A Whiff of Wafflecone

TLDR: If you DO NOT like maple syrup you will not like this at all. I am a very known disliker of gourmands- they give me massive headaches and make me nauseous- very specifically in things like air fresheners, scented candles, and random gourmand girlies I have the misfortune of being within 50ft of.... But! I am on a journey to figure out what kind of frags I like, I want to try as many as possible, and it finally came time for me to pick a gourmand.... I'm in love with this. Im floored. I'm crying and screaming. No migraines!? It opens up with an intense wave of almost photorealistic maple syrup- and i dont mean the real stuff, I mean the kind like Mrs Butterworths. That very sweet straight-forward fake maple.... Its great! It makes me hungry lol.... Its so comforting and nostalgic. I can only imagine my first time at a Wafflehouse (those waffles rock btw) or having a big stack of buttery pancakes at my grandma's. Its very very nice... As this frag settles and dries, it very quickly begins opening up- the sweetness calms down, a very cozy blend of sandalwood, vanilla, and spice begins to emerge. Straight maple syrup evolves into a blend of calmer, sweet icecream (but there is maple icecream). The wood is -especially- present. I havent quite smelled anything like it before. It has this effect of being in the lumber section of a hardware store... Hardware store + Sweet icecream?... I personally love this combination. It makes excited to potentially explore other gourmands, and I know what to look for now: Wood!

✍️-🤳 I erased & re-writing my experience,only because it's based off a FB&time with it now verses a sample&being excited,so I enjoy very sweet scents&non sweet scents,im complicated ...however things that I noticed now owning*wearing awhile it has a masculine 🪵 woody vibe I didn't notice with sample&I don't mind it because it's still rich with the carmel &maple,im someone who has been hunting for a fragrance that actually smells like maple 🍁 &this also has maple ,a candle,woody 📝 notes &I absolutely love every freaking second of it,it lasts forever as if you first sprayed on skin until your able to really scrub in shower,yet on clothes after sitting when I went to wash a shirt it smelled like a unique ancient sweet smokey incense only after sitting on clothes awhile hilarious ,I didn't buy this to wear on clothing even tho~ i like both sides of scent or to impress anyone,this and TF tobacco Vanille are the only 2 gourmand fragrances I love& buy forever. Masterpiece of these styles I like this mysterious gourmand out of this style of caramel ~ slight cinnamon spice ~maple woody Vanille scents~best &longest lasting high amped qaulity!¡! Rich&sweet woody~ at least to me&my chemistry ~ maybe that's why I love this its realistic *different & far from main stream 😄 I scream 😱 I love carmel maple 🍁 wood 🪵 waffle 🧇 cream~ probably better than New haarlem by bond no 9~from what I heard that one smells like pancakes&syrup a boring breakfast, at least IA~whiff smells more complex ~deep rich sweet long lasting •♡•

This fragrance is a lot and I can see why it is polarizing, but it is one of my absolute favorites and I reach for it again and again. There is no way around it - this perfume is SWEET. Sticky sweet. Give you a toothache sweet. It is a syrupy fragrance that makes you smell like a stack of pancakes drenched in maple syrup. Many reviewers say they love this in the winter, but I love it mostly as a summer fragrance, though I will wear it year round. It is simply a fun scent and reminds me of summer road trips and late summer nights that turn into early mornings at the diner coming back to life with a stack of pancakes. A little of this goes a long way (I do no more than three sprays) and it will last all day and well into the night. It lingers on clothes until they go in the wash. For what it is worth, this is the perfume in my collection that I have received the most comments/compliments on by far! If I don't wear it for a while, my coworkers will ask me to wear it again. My husband loves it and asks me to wear it on date nights. I will say, I do agree with other commenters that the reformulation was a bit of let down. My first bottle of this had a beautiful vanilla undercurrent that helped anchor it and make it a little more sophisticated. The reformulation has none of that, even though I think the intent was to make it even more vanilla. I still LOVE this perfume, but I do have some hope they go back to the original.

I bought a 2mL sample of this last week, and after wearing it a few separate days I bought a full bottle as soon as I got paid! For starters, it's strong - INSANELY strong. I've been a heavy smoker for a long time, so 98% of fragrances are unperceiveable to me unless I smell my skin. With this fragrance, and only three sprays from a tiny vial, I can smell it for 6-8 hours. If *I* can smell it for that long and for it to still be incredibly loud, I can only imagine what this sugar bomb would be like for others! And sugary it is - this is the most dense yet syrupy scent I've ever encountered, and I've been a gourmand freak for a decade now. It's also really difficult to describe, as one of my friends said it smelled like caramel coffee, but to me it's SO well blended that it's almost impossible to pick out notes. For example, the cinnamon - it's a base foundation for this fragrance but it doesn't smell *like* cinnamon. If anything, it's like a secret recipe, home-made cinnamon syrup infused into the other ingredients. Rich, sweet, but not obnoxious and difficult to place. It's a very complex fragrance considering the few notes it has, but it's a beautiful scent nonetheless. Definitely not for those who want to smell like actual food 😅 Since this is a very niche fragrance there's literally only one stockist in Australia, so it's $200 for a 50mL bottle. But honestly, I'd happily pay double for this absolute masterpiece!

Less like a whiff of wafflecone and more like a full waffle, paired with whipped cream and syrup. On me, this perfume was stronger the day after wearing it, even after a full wash. It sinks right into the skin and stays for a couple days. Surprisingly low amount of sillage that stays within your personal bubble rather than wafting through the room which is appreciated as the sweetness is quite strong. I find that on my skin the sandalwood note is in the opening but not the dry down. The dry down is quite syrupy, a lot of vanilla and cream. Like a stack of waffles. Whereas, my friend said on her skin it was the opposite. Syrupy opening with a sandalwood dry down. It held up quite well when I was visiting Texas this past month, have yet to wear it back home where it's far more humid and colder. I quite like the scent, a really great gourmand fragrance. Likely won't buy a full bottle but a nice travel sized one is definitely in the cards. EDIT: Back home with plenty of humidity and cold. It still holds up nicely but doesn't have as big a projection as before. Lasts just a tiny bit less but still in the 24h range rather than 48h. One of my new faves for when I'm out during the day.