Eternal Vanille

I just got it today and this fragrance has been on my radar since i’ve first heard about it in october or such last year. Been waiting and waiting to be available in the UK, google searched it literally every day for a month now to see where i can get it from fast. Today i got it. With a broken cap and nozzle as someone mentioned below too. It was not a massive problem as i managed to make it work just fine. I was very curious after reading and watching all the very ambivalent reviews about it and hoped it won’t be a disappointment.. As the cap was misaligned, the fragrance has been sprayed/spilled onto the box somehow and when i opened it i smelt woods and vanilla. I thought OK, this might be actually a good blind buy. But when i actually managed to spray it, all I smelt was smokey, woodsy tones. Strong and woody. Kinda reminded me of Fireplace at first sniff, so I understand why people think it’s similar. I’m 8 hours in now and still smell the Fireplace resemblance. I also have Ameer al Oud and that’s way sweeter smokey, woodsey. The thing is, spraying it smelt different than that faint smell in the box. So I need to let it sit for a few days and come back to it. They say travel does not do good for freshly made fragrances so i get back to it in a week or so. This happened with my Nebras Elixir too. When i got it as soon as it was available, i barely smelt it, it was a very faint mess of a scent. But some lemony stuff has stayed on fabrics after i spayed it and I clearly smelt that returning in the room later, even though the fragrance was very faint at first; so I though it needs maceration and it will be better. Weeks later it become the fragrance it should be, a skin scent but a well blended and long lasting one with delicious notes. Also my Noble Blush has changed massively in a week or so too. Originally it smelt like some Guidance inspo, then it became the fragrance it was meant to be. So from smelling that leakage in the box, I think this fragrance will come together as well in a week or two, as it seems like all freshly made perfume I bought needed to sit to reach it’s potential. It’s a shame though that they only came out with this in February after teasing us for 4 months as from my experience, it is a Winter and cold weather fragrance and winter is almost over in the UK. I’d preferred it to come out when I first heard about it, then I could have had 3 months to wear :/ UPDATE! 25/02 LOVE LOVE LOVE! Woodsy, smokey, rich and sexy fragrance. Opening is very spicy,like saffrony even it doesn’t have saffron in it. I don’t detect the blackberry but it’s rich and gets better the more it sits on my skin.Very addictive somehow!!! Get compliments every time I wear it! My fav sexy fragrances for reference: Teriaq Intense, Eternal Vanille, Vanilla 28, Amberythme, Ana Abiyedh Scarlet, Arabians Tonka, Babycat

Disclaimer – if you’re expecting a vanilla-forward fragrance, this isn’t it... This is the second release by Jordi Fernández for Lattafa using the new Givaudan / Lattafa Cocoa Pulse captive. The first was Musamam Black Intense — a rich, chocolatey yet masculine-leaning scent that’s unique for that very reason... creamy chocolate, yet somehow unmistakably masculine. Where Musamam Black Intense opens with a challenging, almost resinous accord before white florals soften the blow and the chocolate slowly becomes the star of the show, Eternal Vanille does the opposite. Eternal Vanille opens with a very subtle blackberry and chocolatey richness. The vanilla caviar is present, but it adds depth to the chocolate rather than taking centre stage. The woods and smokiness kick in quite quickly and that chocolatey richness begins to take more of a back seat, but still adding warmth to the smoke, cedar, tonka and subtle woody nuances that gradually take control. Niche snobs will hate this next part... I don’t care. Eternal Vanille reminds me of Oud Cadenza with a smokiness and woodiness that works wonderfully well. For me, this feels extrait-Crivelli-esque, just with the intensity dialled down. And with that intensity reduced compared to Crivelli extraits, it becomes more versatile and wearable on a regular basis. Whilst I personally prefer Musamam Black Intense, it must be said that they are very different in approach. In my review of Musamam Black Intense, I said it was Lattafa stepping into niche territory while retaining mass appeal. Eternal Vanille Intense is niche. It’s polarising. It’s not for noses that lean toward easy, safe fragrances. Regardless of whether you like it or not, Lattafa deserve respect for what they’re attempting here ... giving their customers a glimpse into something more niche, carrying similarities to prohibitively expensive fragrances, yet still having enough individual character to stand on its own rather than simply being a dupe.

This was a blind buy after hearing about it repeatedly on social media. I was expecting something FAR more vanilla forward. If I try really, really hard I can smell a little vanilla. I mainly smell oud and SO MUCH akigalawood mixed with a little motor oil. I’m sensing a weird trend for me. Such as, I really enjoy Angel Nova but limit my wear of it, because I smell so much of the akigalawood that I worry it’s overbearing to others. I’m beginning to wonder if I’m just hypersensitive to akigalawood even though I like it. I like this okay, but I don’t know that I will ever wear it. The bottle is beautiful, but I basically just paid $50 for a scent I likely won’t wear. It’s simply too harsh for me. I’m going to let it mascerate and see if it helps. I think this is a nice woodsy, oud, slightly vanilla scent for men. It doesn’t even begin to lean feminine IMO. I would not recommend this as a blind buy, especially if you are looking for a vanilla forward scent. MAJOR EDIT: I originally sprayed on a paper towel and fast forward to the next day, and it smells AMAZING. It finally smells like a spicy vanilla. It still leans extremely masculine, but I would love to smell this on a man. And the scent is truly eternal. Going on 24 hours now.

Upon the first spray, I was met with a startling note of motor oil 🤷🏽 entirely unexpected. However, after about ten minutes, the fragrance began to evolve, revealing glimpses of berries, benzoin, and a heavy dose of tonka. I'm convinced that after a few weeks or months of maturation, this perfume will be truly stunning! As I am on my second bottle of Cocoa Morado 💜 I'd currently describe the two as distant relatives. Perhaps cousins twice removed, haha. If you appreciate the specific DNA of Cocoa, but require something less heavy/thick for the spring and summer months (and would like to have something that smells different), Eternal Vanille is an ideal alternative. At least, that is my impression thus far ... I'll provide an update once the scent has matured, but it is already a definite repurchase for me. ✨ Silky Woods served as my signature scent for several years. Aside from a shared woodiness in Eternal Vanille, I can discern no further resemblance; to my nose, they are vastly different.

When I first sprayed this, the BlackBerry disappeared in a millisecond into this rich dark chocolate, and then right after that, you get the creaminess of like Cocoa butter, and that stays with you throughout the whole ride of this fragrance. And then, sometime in 20 minutes, you get a spiciness like pink pepper or some sort of pepper. That kind of makes me think of Mexican chocolate without the cinnamon, and I cannot place this as a banilla. I get the creaminess, which i'm assuming is from the vanilla caviar, but this is not a vanilla perfume.This is hundred percent, a chocolate perfume. It fact its like a sibling to Guerlain Gourmand Coquin. Please understand that it's not a dupe for the Guerlain, but it is a sibling to it based off the smell that I'm getting from this perfume. The chemistry is different but similarities are there. It is not a dupe but they exist as a close relative. Thats all im saying