But for many women who came of age believing one's choice of Victoria's Secret body spray said a lot about your personality, having vanilla front-and-center as your signature is a non-starter. It suggests a certain youthfulness and unsophistication so acute that it's best found vaguely alluded to in a base note, if anywhere at all, lest people judge you at first sniff on the basis of smelling like angel food cake.
— Read more in Our Love-Hate Relationship With Vanilla, Explained at Allure.
I am firmly on Team Vanilla, just as long as there are some other notes to balance out the angel-food-cake-ness. It’s a nice, pleasant comfort scent that is also (fairly) inoffensive, if one needs their fragrance to be so. And, yes, one of my nicer vanillas is Victoria’s Secret Cashmere, lol.
Excellent.
Yeesh. Am I the only person who found that article kinda b*tchy?
No!