Valkyrie, from Sylvaine Delacourte was released in 2018. The perfumer behind this creation is Maurice Roucel and Sylvaine Delacourte. The notes are Basil, Bitter Orange, Lime, Mint, Sandalwood, Vanilla.
Look at the notes listed here and I'll show you a happy man, anticipating a lovely creamy, fruity fragrance...but no. How to they fuck up vanilla so badly? Especially when the entire line has nods to popular Guerlain, vanilla laden formulas? I don't get it? So Valkyrie opens fantastically and I actually thought this was the equivalent of the Oranzo & Helicriss in that it's herbal, aromatic, slightly green and masculine leaning, all of which I enjoy, especially with a vanilla backdrop to combine with, it could've been interesting. However, it's very short lived and soon settles to a cloying groove of hideous, cheap, yellow custard, sweetness with maltol caramel. I'd love to actually use maltol/ethyl maltol or bisabolene effectively in a formula because trace effects probably do wonders in fragrances you don'r even detect them in. That's the key but blending though I guess? When you perceive but can't overtly smell them. In this instance there's not enough to mask the vape pen effect. I will concede that now after 6 1/2 hours the soft musk/vanilla on my clothes is a little better or my nose is fatigued and has just waved a little white flag and accepted defeat and resigned itself to the ineviatbility of smelling this way today whether I like it or not. Buy the ticket take the ride.
Look at the notes listed here and I'll show you a happy man, anticipating a lovely creamy, fruity fragrance...but no. How to they fuck up vanilla so badly? Especially when the entire line has nods to popular Guerlain, vanilla laden formulas? I don't get it? So Valkyrie opens fantastically and I actually thought this was the equivalent of the Oranzo & Helicriss in that it's herbal, aromatic, slightly green and masculine leaning, all of which I enjoy, especially with a vanilla backdrop to combine with, it could've been interesting. However, it's very short lived and soon settles to a cloying groove of hideous, cheap, yellow custard, sweetness with maltol caramel. I'd love to actually use maltol/ethyl maltol or bisabolene effectively in a formula because trace effects probably do wonders in fragrances you don'r even detect them in. That's the key but blending though I guess? When you perceive but can't overtly smell them. In this instance there's not enough to mask the vape pen effect. I will concede that now after 6 1/2 hours the soft musk/vanilla on my clothes is a little better or my nose is fatigued and has just waved a little white flag and accepted defeat and resigned itself to the ineviatbility of smelling this way today whether I like it or not. Buy the ticket take the ride.