Vanhera

The opening of this has a very prominent spicy Sichuan pepper note but blended with the aroma of a spicy vanilla marshmallow...yes a spicy marshmallow lol. The spices here blend together in a warm and aromatic way but they feel smooth. The heart of this is sweet and comforting. The cinnamon is softly warm and the cashmere is softly cozy with a powdered sandalwood. The base notes include “timbersilk” not ambrocenide and karmawood for the “dark woodsy notes”. Both are very prominent in making a warm and amber forward powdered musk. I typically don’t enjoy amber heavy scents but this one works, it’s an almost fluffy amber. With an added sweet vanilla it makes for a woody, toasty, powdery vanilla marshmallow type of musk. *I will say this is a tad bit cloying so idk if I’d buy a full bottle of this

I’ve finally found a vanilla fragrance I like, actually love in this case. It’s not sweet, sickly or cloying. Beautifully balanced with the cardamom. The mid and base notes play their roles but the vanilla is never far away. Smells totally “niche” but with a designer price tag. Decent longevity on me, I could smell it faintly the following day, but probably not particularly strong sillage, I’m guessing. I will definitely be buying more from this house!! 8/10

Amazing... A truly intriguing and non-trivial vanilla. Despite the listed notes, the spices in the opening come across as almost cold to my nose. It's a dry, woody, sensual vanilla. Absolutely not the usual sweet vanilla for young girls or cakes. It wraps me in its unique charm and captivates those around me. I wish it would never fade and always surround me with its mystical and incredibly sensual aura. 10/10.

I bought a sample of this from Bloom and within 10 minutes I’d bought a 100ml. I know I’ll wear this forever. The most delicious and warming vanilla and cardamom notes, if you can’t get on with gourmand this isn’t for you! A little goes a LONG way, the projection is good and it’s lasts like crazy. I can’t wait for every single one of my cosy jumpers to smell like this beauty.

I really like this! Its like eating a vanilla icecream in a sauna. I get sandalwood and also a cedar vibe. The vanilla is subtle, but balancing and soften the woody notes. Very similar to This is Him by zadig & voltaire, but vanhera is kinder, super smooth and higher quality. Pretty close to the skin. Performance could have been better. 8/10

To me this is SUPER similar to Minuit et Demi by Fragrance Du Bois - and also Changing Constance (Penhaligon's) and Starlight (Xerjoff). I really don’t think it recembles Eau Duelle very much though. Eau Duelle is more about being a juniper+vanilla where Vanhera is a gourmand-ish cardamom+vanilla.

Possibly by favourite fragrance right now. Yes it’s vanilla but so much more. I love it in the cooler weather. It’s a little gothic, unisex for sure. It’s an underrated house and great value too.

Love. Sexy masculine vanilla. I would definitely buy. Think Lui by Guerlain with its classy use of smoke, spice, and pear meets the decadent vanilla of Tihota.

This is pure amber, vanilla and woods dancing together. It's a masterpiece and it quickly became one of my favorite fragrances.

9/10 . Just amazing . Will definitely discover more perfumes from this brand . Fantastic value for money .

I wrote an IG review where I just said quite a lot about this, usually it's on here I let loose, I hope that's not a trend though because I've been letting my Fragrantica duties slip of late. Anyway... This is an instantly incense infused amber vanilla perfume. I think it's nicely made and there's a fizzy, olibanum in that amber accord in the foreground which smolders (smoke included) briefly in the spicy opening. The vanilla is apparent straight away and could become something I wouldn't enjoy very easily but stays the right side of saccharine. Oh and however put Z&V This is Him down below as a comparator, yes....well done, when it's dried all the way down it does in fact conjure that musky/vanilla/sandalwood/incense of that stellar designer release. Crucially I'll just say that the rest of the time it's not that similar. It's also reminiscent of Antoine Lie works to me, stylistically speaking, but I've learned that it's Luca Maffei who nosed this one, and actually a recent Gallivant I thought was interesting. Do I love this, No. Do I think it's well made/smoothly blended? Certainly. Do I like this brand? I actually do!!! Would I buy this or be excited to wear it again? Not really. If you like that juxtaposition of fizzy and bright resins, warm amber tones, ambroxan and hollow woodiness, sweet but smooth vanillin backdrop, then sure you'd probably love this perfume and you could do much worse that investing in this one. Just not quite for me.

Asweet, creamy almondy vanilla scent that isn't too strong but light- perfect for those who love vanilla but cannot bear the overbearing sweetness of it. and it is also a bit fresh, just a little bit- like the notes state it has fresh spicy notes definitely 9/10- simple yet addicitive. Because it feels like it lacks something then I cannot love it enough so I just like it an overall fragrance but definitely too simple for my nose

a woody smoky and spicy vanilla scent. The opening is great with a prominent cardamom and sichuan pepper notes. As is dries down, a slightly boozy vanilla comes up, along with the woods. It's pretty good for a vanilla lover. Not a huge fan of these vanilla driven scents. Eau Duelle is a better one for me, just because it has a more fresh and spicy element.

Dont expect to get vanilla out of this. It starts off as an amber forward, herbal, almost medicinal note. But then warms up to a woodsy, floraly composition. I even get an olive branch vibe out of this. Its got really good projection and sillage. Dont expect to be wowed by this, but definately expect to be satisfied.

I used to work for MAC, in the late 90s and early 2000s. They had these great perfumes; MV1 (white bottle), MV2 (gold), and MV3 (black). This smells so much like the MV1, which does not seem to appear in the Fragrantica database. Fresh, but vannilic. Green stems and vanilla. Lovely! Easy to wear, casual.

I really like the scent, I wanted to buy it, but I realized that it reminds me a lot of the Lune Feline perfume which I already have, so I didn't buy it. Spicy vanilla special scent

I was expecting vanilla in this scent, but vanilla plays a supporting role from the top to the drydown, only superficially, not as the main scent. Pepper is predominant from the top note, especially the presence of Sichuan pepper, which is present throughout the entire fragrance. It is a stinging pepper. It matches with sandalwood, vanilla and amber in the drydown to create a unique atmosphere, but the sweetness and spice present is not gourmand, this is the realm of Chinese cuisine. Have you ever heard of chinese five-spice blend(Wushanfeng)? From the top to the middle it almost smells like vanilla powder sprinkled on top of that, not sweet. It is the aroma of a Chinese restaurant kitchen. For Westerners, this aroma might be defined as oriental, and it might be spicy and fresh, but for Southeast Asian food culture, it smells as if you have just returned from eating stir-fried vegetables in an authentic Chinese restaurant. After daring to wear the smell of a Chinese restaurant, the dry-down becomes the smell of a temple. This is a consistent "pseudo-Asian" aroma that the West can imagine, and personally, I am tired of tracing a funeral day of eating with relatives during cremation, picking up the bones, and listening to sutra chanting at the temple again. I feel that this scent is perhaps too close to the smell of life in the East.

The first spray is dominated by spices. Cardamom and pepper appear together, bringing a slight sharpness, but there is also a faint sweetness. It is not a sugary sweetness like candy, but the natural warmth of the spices themselves. Personally I like this opening very much, even though I rarely enjoy spicy food. After about ten minutes, the sharpness of the spices begins to soften and the woody notes start to emerge. Sandalwood and cashmere wood become noticeable at this stage, and only then does the main note—vanilla—begin to appear. This vanilla does not resemble dessert-like sweetness. It feels closer to the smell of real vanilla pods, with a slightly bitter edge. Cinnamon can also be detected in the heart, and overall the vanilla feels wrapped inside the woods and spices. The drydown stays quite similar to the heart: woody vanilla with a touch of amber. The ending feels somewhat anticlimactic, without a particularly memorable character, and the longevity is average. Despite the name, this fragrance is not really about vanilla. Structurally it is closer to a spice-and-wood composition, with vanilla acting mainly as a bridge between the materials. Projection is moderate as well.

Vanhera is a very peppery, cardamony, woody, slightly ambery scent. It’s nearly savoury and not quite up to my taste. It’s linear and feels flat on my skin, it doesn’t projects much. I am more a Vanagloria or Kashnoir type of scent wearer. Vanhera is not a bad fragrance, I personally don’t think Laboratorio Olfattivo does bad fragrances, but I am a sweet vanilla fragrance lover! This I would not call a vanilla scent. And it’s not a very appealing scent in my experience. Vanhera has too much Sichuan pepper, pink pepper and it’s heavy on sandalwood, cinnamon and cashmeran. It feels very dry and a bit powdery, dusty. I would conclude that Vanhera is right for people who love a woody, spicy vanilla scent, without any traces of sweetness and that leans powdery. Lasts well with minimal sillage. I noticed that sits closer to the skin than the other vanilla focused scents from Laboratorio Olfattivo. For me it’s just an ok scent, not something that I would like to wear myself. Easy pass.

To the person below who said those who love Apres L'Amour No. 4 would love this... I thoroughly and wholeheartedly am here to prove you wrong. No. 4 (and No. 10 for that matter) is heavenly, ethereal, magical, my faaaavorite. Vanhera is... well... not. I had such high hopes that I would love this house, but so far I've either been indifferent to the fragrances or not enjoyed them. It's boring compared to the likes of superior vanilla/cardamom pairings like Lune Feline and Eau Duelle. The amber/ambrocenide in this is not well done and blended poorly, giving this fragrance a chokingly synthetic chemical overtone. To summarize: Vanilla scented rubbing alcohol. Lasting power is minimal on my skin - it lasted maybe 3 hours at the most and projection is just average. 3/10