Madagascar Vanilla Perfume Oil

So sad now that I've used up my sample, as I'm really going to miss this! Madagascar Vanilla is a super rich lactonic vanilla with a slight florality to it, simple but enjoyable. It is a bit cloyingly sweet on the nose but the low sillage of the oil prevents it becoming annoying, and it's not like being sweet is unusual for a vanilla perfume anyway. Personally, I think the vanilla is balanced well with the coconut, but I can understand why the coconut could still be too much for some. Given that, Madagascar Vanilla eskews the darker more balsamic elements characteristic of vanilla, replacing it with a coconut-white floral lactonic base. Lactones can definitely be hit or miss depending on skin chemistry though, so I can't fully endorse blind buying this if you don't know how lactones perform on your skin. On the bright side, Longevity and sillage is amazing on me! I could still smell the dab on my chest the morning after I wore it, which is quite impressive for an oil! Madagascar Vanilla's simplicity makes it great for layering with other vanilla, coconut, and lactonic scents as well. Not cheap but not expensive either, I'm considering FBing this just because I love layering, but it's kind of on the back burner behind other scents I love more.

One of my favorites. Never knew I needed this until my best friend told me about it 😍. I remember buying the holiday set they came out with at Sephora where the rollerball and full-size oil was the price of just the full size oil ($90). Snatched it up. Rubbed some of this on and went about my day. Kept getting wafts of something sweet, woody and intoxicating. I'm like what is that??? What am I smelling??? OMG THAT'S ME!! THATS THIS FRAGRANCE OIL!! Been in love ever since. It doesn't state there's a woody fragrance but there's definitely something heavier in this somewhere. I do love the vanilla in this sooo much because the more it warms on my skin the sweeter it gets. OBSESSED. This is also a very intimate scent for sure with people only smelling it if your skin is warm and its radiating a little off of it so they're in your scent bubble, or when they hug you and get a whiff from your wrists and neck. To stretch the scent of this and pro long it, mix a few drops in with an unscented lotion all over your body, OR with an unscented oil all over your body after lightly drying off out of the shower (You're welcome). Will stay practically ALL day long. Love having this in my collection.

Oh. My. I am so lucky to have scored some little 0.11oz bottles of this oil. I was hesitant - even at a decent price because I've been disappointed in the past. This scent is so beautiful that I find it hard to describe. Vanilla? Yes, and coconut right under it, so close I almost can't tell where the vanilla ends and the coconut begins. The orchid is just there enough but I had to search out the notes to know what floral I was smelling. I can't say that this is a true blue vanilla because the coconut and that whisper of orchid are there, but... It's so nice. As for sillage and longevity, I often complain about my more "mature" skin not protecting or holding when wearing perfume. This is a rare exception. This is not loud but it's noticeable to my own nose and I checked with a friend. She said that she got a nice "float by" of it as I moved around her. I am so in love that I would strongly consider marrying the man who gifted me with a full bottle of this! LOL

If you have ever been to a boutique in the south, where it smells sweet and leathery/musky and thought I want to smell like this, buy this fragrance. That was me and years later I finally found it. I am obsessed with a sweet vanilla and the musky almost leathery smell. Once it starts to die down, it just turns into a sweet vanilla but when you freshly put it on, it smells very musky and very vanillay. By far my most favorite and go to fragrance. It’s almost $100 for only an ounce but just a little bit of oil goes along way. If you put it on your clothes, the smell does not die and smells totally fresh. I. LOVE. THIS. FRAGRANCE. The other comments don’t really seem to like it so it’s pretty subjective, but if you like the car freshies that smell like sweet leather then this is for you. It’s potent, it’s long lasting, and it’s super sweet. It is also really great for layering. My favorite to layer it with is J'adore D'eau.

This perfume is what Kayali’s Vanilla 28 should have been. This gives me similar vibes to Milk by Commodity, as well. It smells like smokey, sweet, marshmallow vanilla. It smells like a fluffy vanilla milkshake with some incense burning in the background somewhere. It’s good. Would I say it’s groundbreaking? Absolutely not. However, most smokey vanilla perfumes (ie By the Fireplace) make me feel like I’m at a 4th of July BBQ. Madagascar Vanilla does not. However, it does smell like a grown up vanilla. If vanilla was 32 years old, she would be Madagascar Vanilla. I don’t know if it would be a good layering scent, since it’s so smokey, deep, and dark... but I do suppose it could work if you were layering with another frag that’s in the same scent family. Sweet, dark, fluffy, milky, and smokey. Very profound. This perfume will not take you by surprise. I like it.