095 Vanitas

095 VA mirrors Versace Vanitas's minimal, classic structure: a bright lime opening, a tiare flower and freesia heart, and a cedar-tonka bean base. Reviewers describe the real Vanitas as a bright, clean and very classic floral, sweet and soft with freesia as the main player and just enough woodiness in the drydown to keep it from feeling like a flat bouquet, though some find it a touch generic compared with more distinctive Versace releases. This dupe follows that same simple, likeable arc, delivering a similarly fresh, innocent floral character with a soft tonka warmth underneath. It comes up slightly short in finesse, the cedar note here reads a bit more one-dimensional than the original's subtler woody transition, but for a scent whose appeal always rested on being uncomplicated and pleasant rather than complex, the gap is modest.