Bois d'Amande Van Cleef & Arpels 2020

Do you know the vanilla almond moons? These Christmas cookies sprinkled with powdered sugar? Strangely enough, the scent fits for me but also super to the autumn, perhaps because at this time the anticipation of the Christmas season rises? Out of the lousy "rain-now and here with the sun-I don't know what I want today"-weather and into the colorful lights-mulled wine-cuddle time. The almond in the top note is very concise, but not necessarily pure sweet as in Raffaello, but paired with a creaminess of vanilla. This harmony makes the fragrance completely unisex for me. The sillage is not spacey, yet dense and relatively long tangible (4h max on me). I don't usually like to smell pastry, though, so gourmand. At times it also reminds me of the DNA of Rolling in Love . For the office I find him very pleasant, for private a little too unexcited.

Small addendum:

The bottle wants to look high quality, but has m.E. too many not thought-out details:
-pasted name
- brown cord to a black bottle