Vanilla Powder

I blind bought a full sized 3.4 oz bottle, totally crazy I know lol but something came over me when I got a good deal on it and I hit purchase. Happy to report I love it! Tried directly on my skin. It starts off as a clean, cotton-y vanilla coconut smell. The vanilla is very much in the background to the other notes in this. At first smells like clean crisp white linens that someone sprayed some high quality expensive cologne on lol. The musks are pretty strong and it leans almost soapy. It's totally not how I imagined at all, I pictured something dark, sultry and smoky like Diptyque Eau Duelle EDP. The vanilla in this isn't super prominent like it is in for example Eau Duelle. It's even more airy than Eau Duelle IMO, which I consider the best airy non-sweet dark vanilla. After a while I get a more powdery, deep woody vibe from the palo santo, kind of reminds me of Arab perfumes on drydown. If I could describe this perfume using a vibe, I'd say it smells like an old but beautiful log cabin by the sea that you've lit clean vanilla smelling candles in. For some reason it's always cloudy on this beach and you sit in your cozy white cashmere blankets by the window and look out at the grey looking sea. You have a clothesline and hang your fresh white linens on it and you catch a whiff of it as you walk by, and the scent mixes with the earthy woody aroma with salty ocean breeze. Once it dries down its more serious and smells more woody and masculine. I have seen this described a lot as a winter weather perfume but it smells like it's for warm weather to me. But like gloomy cloudy overcast Spring day kind of weather. I can't believe there's so much discord over this and some people hate it so passionately lol. Super unique perfume!! It doesn't smell anything like Eau Duelle but if you love Eau Duelle I think you'll like this because it's a totally unique, airy vanilla that isn't gourmand. EDITED to add, I wore it out today and yesterday for the first time and I got so many compliments! People went out of their way to ask me what I was wearing.

My advice: take all reviews with a grain of salt. Perfume is an individual experience hence you need to try them before purchasing. Every person has different olfactory receptors and skin chemistry that shapes the experience. I love this perfume. Like a lot! On my skin is not the typical sweet vanilla, not gourmand, not flowery. It presented itself as a minimalistic, powdery (cosmetic) perfume, with a straight fine line of sweetness, mineral/woody bitterness and a sparkling lift in the drydown. This made the experience feel different from other perfumes I own and it gave a modern sofistication twist. I perceived it as an "almost linear composition". The bitternes comes from the vanilla absolute with the palo santo note which is completely normal and the white musk brings the subtle mineral profile. If you don't like bitter or mineral scents this is NOT FOR YOU. The coconut powder with the heliotrope are there to avoid the vanilla to feel edible, for texture and balance. For me this was exactly what I was looking for. I perceived the smell of soft milky coconut during the day and yes, it makes the perfume feel like you are wearing a "high-end" white vanilla - coconut body lotion/splash/powder but less sweet and, in my opinion, a modern interpretation of subtle elegance. Longevity: 10/10 Sillage: 10/10 (2 sprays are enough for others to feel the fragrance at an arm's lenght) Autumn/Winter/Spring (1 spray in spring would be enough, like in the back of the neck) Day/Night I recommend it to people that likes bitter, metallic, mineral, sweet but not sugary profiles. Won't please everybody. Better order a sample first and see how it develops on your skin. Acquired taste.

BOO!! This rating is so unfair to such a masterpiece of fragrance. So this off the bat, will not be for everyone. What’s really going to make or break this scent for most, will be the musk. You’re either going to LOVE the interest it gives the fragrance or be completely turned off and wish that it smelled like a simple coconut vanilla. Mon Cherie, this is anything but. The initial opening is harsh to my nose for all of 30 seconds. By the minute mark, the musk has now become more “fresh” with the vanilla and coconut being the main players and the palo santo doing a very demure but sexy dance in the background. It all comes together to be a drier, but not overly so, coconut vanilla scent. This is a “trust fund” scent if smelling luxurious matters to you. I’m in love and get SO many compliments on this, especially when I use it to layer. It is my go to layering scent because it has a way of adding extra intrigue and dollar signs to anything I wear. IYKYK. This is a massive compliment getter and I can attest to how amazing my silage smells in the air. It even layers with freshies, which I didn’t expect. A lifer for me. A girl in the street literally wanted to be friends based off of how I smelled (that’s automatically how she started a convo with me and she’s SHY). In her words “I never do this but I just had to tell you how good you smell and had to know what it is”. I layered this with Versace Eros Pour femme, a very sexy freshie imo. 10-12 sprays of Eros and 5-7 of Vanilla powder on top was the exact formula. We don’t gate keep over here. Oh! It was one of the coldest days in NYC btw. At least 30 degrees if not under. You’ll be UNSTOPPABLE 💋💋

Firstly, to answer a previous question on the thread, in certain stores around the world, there have been full bottles to try out (but not buy or even get samples of) as a part of pre-release event. I am lucky enough to be in Florence, and Campomarzio (who I believe have a relationship with MP) had a full bottle available to try over this weekend. I presume similar samples are available around the world. Onto the review: A really beautiful addition to the MP line, surpassing my initial expectations. It has a creaminess and warmth that reminds me of Santal Austral from the same line, which comes from the gorgeous combination of Vanilla and Coconut Powder. I confess, I was worried seeing the notes on Fragrantica that this composition would be too sickly sweet; generally, the coconut/vanilla combination comes off too gourmand for my taste. But I think Aurélien did a great job of keeping the creamy and sweet facets of the vanilla and coconut, without it being too sickly. I think this is helped by the clean musks and woods in the background that help give the composition a refined feel, that I get with many of the other MP fragrances. As for performance, the longevity was great. I tried this on my skin at around 3pm and smelled it around me well into the night. I even faintly smelled the musks and woods the next morning. The sillage isn’t beastly, but good enough for it not to disappoint me. Personally, this is a plus in my books, as I prefer fragrances not to radiate throughout the whole room. Overall, a great addition to the MP line. I’ll definitely be getting a bottle when it comes out (which I was told might not be for a month or two).

This is not a perfume, at least not in the traditional sense. This is more along the lines of the Molecule line and other molecule/aroma chemical based scents such as Juliette not a perfume etc. This is an Ambroxan bomb. Hence why it’s so divisive. The opening is very addictive. A burst of sweet vanilla and citrus. The Ambroxan gives it that intriguing quality. As it starts to dry down it becomes a dusty raw vanilla. Void of any sweetness but backed by the palo santo woods and white musk. I get some of the coconut but not overwhelming. And it smells like high quality vanilla, natural, raw and unadulterated. This is meant to smell like skin. There is a saltiness to it. I think how it is perceived is highly dependant on your skin chemistry. Also this smells better in the air rather than sniffed up close. Despite it being a skin like scent it is anything but a skin scent, it projects and lasts. It does that Ambroxan heavy thing where it appears and disappears. Very easy to go nose blind to it. The opening would suggest it’s a spring summer scent. Personally I think it’s suited more to cooler weather based on the mid and dry down. There is something addictive about this. Will pick up a bottle soon. Edit: the opening is not citrus. It’s mango. The tinned variety mixed with cream. Anyone who’s had that dessert will know the smell in talking about. Of course it could just be my nose and all this is made up. Edit 2: This clings to clothes for weeks!