Accident À La Vanille - Almond Cake Limited Edition

This is the first Jousset fragrance I have tried, so I can't compare it to the other scents from this line. It does not smell like an almond cake, but also not as bad as some of the reviews say. At least in my opinion! This is not the most sophisticated scent, it's a little too loud and rough and I wouldn't wear it, but I like it in a way, it's fun and tasty. Almond Cake starts out quite fruity. Some reviews say cherry, I thought of a boozy orange at first, but now that I read it, I can also sense cherries. The rest of the scent smells like a mix of bitter almond extract (for baking), amaretto liqueur and amarettini cookies. So, there is a lot of almond in this, it's just not cakey, creamy or very warm like one might expect from an almond perfume. Vanilla makes it a little softer and warmer, but doesn't overtake the scent. The drydown is calmer than the opening, but still surprisingly fruity.

This does not smell like cherry to me. This smells like pure almond extract to my nose. I don't hate it b/c I do love the scent of almond extract, but I would think that most people would not be a fan of this one since it is pretty much one note. for anyone who might be interested, they still sell this at Sealed Essence.

Without the cherry scent this would be a perfect scent to me! It smells like a buttery biscuit and completely edible! I just wish that cherry smell wasn’t there to take away from it.

I don’t get cherry pie or syrupy cherry from this, but I also don’t get almond cake or vanilla from it. All I’m getting is straight amaretto and something weirdly metallic. Don’t get me wrong, I love the scent of amaretto. I sniff it in the bottle just to smell it. But this fragrance wasn’t what I was hoping it would be. I’m glad I only ordered the 2mL sample from Sealed Essence and not the bottle because I don’t believe it’s FB worthy. I’ll layer my sample with Montale Vanilla Cake.

Anyone else get Nibs on their skin? I love the original but I don’t really find any resemblance to this flanker. It smelled like strong almonds or amaretto initially but it dried down into Twizzler nibs mixed with cherry chapstick on my skin. It’s a fun one to try but a sample or a small decant is more than enough. I find this a lot more cloying than the original too. It’s definitely not a safe blind buy.