Fresh Vanilla Lemon

I have been wearing this fragrance for about 8 years now. This is one my favorites for two reasons: 1) It is a lovely woody-lemon scent 2) it evokes the biggest memory response for me. Let me explain... We’d visit family in New Hampshire and Maine sometimes during the summer, at their campgrounds. In middle school, we moved to New Hampshire and I have spent the past 30 years hiking and camping in the New Hampshire and Maine woods. This scent brings me back the moment I smell it. It doesn’t smell super sweet to me, I get none of the lemon baked goods that others describe. I get warm pine needs and soft lemon sweetness. If you’ve ever been in a pine forest, or a campground with a ton of high pine trees, and the ground covered with dried brown pine needles - you know that on dry, hot days you can catch their hot, sweet, and woody scent in the air. That is exactly what this fragrance does for me. This is a 10/10 in my book.

Love this. Smells like delicious creamy lemon meringue. Very bright and tart lemon at first, but not overbearing. Around 30 mins later on the drydown a soft vanilla comes out and the lemon fades away. Even a few hours later it has a slight sweet vanilla scent, but not like the deeper vanilla scent you get with Vanilla Coconut, Vanilla Summer or Vanilla Passionfruit. The lemon seems to brighten up the leftover vanilla scent. It is the shortest lasting of all the Lavanila fragrances, after around 2.5 hours I had a hard time discerning any scent at all. It's nice while it lasts though. It is remarkably similar to DKNY Sweet Delicious Creamy Meringue, which is more of a brighter lemon with a creamy base. It seems to last a tad longer and it truly smells like creamy lemon until it fades away around 5 hours later.. (now sold at Kohl's)

Fresh Vanilla Lemon smells just like a combination of Pillsbury/Duncan Hines/Betty Crocker rich, creamy lemon frosting supreme. I make these specialty sugar cookies with a crunchy brown sugar layer at the bottom, (vanilla) sugar cookie in the middle and then topped with lemon frosting. Lavanila Laboratories has captured this perfectly in a mouth-watering, super delicious perfume. Yes, it's a skin-scent, yes, it wears close to the skin, no, it doesn't project like a megaphone with a blue-light special, but it does create a yummy little personal space just perfect for self care and fun for one. And if anyone happens to snuggle in close, they are definitely going to want a nibble. (It's so cheap, get the rollerball version, tuck it in your purse and just dare the summer to melt it off your skin.)

I will add my review on this scent that really seems to depend on your skin chemistry and how this fragrance smells. :) On me this starts off with a nice fresh lemon and sweet fruity scent. It dries down fairly quickly on me. In the first few hours it smells more like a lemon tart to me but after that it is all a yummy fluffy vanilla lemon cake on me! I love gourmand scents so for me this is a winner! It lasts about 10 to 12 hours on me and can be smelled by people walking by me. I love it! I have smelled D&G Light Blue MANY times and on me it does not work. It almost has a sporty masculine scent on me. So there is no similarity in these two scents on my skin. I know on some people it does. I did blind buy this, but I really suggest you try it on your skin before you purchase it.

A beautiful lemon-vanilla scent. It's very simple and sweet. The vanilla keeps it a warmer sort of scent, while the lemons sort of spice it up a little and give it a nice fresh kick. It can work in either summer or winter, but on me I prefer cooler months for vanillas. I can't love this one though, even though the scent is so nice. Out of the Lavanilas I've tried this one has the weakest longevity - about an hour to two.