Boise Vanille

Spices in the top notes disappear in seconds: there was something bitter - and no, and immediately the wood comes. But not the lumberjack wood; not a masculine dry cedar, but soft, almost fruity wood... And then patchouli gradually appears. I know, that many of you do not like patchouli and consider the smell a bit rustic, but it is my personal love! And this wood-patchouli-vanilla balance lasts for a long time, without any frills, gradually drifting towards an earthy aroma: it becomes calmer, drier. And without that, barely audible fruity notes completely disappear, become thinner, until the aroma turns into such a calm oriental wood, how should I say it? Prayed. Ancient. Earthen. All sorts of incense was being smoked next to this wood, and now it was saturated with this scent, but does not suffocate with oriental incense. Actually, incenses have already subsided, only a trace remains. And this trace of the past is very pleasant for me. It would be an oriental temple, but not when there is a service right here and everything is incense, - but empty, abandoned: silence, calmness, empty wooden benches, and a ray of light falling on a soaked in incense wood in the semi-darkness....

The real juice is nothing but fantastic. Всё хорошо! Its complexity creates an imaginary mood where we can feel three dimensions. These dimensions are changing and playing around. Sometimes we feel the forlorn powder of the classics vintage gems. This part that brings us the third fase of Pour Monsieur Chanel. Sometimes, generally when overapplied, it’s easy to see the strong dried fruits os the unbeliveable Lutens Arabie shining on us. It lasts forever. +14h no boubt. Its projection is polite, maybe due to its high concentration of oils components. Give it a try. Either on paper or on skin, the scent doesn’t change a lot. What I like the most is its Shalimar remembrance, kind of a beach vibe. It’s warm, strong, remarkable, it’s really for the ones seeking for great personallities. Love!

I believe someone here gets drunk before trying out the perfumes. And the smell that he feels is that of his own alcoholic breath and not of the perfume. Because I really read rantings here! Or maybe their bottle is a fake. Since Montale is one of the most falsified among the perfumes. This scent is delicious, a small masterpiece. In my collection of Vanillas, it is the most sensual and mysterious. When I wear it I feel a beautiful fatal woman and men are fascinated too. But be careful! The sillage is huge! Small doses wrap in a fragrant cloud, but if you exaggerate the cloud stuns you!

Boise vanille is sexy, mysterious, voluptuous. Incredibly heavy and strong. Consisted of a thick cloud of patchouli and vanilla, on a cushion of iris. There's a certain level of complexity, very well blended. I could have sworn that there's rose and oud, though. Monstrous sillage and longevity. It definitely carries the spirit of perfumes of past decades. This formula has been around in other perfumes, so it feels familiar. I'd say it's a bit too sweet for my taste, too. Ultimately, even though I appreciate its dynamic personality, it's not my cup of tea.

A peppery and seductive vanilla mixture. First notes lure with bergamot and freshness of lime but then majestic vanilla strikes like a blood rush. Amazing and very sexy perfume.

It's strongly reminds me of Lagerfeld Classic edt. Not bad at all.

The opening of Boise Vanilla has a nice candle-wax smell, similar to the waxy smell you might get from Jublition 25. Soon the wax smell’s gone within seconds, and there’s deep, dark, woody smell, something reminds me of clove, but woodier, smoother, and also, there’s some weird old Asian wine smell/Le Labo Oud smell dances around. Then I’ve got something soothing, cool, powdery (the Iris note, I guess), as well as addictive. I kept on sniffing my wrist, however, weird enough, I’ve got a headache from it, but I kept on smelling because it’s just so addictive. The headache is like a physical punch, a good and slightly painful stretch from yoga; and has nothing to do with the sad depressing headaches I sometimes get from smelling..say Euphoria by CK or jasmine meteorites from Alien by TM. I cannot smell any distinctive lavender here, but as the perfume gets quite cool and soothing through time, there’s the grown-up-baby-powder/slightly-minty-vanilla-tobacco combo which gives me similar calm feeling to what lavender essential oil does to me. The final drydown is slightly powdery, oriental, vanilla-y, plus a tiny bit soft-leathery, like smelling some nice iris scent along with a soft leather handbag. Somehow it feels like Guerlain’s Shalimar wearing a sexy leather-looking corset, hanging out with Balmain’s Jolie Madame.

This fragrance has a nice dry-down : dominant patchouli , spices, vanilla-tonka with a woody -resinous, slightly incense feeling. The vanillic side is soft without sweetness. Femme fatal for sure. The dark patchouli will get you the attention if that is what you are looking for. :) The top notes are not so well balanced. Too much geranium that enhances the lavender and cedar notes. And not in a good way. If there was less patchouli and vanilla it could have been a nice masculine fragrance. Overall, I could ignore the first hour, the dry down is getting better and better. After 3 hours it is just beautiful. I have 4 words for this fragrance: impervious, intriguing and Krazy Krizia. 7.9/10

Looking at the range of reactions to this composition, I am guessing that either there have been batch issues or else there have been some bad samples running around. Having wound up with some of the latter myself, I can only caution: caveat emptor! Trust only samples prepared from a bottle bought from an authorized dealer. Otherwise you are likely to end up with a nose full of aromachemicals! This one, sent to me by a friend and decanted from his bottle, smells so good that I am tempted to postpone my bath! A lovely synthesis of woods and vanilla plus some spice. Definitely not overly sweet. A classic oriental profile. Only wish that I had more!

Only after I sprayed this awfulness on me did I check the reviews. So, I got a sizable decant of this at a familiar decanting site many of us know well in the US and abroad. This is one of the few times I’ve given a really negative review of a perfume. This is disgusting. I usually try perfumes that I know I’ll like at least—or certainly appreciate. But this is awful—and there’s a reason for the low numbers on this review site. I don’t always believe those numbers—but in this case, this is an epic fail. DO NOT BUY for ANY reason at ANY PRICE until you try this one: if you must, try before you buy. I don’t care much for vanillas and am not super into gourmands, but the occasional vanilla or tasty-treat scent is fine, especially at night. This is not vanilla. That in itself doesn’t bother me at all—the less foody and more complex the better—right? This is a hot mess of aromachemicals that burn the throat and the nose—seriously. It smells like a chemical explosion of oak moss—not the kind we long for. My first impression was of finding a rejected bottle of perfume, the label peeling off in great-grandma’s windowsill where it had been exposed to both heat, humidity and sunlight. I do not mean to imply that this is a perfume for the “older set”—as I am in that set, nor do I mean that it is a “grandma perfume”—a very derogatory phrase. It smells like 85 year old perfume that some swain brought over from France in 1911, and that just died, notes burned off, some staying behind, the perfume shifting and becoming kind of a “wooden” “burning” mossy scent. Those of you thinking I don’t appreciate a chypre—that’s not it. I do in fact. Too, this is not some kind of long-lost Shalimar (which I would embrace with loving arms). This is drek. There is absolutely no lavender (I love lavender). There is perhaps some hideous geranium mixed with Iris—perhaps (no powder). There might be a “leather-like” smell but this is so hostile, so hot and strong with ABSOLUTELY no vanilla in sight, a synth-leather. There is a very very rough patch. Now, I’m a patch-head, and yes, this has “something” like patch—but it’s gawdawful. And there is a kind of “fake pepper”—not even a real pepper. Even though not listed, this emanates a copious amount of a substitute oak moss—as if the entire perfume was made out of a synthetic oak moss. Perhaps this would delight someone out there. Tonka? Ha. Nada. Now, I’m determined. I did not scrub. This has NUCLEAR silage and a half-life of three days, permeating everything you wear and that you walk past. Was this enough punishment for me? Nope. I tried it again, a second time, really just to confirm how bad this was. (I’m like that). The second day, as I was considering my vast perfume empire of bottles, I wondered “Why in h*** did I waste not just ONE day, but TWO days on this? This is my life. I have dozens and dozens of bottles and decants—and I wasted two whole days.” Then I gave it to my significant other. He wore it to work—actually the house and all rooms wore it when he left for work. I felt sorry for his crew. This is like meth—and I don’t mean “addictive” or swoony “drug-like” scent driving you wild with desire. It’s like meth specifically, in that people “warn you about it” and then you see the effects, the lack of teeth, poor skin, etc.—and YOU JUST DON’T TRY IT. Being warned and learning from others is good enough for some of us. But some of you will try this scent, like me, and I hope it goes better for you, or that you at least have better sense than I do and just scrub it off. So warned you are, and, at least try it before you rush off seeing a “good deal” or if you think you’ll like the notes (all of which I love).

Bought this with the suggestion of a friend, i was puzzled when i took the package at my hands. It was the lightest fragrance i have ever held. Bottle and pouch are very practical to carry with you. Also the bottle is not full. Having known Montale fragrances are very potent, i started to test this with just a little spray on my wrist. First impression is WOODY!!! And extremely synthetic. I could awaken a sleeping friend with a half spray immediately! Being a niche house, i would expect a much balanced opening since all i get is a thick woody accord. Boise means woody in French, so boise in the name of the fragrance is very well reflected in the opening notes. Such an aggressive opening is very rare in designer fragrances since it could lose the customer right from the start of the test i suppose, but Montale is a house that has a Middle Eastern philosophy, so i am not that surprised about the aggressiveness. The wood note is extremely reminiscent of what you would find in Middle East and the Arabic Peninsula. Very thick, slightly leathery and oldschool. Not pleasent at all. 30 minutes after the initial spray, i am left with a lot of questions. Is there oud in this? What is that feminine accord that almost resembles a red rose? Will this turn out to be a vanilla fragrance at all? I better check the notes now. Oud or rose are not listed in notes. But i think either they omitted them from the list for some in house considerations not to reveal the formula or they used different notes to smell like oud and rose combo. So far all i have is a woody oud rose fragrance which leans clearly to the feminine side. An hour later, the thick woodiness is gone to reveal a floral, powdery, syrupy, rosey and utterly feminine smell. A cedary iris and a boozy geranium with a lush rosey accord gave me a nausea and discomfort. Up to this point, I really can’t see how a man could wear this without a feminine outfit. This is almost an oud-rose combo with hints of other accords clearly dominated by rosey floral accords all the time. I visualize a middle eastern woman with lingerie, wearing this fragrance to become a femme fatal. It is rosey, lush, heady and floral. But where is the vanilla? Is vanille in French not vanilla? From start to finish vanilla is not present but rosey floral feminine vibe is. Several hours later, i get a strange barbershop vibe. I bet there is a ton of Iso super E, which gives a cedary accord along with patchouli. The drydown is definitely the best part of the fragrance. It is the most unisex part since the rosey accord is muted thankfully. Tonka bean comes to sweeten the combo and a clean and almost fresh but still floral end completes the journey of this strange Montale creation. Overall, i am pretty confused about the naming and structure of the fragrance. Don’t blind buy especially if you are a male. I would name it Lushy Irıs, Femme Fatale of Arabian or simply Stay Away From Me :) Only good part is that the perfume concentration is pretty high and projection is unusually solid.

There is no kind way to say this: I absolutely hate this perfume. I like lavender and I like vanilla. Their combination though did not work for me one bit. The lavender is way too strong as are the citruses. In fact, I couldn't smell any vanilla at all, until an hour or more after I tried this. I've been searching for a vanilla perfume for winter and been over 10-15 samples during the last month. This is definitely the worst, followed closely by Vanille Absolue. Montale's not a house I will be revisiting soon. Note: In other sites this is marked as a masculine scent mostly and I do agree this would be better suited to man than a woman.

I put this on my wrist about an hour ago and I'm thinking it must be a mistake. It's ghastly! All I can smell is a very powdery element that reminds me of drywall dust. That smell when you're in a room that's being renovated and they've taped, mudded and sanded the drywall seams. This is quite unpleasant and very disappointing. I smell no vanilla, no lavender, nothing sweet at all. Maybe pepper is the predominant note. Oh well. Can't win 'em all...

Stinky perfume! I warned you. The opening is very strong and spice and incensy? I can't explain because I'm not familiar with these notes in my perfumes, I just don't like this. It's been on my skin for over an hour now and I just think it's too strong for me. It feels liked i rubbed patchouli incense all over my arm. It's not for me, but I know people who enjoy that type of fragrance. Like someone here said, it just doesn't sit well on my skin.

This is a unisex scent imo but it's terrible. Floor cleaning products at the maximum + vanilla at the background. Lavender, cedar and pepper are quite strong and prominent but completely synthetic.

Terrible stuff. Reminds me of how plastic smells. Of course it lasts forever and in this case that is not a good thing.

Soapy vanilla .not for me , very strong and sickly ..using as car spray .not as perfume

I, like many others, do not like this perfume. I'm not sure WHO recommended me this, but I was led to believe that this perfume was going to be an incredible vanilla perfume. I guess it is, but the notes that hit are spicy, medicinal, and EXTREMELY strong. This perfume lasts A LONG TIME and will dominate your nose. It reminds me of when younger boys get their hands on axe and begin dousing themselves in it. It's a headache of a scent. I only got a sample of it and I'm glad that's all I have.

I love Tom Ford's Tobacco vanille and thought this would be like that - a dirty vanilla scent. But I hate this! It smells like bug spray on paper and only God knows why I still tried if it would be better on my skin. It certainly didn't. I don't get the vanilla scent here at all. It smells like a woody bug spray or oven cleaning spray. I'm so happy I got a tiny sample and not the full bottle.

Sorry but a scrubber! Smells like a cheap handwash... Chemical laden and should come with a toxic symbol as it induced an allergic reaction, which is very rare in my experience with over decades worth of sampling perfumes. Rating -1/5