Vanilla2

Edit (after a full bottle): I have to say this is my Ultimate Vanilla fragrance! "Game over" guys! :D (Ofcourse no!) But sill. Sugary, yummyness! Compared to Vanilla28, if they say that one is a "bakeing vanilla sugar" than they are lieing becouse this is the purest bakeing vanilla ever!!! In my sample I didn't get the vanilla flower but in my bottle I can smell it for a few minits, but it's realy not bad compared to Vanille de Tahiti which was a big no for me! Actualy I compared my sample with my bottle juice and I think my bottle is stronger than my sample. (Maybe there is realy a thing about plastic decants wont do for long terms! So don't expect your sample to stay the same if they are in a plastic container! There is a chemical reason for this!) But returning the sillage: yesterday I was wearing it and my friend husband come down on the stairs and I wasn't even in the hall and he already could smell vanilla fragrance in the air. :D. And he asked "what did you bring? It's smells delicious!" And about longevity: I applied it around 8:00, and the compliment was around 14:00. And he judt smelled my sent trail. :D Can we say this fragrance is eternal? Becouse I don't want to say "beastmode" becouse it doesn't fitt to a kinde vanilla fragrance, I think. :) ----‐------------------------- I receved a sample of this fragrance and it's a realy good vanilla fragrance!!! It's on my wish list now becouse it has that real sugary vanilla flavor deep down in the fragrance base! Lovely!!! Besides the vanilla, It has a side note that I can't describe it well, maybe it's the benzoin (but I don't know becouse I never smelled the raw material), or a slightly soft feminin ambery side note. I need to test it a little more to describe it better. I will update it. :) But I'm sure I love it!

OMG this smells delicious! It smells like freshly cooked candied pecans, aka, pralines. Most praline recipes have a significant amount of vanilla in them, and I love them, so the scent makes sense to me. It doesn’t smell much like vanilla but I don’t care!! The praline scent comes through right at the beginning along with vanilla. At first the two scents dance around each other, then they settle down together and it smells delicious. This doesn’t smell so much like cake or candy as the smell of actually making candy. I like sweet scents, but I’m not a serious gourmand lover. I really dislike most cake, cookie, or batter scents, because they smell both fake and juvenile. So this was not at all what I was looking for, but I love it. Notably, it does not smell cheap to me. There is a very synthetic sweet (and eventually slightly bitter or acrid) smell that emerges for me in most vanilla food scents, and Vanilla2 does not have it. I kept expecting it to turn that way, but it didn’t. That could be what the benzoin is doing. Benzoin can have a slightly vanilla character, although it isn’t usually used that way. The benzoin at the base of the scent does not show up right away and it is subtle. That may be the unexpected scent that throws some reviewers off. The benzoin makes the scent feel wearable, as opposed to something I just want my environment to smell like. That hint of resin makes want to try layering it with something resinous or woody. I’ll edit after I try that out.

To my nose this smells like white chocolate or like Oreo cookies - in fact one of my favourite (Vanille West Indies being my #1)! In the initial spray I get a not so pleasant plastic strawberry doll head scent however the magic really happens in the dry down - your scent bubble is just smooth, warm, soft white chocolate. This is a fragrance that I would recommend to test on your body vs a tester strip. You have to experience this fragrance to truly see its yumminess. Its projection and sillage is warm and soft but most definitely recognizable; like a warm hug. Lasts on my skin for 4-5 hours. In the dry down it’s in the same wheelhouse as Mazzolari Vaniglia, VWI, Choco Musk, Outremer Vanille and Solinotes Vanille. I own so many vanilla fragrances and decided to purchase this one because I really enjoy this scent profile and it works well on my skin. Definitely test before buying since it is not a safe blind buy due to the plastic strawberry scent in the initial blast.

As indicated by the name, a fairly pure vanilla scent. Warm and ambery with an almost smoky sort of undertone from the resinous benzoin and slightly nutty, brown sugared praline. Very reminiscent of Grand Soir but less dense. Not as creamy as GS, though more creamy than one might expect by the presence of "powdery notes." Moderately strong projection for 4-5hr, longevity 10-12hr. The benzoin here doesn't go sour on my skin like it does in Grand Soir and many other fragrances with it. This might be my favorite "pure" vanilla. While I'm not sure I'm ready to give up my Royal Crown Sultan with its little smoky and spicy accents, I'm tempted to trade it in and pocket the cash difference nonetheless. Despite the incredible price difference with most of them, Vanilla2 competes with all the other vanilla heavy hitters on the market. I'll take this one over Tihota, Vanille Reve, Vanille West Indies, and anything else you put it up against.

Maison Tahite Vanilla2 (stylized as Vanilla squared, with 2 as a superscript) is a rich vanilla that incorporates sugary sweet aspects (a note of praline), resins (benzoin, namely), and a floral/powdery side. Despite the name, it does not smell classically vanilla-centric, but rather more of a vanilla/benzoin blend with powdery touches on the side. It’s sweet, a bit sugary/syrupy, and is inviting, rather than overwhelming, though it is quite opulent and dense, at least to me. It reminds me mostly, off the top of my head, of Kyse Perfumes Bonbons a la Vanille. It’s easily my favorite of the vanilla-named fragrances from this house, right up there with Coffee Bomb and Vicious Cacao, my other two favorites of the house so far. Like the rest of the line, Vanilla2 is priced at $120 for 100ml in EDP concentration, sold by Luckyscent (where I bought my sample sets) and other boutiques, and this fragrance performs very well. 8 out of 10