So, March … THAT IS ALL FASCINATING, HOW IS THE HAVANA VANILLE ALREADY?!?!? Well, I am still thinking. So although I´d changed the perfume house mentally I was still skeered I sprayed it on meditatively and waited for some horrible melon note to emerge and smother me. Why? Because I don´t love most of the Hermessences- the ones I like are too evanescent, and the powerful ones are pretty much scrubbers. Second, my mind is a sieve and somehow when the sample arrived I had convinced myself that this was a new Hermessence scent (come on, how funny is that?), and that didn´t really delight me either. He has an earth/spicebox style exemplified by, for example, Timbuktu and his Eau d´Italie creations that I find both interesting and personally unwearable. First off: when I read Duchaufour did it, I was not overly enthused, because with a couple of exceptions most of his work for L´Artisan, including the travel series, are not my favorites, and we will leave it at that. Notes are rum, clove, dried fruits, narcissus, tonka bean, helichrysum, vanilla, smoked woods, moss and balsamic notes according to Robin at Now Smell This, who kindly sent me a sample thinking I´d like it, and I´m going to link right here to her great review.Īnd now I have to tell two stories on myself, both of which pertain to Havana Vanille. It was done by Bertrand Duchaufour and is grouped in their travel series with Dzongkha, Bois Farine, Timbuktu and Fleur de Liane, of which Duchaufour did all but Farine. And finally, the L´Artisan Vanilia I waffle between wanting a decant of and finding it gets on my nerves after a few hours.īringing us FINALLY to L´Artisan´s Havana Vanille. I still need to try the Micallef, I bet I´d like it. PdN Vanille Tonka was an epic FAIL for reasons that still elude me, but I think is the tonka. The high mark (?) of vanilla perfume fetish-dom in my opinion is Guerlain´s Spiritueuse Double Vanille, a dark, smoky vanilla which I would own a bottle of except: a) the price is ridiculous, b) it would last me a thousand years and c) having discovered that what I really love about SDV is the smoke/vanilla combo, I can whip up my own by dabbing Bonfire or Burning Leaves on top of another vanilla scent, creating one of my favorite winter standbys. Lann-Ael I alternate between loving and loathing, but it´s the apple/cereal bit that grates, not vanilla. Indult Tihota is lovely but I couldn´t see the point too extract-y. This prompted further adventures in the land of high-end vanillas, where I was hoping to avoid the too-sweet vanillin Curse of Sephora (did you know artificial vanilla is made from wood pulp, a paper industry byproduct? Yum, dig in.) Organza Indecence is technically a more woody/spicy scent than a true vanilla, but its drydown is vanillic enough on me that I began to see the vanilla potential there. Because it was pretty clear I was going to wear the hell out of that stuff, and I have. (I thought it had been d/c´d but have been told several times that´s incorrect.) Whatever I whined on here long enough that someone graciously hooked me up with a sample, at which point I started plotting immediately on how to get my hands on a bottle. It´s either been re-released or the distribution is increased, but when I was looking for it, it was darn difficult to find. Then I discovered Givenchy Organza Indecence, which was one of those scents people were always waxing poetic about. (Okay, joking about those last two.) Collectively, in concept and execution, they gave me the dry heaves. And the vanilla was often combined with some other note that made it just that much more terrifying, like citron, or maple. Who wants to smell like a vanilla cupcake? (Lots of people, apparently.) Judging by the ever-changing shelves at Sephora, we seem to have move on past the worst of the Vanilla Heresies, when they had three different lines of vanilla crap, including Laurence Dumont, LaVanilia and something else… in addition to a lot of vanillic CSPs. I love to bake, and yet wearing anything that smelled like I´d dabbed on vanilla extract seemed bizarre to me. I was an early, frequent opposer of all perfume things gourmand and particularly things vanilla. Can you tell I´m looking forward to fall? This is a little bit of a meander through the new L’Artisan Havana Vanille as well as perfumedom´s vanilla fields (although not Vanilla Fields), so if vanilla scents don´t interest you, you might as well move on, nothing to see here today.
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