I was villainized the other night for ordering a vanilla milkshake. Chocolate is far more ubiquitous in our society. Why is vanilla seen as pedestrian?
Vanilla is not 'vanilla' as in the adjective meaning plain. It is the seed pod of an orchid that grows in a few, very warm places. If you've never smell a freshly split vanilla pod, fork over about $7-8 bucks for a single pod, and you'll smell something so good, you won't miss the $7-8 bucks (even better to put it into a good vanilla ice cream recipe). Vanilla extract/essence doesn't hold a light to the real deal. Vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon then citrus would be how I rank the 'exoticnes' of these scents IMO.
I have not smelled the fresh stuff, but I might just try it. But a lot of the "perfume" you find in "high end" makeup shops hsve the ooey-gooey smelling vanilla as some of the scent tones, and I just haven't been able to trust it. Do you have any recs of a good vanilla toned fragrance?
I was villainized the other night for ordering a vanilla milkshake. Chocolate is far more ubiquitous in our society. Why is vanilla seen as pedestrian?
Recommend a fragrance, please?! 😍
Of course. It smells like a scented trash bag.
It's clear you never smelled a high end fragrance with a note of vanilla in it. Vanilla in its best form isn't "sickly" sweet
I have, in fact. It still is disgustingly sweet to me. I just hate the smell.
But maybe I haven't smelled a GOOD high end fragrance. Any recs? I am willing to do a sniff test to be proven wrong
I get what you mean. My brother hates the smell of Cinnamon.
Vanilla is not 'vanilla' as in the adjective meaning plain. It is the seed pod of an orchid that grows in a few, very warm places. If you've never smell a freshly split vanilla pod, fork over about $7-8 bucks for a single pod, and you'll smell something so good, you won't miss the $7-8 bucks (even better to put it into a good vanilla ice cream recipe). Vanilla extract/essence doesn't hold a light to the real deal. Vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon then citrus would be how I rank the 'exoticnes' of these scents IMO.
I have not smelled the fresh stuff, but I might just try it. But a lot of the "perfume" you find in "high end" makeup shops hsve the ooey-gooey smelling vanilla as some of the scent tones, and I just haven't been able to trust it. Do you have any recs of a good vanilla toned fragrance?
I assure you, the vanilla flower smells very nice. Not as sugary as those vanilla perfumes obviously. I myself find the perfumes repulsive.
Don't a good amount of cinnamon scents have a hint of vanilla?