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Lolitamuse9
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Unhappy
The marketing was truly a red herring for this perfume. The vanilla ice cream is pretty non-existent. What you get instead is a very sharp and screechy woody/musk that refuses to dissipate. I'm confused on the inclusion of both amber wood and orcanox, both of which are strong synthetic ambergris - the result is a huge ambroxan bomb that, as others have rightly said, recalls the effect of BR540. Not that you're actually *smelling* BR540, but the actual effect of the perfume is the same.
The more I wear this, the more it feels... smoggy. Too dense, too heavy. I can search out something like a vanilla ice cream accord several hours into the wear time, which is sad. We were marketed melting ice cream, and given smoky woods that we need to machete our way through to find some semblance of vanilla. It's paltry and weak, when we do find it.
The real upset is mainly because what was marketed isn't what has been delivered. If they told us it was a dark, woody musk with vanilla undertones, then great - I know what I'm getting into and probably would've passed on it. I'm sure fans of that scent profile would've flocked to it. But instead they tried to ensare the gourmand lovers and in doing so have alienated the musk lovers, who would be their ideal consumer base. Just a really weird move, all around. I hope the Snif team has an all hands meeting next week and takes all this feedback to heart.
For those saying it smells like Mod Vanilla, I think that's completely inaccurate. Mod Vanilla seems to lean much heavier on the actual vanilla and has a light berry/plum accord that keeps it lifted and brighter. What I think those people are smelling is that perhaps Mod Vanilla and Vanilla Vice share the same aroma chemical musks, so it's just triggering a quick scent memory. But, smelled side by side, the perfumes are quite different and really not worth a comparison. The final products, so to speak, live in different neighborhoods.
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