Vanilla Cream Macaron Arabiyat Sugar 2025

This fragrance utterly surprised me.. I have tried a plethora of banana fragrances from niche, independent and designer houses including:
Eclaire Banoffi - cheap dry shampoo.
Banoffee Gingerbread Cookie - Great banana opening but gone in 20 seconds.
Crème de Banane - bath bomb / green honey floral.
Banana Split - horrible performance.
Banabread - urinal acetone.
Sweet Banana - persil laundry detergent.

AND this kitschy looking bottle came out the BEST?!!!? Basically Vanilla Cream Macaron is a light banana candy custard cookie pie perfume from start to finish.
SUPER Gourmand! there is nothing synthetically nasty about it! A really jovial summer/spring gourmand.

It is not a serious fragrance...but banana is not a serious note ! lol

Straight up DELICIOUS ,honestly this is what I've expected from Lattafa Eclaire Banoffi,a custard,gourmand,soft and warm smell of banana bread and vanilla. This quite literally smells like the inside of a bakery HOWEVER the name is VERY misleading. This is rather a banana cream filling vanilla macaron.
Got many compliments on this.Fsir price and honestly if you are still thinking about getting a banana fragrance,grab this-way better than what eclaire banoffi promised to be.
This is amazing for layering and I find that it would work with perfumes such as Kayali Vanilla 28 or anything leaning into that direction. One of my faves from the Arabiyat Sugar line and I don't find it to be unisex,to me this is feminine leaning sort of;

The first ever spray from my gifted 2ml sample made me go "WOW". It is like accidently walking into a French patisserie where skilled pastry chefs just baked macarons and loads of other fancy pastries. The initial banana note isn't obvious - it might be there in the form of a banana bread, well hidden under the opening note of brown sugar (not a fan!), that disappears quickly. The developing scent is a well balanced mix of buttercream icing, vanilla and whipped cream. It is so yummy, that it makes my mouth water even though I've just had dinner! The drydown smells like a sweet and buttery croissant, very comforting.

I love my gourmand perfumes and can appreciate only the non-screechy ones that smell perfectly edible. This is one of them!
It is near identical with Emir Voux Patisserie by Paris Corner (minus the orange blossom syrup), which is supposed to be a clone of "Casamorati - Italica | Xerjoff". If I didn't own Patisserie already, I would totally get Vanilla Cream Macaron. You should too if your objective is to smell like an irresistible dessert.

BTW. Finally I found the alleged banana note - sniffed directly from the bottle, non existent on my skin at any stage.