Tangier Vanille

I absolutely ADORE this gorgeous perfume!!!! I fall more in love with it, every minute of every day (I got it a week ago, a blind-buy, and I CAN'T wear any other perfume now!!). At first, with the very first spray, I thought it was very nice; lovely. But as the day went on, I found myself liking it more.....and more.....and HAD to wear it the next day, and the next.........ad infinitum!!! It's so beautifully and mysteriously oriental, soft, creamy, delicious, rich dark vanilla, deep rose, a crisp tangy bergamot, soft comforting musk and sandalwood, and meltingly smooth amber, melding the whole glorious, simple but fulsome concoction together. It definitely has a mysterious, secret, hidden-depth feel, and all the ingredients come to the surface in various ways, at various times, giving one a gentle thrill each time. My husband adores it too, and can smell me a room away. Anyway, it now permeates our whole house, beautifully, gently, which we both relish. It has a delightfully gentle but far-reaching sillage, and lasts and lasts so well!!! I spray it on around 4am, and can still smell it beautifully in bed after 11pm!!!!! And everywhere I go, people tell me how beautiful I smell!!! It's my favourite perfume at the moment. By far. I think I'm addicted to it!!! And God I also adore the cute little bottle! It's such a lovely, aesthetically pleasing, well-crafted design: so solid, and has such smoothly rounded edges; the label is exquisite; and the cap is fabulous! Lifts off and clicks on in the most perfect way, and is the perfect colour representation of the 'feel' of the fragrance - it looks like a beautiful chocolate-coloured gemstone - in fact that's also apt, because the perfume does have a softly chocolate smell!!! Everything about it is perfect!! God I LOVE LOVE LOVE Tangier Vanille!!!!! I never want to be without it. Ever!

This is an expensive fragrance that smells like an expensive, rich, deep, warm, nuanced vanilla! Very smooth, cozy, enveloping scent. I will say it right from the beginning, I love Aerin Lauder’s collection of fragrances. In all honesty, not all worth the high price simply because of how poor they perform. But if would perform better, I would have more of them... With all that out of the way, Tangier Vanille is an exquisite example of how to create an excellent, elegant, vanilla perfume with a good performance! It’s not a beastly scent but on clothing is long lasting. Projection could be better, but it’s not terrible for the first hours. And it’s very addictive smells... How does it smell then?? Like the most gourmand, moderate sweet, expensive vanilla cake. But it has facets. In Tangier Vanille I can say that I distinguish all the notes listed throughout the fragrance lifetime on my skin. Opens with a burst of bergamot and fresh rose, then slowly transforms into a full on warm vanilla with smooth, creamy sandalwood. It’s a super rich and dark type of vanilla, tincture, probably better sourced than other vanilla forward scents currently sold. I would say that it’s fairly comparable to Kayali’s Vanilla 28 or YSL Black Opium Le Parfum, but smells more natural, realistic and refined! It’s not a dupe of this two, but if you’re looking for something more elegant smelling, maybe sample Tangier Vanille. I am aware that it’s more expensive than the other two, but in my opinion it’s worth. This is an old money kind of vanilla! I would like to project better for the price, I am not going to lie but I am satisfied with the performance. What lacks in performance, compensates in quality and smell. And luxurious presentation, it’s a notch above the others two..

This is my very favourite perfume of all time!! I Love it - so much! It has become my signature scent. I fell totally in love at first sniff (which was about a month ago), and have been falling more and more in love with it ever since. It has completely taken me over - all other perfumes have become NOT right anymore - even the most favoured. I just can't wear anything else now. It's completely me. It's the one I feel the most happy and comfortable in. I feel at peace - at rest. At home. But I keep thinking, surely I need a change? Usually I change perfumes often, as I get bored quickly, but, no! Every time I put something else on.......nah! I want my Tangier Vanille!!! God! It's never happened to me before! I love it sooooo much. It's so smooth and creamy and delicious. So yummy, so comforting, and has such fabulous smells of rose and bergamot, and amber and musk and sandalwood - they all show themselves beautifully as the day goes on - but it's the heavenly Madagascar vanilla that is the angel of this wonder! It gives me such a feel of the Orient - Morocco - the fabulous bazaars, and the palaces and gardens, the splendour of all the smells and colours. It's such a rich and chocolately vanilla; so sweet but not at all sickly. Deep and sensual; slightly spicy. Warm. Womanly. It's simply the most perfect perfume!!!!!

UPDATE: What I love in here is clearly tonka, though it is not listed as a note. Perhaps amber and musk create the same effect? Two to try are Commodity Tonka and Solinotes Tonka -- see if you smell what I do, if you love Tangier Vanille! === My sister has expensive and good taste in fragrance and loves vanilla. She told me she wears this, so I ordered a sample. I was so surprised and delighted to experience Skin Musk all the way, baby! Just much more expensive ingredients and a tad more vanilla. I wore Skin Musk as a college student, and the smell is very dear to me. And yes, back then, I felt a 1 oz bottle was on the high side at $7 at the drugstore, lol. People told me my cat smelled of it, aww. You can still get it, made by a different company than Bonne Bell but a pretty good reformulation. Said to be beloved by Sarah Jessica Parker whom I hoped would make something in this vein, but alas, she did not. Aerin Lauder was born in 1970 and HAS to know of this scent. I beg you to try them side by side and report back. TV dries down to a lovely spicy vanilla musk. Why is a big bottle almost $200? The mention of PlayDoh and plastic notes are a plus for me (does that make me weird?), so tell me other scents that have this.

(Mostly copying my spreadsheet notes here in hopes someone else finds them helpful!) How many vanilla scents do I really need? I ask myself this every time I try another, lol. This is another dry vanilla, a bit close to my Diptique Eau Duelle (of which I own both the EDP and EDT), so I don't think I'll purchase a full bottle. It has a bit more cinnamon/cloves than Diptique, and perhaps a boozy note that Diptique doesn't have. It's a very nice vanilla, but I'm not sure I need another spicy, dry vanilla scent. Instead, I'll keep my rich Guerlain SDV as a contrast to Eau Duelle; later note--this is really pretty. I love how this is a vanilla with spirit and how the amber emerges, warm and woodsy. Sooo . . . who knows what I'll do, but this is pretty, for sure. I was surprised that rose is in the scent profile, as I didn't notice it at first; now in the dry down, I can find it, floating gently in the back of the scent. This is a lovely vanilla with a bit of spirit, but so feminine, soft and lovely. I suspect it projects poorly, but I have a dabber sample instead of an atomizer, so hard to know. I do not get the play-dough scent others noted. I smell each note and find this to be wonderfully complex and interesting.