Boise Vanille Montale for women

It's strongly reminds me of Lagerfeld Classic edt. Not bad at all, just not my cup of tea

A very nice composition. Woody, clean, spicy. When i applied it on the skin, after half a hour it was an exact stronger version of Lalique pour Homme. But compared, this montale is a heavy duty. This is a mens fragrance.

A very spicy, almost medicinal fragrance, and after an hour I still haven't picked up any vanilla! The cedar and allspice dominate on my skin leaving a subtle and slightly mature scent. Very warming.

Sharp, biting opening, a medicine-like smell, slightly reminiscent of some juniper-tar based oitment prescribed against rheumatism. I'm with reviewer fpih on that one: Hate it! I can neither detect any vanilla-warmth or pleasant woody ingredients in this one, which - like many scents I don't fancy - lasts for hours. A total bummer for me. This is a fragrance which would put me off if someone wore it in my presence. But I'm lucky, I've never smelled it on anybody before, just sampled it today. Sniffing my way around samples is always a gorgeous experience - and I conclude that Montale is a house behind which I have to put a very big question mark. One more perfume from their range which I cannot stand. Good to know.
2 out of 10 points on my personal scale

This fragrance has a nice dry-down : dominant patchouli , spices, vanilla-tonka with a woody -resinous, slightly incense feeling. The vanillic side is soft without sweetness. Femme fatal for sure. The dark patchouli will get you the attention if that is what you are looking for. :)

The top notes are not so well balanced. Too much geranium that enhances the lavender and cedar notes. And not in a good way. If there was less patchouli and vanilla it could have been a nice masculine fragrance.

Overall, I could ignore the first hour, the dry down is getting better and better. After 3 hours it is just beautiful.

I have 4 words for this fragrance: impervious, intriguing and Krazy Krizia.

7.9/10

There is no kind way to say this: I absolutely hate this perfume. I like lavender and I like vanilla. Their combination though did not work for me one bit. The lavender is way too strong as are the citruses. In fact, I couldn't smell any vanilla at all, until an hour or more after I tried this. I've been searching for a vanilla perfume for winter and been over 10-15 samples during the last month. This is definitely the worst, followed closely by Vanille Absolue. Montale's not a house I will be revisiting soon.

Note: In other sites this is marked as a masculine scent mostly and I do agree this would be better suited to man than a woman.

The opening of Boise Vanilla has a nice candle-wax smell, similar to the waxy smell you might get from Jublition 25. Soon the wax smell’s gone within seconds, and there’s deep, dark, woody smell, something reminds me of clove, but woodier, smoother, and also, there’s some weird old Asian wine smell/Le Labo Oud smell dances around.

Then I’ve got something soothing, cool, powdery (the Iris note, I guess), as well as addictive. I kept on sniffing my wrist, however, weird enough, I’ve got a headache from it, but I kept on smelling because it’s just so addictive. The headache is like a physical punch, a good and slightly painful stretch from yoga; and has nothing to do with the sad depressing headaches I sometimes get from smelling..say Euphoria by CK or jasmine meteorites from Alien by TM.

I cannot smell any distinctive lavender here, but as the perfume gets quite cool and soothing through time, there’s the grown-up-baby-powder/slightly-minty-vanilla-tobacco combo which gives me similar calm feeling to what lavender essential oil does to me.

The final drydown is slightly powdery, oriental, vanilla-y, plus a tiny bit soft-leathery, like smelling some nice iris scent along with a soft leather handbag. Somehow it feels like Guerlain’s Shalimar wearing a sexy leather-looking corset, hanging out with Balmain’s Jolie Madame.

I am not sure what to make of Boise Vanille. Initially is smells kind of boozy (like bourbon). The drydown is more pleasant. The lavender is expressing as a strange antiseptic undertone on my skin. Overall a whirlpool of incongruency; sweetness, woodsiness, medicinal spiciness.

I just don't think this sits very well on my skin.

A peppery and seductive vanilla mixture.
First notes lure with bergamot and freshness of lime but then majestic vanilla strikes like a blood rush.
Amazing and very sexy perfume.

This vanilla is sweet and dangerous. Not girlish, its sweetness is balzamic woody with pepper and aromatic notes, for a femme fatal. Very very sensual, for a femme fatal.