Intense Vanilla

A powdery, soft, creamy, persistent, very intense vanilla. A delight for lovers of this note. Super recommended! I love layering with Gelsomino Bianco (also by Cantelli).

So, this is a rather strange one. I'm not sure I would label this "Intense Vanilla" because on my skin, the fragrance is anything but intense, albeit vanilla, tonka, or anything else. The opening is pleasant enough with an ethereal, sheer, veil of pleasant vanilla fragrance. The opening is actually enjoyable, quite promising and very pretty. However, within 30-60 seconds, a rather strong, almost harsh lemon note emerges, which unfortunately overtakes the pleasant vanilla opening accord. Fortunately, the lemon-citrus note dissipates about as quickly as it emerges. Within 5-10 minutes, the perfume lands with pleasant, woody, base notes but also a very sour and kinda unpleasant note. My experience tells me the weak, "sour-ish" note I'm experiencing in drydown is coconut. Gosh, how I DISLIKE coconut in fragrances. Powdery, ethereal, feminine, almost aquatic, slightly lactonic coconut vanilla fragrance. I might be able to like it if it were not for the off-putting coconut note. Will give this some time. Not certain it is for me, not sure it's full bottle worthy. Glad I only purchased a sizable decant.

On my skin this starts a bit masculine, vanilla with a lot of patchouli, lemon and a bit of cinnamon. As it dries down it becomes softer, more vanilla and less patchouli. Lemon stays in the background adding some freshness. It is definitely not a very sweet vanilla, and in the end it is very unisex. I like it 😊

This on my skin is very woody, I get whiff of slight coconut and vanilla however I use it to layer with perfumes that are a little weak cause this brings a pzaz of wood. Not what I expected of "intense vanilla" but I make it work.

Lemon, vanilla, tonka, and strawberry. Not intense. The top is weird, too much going on and something off key, but ride out the first few minutes and the remainder is a soft fruity vanilla.