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7.6 / 10 250 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 Top Notes
Brazilian limeBrazilian lime Calabrian bitter orangeCalabrian bitter orange American curly mintAmerican curly mint Comorian basilComorian basil
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Persian galbanumPersian galbanum
Base Notes Base Notes
Bourbon vanilla absoluteBourbon vanilla absolute BenzoinBenzoin Indian sandalwoodIndian sandalwood

Perfumers

Ratings
Scent
7.6250 Ratings
Longevity
7.3205 Ratings
Sillage
6.8205 Ratings
Bottle
7.3176 Ratings
Value for money
7.372 Ratings
Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 09/12/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance is part of the Collection Vanille collection.

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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions
ScentStudio

156 Reviews
ScentStudio
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.
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Pricing
6
Bottle
5
Sillage
8
Longevity
7
Scent
chucheria

2 Reviews
chucheria
chucheria
1  
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.
0 Comments
5
Sillage
7
Longevity
10
Scent
Gelis

164 Reviews
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Gelis
Gelis
Top Review 15  
Sonmervanilla
I am very fond of it. Also and perhaps especially in this heat. When I spray on "Valkyrie", a big cool glass of freshly made lemonade appears in front of my inner eye. Lightly bubbling, its scent rises to my nose. First and foremost, I smell lime, accompanied by bergamot and bitter orange. Shortly after, I can make out the mint. The lemonade is only very lightly sweetened. It is delicious. Then a small downer reveals itself: the basil seems to have only been in the house in a dried state, it unfortunately smells a bit musty, and lacks the peppery freshness. But maybe the galbanum is also responsible for that? But that only allows the lime to come in briefly and pushes its way back to the forefront, leaving the herbaceous "only" a light background. At the bottom of the glass, when the lightly sweetened lemonade has warmed up a bit, soft creamy vanilla appears supported by sandalwood. Which I can't really smell the sandalwood out. And also here the lime winks through again and again.

"Valkyrie" has conquered me.

Addendum: The basil comes from the Comoros.

Addendum 2/201905: How temperatures can change a fragrance after all: Today, the first thing I smell is the sandalwood.

8 Comments
7
Longevity
6
Scent
Maryam1410

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Maryam1410
Maryam1410
Very helpful Review 12  
1979 - Mama unpacked the good soap...
....and the soap paper I was allowed to keep, it was then placed between the nightdresses in the wardrobe and I was so proud of the great smell.
The older ones of us still remember that they didn't have liquid soap back then. And there was a fairy tale that soaps that were stored for a long time would last longer. My mother had a whole suitcase of soaps on the wardrobe. Lots of cheap drugstore soaps they had back then. But there were also "good" soaps, which were first wrapped in paper and then stowed in the soapbox. They were then unpacked at Christmas or after the big spring cleaning - and the paper from it went into the linen cupboard.

No matter how hard I try, I can't get anything out of this fragrance, not even vanilla. Actually, I can't perceive any scent at all, everything inside me is just screaming "soap". Certainly a good soap with fragrant paper ...... but still: pure soap.
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Veilchen75

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Veilchen75
Veilchen75
Very helpful Review 16  
A quintet of great finesse and a new vanilla experience
A series of five fragrances actually, in place of these fragrances, commented on as a whole. For as such they are to be seen. They kind of belong together. Quite independent, but clearly related. Only when you have tested all five vanilla fragrances does one of the reasons for the series open up. Each fragrance should represent and capture a nuance, a vanilla gracefulness. Hesperidic, Floral, Solar/Sunny, Spicy and Aromatic. As different as the perfumer's demands on each fragrance are, I claim they are not as different as the ingredients and characters suggest. I like every direction. All five are very finely woven, balanced, soft and like a veil. To speak of Sillage here almost does not do justice to the scents, they surround me more like an aura, a shell. They adapt. No one has an in-your-face vanilla. All are created with the same fine natural Madegass vanilla. Probably for this reason they are particularly similar in the base. And yet, I guess everyone here will find someone they like more. But I don't really feel "inappropriate" for anybody. That is actually the special thing about this creation.
I'm not much of a vanilla fan. But this may also be due to the fact that sweet, synthetic vanillas blow around our noses.
All in all, a big compliment, if I may even say so. I'm trapped. And yet I have a wafer-thin favorite. This one here, Valkyrie.
Addendum: Now it dawns on me what the beautiful base vanilla reminds me of: Souffle de Shalimar - ouch, from the house of Guerlain :)
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5000ml5000ml 2 years ago
7
Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
9
Scent
I get an instant spicy vanilla blast - quite lineair, doesn’t last longer than 4-5 hours but it remains a gorgeous scent.
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MiniGBICMiniGBIC 4 years ago
9
Bottle
8
Longevity
10
Scent
Summer vanilla cocktail with orange, lime, mint & a tiny basil leaf - I like :)
Extra point for the 30ml bottle
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