Vanille West Indies Ligne St Barth 2007

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8.3 / 10 495 Ratings

Vanille West Indies is a popular perfume by Ligne St Barth for women and was released in 2007. The scent is sweet-gourmand. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Creamy

Powdery

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Vanilla

Orchid

Heart Notes

Vanilla blossom

Base Notes

Vanilla

Caramel

Ratings

Scent

8.3495 Ratings

Longevity

8.3455 Ratings

Sillage

7.4451 Ratings

Bottle

6.7408 Ratings

Value for money

7.0209 Ratings

Submitted by Schnuffi, last update on 19.04.2024.

Reviews

22 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/24/2019

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Parfümlein
119 Reviews

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Parfümlein

Top Review 21

Challenge in Advent: On the way to "my" vanilla scent - 24 December 2019

And here it is: my vanilla perfume. The long shot. And by chance last tested. The Christmas vanilla scent. The most beautiful one.
I was wearing it yesterday afternoon. We went for a walk, the dog was making trouble because he had smelled something he was afraid of. He can't take hunts, shots, horns and all that at all and then stands up stiff. Suddenly my husband said: "It smells like waffles here. Or vanilla croissants." Believe it or not - I thought for minutes whether this could have something to do with the wild pigs. But they smell like Maggi. I also thought for a short moment that we would now come across some kind of Christmas special in the forest just around the next corner, a small sales stand with waffles from the kindergarten for the Christmas Forest Festival or something. It was only after minutes, when my husband kept on talking about the scent, that I suddenly realized: "That's me! I smell like a cookie here! I am your cookie!"
Vanilla West Indies' is an incredibly delicious vanilla scent. The fragrance is very similar to 'Indult', but it appears much finer and more delicate, but still has a very good silage, as you can see - and an impressive shelf life. The fragrance is simply fine in itself, delicate, completely vanilla-sweet, but not too sweet, not too heavy, simply delicious and pleasant for me and for my surroundings. An insanely delicate floral breeze appears after a while, and the base is a little sweeter, yes, actually caramel. The atomizer is also excellent, and when I think how much less than 'Indult' it costs, although the price is still quite high, I can say: "Welcome, you most beautiful of all fine vanilla scents! You belong to me from now on! Feel good in the line of your brothers and sisters on the perfume shelf and generally: Merry Christmas! I'm delighted with this scent.
The next days I will send a small overall evaluation behind. Now all of you: A merry, blessed, happy Christmas!

03/23/2019

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Biberfrau
5 Reviews

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Biberfrau

Top Review 20

Dreams

I rarely get that way. I smell, I think joa bast scho. Spray again a few days later, think again joa bast scho. So weeks and months go by and I just don't know what to think. Something won't let me go, but something doesn't really want to. I have to rehearse it again and again; every time I collect new impressions. If I'm in a good mood, the fragrance is also completely ok, if I'm less in a good mood (what happened to OFT the last few months) or stressed or whatever, in any case not in good spirits, it spoils my fragrance experience. But right.
Vanilla West Indies came to me last March. Right there, when the flu epidemic raged and didn't stop at me. This innocent scent came to me and I demonized it. Yuck, sweet, sticky, artificial vanilla plörre (sweet vanilla West Indies, please listen away, I didn't mean that). Ew. I was just disappointed because I hoped for so much of it and what was? Nothing was it! I really thought that's the scent that's being praised? Are you serious? I admit, the flu craze has contributed 90% to the fact that I have left this treasure for almost a year.

Time jump. October 2018. At that time I was in the middle of hard times. What do you do in difficult times? You're looking for relaxation, relief, something clammy and cuddly. I, restlessly searching for THE scent, thought to myself, man, you have so many bottlings, first empty them before you buy again. Okay, said done. In difficult, turbulent times I am drawn to the sweet, lulling and warm scents. Such a feeling of security, you know... But what was it that made me feel that way? I went through my bottlings and got stuck with vanilla West Indies. Uh, wasn't that the cute, sticky one? You didn't like it, don't like it. No, not at all. I thought to myself, oh, you haven't tried it in a long time. It hasn't landed in the pull-along corner, so it has to fit somehow...
Joa, a sprayer from the bottling and I think so hmmm joa... hmm... *sniff sniff* not bad.... The game went a month, again and again a sprayer on the back of the hand and sniff, sniff, sniff.
When I then turned into a walking vanilla pudding and in the meantime was already asked what would smell so good here, I decided to let the bottle retract. I don't regret it until today.

Vanilla West Indies is one of the few fragrances that gives me the ultimate feeling of well-being. When I wear it, I just feel wonderful, relaxed and great. Vanilla West Indies embraces me when I urgently need a hug, it gives me a cosy, homely feeling. He never offends or disturbs anyone. He doesn't scream Here I am, not with brute force, as many others in my collection do. No, he keeps a low profile, but still remains warm and comfortable. A great fragrance, which gets by with only one sprayer and has sneaked so lansgam into my heart. As if he wants to wrap you in cotton wool all day long and protect you from "terrible events".
If you are looking for a complex fragrance here, you will unfortunately look in vain. As already mentioned What you see (smell) is what you get. Vanilla at its best. There's no scent gradient. Sprayed on he stays as he is and really is all day. I like to describe scents with songs and this one is Dreams from Fleetwood Mac.

Vanilla West Indies is my time out, my haven of peace, my review of past times that have made me what I am today. He'll ground me and bring me back to the here and now. With him even my restless search has come to an end. Never again without you.

Oh, thunder, only happens when it's raining
Players, only love you when they're playing
They say women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
You'll know

11/04/2019

8
Longevity 9
Scent

Susan
59 Reviews

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Susan

Top Review 20

Airy tender vanilla......

The most wonderful vanilla scent that ever came under my nose...!!

at no time during the whole fragrance development (if one can speak of one at all here) my nose is infected somewhere.......also at no time does a food association develop, as it happened to me e.g. with "Spiritueuse Double Vanille" (cinnamon bun with rum raisins)......despite vanilla and caramel as main actors it remains a "perfume" and does not become a "baking aroma"......it is definitely a "light" vanilla........there is nothing dark, heavy, animal, oriental.......it's rather the flapping of a vanilla butterfly's wings (there's no such thing).......or the delicate vanilla fairy who conjures up fragrant little vanilla clouds with a wave of her magic wand (there's no such thing either).......

Exactly as I love perfume......soft, warm, gentle, flowing and delicately enveloping.....

03/01/2021

5
Pricing 5
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Anonymous
15 Reviews

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Anonymous

Very helpful Review 17

Mmm... just delicious

A straightforward and natural, credible, authentic fragrance that I would never want to miss. I have always been of the opinion that the degree of complexity of a fragrance says nothing about whether it is beautiful or not. I don't think that all one-sided fragrances with a simple scent pyramid are also bad at the same time. Conversely, a complex fragrance is also not always good.
There are two fragrance notes that I generally always find lovely in their simplicity and purest form; one is rose, the other is vanilla. Unfortunately, these two fragrance notes are combined with other fragrance notes in most perfumes and also usually appear synthetic and musty...
This fragrance hits the mark in terms of my expectations for vanilla. I had him me almost a year ago once at a more than fair price at a perfumery can get hold of and am really sad that I have not immediately bought two copies to be supplied several years with it, especially since he is offered for several months less and less.
It was a blind purchase: this truly suits me well as a blind person.... When I opened the package, I was a little surprised at first, because there was no foil around the packaging. However, since I had purchased the goods from a perfumery of confidence, I had to worry quasi not about its originality. Perhaps the manufacturer was thinking of a box of chocolates for the scent. If you are such a freak of chocolate and the like, you know very well that your weakness for it overwhelms you so much that you tear open the foil of a box of chocolates as soon as you see it... Muhahaha! ;) This scent is also just delicious, to nibble on and snack on in one bite...
When I first sprayed it on I couldn't detect any scent for the first 5 seconds, after that I was immediately met with a delicious vanilla caramel bomb. It just smelled like everything you can imagine as a dessert fan (cake fresh out of the oven, pudding, roasted almonds, cotton candy...). And while I don't always consistently notice the scent as a wearer, I now know from experience that the silage more than surpasses all other perfumes I know. I don't always get comments for my fragrance, but whenever I wear it, many people ask why it smells so much like sweets or funfairs and whether I don't automatically get more of a craving for chocolate when I wear this perfume? Of course, therefore, the durability is super. I would only wish that the price and the offer would not always so fluctuating. 115€ is from my point of view and related to my budget (as a (student) a pretty high price for a fragrance.
My appeal to all gourmand fans and Naschbuddys like me: Please test Vanille West Indies after opportunity and if the opportunity to buy presents itself, you can order it without hesitation blind

06/04/2018

5
Bottle 5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Sonjoschka
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Sonjoschka

Very helpful Review 8

Highly acclaimed...

Next to Tihota, this vanilla seems to me to be the "poster vanilla" of perfumes. She is much praised and often mentioned.
Today I thought I could wear the summer vanilla again. It's from the American holiday paradise, St. Barth.
Okay, I added some more after 10 minutes, because she seemed a little too weak for my work. And this in the early morning, when my nose is still more sensitive to the scent.
The consistency here is very oily, that of a perfume/almost perfume oil and you have to be careful not to spray on clothing to avoid grease stains.
So off you go on the skin, the décolleté, the navel and the inside of the forearms. I omitted the hair better because of the oily consistency.
Yes, the vanilla is pleasant at first, but nothing special either. More like an industrial candy vanilla. Today it seemed to me that there is a slightly aquatic note (the orchid?), which subliminally annoys me in the long run, but also brings in summeriness.
In my opinion, vanilla could be more expressive, more genuine and deeper. When I work on real vanilla beans, I always smell a really great, animal note. This note is completely missing here, so that I feel the vanilla as very synthetic. It's more like vanillin than vanilla, but I don't want to be that hard. The fragrance is already recommendable, depending on what you are looking for. This vanilla is perhaps more suitable for the winter and Christmas market or for layering, so that it becomes more multi-layered. Also the slightly caramel of the base - sweets. However, the light, slightly aquatic tones do not go well with this. So for me not quite right.
I sprayed on before work this morning and there is still fine vanilla blowing around my nose. But not very strong, but rather delicate. But I don't like spraying anymore. I'm going to give you something smoky about it. I have not been approached at work, which happens before. I feel it's very close.

I don't know if the fragrance has already been reformulated, at least I noticed a price increase some time ago. Probably also due to the high demand. About 3 years ago, before I bought my bottle, I had a bottling that was a little smokier and blessed with a vintage touch. I didn't find them in the bottle again.
I have not yet found a really good, genuine, animal and therefore interesting vanilla in perfume form. Who knows something, please write under the comment. :-)

Oh yes, I don't even know Tihota, so I can't even make a comparison. But we're not supposed to.

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