Nota Vanilla

It’s very powerful nutty scent with a lovely milky vanilla in the base. It’s very rich and bold (and yeah quite synthetic, lots of coumarin I guess), so for my nose it’s a bit too harsh. My ig: scent.guide

Opens with a sharp blast of salted hazelnuts and sweet musk... I think? A strange synthetic blend that smells like a loud TV static version of the listed notes. The first 15 minutes I’m just confused, trying to make this fragrance fit its notes like a square peg in a round hole. Dries down nutty, musky, and sweet, but like a forgotten cup of almond gelato left in the sun at the beach.

It’s fine. It’s verrrry nutty and the chocolate note is very nicely done. However....there is a musky note in the background that is not pleasant and it ruins the whole experience ☹️ For frags of that type, I recommend Le Gourmand by Jousset. No musk but that Nutella note is divine!

it's like you vividly dream up a freshly baked shortbread cookie with roasted peanuts, and you just about to eat it, but then it is a nightmare and the cookie eats you instead, its nutty crumbling teeth around, and you're desperate to wake up.

This hurts my nose. With the name Nota Vanilla I was expecting, uh, vanillla. Which I guess is in there somewhere. But the predominant odor is something synthetic and vaguely nutty with a generic rubbing alcohol overtone. In fact, after I received this as a free sample-size atomizer, but before I'd even opened the box it came in, I noticed the alcohol scent permeating the room for a couple of weeks. I thought maybe one of my other 9-mL decants was suffering from a faulty cap mechanism and releasing the fragrance, but after sniffing everything, I couldn't identify the source. It never occurred to me that this sample within the unopened box could be the culprit! Honestly the rubbing alcohol note is the most pleasant part about this one.