Boise Vanille Montale for women

...dark woody vanilla scent...this is really great ..not too sweet ..very attractive and mysterious ...a femme fatale type of perfume
I could smell the lavender at first mixed with geranium and some woody notes which gives it a dark allure and after that a very nice vanilla made its way into it...

sillage & longevity: more than 8 h on my skin ...bomb type:d

you cannot pass unnoticed :D

On me, it started strange (a bit like wet potato, really), then settled to some faint spicy-like smell. However, on my boyfriend, from the first moment till the very last it was sexy, woody-spicy, with a hint of 'manly' vanilla :) a good unisex in my opinion.

It's strongly reminds me of Lagerfeld Classic edt. Not bad at all.

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.

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.