Carpe Vanilliem

Carpe Vanilliem - Seize the day, wear the vanilla. There is no wrong time for vanilla. No season, no hour, no occasion where it doesn’t belong. This is your reminder to indulge fully, wear the good perfume and use the fancy dishes.

At its core, Carpe Vanilliem is built around a rich, natural vanilla extract and treated not as a background sweetness, but as the star material. This isn’t a predictable flat gourmand or a simple bakery accord.

It’s an exploration of vanilla in all its dimensions: luminous and airy, creamy and floral, boozy and resinous, soft and skinlike. This composition explores vanilla in its full raw spectrum.

The story begins with the material itself. The vanilla used here is produced in-house through a slow, meticulous extraction process that unfolds over months. It is intentionally unhurried and designed to pull not just the obvious sweetness from the beans, but their darker, more complex character. What results is a living extract that is textured, nuanced, and impossible to replicate with off the shelf materials. Everything in the composition is built to orbit and elevate this core.

Layers of Madagascar, Bourbon, and Tahitian vanilla create a multidimensional backbone, then get lifted, diffused, and sculpted through carefully chosen accords that amplify its hidden facets revealing the true soul of vanilla. 

This fragrance is designed to bloom with heat. On paper, you’ll get the outline. On skin, it transforms. As your body warms it, new nuances unfold, the boozy facets deepen, the florals soften, the woods emerge, and the vanilla becomes more alive and dimensional. It’s not static, it evolves with you. If you don’t wear it on skin, you’re only experiencing half the story.

Notes:

Top:Yuzu, Bergamot, Pink Pepper, Aldehydes, Rum

Mid: Vanilla Caviar, Heliotrope, Iris, Brandy, Suede, Orchid

Base: Madagascar Vanilla, Bourbon Vanilla, Tahitian Vanilla, Sandalwood, Orris Root, Benzoin, Labdanum, Guaiacwood, Cedarwood, Cypriol, Coumarin, White Musk

Ingredients: Alcohol (Denat.), Fragrance (Parfum), Water (Aqua), Vanillin, Ethyl Vanillin, Limonene, Coumarin, Linalool, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Benzyl Benzoate, Citral, Geraniol, Benzyl Cinnamate