Fragrance Review- Tom Ford: Vanilla Sex

Fragrance Review- Tom Ford: Vanilla Sex

First impression: I truly wanted to scrub this off but decided to wait it out. 

🌹First let’s be clear about one thing. This barely smells like Vanilla to my nose. This opens up very strong with bitter Almond, very dry powdery floral from the rose and a synthetic note. The synthetic note give the fragrance a sour cherry like smell with a barely there hint of vanilla. 👵After about 10 mins it turns a bit “baby wipe(ish) from the synthetic note and the florals become mature (think the “old lady” rose scent) and stays there for a while.🐈‍⬛I don’t get “vanilla” sex from this but I do get OutKasts Roses really smell like….🐱vibes from this. If you take a shower, spray Rose Prick or Gucci Bloom, with Chanel No 5 and add a dash of vanilla on a pair of panties- you’ll smell like this at the 10-15 minute mark. 🍨Deep in the dry down by the 3 hour mark and it FINALLY turns into something somewhat nice to smell, the creamy vanilla starts projecting with warm almonds and it comes off like a vanilla chai with almond milk.

💅🏽The deep dry down is really nice but you have to wait hours for that transition. Not only because it takes so long to get to the vanilla dry down but because of the price as well, I won’t purchase a bottle of this. If you want pure, edible, gourmand vanilla-you won’t get that in this fragrance. It is complex with almond, florals and synthetic elements first before the vanilla. I will try this again in the summer and write an update.💕

 

 If you tried this, PLEASE let me know your thoughts! So many people have had different experiences with this fragrance. 

️Overall rating: 2/5: ⭐⭐

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