Vanille Monoi

I agree with you totally Adice! It’s a beautiful fragrance!

I prefer Comptoir Sud Pacifique's Vanille Coco because it's sweeter. This is more clean and I disagree with the previous review that it smells like coconut cream pie; I do not get that at all. It's sweet and clean and will remind you of lazing on a beach in the Caribbean with a "coco loco" in your hand :)

Les Senteurs Gourmandes VANILLE MONOI is by far the most coconuty of the various Tahitian monoi-inspired fragrances that I've tried. The tiare here is really overwhelmed by the sweet coconut and vanilla, bringing this edp too close to suntan lotion for my nose. I do so love to ingest coconut, in all its many forms: coconut macaroons, coconut water, coconut milk, coconut ice cream, Mounds and Almond joy, Thai soup and curry--you get the picture: I'm basically an omnicoconutvore. For all X, if X is a food or beverage with coconut as a major ingredient, then I love X. However, smelling like a coconut cream pie is not really something I desire, so VANILLE MONOI is not for me. For those who crave coconut frags and find the tiare of most monoi scents too strong, VANILLE MONOI might work. The drydown is quite nice: lightly floral, and adorned rather than dominated by coconut and vanilla. But it does take a while for the initial coconut festival to subside--too long for this nose to wait. The longevity and sillage of this edp are great.

On me - and on my Mom - this was a SCRUB!! I liked the smell of it at first in the air, could pick out the vanilla and the monoi, but once it got on my skin, it smelled like burned plastic and had a cloying quality that was not nice at all. I thought I'd give it a chance and left it on for a while to see how it would dry down, but the scent never changed, unfortunately. I was sad because I'd expected a lot of this but it was a total miss.

From the bottle vanilla monoi smells quite tropical and nice, makes you want to try it on your skin... And that is probably the biggest mistake one can make. It instantly turns into a gross plastic smell, which indeed, I agree with hya_philomena, one wants to scrub off! Total disappointment, since it would be a delight to encounter a quality tropical monoi-flower in a perfume....

Made me find the shortest way from the M&S fragrance shelves to their bathroom... dash.. scrub off quickly. It smelled great from the sprayer nozzle but once it hit my skin I realized this is as artificial as it could get. Not even gourmand...it reminded of some car perfume or room spray or candle.

Like others said, this one is a miss. Plastic-y, overpowering, awful really. Had to scrub it off.

I read the reviews here after blind buying this one online and I'm really surprised how negative they are. This is sweet, dry, powdery and mildly floral but primarily a coconut scent. I do think it gives off the slightest suntan lotion vibe but smells sweeter than any suntan lotion I've ever used. Pleasant to my nose - no chemical or plastic notes in my opinion. I suppose those notes could be there and I'm just anosmic or something. So far I like it. I wore it yesterday in 90+ degree weather and didn't find it cloying - but I see potential for that if applied too liberally in hot humid weather. I really like powdery scents even in the summer. I live in an arid climate - so even when it's really hot here it's never humid.

Everything they say is true, it has a plastic vibe and car freshener notes, but still I love this stuff. Sweet tropical, coconut, vanilla make you feel like you are on the beach. It lasts a long time and doesn’t turn foul after a long day.