Embrace Rose Buds and Vanilla

I loved this! Vera Wang Embrace Rosebuds and Vanilla was the first rose perfume that I actually liked! Most rose perfumes up to that point in my life, which was my mid thirties, gave me grandma or stuffy vibes. This was soft, airy, dewy fresh pink roses with a slight cozy vanilla. I think the magnolia and iris came through too and gave it uniqueness. My teenage daughter loved it back then too! I am in my forties now and she’s in her 20’s, but she may still have her body spray! I’ll have to ask. I would love to find a dupe as it seems to be overpriced now on Ebay. Maybe discontinued? This may be one of my all time favorite rose perfumes, but I do remember it not lasting long as others have commented so finding a similar scent that has better longevity would be awesome! I find the right rose very comforting and vanilla as well so this is a perfect pairing. Update: I scored and found a bottle at Burlington! I believe it was around $15 for a small bottle. It still doesn’t last, but still very pretty! And I have Mancera Roses and Vanilla, not alike at all. That is a deeper woody rose, more sexy and heavy. This is a more demure light rose with just a hint of warmth.

Well if it had Bergamot and Amber it'd remind me more of Hot Couture but to me it belongs in the same "sweet (jam-like sweet) yet sophisticated" category. But I do get some of the Mandarin(the only fruit in the composition!), it's an unexpected lovely twist. Overall this is very woody to my nose. When I was little we used to visit in Late April our winter abode in a green suburb of Athens close to the mountain. It was still chilly there, the house was in the pine forest and my mom made rose sweet(we cook the rose petals - we use the 100 petal pink or red roses for it- in sugar with rose water it's basically rose jam,only richer we eat it on its own or add it on vanilla ice cream), so the combo of the wood smell and this "rose dessert" is contained in this fragrance that's why it was love at first spray for me. Perfect chilly weather scent. Longevity on me is fantastic. Update: Now that I am getting deeper into the notes game, I realize that Iris is that magical note that gives perfumes a powdery almost doll-like sweetness (see La Vie Est Belle, Sensual Amber BBW, KKW Night Iris).

To be honest, Rosebuds and Vanilla looked and sounded so boring that I almost didn't try it. Some of these reviews make it sound really juvenile and basic, so it wasn't on my radar. But I did get around to sampling and was shocked. This is not just a dull rose and vanilla powder! There is a cedar-like nip and something almost boozey that I find very unique about this! In fact, I am terrible at detecting rose notes unless a fragrance is almost a rose soliflore, and had I not read the word "Rose buds" I'm not sure I would know! It seems like a hypnotically sweet, a bit powdery spicy-woody rose. I have nothing else like it. This is now in my top favorite florals. Seems like a winter or fall pick for me with that boozy, spicy vanilla and woods. Now I am VERY curious about the rest of the Embrace series.

Re-adding my review since I was not signed in below... I'm not drawn to florals and generally never, ever wear them. This one is different, or maybe I just found I like rose, or both. This is not sweet, powdery or overpowering. (I may have just learned the difference in powdery and soft). As soon as this dries on my skin the sandalwood comes barely peeking out from under the rose and vanilla. I know... call me weird, in this it reminds me of cedar shavings/bedding I used in my hamster cage as a kid. This is a beautiful smell and in no way offensive or overpowering. I love it. So, to my nose, this fragrance is mainly rose, vanilla, then the slight cedar-ish smell. After the first 30 mins or so, it sits fairly close to my skin. This is lovely. I am surprised at how much I like it.

I actually REALLY like this one for the simple fact it smells exactly like the name implies. Rose and vanilla. Soft, sweet and simple, I have been wearing this to work since I bought a bottle for $15 last week. Even my mum loves it and is already trying to steal my bottle! We both adore Stella and whilst this is by no means even close to the beauty of Stella, it is a lovely soft, playful rose scent. I have started layering this with other perfumes and on sale it's just a bargain fragrance in my opinion.

I love love LOVE this fragrance! It's so romantic and feminine, and different from any other scent I have in my collection. Powdery warm vanilla and sweet rose, a touch of musk and iris, and detectable sandalwood in the dry down. I sprayed this on to test and walked around the store with my nose pressed up to my wrist and decided I needed to own it. Love love love. I could see this becoming a favorite for me :)

This perfume is gorgeous when you first spray it. Like a freshly cut bouquet of roses. I don't get any vanilla at all from it, and unfortunately the scent is gone on my skin after two hours, which is really disappointing as it smells divine. It is not terribly expensive, so reapplying will not break the bank. I will use it up and repurchase because it is a safe, beautiful, romantic scent.

It is quite lovely! It is very soft, pretty, and feminine. Definitely nailed the balance of rose and vanilla. I'd describe it as innocently romantic, yet comforting. I feel like if I was a princess in a fairy tale, I'd wear this, lol. It's not extremely complex, but if you love these notes, I'd highly recommend it.

I won the whole entire collection in a giveaway and fell in love with all of them. Embrace Rose Buds and Vanilla is truly a favorite of mine. It's inexpensive but screams classy. I can totally smell the rose , vanilla and magnolia notes. I recommend this scent to any one who likes rose top notes.

This is opens as a rose dominated scent , with vanilla sharing equal time, a light sandalwood and musk appear in the drydown, I really liked this scent, affordable, crisp and beautiful.

i love it! i'm a guy, i dont care i'll rock it !!!!

Reviews seem to be all over the place on this - just goes to show how individual even something mass produced can be! I’ll add my take on it - I like it. A lot. At first spray the vanilla is the strongest and I am not the biggest fan of the opening. I love roses and vanilla but this just seems mishmashes here. But wait, there’s more. About 5 minutes in, I smell the most gorgeous rose scent potpourri I think I’ve ever smelled. Not the plastic fantastic kind, but the kind where you’ve gathered and dried all the ingredients yourself, and even threw in a vanilla orchid (yes, they are real) for fun. Not super long lasting, maybe 3 hours, but a pretty good 3 hours. I’d agree with the review who said they pick up a little herbal scent, but it’s a good thing in my case. I think I picked it up a year or two ago for really cheap at my local discount store.

Rosebuds and Vanilla is a perfume with three distinct phases on me, and I have a different opinion of each. It starts out on me as a lush rose soliflore. I quite like this part. I don’t smell much else other than roses at this point. After a short time, say 15 minutes or so, there is a note development that adds a grassy, dry bitter element to the initial rose. I like the opening better than this mid phase. The dry down is when the vanilla finally emerges for me, the bitter note fades entirely and the rose is just slightly still there. I like this phase the best and I wish it smelled more like this throughout. The only problem is that by the time this last phase is reached, the scent is very faint and is basically a skin scent. The entire progression of this perfume lasts about 90 minutes, then fades away entirely.

The more I wear this the more I like it. I really really adore it. It's equal parts velvety pink rose petals and creamy vanilla on me. No one note stands out over the other. The vanilla brings the sweetness, of course, but not in a foody way. This is another one I think even vanilla haters might enjoy. I typically wear this to bed, but lately I've been using it during the day as I've been craving it. I suppose the weather here has made that happen. Longevity is 8+ hours on clothes, and projection is decent for the first hour or two. If you like roses and vanilla, this is for you. I think it would be hard not to like it. This is actually what I had wished Mancera Roses Vanille smelled like, and I find it amazing that I got this at less than a quarter of Mancera's price.

EDITED 2 September 2016: I've had this tucked away behind some other bottles for a while, thinking every now and then, 'I must get you out again soon'. Well, I finally did today and OMG - somehow I forgot how GOOD this is! Actually, not just good - but if I start throwing out superlatives I won't stop lol. I so, so love this perfume. *happy sigh* *** I get the merest hint of rose before it disappears under a stinky white flower - first try, I was about to wash my arm but waited a bit longer. Suddenly, I was hit by a smooth yet sharp vanilla that took me straight to how I think Hypnotic Poison smells on other people but not me! I am overjoyed by this little gem - even better, it was a $15AUD blind-buy.

oh my god this smells DIVINE!! Actually the most authentic rose fragrance I have ever smelled. It smells exactly like a bouquet of deep red roses. I am usually somehow disappointed in rose-perfumes because I never really smell the rose, but here it is present and leading the show! The dry-down is a deep, sensual dark vanilla and is amazing too. Rose and vanilla. what an amazing kombo. I don't think a teenage girl would like this because it's somewhat mature, but for me at 22 it's great. I get to feel like a grown up elegant lady without smelling like an old sofa. Only downside is that it does not last past 2-3 hours. More like a body spray than an edt. Rate this 8/10

This is a classic in my 100+ full bottle collection - the rose is delicate, and the vanilla gives it a beautiful warmth. I get good longevity out of this, too. Wearing it today and I am still getting whiffs after applying at 7am (6 hours so far), but it does not project very much. It is unfortunately discontinued but I have 3 or 4 backups from years ago when it initially discontinued. The only dupe I've ever been able to find is the "love" b&bw aromatherapy rose and vanilla scent which i think is also discontinued. I would never put this in the same range as a mancera perfume, which is so synthetic and overpowering. This is light and delicate and beautiful!

A pleasant fragrance but quite poor in duration, sillage and projection. It is only perceived at skin level from the start and for a short time, about two hours being very generous. The bottle lasted me a a very short time because in order to being able to smell something, you have to atomize a lot and even then no one near you would give you compliments since they have to hug you or kiss you (that level of closeness 😂) to perceive something. It is not expensive but taking into account the poor performance and the 30ml I would say that it is a waste of money.

I bought the body mist without testing and I am quite pleased. Embrace Rose buds and vanilla is very rosy and dewy - light, a bit sweet and fresh. I would not buy the edt, the body mist serves it's purpose well as my "wake up and smell the roses"-kinda scent. I wear this in the morning and during my morning walks. Very similar to Yardley's English Rose. The body mist is also nice for work days, it's so fresh and light it doesn't annoy anyone. Beautiful, uncomplicated almost soliflore rose scent.

I bought this blind, given a great price at Target, and finding Vera Wang to be well-constructed fragrances. Alas, I was hoping for more rose in this fragrance, but I mostly smell vanilla, from beginning to end. That said, it still is a nice fragrance, quite long-lasting, nothing bitter or offensive. Just not much rose to my nose. However, if you want a soft floral vanilla with staying power, you'll love it and the price. Prettier than Vanilla Fields. The bottle is pretty too.