Chypre Vanille

i am in awe that there's a fragrance that smells like this. sweet but not in a gourmand or sickeningly sugary type of way. it's very naturally sweet, warm, comforting, sensual, smooth and smokey. 0 youtube reviews on this fragrance in english when i purchased it but i trusted my own personal preferences when it comes to notes, and i love each note listed in this perfume. i am fond of montale perfumes but you really have to look through their entire catalog and people love purchasing and reviewing the same few fragrances from this house which is astounding considering their impressive variety....pink exstasy and chypre vanille are two of my favorite perfumes, very unique and neither had a youtube review so you really have to look through the accords and notes and just wing it with some montale perfumes. this is a house that everyone needs at least one creation from. chypre vanille, this smells like a candle with roses and vanilla and incense with sandalwood and it sets the atmosphere the same way. during the fall and winter, the fragrance is able to personify a warm blanket while a storm roars its magnificent roar, and heavy raindrops tap dancing on the roof send us right to sleep. this fragrance is the comfort of a dim yellow light and a good night's rest. it's the shelter from the abrasive weather and noises and conditions of the world which we never like to face with full sobriety, we need always a few distractions to cancel out the harsh truths of inevitable pains and disappointments, the inability to trust anyone or anything because of the world's inability to feel truly enamored with anyone, meanwhile chypre vanille is welcoming and familiar. it can smell a little witchy. there's this slight bit cathedral type of feeling. this perfume is warm and sensual and is underrated and hidden amongst other montale gems which makes it all the better for me. i think anyone who likes perfumes that are warm and vanillic but not gourmand, with a bit of smokiness without necessarily being prominently seductive, that's chypre vanille. it's my favorite vanilla fragrance because of the roses and incense and amber. also: some reviews say this perfume is masculine, in my personal opinion it is not. it is one of the sweeter fragrances within my collection and i have cloud intense and cloud pink.

love this. reminds me of when i was little, the gothic cathedrals the teachers would bring us to in conjunction with catholic class (in germany they would allow an elective of your religion as early as 1st grade! you would then walk alone to the designated classroom through an almost formal looking building). it also reminds me of the uni i attended briefly (2 yrs, hopefully to be continued in the next lifetime. only for the experience, knowledge, and credentials! not even for the occupation as i have nowhere near the amount of discipline needed for a career 😆), one side of campus was an old building with chandeliers and narrow hallways that made creaking noises as you walk along the floorboards. this perfume is specifically for those who don't mind smelling like a catholic church lite. it does smell like something outside of this time frame. upon first spray, it's a very sharp floral. almost burns your nostril hairs as you react against better judgment and put your face to your wrist. takes a while to dry down, but the final product is a warm, vanilla, incense, creamy subtle rose. not a rose fragrance but it's there in the background somewhere. this is my preferred vanilla perfume for going out. vanilla gourmand is somewhere on my must-have, love it want it list as well, maybe xerjoff italica. but this is signature perfumes material, at least for me. these notes, i really enjoy and look forward to wearing, and accompanied by nostalgia, these truly are my favorite things. this ignites bittersweet memories, it's a warm blanket on a winter's night 💗🌙🏰 update: i love this perfume. it's so good. smooth, sweet and smoky dark vanilla incense is what it smells like after the drydown with hints of rose. updated update: wore this again on my wrist and can't believe how it's not mentioned like some of the other montale perfumes. it's my favorite montale fragrance for sure and smells so unique and i'm noticing it smells a tad oriental. incense vanilla. it's one of my top 5 perfumes, so happy to have found it via fragrantica!!

Gorgeous gorgeous - complex and simply beautiful. It smells exactly like my favefave mellow-out incense, used for years (got it from Pyramid Collection and they don't carry it anymore.) What I loved about that incese is that it didn't smell like traditional incense! And this does not smell like traditional perfume. Also reminds me just a touch of Rapture by Victoria Secret (amber-vanilla), but that does not have the gorgeous dusty-powdery notes. This goes on slightly medicinal, but a beautiful, light powdery dustiness comes out a couple of minutes after application; it stayed fairly linear on me throughout wear (did not change that much with wear.) Let me say that this has "Vanille" in the name, and although you can detect some in it, this is by far NOT the main note. This isn't gourmand! If you like vanilla gourmands, this will disappoint. It's a fantastically well-blended mix of rose, light and powdery sandalwood, and a hint of smoky incense on the surface, with a sweet, warm amber, vanilla and a little bit of iris giving it grounding so it does not float away! The individual notes are a team here, no one upstages the other. This fragrance is so classy, it's an excellent "event" perfume, but light ehough so it could be worn daily without complaint. Very feminine, ethereal and earthy at the same time. Well-made, love it.

Finally - a Montale I can not only tolerate, but love as well. I was about to wash my hands of both Montale and Mancera altogether.. I loathe their rose accord and achingly sweet scents I've tried,, and though technically niche, I can't help but feel they have a "fast food" approach to perfume making. My apologies to fans of the brands. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the baby sister to L'heure Bleue. The similarity is obvious. The difference is that Chypre Vanilla is not as complex, but still captures the elements I love best about LHB and I feel comfortable wearing it on cooler summer evenings. It's powdery and the incense note is very seductive!! The vanilla is also delightful and not overly gourmand. I get great longevity and silage. My only question is why "Chypre"? It's as far removed from a chypre both structurally and scent wise as I can imagine! I now feel comfortable trying other Montales, with the caveat being to ignore the rose centric and overly sweet gourmands that dominate so much of their catalog. Perhaps an oud next?

Apropos name since this perfume is a definitive class of vanilla. The vanilla that turns sweet on you only if you treat it well. That category of pur chat blanc brillant in every Parisienne doll house imaginable. The vanilla most puff about as being dry, musky, powdery, and barely there. And then all at once, sweet Lord! it porters courtisane and crude alike along the Seine, alight up on the back of Babar the elephant into the cake shop, the museum, the boutique, and then back to the hôtel (N2Deep style) where every inch of fresh lace and linen is graced with sacre sucre vanillé. va va voom! If you are aware of other contemporary vanillas honed with care from French perfumeurs, this is the Ta Tanka of Tonto: the great Chypre to rule them all.