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This Is Us! Zadig & Voltaire 2021

7.0 / 10 329 Ratings

A perfume by Zadig & Voltaire for women and men, released in 2021. The scent is sweet-creamy. It is being marketed by Shiseido Group / Beauté Prestige International.
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Main accords

Sweet

Creamy

Woody

Synthetic

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Sandalwood Vanilla

Vanilla

Musk

Patchouli

Perfumer

Mathilde Bijaoui

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Ratings

Scent

7.0329 Ratings

Longevity

7.2292 Ratings

Sillage

6.9288 Ratings

Bottle

6.7292 Ratings

Value for money

7.4232 Ratings

Submitted by Morpheus1, last update on 10/09/2025.

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Reviews

17 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/03/2024

Yenn
34 Reviews

Yenn

1

Simple easy reach cozy and sweet creamy vanille

I have just tried it in a Primor during a warm day at the end of summer, so I know it is not the same as having a decant or something, but my opinion:

To me it is a nice but not impresed perfume. I used to like vanilla perfumes a lot but I have become very nitpicky about vanillas because of that.

It is a very creamy and cosy vanilla with sandalwood and cinnamon, of course I like it but it is very sweet, simple and lack deepness to me. It smells nice but boring. Too much sweet to my tastes. The person who was with me felt it as a summer perfume. For me it is an autumn perfume because this vanilla is warm, but it is true that in somehow, it manages to be fresher that it sounds, a little less gourmand, but gourmand anyway., so to me it is still not appatecible enough for summer.

The woody notes are sweet, like hazelnuts and cream or something. While I was trying to discern what was those notes I needed to smell more and that is the small touch of mistery that makes it a little more interesting and suitable for dates, but thats it, it is not really something I have never smelled before.

That said, I have read some negative reviews that describes it as "juvenile" in very despectible way. It is not that I don't agree with those opinions because yes, I can't avoid thinking that me in my teens days I would have loved it a lot much (I am +30 now), but I don't agree with the ways they express these feelings. It is unrespectful for young woman and teens and for the perfume. Yes, to me is basic and "juvenile" or whatever (I prefer youthfull) but an adult woman wearing it is total aceptable and nothing wrong with that. It is just I have smelled so many vanillas at this point that I don't find the special niche thing everyone is raving about it

To me is unisex leaning feminine. I feel it doesnt have too much sillage but I get waves of it while walking, something I appreciate. But it feels very perfumey and too much sweet, a little headache indoucing if you don't like sweet gourmands. The creamy sandalwood is the best part to me

04/12/2025

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

LostUmbrella
10 Reviews

LostUmbrella

1

A combination of my best friend and I

I bought this scent initially loving the sweet, gourmand feel to is, as it is truly what I prefer in fragrances. What I ended up not liking was the patchouli note, and this perfume made me realize that I have a problem with patchouli in general, as when I seem to like a perfume but there is just something not quite completely right with it, it's probably patchouli.

On the other hand, my best friend loves patchouli, and seems to dislike the gourmand aspect of it. This fragrance is the best of both of us, combining our two preferences, really being This Is Us!. I ended up using half of the perfume, giving my friend the other half.

04/28/2021

5.5Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

MonsieurTest
29 Reviews

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MonsieurTest

Top Review 53

This is Nuts! Or: Headless Sandalvanilla Musk Milk with a Weak Heart

In the past, there was the circus or revue number 'The lady without abdomen'. Is not my genre. Am in the wild also never met one. Now, however, came to me as an enclosed sample of an Internet order a fragrance in the house, which promised the opposite, so to speak. A perfume consisting only of base, buttocks, abdomen: Wow?! :)

Even more so from a brand that had long interested me because of its so witty-sounding name. Zadig & Voltaire makes you dream of enlightening tales of the sharp-tongued French grand critic, or more precisely: of the colorful adventures and happy endings of his Zadig.

But what does the fragrance 'This is us' tell us? The title might suggest some kind of key or signature fragrance from the Parisian fashion brand, but arguably points more to the unisex nature of this perfume - for there have been 'This is her' and 'This is him' marketed by Shisheido, the French fashion chain's licensees, for some years before that; both sound pyramidally interesting and are not badly reviewed here.

If you look a little closer at the text printed on the new bottles (as a word person, I tend to like that sort of thing already), you get the sense that unisex isn't the end of the story here. Intergenerationality is proclaimed: a fragrance for the whole family. Whereby everyone has to be 'forever young'. In addition to this transgenerational and universal-sexual US fragrance, a second new release, 'This is me', was launched on the market, which apparently ONLY addresses boys or even children ("kids"). Its pyramid reads quite similarly: sandal vanilla on musk. Whereby in the exclusive little ones the (in fact barely perceptible) patchouli of the family fragrance is replaced by 'cashmere' (presumably the softness pretending synth wood musk Cashmeran).

25 years after the unisex revival herald and decades mega-seller CK One seem yes first of all refreshing, sympathetic, to welcome reformatting of target groups, which here admittedly strangely flat fragrance pyramids were superimposed. An integrative overall fragrance from kindergarten children to great-grandmothers? Which possibly also integrates dogs, cats and hamsters into the fragrant us-scent-team (as far as they promise to smell and stay forever young!)? That would save space in the bathroom, which with the real estate price increases soon anyway hardly anyone will be able to afford.

The problem (benevolently formulated: the charmingly interesting, minimalist...) is now: this we-scent does not want to tell quite. After spraying it shows up, unfortunately, rather as a jumble fragrance. This is Us has no plot and hardly comes from the place.

Already the note sequence, as it is given here, made me raise my eyebrows: a pyramid without top and heart notes? All classic, heavy and long-lasting base notes combined? Without anything on top or around it? The pyramid as a bungalow or as an underground car park? As a deep bunker of a comfortably wrapped up large family even?

Well, what says the nose: Because even if nothing citrus, fruity or floral is indicated, with something such a fragrance must probably start. He does, he can not help it: sweetish, vanilla and with a typical sandalwood cream note it goes off. It doesn't smell bad, but it doesn't seem fresh or distinctive at all. With the following regular Nasentiefflug over the wrist, one would like to think to sense in this fairly constant (stubborn!) Sandelvanille a few nuances of fuzzy milky fruits: CoconutFigPeach or FigPearMandarin something like that.

And so it sandalvanillates, about as contoured or indifferent as a better suntan lotion or skincare product on and on. Towards the back, everything remains largely the same: a serious appearance of patchouli, spiciness or earthiness even, I did not encounter. A completely toned-down feel-good musk probably always underpins this kind of fluffy, flat wellness cream scent, so here too. Against this four-generations-rich (pureed and touched for two generations without and two with teeth...) was the naturally also rounded, soft, all-embracing integrative CK One a fresh-spicy aroma canon.

None of this is directly unpleasant, not bad, not exciting. Kind of lulling; numbing, even?
I'm not sad that revue numbers of ladies without underbellies seem to be dying out. I wouldn't be sad if this underground garage base note combo scent with little (milk-fruity) heart and no brains, eventually died out again.

Voltaire is here to stay. And so will Zadig. Stories will be told as long as there will be people: in stories, novels, contes philosophiques; or here in comments now called reviews. Or in scents, music, images, which are capable of telling.

Whether Zadig & Voltaire will stay - or, closer to home, that milky mediocre flat scent 'This is us' - I don't know. It probably doesn't matter either. Here they have told me in any case, in my three test runs, nothing exciting, stimulating or ravishing. At any rate, certainly: too little.
And a poppig printed flacon along with a thought-provoking, universally integrative we-concept triggers even in a receptive word person and collector yet no desire to own and wear.

I still prefer to live out minimalist whims with fresh chevrefeuille or verveine soliflors, earthy patchouli or vetiver solos, or lavender solo sonatas, such as those of Monastère de Ganagobie. All of which go through more transformations and have more to tell than 'This is Nuts'.unisex
Or, why not, again with CK One. The go all but actually also transgenerational?!

08/15/2021

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

pudelbonzo
721 Reviews

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pudelbonzo

Top Review 18

That's us...

... in the summer.

"Us " probably refers to the unisex nature of the fragrance - and I can actually imagine it on both men and women.
Rather still on ladies, as the sweet fruit bubble gum note is rather feminine for my taste.
But on young men this will probably work well too.

Through this bubble gum tone appears " Us " casual and " cool " without being cool.
Sandal and vanilla make it nice and creamy - but not as soft ice creamy as This is her ! which remains my favorite - although " Us " fits well into summer.

Musk in the fade goes a bit in the adult direction - but overall " Us " remains youthful - with which I do not want to say that only teenagers should wear it.

Also " young at heart " will have their joy in this friendly summer fragrance

02/09/2021

Biberfrau
6 Reviews

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Biberfrau

Top Review 14

Back down to earth with you!

For months I've been eagerly awaiting the day when this little waterer would arrive at my house. What did I have ready for it. A text, garnished with the best parts of my favorite song by the doctors (How it goes). The hymn of praise par excellence this was going to be. This combination of scents is just screaming for me. What is it? All sprayed away in one spray. Gone with the wind. Nix. Over and out
The fragrances were so verfüherisch and exactly my Beuteschema. I mean, what could go wrong? For a few months, I'm what the testing is no longer so experimental and prefer to spray first on a test strip before the skin is on it. Such is the case with This is us. The first moment is a sweet blast of vanilla and sandalwood. My nose is used to grenades, but this was a bit too much of a good thing. And yes, something actually smells like dill. Thoughts on this ranged from "Hm" to "yes, actually not bad at all" to "Whew, I don't know" to "Nah, sorry". But I'm not giving up just like that. This is THE scent that I had already chosen in my mind to be my new signature. I can't accept the way this is going. So I gave it time. And there it was. Over time, a soft, vanilla musky scent developed and set in. There it is! Exactly how I imagined it and up on the wrist. But what's it going to be now? The sandalwood means too well or feels way too comfortable. It takes a club in the hand and hits with full force again and again. In between the vanilla is allowed to have a go and so it goes on and on alternately. At some point both agree and make common cause. They show you who's in charge. "This is us", "us against the world", but without me. They retreat for a bit after their ruckus and then the scent kind of.... yeah, how do I put this... hollow. It's missing something. It doesn't get weaker, that's not it. Somehow it becomes inconsistent now and then the sweet force comes back after a short breather. Like I said, without me. Where's my savior in need? Where is the patchouli? Intimidated? Not in the mood? Busy elsewhere? Better things to do?

The shelf life is (as with all fragrances that you do not find so great) of course bombastic. The test strip still scents the room (since noon today), but showering could put an end to the whole thing at least on the skin. The bottle is now also no highlight. I wanted to like him ubedingt, but that is nothing. Since I was today rudely brought back to earth.

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