STORY
The salty diffusiveness of ambroxan certainly helps to control sweetness, but the main
hand in ensuring the scent remains dry is the Siam benzoin, the basenote material chosen here to
be “married” to the vanilla. Although benzoin is roughly analogous to vanilla in that they both add a
warm, sweet “fullness” to the basenotes of a scent, benzoin differs substantially by being far more
medicinal, resinous, and spicy-peppery in character. In Vanille Benjoin, the fiery cinnamon topnotes
of benzoin are cleverly matched, step for step, by cedarwood, a material possessed of a similarly
spicy, balsamic underbite. In an equally smart move, the doughy, clay-like properties of benzoin
are drawn out by a judicious application of tonka bean absolute, which shares with benzoin a
buttery texture and nutty aftertaste.
MAIN ACCORDS
vanilla, balsamic, amber, woody, warm spicy
KEY NOTES
vanilla
INGREDIENTS
Tahitian vanilla absolute, Madagascan vanilla absolute, Siamese benzoin, tonka,
ambroxan, cedar
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