Vanille Abricot

This scent is so yummy, but also richer and deeper than any less-expensive gourmand perfumes. I first bought this around 2005, as a broke high schooler. I had smelled it at the mall multiple times before I purchased, and I just had to have it. It was the only nice perfume I owned at the time, so you know it was irresistible! I bought another bottle in early 2020 (it’s now glass instead of metal) and I personally think the juice in the glass bottle is just the same as the old version. Still yummy and addictive. It’s a bit of a changeling no matter which bottle you have. Sometimes you smell like sweet peaches. Sometimes you smell like sugary sweet whipped cream with only the barest touch of apricot. Sometimes you smell exactly, and I mean exactly, like Oreos. A freshly opened package of Oreos. I am totally pleased to smell like an Oreo when this perfume decides to take me that direction, haha. If that would bother you, then this is not the scent for you. It’s definitely a bit juvenile, but you love what you love. I think I’ll still be using this one decades from now.

zenbabylove, you have saved me from the brink of insanity. I recently purchased a bottle of this after sampling and loving the test bottle (which was considerably older than the ones for sale, and smelled just like vanilla apricot ice cream with powdered sugar and vanilla angel food cake), only to get my brand new bottle home and find to my extreme dismay that the first spray revealed vaguely sweetish NOTHING. This juice has been SO watered down in its most recent formulation it plays tricks with your head. I blamed myself after a generous spraying and thought I had become anosmic, but in the end I decided it was the reformulation that was to blame. I threw my bottle away because the employees at the store said I could not return my purchase. It wasn't even good enough to swap. Thank you zenbabylove! I owe you one. The reformulation blues are painful indeed. The newest bottles are glass, with blue rectangular stickers for labels, that you can peel off with your nails.

This perfume is so yummy! When I first spray it, it's a lovely clash between sweet and sour. It brings to mind instantly Sweet Tarts and Sour Patch Kids. I imagine something candy, chewy, fruity, and rolled in sugar. After a while, it becomes a warm, apricot cake. The apricot and sugar stand out most to me, but the other notes somehow meld to make the scent so realistic, and there's nothing sharp or synthetic about it--unless you find the scent of candy in general synthetic. You have to like sweet in order to like this perfume. If you love Flowerbomb, La Vie Est Belle, Pink Sugar, or Pour Femme by D&G, and you aren't afraid of going sweeter without a flower in sight, you may just love Vanille Abricot. If you love Fresh Cream by Philosophy, Prada Candy, Pure Vanilla by La Vanilla, and the like, this might just be a perfect new sugar fix for you! I absolutely love it and it will forever have a place in my collection. :)

I've tried really hard to not like this perfume, but I digress--it makes me feel happy! It definitely isn't something to take so seriously, since it's pretty much 100% liquid fun. Very cute, but linear scent. CSP Vanille Abricot opens up with Skittles + waxy vanilla candle (yes, it smells exactly like the ones you can buy at IKEA). It doesn't really deviate much from that except the vanilla gets warmer and more full-bodied; it's thick and rich, but not suffocating. It smells like a mixture of either vanilla extract or cake + orange-coloured fruits (or Skittles). Smells completely delicious and edible. This should be a staple for any gourmand lover out there. It's sweet, but nowhere near the likes of Pink Sugar, which is another gourmand perfume that is in the same subcategory as CSP Vanille Abricot. If you like Pink Sugar, you'd most definitely like this. Sillage is poor however, but it does last quite awhile.

Very unique smelling to me. But also familiar. It's very sweet, it smells almost nectar-y syrupy. It has some of the sweet notes that pink sugar or the fantasy britney spears perfume has but smells very different. There is an apricot element - it smells like very sweet apricot jelly. It also reminds me of those little sugar cookies you buy in a vending machine that have some jam in the middle, in this case apricot. I just realized that and I think its the best comparison. It smells divine honestly. There is no offensive smell, zero alcohol smell, no spiciness, its extremely tame and a crowd pleaser I'm sure. It doesnt really smell like vanilla to me. It's a light smell that definitely isnt heavy. It isnt so sweet that it gives you a headache. I would definitely re-purchase this if I ran out. Please get this. Just please.

The loveliest of vanilla perfumes, in my humble opinion. I searched for years to find MY new vanilla (after body shop original vanilla disappeared) and I found it with Vanille Abricot. Comptoir Sud Pacifique has one of the most complete and varied lines of vanilla perfumes, I’ve come across. I love most of them, honestly. Vanille Abricot may be the simplest of the bunch but I find it very wearable and absolutely my most complimented (& requested) perfume. Men seem to adore this perfume. This really shines in the summer! I wear it all year, but it blooms in the most beautiful way in warmer weather. I notice the apricot note more often in the summer months. I also find this to be one of my most comforting scents and I often spray it when I am feeling sad or anxious.

Beautiful fragrance but unfortunately the apricot ingredient doesn’t last very long on my skin’s chemistry but my dry down is almost leaning towards a coconut base. My partner loves this one on me and I love wearing it when the weather is warm. This is not as sickly as I thought it might be and it’s quite a mature sweet scent on me. I can get away with wearing it during the day and at night but it’s a wee bit expensive here in New Zealand so it’s not something I can buy all the time. Still I would probably repurchase it when I run out as I have been wearing it at least twice a week sometimes since I purchased it this summer. The bottle itself is not fancy but is superbly made and crafted. It’s heavy and the box is also well made and designed.

I love this. The apricot starts off sweet, sour and a little bitter. But the real charm of this fragrance is the vanilla sugar drydown. Sugary sweet and vanillic, they weren’t kidding when they said sugar is one of the notes. It smells like I took a bath in vanilla sugar and left the sugar granules on my skin to melt. The main biggest reason I love this? My children love smelling it on me. They say I smell like milkshakes and ice cream and candy. Both of them would cuddle up to me and inhale the perfume deeply. I only bought a 10ml travel spray of this but would definitely be getting a larger size. I tried layering this under other sweet perfumes I have and my goodness...

I bought my first bottle of CSP Vanille Abricot 12 years ago in Paris. Since that time I have finished off several of the old style aluminum bottles. Today I received, as a gift from my BFF, a fresh new glass bottle of Vanille Abricot. The first spritz made me sad. This has been reformulated. It starts off with a very harsh opening of Skittles. Skittles! Why? The good news is that the Skittles fade away quickly, then the old friendly floating island of vanilla and apricot reappears. Yes it's desserty and sweet, but much less than Pink Sugar. It's not sexy, not sophisticated, but is very cozy and happy. The longevity is above average.

I got this as a sample in the late 90s. Oh so fun, so sweet, so intoxicating, and SO JEUNE FILLE!! I was already too old to wear this. That said, I would put it on if I wasn't going to go anywhere, especially work. LOVED IT, but when it ran out, I thought hard about ordering more. I realized it was a guilty pleasure, and not really me. They had a sister fragrance, Eau de The', which they stopped making, and THAT was unique. I still have a bottle of it, but it smells as old as it is, and I won't wear it. I have been chasing that scent every since. Amazing how unique a few notes can be.

THIS IS A VERY SWEET SCENT! hahaha, i am a sucker for smells like that so i must say i love it. It lasts pretty long, and people have commented on me smelling like sweet vanilla after i have hugged them. One of my male coworkers said that ,, i hate your perfume, it makes me want to eat cupcakes all the time" so do with that what u will. I can smell the apricot but it is in noway a fruity scent, you will just walk around and smell like a pastry. Lasts a lot longer on clothes than skin, so i just spray it on my jackets and dresses before going out rather than neck.

CSP were so ahead of their time imo. If these freshly dropped like 3-4 years ago (like before SDJ) and had better social media marketing the gourmand community would have lost their minds! For a long time, these and Angel were the only really easily accessible gourmand fragrances. The longevity kinda sucks ngl (i wish they'd improve on that) Ofc its sweet lol, its literally Vanilla, Sugar, apricot and jackfruit. I'll always love Vanille Abricot and I love it even more layered under Phlur's Vanilla Nectar, they play together BEAUTIFULLY 😍

I LOVE this scent. It’s a long lasting, wear all day kind of perfume but not too heavy. It’s wonderful, I just wish it was cheaper. It’s already really hard to get your hands on since of its popularity. Let alone the amount of money it takes to buy it. I got it as a sample and I've been trying to get a full size ever since. It’s really sweet which I enjoy a lot. The vanilla and peach are the strongest notes which make it a rich delicious scent to wear during the summer. It smells like a peach cupcake, but more grown up.

They do this one so well, it's their best seller in the U.S. for a reason. Based on the ingredients, you'd think it would smell like a jolly rancher candy, but it doesn't, it somehow manages to smell like true vanilla bean, but juicy too, like biting into a fresh apricot. Good stuff. A late 90's, early 2000's fave of celebs like Nicole Kidman. It's certainly no longer a fresh concept, and like the Fred Segal store that sold it, it's defunct, but it was so popular for a reason. I still recommend it.

I really love this one. Nice tart Apricot in the beginning, then a sweet and creamy vanilla. In the drydown I smell apricot again and it is yummy. I guess because I wear and love lots of gourmands this isn't as sweet to me as it appears to be to others. It's sweet, but the fruit cuts the sweetness quite a bit. I also love how long it lasts on me....over 8 hours after application I can still smell it! No projection, though, so it works well for me at work. Very lovely and happy scent. I'm addicted.

This is a fun, casual scent. I wish the apricot scent lasted a bit longer, but the price is low and one can respray at will! It's less synthetic than many low priced vanilla scents, which I can't tolerate. This is, along with the blackberry version, my favorite lower priced scents. Funny, aside from Prada Candy, I don't like the other "People who like this" scents. I despise Pink Sugar (Smells like patchouli plastic fake vanilla yuck).Alien and Hypnotic Poison are okay but not my loves.

this smells wonderful!, reminds me of my childhood in a way. i will say though it is a little pricey and it's a skin scent but i love it nonetheless update 2024: so I still really enjoy the scent especially now that the juice has darkened and developed more but I wont be repurchasing because the scent is nothing special. there are a lot of vanilla perfumes that dupe or even smell better then this for cheaper but I will enjoy the bottle I have but I would say save your money

Such a yummy cotton candy scent. When I sampled this, the sillage was extremely weak, but once I got a larger bottle I realized how much of a powerhouse this was. I’ve had the 1 oz / 30 ml size for almost 3 years and I’m about halfway done. Great going-out scent, summer scent, and layering scent for more tart fragrances as well. If you like the profile and longevity of scents like Pink Sugar but hate licorice, this would be a great alternative. You will get compliments!

Ok so this is actually really really pretty. I have had this on all day after moisturizing really well and it lasted for the last 7 hours and still is there. It goes through cycles; it begins with a candied apricot and vanilla, then the vanilla becomes more prominent and cloudlike, while the apricot becomes more juicy. It wears really well in the heat and just blossoms. It is similar to Montale Sweet Vanilla, but S.V is the Seductive winter version vs the day version.

I consider this a classic in the gourmand category. I only had the body cream years ago, and it was fantastic stuff that managed to smell exactly like the perfume (very strongly) in a richer form. I loved it when I was in the mood for something very sweet. It's like creamy apricot cake. In the 90's this was mentioned in beauty magazines quite often. I bought a bottle for the nostalgia. I will say it's much lighter than it used to be. At least to my nose.