Dream

Warm spicy, vanilla, woody, powdery, sweet, floral, cinnamon, cacao, warm, amber, lactonic, rich, decadent, feminine, sophisticated, sensual seductive, charming, whimsical, dreamy, delightful, delicious, alluring, tempting, intoxicating, addictive, intriguing, cozy, comforting, unique On me this opens super delicious with rich butter, warm spicy cinnamon, and cacao which melts into a heart of creamy sandalwood, decadent caramel, and powdery vanilla orchid. The dry down envelopes you in sensual vanilla, the golden warmth of amber, and woody vetiver. The dry down reads like a honeyed woody vanilla. The most prominent notes on me are the cinnamon butter, vanilla, caramel, and sandalwood. This is super yummy and gourmand! It’s rich, decadent, and delightfully delicious! It has the most wonderful bakery-like notes! It’s like floating on the most delicious fluffy cloud past the best bakery in town. It’s really well done though, well balanced and well blended. It’s one of the decadent gourmands that doesn’t come off as juvenile. It’s actually quite sophisticated. The woody accords keep the decadent gourmand notes from being too sweet, overdone, or cloying. It’s this perfect balance between sweet and rich gourmand, and cozy woody notes. I particularly enjoy the cinnamon and butter notes with the vanilla and caramel. I also love how I get a honey scent particularly during the dry down. At the moment, I only have a sample of this, but I love it so much that I’ll be adding a bottle of this to my collection! I find this to be very unique! I can’t say that I’ve ever smelled anything quite like this before, and I’m a huge gourmand fan! I only see a slight similarity to some of the fragrances in the “reminds me” section, as this is more decadent, and has the delicious cinnamon butter accord. I get a slight reminiscence to VS Bare Sueded Vanilla, Nest Vanilla Bourbon, Phlur Vanilla Skin, and Replica Afternoon Delight To me this feels feminine, and suitable for women of any age. I think this works best during the fall and winter because of its sweet decadence and coziness. Think it’s most fitting for casual occasions and date nights, but can also be worn to work/school. I get great performance with Dream. The longevity is strong as it lasts throughout the entire day on my skin. The projection is moderate to strong as it radiates out at least a few feet from me. For reference, some of my favorite fragrances include Kayali Yum Boujee Marshmallow, Vanilla 28, Vanilla Candy Rock Sugar, The Wedding Silk Santal, Yum Pistachio Gelato, Kilian LDBS, Princess, Sunkissed Goddess, GdT Celeste, Bianco Latte, Tom Ford Soleil Blanc, Nest Sunkissed Hibiscus, Gucci Flora Gorgeous Orchid, Burberry Goddess, The 7 Virtues Vanilla Woods, YSL Black Opium Le Parfum, Guerlain Mon Guerlain, LoveShackFancy Secret Crush, Summer Fridays Sunlit Vanilla, Coach Dreams Starlight, Ellis Brooklyn Marshmallows, Queen’s Caramel, Vanilla Salt, Phlur Honey Moon, Heavy Cream, Vanilla Nectar, Beach Skin, SDJ Summer è Amor, 62, 39, VS Vanilla Lace, BBW Beach Nights, Boardwalk Marshmallow Clouds, Cotton Candy Clouds, Whipped Honey & Vanilla, Fireside Flurries

The Maker has been on a roll. With the smoky fig scent Lover and now Dream, they have successfully built on their strong core of perfumes, initially anchored by Stag, Paradiso and Fire. Dream is a very versatile, gender inclusive, woody vanilla scent that is edible smelling without being basic. It’s a gourmand that holds back on the trendy overly sweet style that many gourmands call home and develops beautifully on skin with florals, amber and buttery touches that add depth. Dream is a warm vanilla fragrance that anyone can wear with ease. It’s not an overly resinous, spicy fragrance like many vanillas at the moment, but there are touches of Amber that greats the nose more prominently in the dry down. It has a rich milky, ice cream like texture that would work well on a date. On my skin it really pushes off skin strongly for the first 2-3 hours then levels out for another hour before getting closer to the skin for the remaining hours on skin. It has a 5.5 -7 hour lifespan on my skin, depending on where I spray it, before becoming a whisper of a skin scent. That’s perfectly suitable for most situations you would need it for. If you are looking for an easy to wear vanilla that is tasteful, not overbearing or cloying and can be a cold weather or night out staple, I’d highly consider Dream. It’s not going to break the bank and punches way above its price point. There are lesser vanilla options in the niche world that are far more pricey. With Stag, Paradiso, Lover and now Dream, The Maker will be gaining more attention with their impressive selection of perfumes. For now, they are a “if u know, u know”, kind of situation, but I believe they deserve a lot more attention for offering thoughtful, well priced, wearable scents that fit various use cases with ease.

Dearest Dream-ers, Tonight felt like slipping into a private reverie. I finally spent time with a fragrance that has floated straight to the top of my personal favourites: Dream.....💭✨ There’s something enchanting about the way it balances feminine softness with a beautifully gender‐neutral ease. It feels like a scent meant for anyone who wants to be held, not categorised. What lingered with me most was its astonishing longevity. Hours later, I was still wrapped in that warm, buttery cinnamon glow, comforting, never cloying, never tipping into powder. A true gourmand like a freshly baked cinnamon doughnut, yet one that refuses to fall into the syrupy, youthful sweetness so many modern releases lean on. Instead, Dream feels composed, confident and quietly indulgent. And yet... I couldn’t ignore the contrast between the fragrance itself and the packaging it arrives in. The Maker crafts scents of such depth and quality but the bottle doesn’t quite echo the magic inside. It’s a small disappointment, like waking from a beautiful Dream only to realise the room you’re in is a little too plain. Still, imperfections make the experience human. For now, I’ll keep savouring this delicious cloud of cinnamon and warmth, and hope that one day its vessel will rise to meet its brilliance. Until our next dream voyage... Yours always

A gorgeous ode to sandalwood! It opens with strong, sweet cinnamon butter and morphs into a smooth sandalwood once it has dried down! A tiny bit sweet and very smooth and satisfying. I am so happy that this does not turn into pickle juice on me, because many sandalwood-forward scents do. I believe the sweetness of the other notes smooths out the sandalwood here, but it could simply be a different scent component than the ones that go pickled. I am always on the lookout for a good sandalwood because they are a rare favorite for me and I love this one! I have SO MANY perfumes, and a couple that remind me of this one, but when I received a sample with my last Sephora order and wore it for one day, I put in an order for the smaller bottle immediately that same night. It is very comforting to me. It is similar to a couple of Kyse perfumes I own, but it is subtler, a bit less overtly gourmand, especially when dried down, and a bit more refined than those. The butter note is the same and I really love that. It is rare. That was how I justified this whole situation in my head anyway.

This is a perfect scent in my opinion. Gourmand without being grossly sweet, floral notes without it being a basic vanilla floral, and woody/spicy without going to masculine or unisex. It’s so well blended, and I cannot stop wearing it. It has a pretty linear scent on me, however the butter fades a bit throughout wear time. The florals are stronger in the beggining, the spices and caramel come out more in dry down. You can smell every note in here (except maybe the vetiver) but they are all working together well. Really enjoy the powdery woodyness that the sandalwood provides here. Great scent for fall and winter. It makes me picture a young woman in a furry white coat on a winter night, all done up to go to a cozy dim lit bar. The one slightly negative thing I will say is that my bottle, which I ordered online directly from Sephora, is a very bright orange color instead of the light yellow I see in most photos. I know scents oxidize and color will change, but it looks super macerated already and it’s brand new. Don’t love that, but it still smells great.