It’s not all cupcakes and cotton candy. Get into the sultry side of this sexy plant.
Fueguia 1833, La Cautiva
But the vanilla plant, commonly grown in Madagascar and Tahiti, gets its most fragrant ingredient from hand-harvesting orchid flowers to grow a pod filled with seeds, otherwise knows as vanilla beans.
D.S. & Durga, Deep Dark Vanilla
Rather than simply sweet, vanilla is a complex aroma with floral, sticky, smooth, rich notes.
Byredo, Safran Candle
It can deepen or enhance and amplify spicy notes from saffron and black pepper, as it does here.
Ex Nihilo, Sweet Morphine
Or it can give a comforting heart to big flowers, as it does in this lush bouquet.