Daisy Mist Vanilla Gourmand

Vanilla Gourmand is the one built for people who find the other three too thin. Vanilla carries it, sweet and soft rather than boozy or smoky, and coconut sits alongside giving a creamy tropical roundness that is the main reason this reads as body product rather than perfume. What makes it work is the lemon essential oil in the opening, which is an unusual thing to put on top of a vanilla and coconut base and is exactly what stops the whole thing turning into suntan lotion. The lemon burns off quickly, as lemon does, but while it lasts it gives the mist a lift that most vanilla body sprays never have. Marc Jacobs file it as ambery and fruity rather than as a straight gourmand, which is a fair description; Fragrantica's own accord breakdown puts vanilla first at full strength with citrus second and a powdery facet behind them. As a hair and body mist it wears close, an hour or two on skin and longer in hair. Best in autumn and winter, and it is the one of the four to layer under a heavier vanilla fragrance. The bottle is the peach one, with the Daisy charm on the cap.