Vanilia

L’Artisan Vanilia There are so many discussions about Wedding Day perfumes – about finding the perfect fragrance that honors that special day. Every bride is looking for something classic, refined, elegant, and beautiful. Sadly, I have yet to see any discussions about a honeymoon perfume. I think the perfect honeymoon perfume would honor the magic of the beginning of a love that lasts a lifetime with its own special fragrant blessing. It would invoke the memories of intimate days walking hand in hand on an exotic beach planning the rest of your lives together. It would have to be WARM to represent a warm happy life together. It would have to be SIMPLE and BEAUTIFUL to represent the gift of love that can weather all things. It would have to be SEXY to always keep the fires burning. It would have to be INTRIGUING to represent the changes to come. It would have to be LUSH to represent the hope of a prosperous life. It would have to be MYSTERIOUS for the courage to explore the dark times when they come. It would have to be FEMININE to showcase the gift of your body, mind, and heart to your beloved. This perfume is all this and more. The ylang-ylang, sandalwood, and smoky vanilla immediately transported me to an intimate, sexy, exotic beach wearing the pink shades of a new love. What a pity this is no longer being produced, but just like a precious love, I am going to savor this bottle until the last drop. Thank you, L’Artisan, for honoring the honeymoon phase with this masterpiece.

I'm loving this perfume ! I finally got it after a long time of searching. I previously had Havana Vanille from L'artisan and it was ok but little bit too rum and cigar filled for my liking. This scent starts out old school in the beginning - strong scent of ylang and amber. It reminds me of Vanisia by Creed. In 30 minutes the scent morphs into one of the most beautiful vanillas known to man. In the base there's a little bit of sandalwood and lots of pure vanilla bean. Amber is not so strong in the end. I sense some tonka bean sweetness in the drydown too but it might be just a secret ingredient. This scent is sweet but not in a sugary way. Really elegant and fabulous. I would wear this for any occasion. Maybe not the best scent for summer. But lovely any other time of the year! I don't see this as linear scent. Havana Vanille had way too much going on compared to Vanilia. This scent really has 3 stages like many older perfumes. Sillage is big in the beginning but in the drydown it's like a different perfume because the sillage is soft. 10/10

actually not quite a vanilla, I find! more a sweet neroli. this might sound a little crazy... I mixed macerat of gardenia des incas (tripodanthus acutifolius) and monoi (tiaré), plus quite a few drops of neroli oil, a drop of sandalwood, very few drops of vanilla absolute and coco extract....just accidentally in this combination.. And although the real juice in the bottle is for sure different, a complex mixture of malty-vanillic syntheticals and Neroli, this was so close to the perfume that it gave me that extreme flash of a scent that you recognize and didn't smell for a long time. I have still a full bottle of Vanilia and couldn't resist to open it to compare...haha not the worst accident:-)

Vanilia is in my opinion the best vanillic perfume that I've ever smelled. Timeless, simple, comforting, colorful and possessing not a single off-note. But that's not the point of this review... Today i visited the L'Artisan Parfumeur website to restock my collection. I have found Mure et Musc (probably reformulated for the 11th time) and Premier Figuier. Both brilliant but... there was no sign of either Vanilia, Dzing, Timbuktu or Dzongkha! I still have some juice left in my bottles (except for Vanilia...) so I'll archive them but it shouldn't be like that. Note to the once great brand of L'Artisan Parfumeur: soon there will be no reason to buy anything from your stores.

Lucky to find a bottle of this, and it is as Luca says, a fun scent, very well put together, an hour into the drydown a lift happens like champagne bubbles sparkling in the scent, which is a clever thing. You have to approach it as if the last 10 years of vanillas hadn't happened, as we've all had vanillas up the wazoo in every possible combination since Vanilia was sold. We've had Indecence, Grain de Soleil, Casmir, all the CSP scents, everything from Santa Maria Novella to DSH Marzipan and all the niches, AND YET Vanilia still stands up, the recipe is perfect and stable, the experience is light, happy and sweet. What a treat xx