Vanilla & The Sea Phoenix Botanicals

In psychology, there is a thought experiment where the patient is asked not to think of a pink elephant. Those who try quickly realize that they cannot get rid of the pink elephant in their thoughts.
The thoughts become tense, and the more one tries, the bigger the elephant becomes.
Complete letting go of the efforts is then the only solution.

A special case is pink elephants in scent memory, as I have found; in my experience, one cannot get rid of them at all.
I first encountered one after reading Apicius's comment on Iris & White Musk. Since then, I rarely shake off the carrot association with iris. I immediately sold my bottle of Jo Malone; the scent impression was beyond saving.

With most biodynamic scents, my association is a tea shop from the 80s. There, in addition to tea, there were writing utensils, beautifully decorated stationery, elegant diaries, and probably also fragrance oils. I believe the scent connection exists through sandalwood and patchouli; otherwise, I cannot explain why this tea shop appears before my inner eye with almost every biodynamic scent I have tested.

This was also the case when testing the wonderful little package from Fluxit.
Vanilla & the Sea smells to me like vanilla plus a time travel to that tea shop.
In the statements, I read about sea, amber, and tropical fruits. The scent seems to have left a more differentiated impression on other perfume enthusiasts.

As much as I would like to enjoy biodynamic scents, and there is much to recommend them, I do not want to smell like a tea shop.
Therefore, it seems that there will be nothing more between biodynamic scents and me, at least not in this scent life.