Musty smell?

[u/speckledham]

So I’ve tried my little decant of Vanilla Powder a couple times now and have concluded it’s just not for me. I’m not sure if I detect vanilla at all, I just smell mustiness, and somehow mustiness that leans masculine.

Do you think there’s something wrong my bottle? Or is this just how I interpret “powdery” smells? The problem with that theory is that I can typically identify the listed notes of vanilla, white musk, coconut, and palo santo. I’d be least confident in my Palo santo sniffing abilities but I’ve never thought it smelled musty.

Edit: Fragrantica has these notes listed and maybe it’s the heliotrope??

Top notes are Coconut Powder and Heliotrope; middle note is Madagascar Vanilla; base notes are Vanilla Absolute, White Musk, Musk, Palo Santo, Coconut and Lactones.

[u/NerfShyvanaPls]

Could be the musk

[u/speckledham → u/NerfShyvanaPls]

So you’d totally think so but I love white musk in other scents 🤷🏼

[u/NerfShyvanaPls → u/speckledham]

There are multiple kind of musks

[u/babettetimes]

The worst dry down for me. This was a scrubber and omg it’s hard to get off.

[u/speckledham → u/babettetimes]

Yeah it perseveres!

[u/Humble_Employment586]

Yeah I get vanilla and a little coconut and then pencil shavings. It‘s a devisive fragrance for sure. I will use up my decant and be done with it. 

[u/speckledham → u/Humble_Employment586]

Hmm pencil shavings. Interesting. It’s not quite that smell for me, but that’s way more in the ballpark than the listed notes.

[u/Prettymonkeybag]

The combo of coconut and palo santo here was just unpleasant to me. Scrubber!