Perfume of the Day: Vanille Tonka (Parfums de Nicolai)
Unlike most vanilla scents, this one isn’t a try-hard crowd pleaser. It opens with a smoky-citrus wall of scent, almost completely obscuring the soft, spicy vanilla center. When the smoke clears, frankincense keeps things buoyed far from gourmand territory. I really didn’t think I’d like this scent due to the topnotes, but I quickly warmed to it as it did to me. I’d love to smell this on a man. $88/50ml at Luckyscent.
Creamy vanilla and rich tonka get top billing here, but there’s another key player in this spellbinding scent: dark and mysterious frankincense, which firmly steers the vanilla away from the bakery and into an opulent hookah bar upholstered in deep brown velvet. Opening with a tingle of sharp lime and tangerine, this unfurls into a cinnamon-laced, smoky vanilla that makes us deliriously happy. A voluptuous and adult vanilla, a vanilla that has been around the block, a vanilla that has nothing to do with cupcakes. Enveloping, warm and slightly dangerous.
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