progression, except that the fruity notes fade away as expected first, and over time it becomes more and more intimate. A kind of warm-spicy background scent remains (vanilla, of course). And it lasts quite a long time, but without mega sillage.
I never thought I would like a vanilla scent, and then also a cheap one, but this one is really good!
Whether it would be wearable for me is another topic.
If you are looking for a non-sugary, mature vanilla gourmand with authentic Bourbon vanilla, this could be just right. And when I see what vanilla bombs are recommended for men, I would categorize this one as unisex, especially with the rum and wood notes. It doesn't smell directly edible, but rather drinkable ;)
The fragrance concentration feels more like an EdT to me (I don't remember if it said EdT or EdP on it, but I usually have the impression that with cheap brands, they dilute to the utmost limit of every EU norm), which is not a problem here at all, as you don't smell like a bottle of vanilla extract right from the first spray and don't have to contort yourself to avoid overdosing :P
The bottle I tested looks a bit different from the picture above (without the black floral pattern, it just says "Butterfly" on it), but it has a golden spray head and cardboard (the other colors were next to it), so it should be the right one.
Updated on 01/24/2020
