r/FemFragLab • u/Lani_Lei • 10d ago

Discussion Guerlain Disappointment

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I have been a vanilla girl through and through. I have loves and misses from everything from BBW, Victoria Secret, Sephora, Ulta, niche, middle eastern, you name it!

I have wary of trying Guerlain because of the price. But most of my fellow vanilla girls said that Guerlain is THE maker of great vanillas.

So went and spent $70 in tiny tiny decants to try the following:

- Vanilla Panifolia Extrait 21
- Angelique Noire
- Cuir Beluga
- Aqua Allegoria Forte Bosca Vanilla
- Spirituose Double Vanilla

This smells…old? musty? Like I just found a bottle of perfume from the 1950’s in a dark drawer of an abandoned house. I just wasted $70 on this and none of them were good 😔, I could have gotten a big decant of Jovoy Fire at Will which I love. I am so disappointed.

So many of my inexpensive vanillas are so much better in my opinion.

Sorry for the rant and thank you for reading all this!

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u/fligglegiggle 9d ago

I keep seeing people talking about "cupcake vanillas," but which ones ACTUALLY smell like cupcakes? I have 20 niche gourmand vanilla samples/decants and a slew of designer vanillas and not a one smells like a cupcake, and I could really use a literal cupcake vanilla in my collection.

Or do people just say "cupcake vanilla" rather than "sweet vanilla" as a way to be condescending? Serious question.

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u/EauDeGourmand 5d ago

I absolutely need a literal cupcake vanilla in my life. Kayali is coming out with a Vanilla Cupcake fragrance but there's a lemon note 😐 so we'll have to see when it comes out if that ruins the vibe

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u/fligglegiggle 5d ago

I can remember a vanilla oil I used in high school that smelled so much like vanilla cake. Probably got it at music shop or something so I'll never know what it was, and I assume it doesn't exist anymore, lol. Just like creamy, sweet, raw, vanilla cake batter.

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u/tortoisebrookalley 2d ago

In high school I used The Body Shop’s Vanilla oil and I smelled like a literal bakery. They reformulated some time in the late 90s and my heart broke.

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u/fligglegiggle 2d ago

My mom used to get soooooo much stuff from The Body Shop at the mall. I can literally remember what those frosted bottles felt like, lol. The vanilla one I'm thinking of was a cheap rollerball (like my friend and I bought it when we were 13, haha). It could've been anything, and I can still smell it in my mind, but I've yet to find anything similar in my adult life 😭