NOSTALGIA
NOSTALGIA
A woodsy vanilla floral for people who don’t always love woodsy or floral frags.
Notes
Notes
Top
Jasmine sambac, ylang (so fun to say: ylaaaaang), bright vanilla cloud, soft vanilla cloud
Base
Cedar, darker aged vanilla absolute, a hint of tobacco
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Nostalgia is true luxury. We sourced two types of vanilla, an intensely animalic vanilla absolute, and a lighter, sweeter note that leans creamy and light. We blended an absurd amount of the vanilla with three (!) types of hand-sourced cedar (for real, do you have any idea how different cedar can be? Its wild!). The fragrance is rounded out with narcotic and achingly sweet ylang ylang (once more because it's fun to say ylaaaaang ylaaaaaang) and beautiful, unexpected notes of jasmine sambac absolute.
Unisex, comforting, deeply appealing. This is true luxury, with great sillage and it will sit on your skin for hours.
Consider Wearing This...
Consider Wearing This...
If you love vanilla in general.
If you are ylang-curious but traumatized by all those 90s ylang perfumes that you could smell from a mile away.
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That cigar snoke tho. Definite occasion scent. What a lovely complex development
I’m still trying to decide if this is a like for me. It’s a little sweet for my taste…. But I like the warmth. Maybe just not a good pick for the summer right now. I would wear this in the fall/winter. I wish there were a little more of the wood and floral notes. Felt like I was searching for them under the vanilla and tobacco but I like where this one is going.
Based one the notes, I couldn’t tell if I’d love or dislike Nostalgia. It was love and first spritz and it got better in the dry down. I plan to add a 10ml of this to my collection. MDA is quickly becoming a favorite as almost everything I’ve tried has been a LOVE when I’ve worn it.
I cannot figure out what it is about this scent that lives up to its name but it does. It doesn't smell like anything in particular or a specific memory but it takes me back to the 90s. Maybe it's the hint of tobacco paired with the vanilla. I've always been a vanilla lover and mostly white vanilla musk back in the 90s. Tobacco use in public indoor settings was still pretty rampant then so maybe it's that too. It's a wonderful fragrance, not something I'd normally go for but a wonderful fragrance all the less and I'm sure I'll be returning to it soon.
This fragrance is true to its name ahaha something is oddly nostalgic about it, and I can’t figure out why it throws me back to the late 90’s/early 2000’s. Anyway, jasmine and ylang ylang is usually a miss for me because they’re so overpowering in other fragrances. MDA did a nice job of grounding it with the cedar and tobacco base notes. It softens the blow that jasmine and ylang ylang usually sucker punch me with.
Nostalgia isn’t what I’m typically drawn to in a fragrance, but I’m finding myself gravitating towards it. I’ll have to see how it wears in cooler weather, I think it’s just a touch cloying for a summer fragrance. It’s lovely nonetheless!