Name: Madagascan Vanilla Flower Eau De Toilette
Brand: The Body Shop
Size: 50ml
Price: €22.00
What I liked:
- lovely and sweet floral vanilla scent / buona e dolce fragranza alla vaniglia
- pretty bottle / bottiglia carina
- longlasting / dura a lungo sulla pelle
What I didn’t like:
- it may be too sweet for some people / alcune persone potrebbero trovarla troppo dolce
- simple, lacks complexity and originality / semplice, non è ne complessa nè originale
Madagascar. The sun is blazing in the bright blue sky. A vanilla orchid winds around a tree. As its pods ripens, its sweet scent fills the air and is carried far away by a gentle breeze. This is exactly the moment The Body Shop tried to capture in their new Madagascan Vanilla Flower Eau De Toilette, one of the five fragrances that make up the Scents of the World range, created with natural extracts, hand-picked and harvested with care, and 100% organic alcohol.
Packaged in a sleek and beautiful bottle with an image of an African prairie complete with vanilla flowers, Madagascan Vanilla Flower is described as an oriental gourmand, but to me it’s more of a floral oriental. The main note is obviously vanilla, whose sweetness never turns into gourmand thanks to the addition of a fragrant bouquet of frangipani and accents of warm amber. It’s a very sweet (but not so much to be nauseating), youthful and warm scent.
It reminds me of Dior’s Hypnotic Poison, but lacks its complexity. Madagascan Vanilla Flower is, in fact, very linear and straightforward. The initial burst is quite strong and, although it subsides within a few minutes, the scent never really evolves. What you’ll smell at the beginning is what you’ll smell till the end. It’s a simple scent that will appeal to those who love a sweet vanilla fragrance. They’ll be enveloped in its warm embrace from morning till night.
Madagascar. Il sole arde in un limpido cielo blu. Un fiore di vaniglia si attorciglia intorno a un albero. Mentre giunge a maturazione, la sua dolce fragranza riempe l’aria e viene trasportata lontano da una gentile brezza. Questo è esattamente il momento che The Body Shop ha cercato di catturare nella nuova fragranza Madagascan Vanilla Flower, Eau De Toilette, una delle cinque fragranze che compongono la linea Profumi Del Mondo, creata con estratti naturali, colti a mano e coltivati con cura, e alcohol organico al 100%.
Racchiusa in una bottiglia semplice e carina con l’immagine di una prateria africana e fiori di vaniglia, Madagascan Vanilla Flower è descritta come una fragranza orientale gourmand, ma a me sembra più orientale floreale. La nota principale è ovviamente la vaniglia, la cui dolcezza non diventa mai “gourmand” grazie all’aggiunta di un fragrante bouquet di frangipani e ad accenti di calda ambra. E’ un profumo molto dolce (ma non così tanto da dare la nausea), giovanile e caldo.
Assomiglia un pò a Hypnotic Poison di Dior, ma senza la complessità di quest’ultimo. Madagascan Vanilla Flower infatti è una fragranza semplice e lineare. Appena spruzzato il profumo è abbastanza forte, ma sebbene nel giro di pochi minuti si addolcisca, non evolve mai. Quello che annusate all’inizio sarà lo stesso profumo che annuserete per tutta la sua durata. E’ una fragranza semplice che piacerà soprattutto a quelli che amano il produmo dolce della vaniglia. La fragranza lì avvolgerà nel suo caldo abbraccio dalla mattina alla sera.
Available at: thebodyshop.co.uk and the-body-shop.it
Summary
The Body Shop Madagascan Vanilla Floral Eau de Toilette is a very simple and sweet (but not foody), floral oriental scent that lasts from morning till night and is affordable. However, some may find it too sweet, linear and unoriginal for their taste.
The Body Shop Madagascan Vanilla Flower Eau de Toilette è una semplice e dolce (ma non gourmand), fragranza orientale floreale che dura dalla mattina alla sera e che costa poco. Ma alcune persone potrebbero trovarla troppo dolce, lineare e non abbastanza originale per i loro gusti.
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at one look it looks like body oil to me! my general impression with bodyshop fragrances is – they disappear pretty quickly on me, only lasts for 1-2 hours
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Xin, this one is pretty longlasting. I was pretty surprised as it’s an EDT and so didn’t expect it to last long. Do try a sample if you can, you may like it more than you think.
My Outremer Vanilla perfume lasts me all day too and it’s really basic so I won’t be picking up this one though I will have to take a whiff of it.
If their other scents appeal to me, I may pick one up considering how nice this one is.
You are so talented! You’re very fluent in both Italian and English and so educated in cosmetics and skincare. You write well and read a lot! :] When I told my teacher about your blog (2 months back) she said it’s so nice to have such a wonderful person to look up to.
Janessa, this is a lovely vanilla scent and it got me curious to try the others in the range too.
Aww you’re always too nice to me. Thank you for your kind words, they mean a lot to me.