
If it weren’t for Le Labo’s idiotic “city exclusive” gimmick, I would have probably bought a small bottle of it by now, despite the price. I’m on my second decant, which means that I like it. And sometimes those are “just because” – but not too often. Vanilla perfumes are my sick-day-but-still-don’t-want-going-commando perfumes. Vanilla perfumes are my rainy day perfumes. Over the years, I found 5-6 vanilla-centric perfumes I like and wear. But this question is about perfumes where one can unmistakably pinpoint that ingredient as a main player.ĭo you have many vanilla perfumes? Any? How often do you wear those? Similar to bergamot, rose and jasmine, vanilla is a “usual suspect” in many compositions. Saturday Question #166: What Is Your Favorite Vanilla Perfume? If you want to read through the study, here’s a link. The data from these nine communities were then related to available data from a large dataset on odor preference collected from urban dwellers from the USA (New York City). These included the three hunter-gatherer groups, Seri from a coastal desert and Maniq and Semaq Beri from tropical rainforest, one shoreline forager, Mah Meri, from a tropical coast one swidden-horticulturalist, Semelai, from tropical rainforest one farmer-foraging community, Chachi, from tropical rainforest one subsistence agriculturalist community, Imbabura Quichua, from temperate highlands and two urban dwellers from industrial and postindustrial communities of bustling urban settings, Mexican and Thai. Odor preference rankings were collected from nine culturally and geographically diverse populations. Human olfactory perception is strongly constrained by universal principles.Individuals within cultures vary as to which odors they find pleasant.



Culture plays a minimal role in the perception of odor pleasantness.But I looked up the study, and I thought that the conclusions were interesting: Of course, even before they ran a mini-poll asking to choose from the 4 quite ubiquitous aromas, I knew the answer – that’s why I won’t even try running it here (hence the topic). One of the YouTube creators recently did a short video on the scent that, according to researchers, people consider the most pleasant.
