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Amarena cherry and vanilla, that's exactly what the scent smells like.
It doesn't need anything else.

This scent reminds me of my childhood and our family visits to ice cream parlors on hot summer evenings.

My mother always ordered an Amarena cherry cup when we visited our favorite ice cream parlor together, and I, lucky me, of course got to enjoy some of those delicious cherries.
Yes, that's what this treat reminds me of.
Maybe that's why I like the scent so much?!

And even though it has strawberry sauce, Vicebomb makes me think of spaghetti ice cream - probably because of the ice cream parlor and all :D - and thus also of one of my earlier favorite shisha tobaccos, which smelled just like spaghetti ice cream.


Now, away from childhood to the scent:

I could just dive into cherry scents and have to test every fragrance where I read anything about cherries in the fragrance pyramid, so of course I couldn't pass by "Vicebomb | Simone Andreoli."
However, here it is - a bit different from most other cherries I know - more subdued, not quite so in your face. But of course, there's no true cherry in it, just the sweet Amarena cherry :))

When I first smelled the fragrance, I was almost a bit disappointed because, as you can imagine, I like the full cherry load :D.

What is also more than positive for me:
I absolutely do not smell any rose (I don't like rose in fragrances at all).


If anyone is looking for a cherry-vanilla scent where the cherry isn't quite as loud as we're used to, this one is worth a sniff :)

First, I must defend myself ;)

Because I received the fragrance as a souk addition and after looking at the fragrance pyramid, I clearly expected to get incense if it was included.
But this scent hits me in the face so hard after spraying that I can't even smell it properly anymore.

I immediately think back to my teenage years when I was an altar girl; I always held my nose back then ... Incense is just not my scent note :(
Maybe I should also mention that in the end, I actually preferred to sleep in on Sundays rather than go to church, and thankfully my parents understood that (pun intended?) when I stopped going. :')

After a few minutes, I sniff my wrist again, and now I think to myself, "Ohh, it's calming down a bit." and I can actually say that, yes, if you like incense, you will definitely like this scent.
Now it reminds me of going into a sauna, but without the infusion, of course (and I really, really enjoy going to the sauna). I've loved this smell since my childhood.

However, the incense pulls me back from my sauna thoughts and reminds me again that it is still (much) too dominant for me, but I do perceive the notes I don't like more strongly.
For this reason, I definitely don't want to speak ill of it; it's just simply not for me. ️

Edit:
I baked cookies after I submitted the review and of course kept getting a whiff of incense.
At some point, I thought to myself, "Oh wow, does it really smell like that?!". In fact, I sniff my wrist again and suddenly there's no more incense. All of a sudden, I like the scent as it has become so smooth.
Vanagloria ... you little rascal! :D