Vanilla Ice Cream

This is BY FAR my favorite demeter fragrance so far. Its all about preference in my opinion but I love Gourmands especially vanilla based ones. This smells exactly like vanilla ice cream 🍦. Its milky vanilla ice cream on top of a sweet wafer cone. This is the kind of ice cream that would come from a nice parlor with kindhearted workers and a nice atmosphere. Its the kind of ice cream that isn't too hard or too soft but you have to eat it fast because its melting! Definitely reminds me of summer though it may be too sweet for the heat. I do get the freezer feeling on initial spray but then it warms up. The freezer isn't nasty or messy either. It the cleanest freezer fully stocked with your favorite ice cream. When you walk in it cools you down from the heat outside. Demeter does simple Gourmands very well I've noticed and this is one of them. Its simple vanilla ice cream. You get what you asked for with the name. I wanna test this out in cold weather because I feel like it would do well. Something in this reminds me of the holidays. I also want vanilla cake batter hopefully they are different enough to keep both! :) lasting power isn't too bad either compared to the rest of demeter fragrances. One thing I noticed though. When people buy demeter fragrances they get upset when a fragrance smells exactly like what its called witch confuses me. When you get this your getting vanilla ice cream. Nothing fancy or high end. Simple good ol vanilla ice cream. :) Edit: the longer it stays on my skin the warmer and more wafer like it gets. Almost like slowly eating the ice cream down to the cone. And the cone is kinda softer because the ice cream is melting. Still really good! Its also long lasting on me.

Extremely buttery and rich! It doesn’t smell like vanilla ice cream per se, but it’s still a really nice vanilla. It’s not that sharp powdered vanilla in most cheap perfumes or candles. It’s like a salted crème brûlée without the burnt sugar. I mix this as a base with spice gourmands and it gives a comforting depth and thickness that I haven’t gotten elsewhere.

Cheap vanilla ice cream on a wafer cone or in a wafer sandwich; it has a toasted, almost burnt vanilla with evaporated powdery milk scent. Reminds me of being a little girl messily eating an ice cream cone in the heat of summer. It’s a sweet familiar scent. 🤍🥛🍦

I reach for this quite a lot just recently! It’s so sweet and I get loads of compliments when I’m wearing it! Somebody even told me once that I “smelt good enough to eat”! Cheap enough to buy to use as an everyday perfume. Great blind buy!

This smells sooo good!!! I feel it smells like caremel popcorn more than Vanilla Ice Cream... It's pretty weak in longevity and sillage... But it's Yummy, so whatever!!

I also smell cotton candy (maybe the sweet note?) and I smell coconut. Not lasting but projects decently.

Warm vanilla cream with sugar, that's what I get from this.

This isn't your expensive, fancy, artisan ice cream with specks of vanilla bean. Nor is it the soft white Mr Whippy cone with a chocolate flake, bought from the local ice cream van. No, what this is, is the tub of yellow "Wall's Golden Vanilla" ice cream that your mum bought in the seventies, lifted out of your deep freezer replete with ice crystals clinging to the surface, and scooped into a ball to fit into a wafer cone. Or perhaps sandwiched as a block between two flat wafers for you on a summer's day, to be eaten wearing sandals, or better yet, barefoot on the grass, before running, shrieking with your friends, through the lawn sprinklers. It's the memory of drips that melted into little sticky yellow puddles on the hot pavement, and the slightly chewy remnants of melted, frozen, and re-melted ice cream, that you spooned from the corners of the tub before throwing it away. Demeter's Vanilla Ice Cream doesn't pretend to be fancy or complex, and it lasts an hour or two perhaps before fading like a memory. But what it is, for this Brit at least, is seventies childhood nostalgia in a bottle.

Have you ever tried Nescafé instant coffee with sugar, evaporated milk in iced water and ice cubes? In my country this coffee is called "Nescafé frappé" and I enjoy it a lot especially during summer. Now this frag has EXACTLY the same smell with this coffee. Unlike Nescafé frappé, this scent is not for summer. It's sweet, very creamy and milky, with coffee in it! Thus, it's most proper for cold winter. It's rather dense for hot weather... I like it a lot! It's very gourmand, very delicious coffee/milky/creamy scent!

i was hoping for a more explicitly colder icy vanilla, which is not really the case with this for me. i wish i interpreted it in that way, like others have. i think it is a melted yellow ice cream. i still really love this scent. there is definitely a baked/burnt sugar note in there, slightly gritty. basically someone won't smell it without knowing the name and go , oh, yep that's vanilla ice cream! but it is a little aquatic and synthetic if you squint

If Demeter's Vanilla Cake Batter is a warm vanilla, their Vanilla Ice Cream is a cool vanilla. I personally like the warmer vanilla more. I do have to say, this is surprisingly authentic - it even has a slight freezer smell! If you want to smell like an ice cream shop, grab this one! ;)

This perfume reminds me of a cold Caramel Vanilla milkshake. It is very good and has no plastic smell to it or anything weird, very straight forward. The only thing is that it is definitely not a long lasting or radiating perfume but I like that the smell is very accurate.

definitely vanilla, but not icecream more like a vanilla biscuit. a bit too sweet even for me who loves gourmands but not bad Edit: cannot stop smelling it so i have bumped it up to a like, still doesnt smell cold to me though

This smells like vanilla, but not particularly cool to my nose. More warm, with a lot of honey to it. I just don't get the ice cream part, though it's a perfectly pleasant vanilla. Not synthetic or harsh at all.

This is straight-up generic vanilla ice cream ...the store brand, the kind that tries for a buttery flavor and ends up being a bit salty. No vanilla bean that I can detect. Still, a fun scent.

There's a wafer note which I swear is just like that rain on pavement scent that I love, but I only notice it on first spritz then its just cold vanilla.

Sweet creamy warm vanilla, not unlike every vanilla scented candle. I gave it to my daughter she says the kids in her class think its cupcake.

The key is not to take this one too seriously... Yes its a short lasting, silly vanilla waffle cone scent, but oh its fun to play with...:) For an experiment...I put this on at work a little before people started taking break times. I did this for 5 consecutive days... There were 9 ice-creams purchased that week! Kid you not. The week before there were 4. The week after I finished there were 5. Yes...I looked like a stalker in the tea-room... Worth it though :) L: Weak S: Moderate Make your workplace your playground hehehehehe

I'm not much into vanilla as a stand alone scent, but Whiff of a wafflecone has been one of my go to scents for the last few months. I wanted this to be like my pairing splash that I could use all willy nilly, but it's just the type of vanilla that gives me a headache at first and then while it does become a lot more likeable upon drydown, but it's without the cool sweetness of ice cream that I hoped for.

Vanillin with a tiny bit of milk and a burnt plastic note. I can't say if the burnt note persists, as the scent is fleeting and only lasts up to an hour on skin. I don't love it.