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| A cat enjoying his nap on the window seal, this carefree, other-worldly feel somewhat makes me think of this fragrance by Serge Luten, Bois Vanille. |
I have to confess first that I have a sweet tooth and somewhat I’m a vanilla junkie as long as the quality of the perfume does not fall below any Victoria Secret’s watery synthetic ones.
Bois Vanille by Serge Lutens is an instant love!
Upon the first spray, I can smell something intriguingly sweet, in a clean sweet but not synthetic sugary way, like the creamy, slightly dry coconut infused edible cupcake sweetness but not that typical vanilla-y.
Soon the sweetness gets more complex, somewhat like brown sugar sweet and dried fruit and resins. Then it gets drier, a little bit spicy as in dried fruits kind of spicy plus a little bit dry sweet woods smell. Later on a discreet gardenia scent comes to play (which is already nicely present there since the beginning, as the fresh sweetness, but I just didn’t pay much attention to), it is nice and unconventional, it give the quasi-tuberose nice blooming summer night feel (but does not go for the white flower bouquet direction or smell of real tuberose at all) plus the cosy vanilla, dry coconut powder and sweet mildly spice accord, all tangled together, which is just like gramma’s hug in a golden sunny autumn afternoon. Everything feels a bit lazy, immersed in a kind of carefree happiness. Somehow it makes me think, if the slightly-fat lazy cat had a scent, she might smell of this perfume,
a weird (good weird) sexy intriguing lazy gracefulness, which is so deadly alluring and which is somehow long gone in our world when nearly everything's sexed up in a rather pornographical way. :S Anyway...
Soon the sweetness gets more complex, somewhat like brown sugar sweet and dried fruit and resins. Then it gets drier, a little bit spicy as in dried fruits kind of spicy plus a little bit dry sweet woods smell. Later on a discreet gardenia scent comes to play (which is already nicely present there since the beginning, as the fresh sweetness, but I just didn’t pay much attention to), it is nice and unconventional, it give the quasi-tuberose nice blooming summer night feel (but does not go for the white flower bouquet direction or smell of real tuberose at all) plus the cosy vanilla, dry coconut powder and sweet mildly spice accord, all tangled together, which is just like gramma’s hug in a golden sunny autumn afternoon. Everything feels a bit lazy, immersed in a kind of carefree happiness. Somehow it makes me think, if the slightly-fat lazy cat had a scent, she might smell of this perfume,
a weird (good weird) sexy intriguing lazy gracefulness, which is so deadly alluring and which is somehow long gone in our world when nearly everything's sexed up in a rather pornographical way. :S Anyway...
Funny that vanilla is not listed as one of the notes for this perfume, as far as Fragrantica.com concerned (actually according to fragrantica.com, Bois Vanille only has sandalwood, black licorice and coconut milk featured in the notes, well...I guess after all what we perceive as the 'vanilla' or whatever smell it is, is actually just some aromatic chemicals, in most of the case).
Bois Vanilla smells of complex sweetened vanilla with floral and woody hint to me.
Despite how complex it is, Bois Vanilla is still easy to wear.
Worth trying! One day, I guess I’ll get my hands on a bottle of this.
Bois Vanilla smells of complex sweetened vanilla with floral and woody hint to me.
Despite how complex it is, Bois Vanilla is still easy to wear.
Worth trying! One day, I guess I’ll get my hands on a bottle of this.
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