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Collection Vanille

Valkyrie Sylvaine Delacourte 2018

7.6 / 10 258 Ratings

A popular perfume by Sylvaine Delacourte for women and men, released in 2018. The scent is spicy-sweet. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Sweet

Creamy

Citrus

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Brazilian lime

Calabrian bitter orange

American curly mint

Comorian basil

Heart Notes

Persian galbanum

Base Notes

Bourbon vanilla absolute Benzoin

Benzoin

Indian sandalwood

Perfumers

Sylvaine Delacourte, Maurice Roucel

Ratings

Scent

7.6258 Ratings

Longevity

7.3212 Ratings

Sillage

6.8213 Ratings

Bottle

7.3185 Ratings

Value for money

7.379 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20 · last update on 12/01/2025.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Collection Vanille collection.

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/23/2025

7Scent 8Longevity 5Sillage

chucheria
2 Reviews

chucheria

2

An interesting spicy, smoky vanilla

The fragrance opens with jolly citrus-ginger bonbons. Vanilla also appears almost immediately. Then comes light fruitiness and a little bit of fresh green notes.
The heart is full of spices. It's creamy, slightly sweet. At the same time vanilla doesn’t get gourmand. The smell changes and evolves, but always stays soft and not provocative.
It gets darker towards the base, the woody smoke becomes prominent. This smoke is not incense or burnt type. In drydown I get soft musk and amber.

The performance is reasonable with moderate sillage.

In general, it is a very wearable everyday fragrance. Quite classic. Perhaps the most interesting one of the vanilla collection from the brand.

10/05/2023

ScentStudio
156 Reviews

ScentStudio

1

A fine vanilla, long lasting, but too boring

Sylvaine Delacourte perfumes have been on my radar for a hot minute. They've been on my feed and all I needed to hear was "vanilla", I was sold immediately. Finally, I had the opportunity to smell these amazing scents, because I found them at Perfumeria Impressium in Warsaw by chance.

You know how much I love vanilla and you know how much I love citrus, naturally, I got my hands on Valkyrie.
Valkyrie opens with a zesty and fruity lemon, yum! But soon vanilla reaches my nose too, and an interesting note like that of sandalwood, smoke or even burned wood. The note is sour, contrasting the delicacy of citrus and vanilla. Valkyrie is like its name, something to be feared!

After dry down, the sandalwood calms down and the three most prominent notes are in an equal balance. A unity of citrus, vanilla and sandalwood.
However, that doesn't remain so very long...
If you are looking for a citrus vanilla, like that of Davana & Vanille Bourbon by 100Bon, this isn't it. On me, Valkyrie becomes a solid sandalwood fragrance, with just a sweet touch of vanilla in the background.
It's beautiful and I imagine many being seduced by it if they are lovers of these notes. I am too, but I like my fragrances with a little bit more personality these days. Especially after visiting Sense Dubai and smelling amazing and mesmerising scents of ridiculous quality.
In the evening, ten hours or so after applying, Valkyrie is a wonderful pure vanilla fragrance, that I must admit. And to my surprise! I thought the sandalwood would have it's last say, but vanilla perseveres.

08/07/2018

10Scent 7Longevity 5Sillage

Gelis
328 Reviews

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Gelis

Top Review 15

Sonmervanille

I am very taken with it. Especially, and perhaps precisely, in this heat. When I spray on “Valkyrie,” a large cool glass of freshly made lemonade appears before my inner eye. Its scent rises lightly to my nose. Above all, I smell lime, accompanied by bergamot and bitter orange. Shortly after, I can recognize the mint. The lemonade is only lightly sweetened. It is delicious. Then a hint of vermouth reveals itself: The basil seems to have only been in dried form, as it unfortunately smells a bit musty, lacking the peppery freshness. But maybe the galbanum is responsible for that too? However, the lime only allows that to come through briefly and pushes back to the forefront, so that the herbal note provides only a light background. At the bottom of the glass, when the lightly sweetened lemonade has warmed up a bit, gentle creamy vanilla appears, supported by sandalwood. Although I can't really smell the sandalwood. And even here, the lime peeks through again and again.

“Valkyrie” has won me over.

Addendum: The basil comes from the Comoros.

Addendum 2/201905: How temperatures can change a scent: Today I smell the sandalwood first.

12/21/2021

7.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Ohanami
4 Reviews

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Ohanami

Top Review 13

Mojito-Vanilla

As a confessed vanilla fan, I was very happy to test the vanilla collection as part of a letter campaign (many thanks to VentoAureo!). With "Valkyrie," I initially thought of something heavy and very feminine, after all, the Valkyries are the Nordic shield-maidens. But the fragrance surprised me in another way: While I usually know vanilla scents to be warm, cozy, slightly powdery, or gourmand-baking powder-like, this one hits me with a full blast of citrus upon application, mixed with a small hint of vanilla! Here, "Valkyrie" is a wonderful and unusual scent, perfect for summer. The lime and mint remind me of a summer cocktail party with an elegant white dress code: The air is already slightly cooled, beautiful people stand around a swimming pool with mojitos in hand. In the background, Bossa Nova plays. The sillage is relatively strong here.

This beautiful, summery image, which does not fit at all with my general idea of a vanilla scent, stays with me here in the cold December for about 1 1/2 hours. The fragrance weakens, becoming only perceptible close to the skin. Enter galbanum: The scent loses its mojito flair and becomes greener, perhaps a bit musty as well. I no longer smell vanilla; the scent here is almost a bit piercing and somewhat smoky. Like the smell after the cocktail party: The limes are squeezed dry, the rum is gone, a little of the smoke from the cigars and the extinguished garden lanterns lingers over the lawn. The night carries the scent of the nearby pine forest. Everything is quiet.

The scent remains like this for quite a while, oscillating between woody-musty-smoky and limey (those are the leftover mojito limes losing their remaining juice).
At some point, something like a very washed-out, sweet-herbaceous kind of vanilla crawls out of the morning mist. It seems a bit sleepy, still quiet, rubbing its eyes, the head still buzzing from the cocktails. She is the daughter of the house's owner, looking through the open living room door at the garden that still needs to be tidied up. For breakfast, she eats a vanilla pudding (a very slight pudding note actually emerges here). It still smells a bit like liquor in the apartment; they have plundered father's good Scottish whiskey. She stretches once more, then applies a luxurious, woody cream and lies back down.

******

A beautiful scent by Sylvaine Delacourte, my favorite from the collection after testing Vahina and Vanori. If only the beautiful top note lasted a bit longer and the mustiness in the heart note wasn't there, it would be a candidate for purchase. Longevity and sillage are in the middle range, but after the lovely top note, the scent quickly becomes close to the skin.

08/10/2018

6Scent 7Longevity

Maryam1410
16 Reviews

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Maryam1410

Very helpful Review 12

1979 - Mama unpacked the good soap...

....and I got to keep the soap paper, which was then placed between the nightgowns in the wardrobe, and I was so proud of the wonderful scent.
Those of us who are older still remember, back then there was no liquid soap. And the myth persisted that soaps that were stored for a long time lasted longer. My mother therefore had a whole suitcase of soaps on top of the wardrobe. Many cheap drugstore soaps that were common back then. But there were also "good" soaps, which were first wrapped in paper and then stored in a soap box. These were unpacked at Christmas or after the big spring cleaning - and the paper went into the linen cupboard.

No matter how hard I try, I can't detect anything, absolutely nothing, vanilla-like in this scent. To be precise, I can't perceive any fragrance note at all; everything in me just screams "soap". Definitely a good soap with fragrant paper ...... but still: pure soap.

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Statements

86 short views on the fragrance

MiniGBIC

4 years ago

10Scent 8Longevity

3

Summer vanilla cocktail with orange, lime, mint & a tiny basil leaf - I like :)
Extra point for the 30ml bottle

5000ml

2 years ago

9Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

1

I get an instant spicy vanilla blast - quite lineair, doesn’t last longer than 4-5 hours but it remains a gorgeous scent.

Azura

4 years ago

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

23

17

Spicy-sweet is the dark green pulp of the galbanum pods:
It is whipped airy with basil vanilla
and mixed with chilled sandalwood balm.

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Pollita

5 years ago

8Scent 9Sillage

21

11

A powerful 90s scent with plenty of vanilla. Hints of Roma here too. Valkyrie-like, yet always a bit tender.

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Ergreifend

3 years ago

7.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

21

12

Spicy, creamy vanilla.
Citrus flakes flutter
in warm light.
A hint of darkness,
with a bite of animalic.
Pleasant
Oriental ..

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FrauMieze

3 years ago

8.5Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

17

11

Minty orange breezes
Soft creamy woods
A hint of animalic in the air
Surrounded by subtly spiced vanilla
Wonderful but poor longevity/sillage

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Kankuro

7 years ago

8Scent

16

2

Vanilla in a different way: The green-fresh undertones, combined with citrus aromas and creamy vanilla, create something uniquely beautiful.

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Amadea70

1 year ago

15

14

When you roast curry in oil
that's how this scent smells on my skin
it also has hints of vanilla and citrus, especially at the beginning.

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Kailani

3 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

13

8

Basil reads in the Benzo ball.
Lime predicts: Great future.
Creeping mint rushes out of sandal tent.
Galbanum shines: Star?
Vanilla: Awesome.

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Turandot

7 years ago

6.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

14

Vanilla just rounds off the rather harsh notes, it’s not the main theme. Interesting combination with good recognition. Highly recommended for testing!

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