Discover vanilla as a perfume note with a fragrance experts guide to vanilla perfume. Learn about salted vanilla, warm vanilla, and bourbon vanilla perfumes.
When it comes to your perfume, vanilla is far from boring. A warm, enticing note – vanilla serves as a key scent.
What is the scent profile of a vanilla note in perfumes?
Vanilla absolute is a rich and complex raw material. It has a variety of characteristics, from sugary, warm, addictive, spicy and smoky to creamy, animalic, woody, powdery and leathery. Depending on where it comes from, certain facets are accentuated: Madagascar vanilla tends to be more sugary sweet, vanilla from Uganda has a more pronounced leathery facet while the Tahitian vanilla possesses a slightly more floral character.
What other perfume notes does vanilla pair well with?
Vanilla is the star ingredient of the amber family. It is also a key ingredient in the floral amber family. Vanilla is a very versatile ingredient and pairs well with so many different perfume notes. Vanilla pairs particularly well with red fruits and berries, florals, dry woods, ambery notes, warm ambery woods and gourmand notes (like chocolate, coffee). In a fragrance vanilla brings comfort, addiction and finesse to the existing accords by wrapping them in a warm sweet embrace. It can be used in both masculine and feminine fragrances.
Where does vanilla typically sit in the layers of a perfume
Vanilla is a base note and you will find it at the bottom of a fragrance pyramid. As a base note, you might not smell it right away, but know that it is working to prolong the olfactive appeal of your fragrance.
What kind of mood does vanilla evoke as a fragrance?
Vanilla is one of the most recognizable ingredients across cultures and traditions. It is no wonder that the first mood it evokes is nostalgia from its sweet, sugary facets. Vanilla can be dark, mysterious and sexy. It can also be exotic.
Source: Lancôme
