Some people equate "vanilla” with being boring, but you can’t argue that it’s a classic. Whether you love the scent with all your heart or think it smells like every other woman you know, vanilla perfume is here to stay. As of writing, #vanillaperfume has more than 138,000 posts on TikTok, with a number of videos garnering upwards of a million likes and views. Gone are the days of simply saccharine gourmands. There are more complex and unexpected vanilla fragrances to choose from. Now, overpowering vanilla notes are taking a backseat and making way for new olfactory combinations that feature other interesting ingredients that help enhance and balance out the sweetness. Think exotic florals, deep ambers, musks and tropical fruits that make them anything-but-boring. So, if you’re looking to upgrade your fragrance collection, here are the 14 best vanilla perfumes in the market, vetted by PureWow editors. 

To figure out which vanilla perfumes were worthy, I needed to make sure that they met a few requirements. First, every perfume on this list needed to have other prominent olfactory characteristics that enhanced their vanilla notes like floral, woody, beachy, cool, warm, spicy or gourmand. The perfumes also needed to hit a variety of price points, from affordable throw-it-in-your-cart-at-check-out fragrances to indulgent splurges worthy of their own savings accounts. In addition, I also sought out different kinds of fragrance concentrations from the stronger parfums and eau de parfums to the lighter eau de colognes and eau de toilettes. Plus, I looked for household names and indie labels to capture a wide range of vanilla perfumes and made sure they were all vetted by PureWow editors and reviewers.

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