Elixir of Life Tomorrowland 2024

To describe the scent, I have to expand a bit.
It was 2016 and I was finally lucky enough to get my hands on a coveted Tomorrowland ticket.
The anticipation was huge and the organizers know how to make the hype around the festival even bigger: Send out elaborate treasure chests with the admission wristband and everyone posts it on social media.
in 2016, the theme was: The Elixir of Life and in addition to the beautiful bracelet, the treasure chest contained an amulet with a solid perfume that simply smelled magical.
Slightly vanilla, unisex, not too sweet, and yes, a little sexy too...
The fragrance also accompanied me to the festival and it was hard to put into words. The people, the music, the scenery, even though I'm not built close to the water, I cried more than once at the festival from pure joy.

So, since 2016, I've been waiting for a Tomorrowland perfume...for
'The Elixir of Life'
And then last year my prayers were answered, when I saw it I ordered it IMMEDIATELY! When it finally arrived I was incredibly excited, but the first notes on the website didn't necessarily bode well for the beautiful scent of 2016.

And unfortunately, it wasn't either:

Elixir of Life is not a bad fragrance, but it couldn't be further from the Elixir of 2016.
Overall, the fragrance is really very fresh and also green...you can clearly perceive the pear in the opening.
The fragrance is very suitable for really hot temperatures, as they have always been at Tomorrowland in recent years. For such a freshy scent, I personally find it lasts quite a long time. In the course of the fragrance, the pear says goodbye and it always remains fresh and green with a little musk.
If I had to describe the fragrance briefly: fresh-of-the-shower and perfectly unisex.
125€ for 100ml is more than okay, the bottle is definitely an eye-catcher.
Well....but not what I've wanted for so long.

But my search did have a happy ending.
Last year, I unsuspectingly tested a sample and it was precisely this fragrance that triggered feelings of happiness, which I couldn't immediately put my finger on. I was standing in the living room and my boyfriend looked at me with his eyes wide open: "It smells like Tomorrowland here!"
Yes, he was right, my sample was closer to the Elixir of Life from 2016 than any other fragrance so far and it was Vanitas
...I was given a bottle for my birthday and I'm actually looking forward to Elixir of Life from 2024 this summer