Accident à la Vanille
Jousset Parfums (2021)

Straight up salty, sugary, buttery vanilla cookies that someone regurgitated after ingesting the cookies with sour milk. Not sure how, or why anyone would want to walk around smelling like this.

Thankfully, the longevity is minimal and silage is absent.

I only applied a few small sprays from a decant and I nearly felt ill. Cannot imagine over-spraying this.

Jousset Parfums Accident a la Vanille (translated on the house website as “Vanilla Crash”) is from 2021, and has since spawned a few flankers, but this original smells of rich vanilla somewhere between cake/icing and ice cream—sugary but more so creamy, dense and deep, quite interesting while communicating a familiar and relatable experience of in-your-face, fragrant vanilla that conjures desserts. The note listing only involves vanilla, sandalwood, and styrax, with the latter two to round things out and provide some structure, boundaries to this otherwise pure gourmand.

I find AALV very easy to enjoy, perhaps easy to love, even, but it’s a little cake-ish to be in the uppermost echelon of vanilla fragrances, at least for me, based on my preferences, but it’s interesting and sumptuous enough that vanilla lovers should definitely try this, and I think it makes a pleasant add-on to any sample order from one of the retailers that carries it. Very nicely done, and I’m happy to continue sample this house after a couple of years.

It’s sold in the US by Luckyscent and Sealed Essence at $155-165 for 50ml, in extrait concentration, and performs very well.

7 out of 10

A smooth, creamy & high quality vanilla, with the sweetness offset by the addition of sandalwood. The impression of cake batter is there, but because of the woody note, it doesn't come off quite as rich or eggy as lndult Tihota. lt slowly fades & is unchanged five hours in. A little more development would have made it more interesting for me, but l'd still recommend it to any lovers of vanilla out there.

Apparently a lot of people love this? But to me it smells like salty melted butter, I get no vanilla at all! I don’t hate it but I definitely can’t wear it…