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Vanille Absolu Montale for women

Vanille Absolu Montale for women
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Total people voted: 75
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male 25- 25+

I have it: 55 I had it: 8 I want it: 78 My signature: 1

main accords
vanilla
warm spicy
powdery
cinnamon
woody

Vanille Absolu by Montale is a Oriental Vanilla fragrance for women. The nose behind this fragrance is Pierre Montale. The fragrance features vanilla, cinnamon, cloves and woodsy notes.

Fragrance Notes

Vanilla Cinnamon Cloves Woodsy Notes

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Les Orientaux: Vanille
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Vanille Absolu Fragrance Reviews

mpbrown
mpbrown

I really love this vanilla. On me it smells really beautiful - warm, spicy, dry, woody. The cinnamon really stands out and the clove is not medicinal at all. I like it a lot but it doesn't have a lot of sillage - I can't smell it very well unless I put my wrist to my nose. Very soft. It's good that I have a nice sample, but there are other vanilla-based fragrances that have more oomph that I would choose to wear more often.

Apr
01
2013
antfarm
antfarm

Super interesting: this is the only depressing vanilla I have ever encountered. It smells neglected, like it has a musty layer of dust in the beginning. Instead of turning me off, I actually like this kind of olfactory challenge.

The cloves combine with the vanilla to make it smell like a jar of vanilla pods that has been forgotten in a cabinet for several years. However, after a while this stage fades and it just smells like a simple vanilla scent that is neither too sweet nor too synthetic.

Mar
08
2013
RosaMilena
RosaMilena

This is a smoky, deep, powerful, bittersweet vanilla. The opening and core is a traditional, rich bourbon vanilla similar to a quality extract used in fine cooking.

But this extract is wrapped in layers of very dark and smoky woods, burning with sizzling edges of spice. The spice is restrained and is only apparent as a complex supportive enhancement to the rich vanillic core.

The woods here are very prevalent and envelop everything in wisps of smoke like the warmth of very slowly burning charcoal bits surrounding a smooth vanilla liqueur......which lends an austere, bittersweet profundity to this fragrance.

This is not a vanilla for the lighthearted, youthful, party crowd. This is a vanilla base used for incense, just without the dollop of other resins and florals commonly used with this base. It's a serious, meditative, dark, and quietly introspective take on vanilla with no attempt made to enhance sensuality or any flirtatious girly predilections commonly done with vanilla.

A man could wear this just as easily as a women in my opinion.

Very beautiful, very smoky, very dark, very serious, very solitary, austere and introspective as vanilla goes. I love it.

Feb
28
2013
maryjane68
maryjane68

It smelled initially like vanilla (for about one second), and then it crashed into a clovey kind of mothball smell. It's horrid (on me).

Feb
04
2013
dannysmom
dannysmom

The opening notes of this are pure vanilla, almost like vanilla extract. I found it nice, but nothing exciting. Then, in comes the smoke. It literally smells like vanilla is cooking on a campfire. I found it pretty harsh, but endured the hour of so of this. It finally calmed down to a basic, cookie-like vanilla with just a faint touch of smoke.

This one isn't for me. I did like some stages of it, but could not handle the smoke. If you like that, go for it.. Longevity is good. I applied it at 7am. It's 4:15 p.m. and I can still smell it.

Nov
08
2012
Jillzilla
Jillzilla

I love the smell of vanilla, but with my chemistry it has been a prolonged struggle just to find a few vanilla-based scents that don't smell dusty or plasticky on me. Usually, I end up with something crystalline-sweet or oriental-boozy. So with a name like Vanille Absolue, suggesting no other notes to balance the vanilla, I think I was expecting a suffocating, plasticky olfactory mess to emerge on my skin, but boy was I wrong! This vanilla is divine!!! It's clear and light, and my nose interprets it as almost fruity to start. It becomes slightly boozy in the heart, but retains its buoyancy. The base is the same clear vanilla note on a backdrop of soft, warm woody notes (which don't overpower the vanilla). I don't detect any cinnamon or cloves. Sillage seems minimal, but noticeable to myself...and it's heavenly. It leaves my clothing scented with a wonderful warm vanilla aroma, and longevity is amazing (12 hours on skin, longer on clothes). It's not a powerhouse vanilla, but an extremely well executed and discreet vanilla that I would feel confident wearing anywhere...even to the office, with no dusty finish or plastic overtones.

Oct
16
2012
supermatilda84
supermatilda84

like a field of vanilla..with a strong character...

Sep
22
2012
beamainguy
beamainguy

I like to blend montale perfumes, and vanilla Extasy gets on so well with other fragrances of the collection, but the best combination so far is with the brain new Aoud Purple Rose, just awesome!!!

Feb
01
2012
stephan
stephan

After sampling Confetto, Acqua e Zucchero and by Kilian Love Don't Be Shy, this is a very good alternative, I think it's better than the 2 first ones (Profvmvm) and second best after by Kilian, but the price is better!

Aug
28
2011
HappyShopper123
HappyShopper123

I'm not normally a fan of vanilla based scents, and I rushed to finish this little sample off so that I could move onto the Montale samples that I really wanted to try, but I'm very impressed by Vanille Absolu. The initial gooey vibrant vanilla melted into an enveloping mix of comforting sweetness and a slight uplift of spice. Sweet, slightly sensual, fantastic longevity and fair to moderate sillage.

Aug
23
2011
fpih
fpih

The notes sounded wonderful, but the end result smells too fake, sticky and plasticky vanilla to me. I can stand it on my skin, but just barely. There are so many better vanillas out there while this, IMHO, is one of the worst.

Oct
18
2010
mary jane
mary jane

Let me just inform you that there is also another montale fragrance with vanilla, called Chypre Vanille which is quite interesting! Unfortunately its not listed!

Aug
03
2010
Dark Curls
Dark Curls

I am sad. I don't like this after all.:(
I love the notes but not how they are blended in this particular perfume. I can't wait to switch to something else at my lunch time.

May
06
2010
9154mf
9154mf

This seems to be a nice combination of sweet, foody, deep and sultry, as far as vanilla is concerned. I do not get any oud notes at all in this. (Im surprised because Im well aware of Montale's seeming obsession with oud's.) At first there seems to be a faint bourbon note, but this quickly settles into a creamy but sultry vanilla. It is slightly foody but not sickly sweet. It's very nice but ultimately I have so many vanillas and this is just a bit too boring for me.

Aug
18
2009
Σελήνη
Σελήνη

Today i test this awesome fragrance and i must buy this scent!It's the best vanilla scent i ever smelled,it's not a chemical and synthetic smell,Vanilla Absolu is so natural and over delicious.When i took the first sniff my mouth is watering.This is so yummy...it smells like vanilla cotten candy taste and it also smells like hot caramel or something in that way.It's very sweet but for me not bothersome,a very good scent for the colder day's and absolute a fragrance to feel comfortable and cute with it.Vanilla Absolu is very warm and calming,the cinnamon gives a sensual and sexy touch,and it's really creamy.

Apr
04
2009
coco76
coco76

this is probably one of the worst excuses for a perfume i have ever smelled! on me it smells like those cheap little plastic baby dolls you used to be able to get at Stedmans or Economy Fair (or whatever dime store you remember as a kid) - plastic, plastic, plastic! i am SO disappointed!
now, if i could find something that smells exactly like cabbage patch dolls smelled when they first came out - Eureka!!!!

Sep
25
2008
jeca
jeca

Oh, yes, it soft and intimate vanilla, it's not radiant, but truly feminine.

Jul
20
2008
Nuppu
Nuppu

Soft vanilla with litte hint of spices.

Jul
20
2008

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Vanille Absolu by Montale 3.97 out of 5 based on 75 ratings and 18 user reviews

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