The best vanilla perfumes
Six vanillas, from soft and milky to dark and boozy
Vanilla is the most loved note in perfume, and the most misunderstood. It is not one smell but a whole family: milky and soft, sugary and edible, smoky and resinous, warm with spice or with rum. The question is never whether you like vanilla, but which one.
How to choose a vanilla
If you want comfort and skin, look for vanilla with musk or milk. If you want warmth, with spice or tonka. If you want evening, with rum, tobacco or smoke. And if you think vanilla is too sweet, try one with lavender: the herb cuts the sugar and makes it elegant.
The question is never whether you like vanilla, but which one
Six to know
Vanillas last long and grow sweeter on warm skin, so begin with a single spray. A 5 ml of two or three is the easiest way to find the one that feels like you rather than like dessert.