Rich, deep and sweet balsamic aroma with a dense creamy-vanillic core and hints of rum, tobacco and dried fruit. Opens with a warm boozy facet and settles into a long-lasting, resinous sweetness that clings for days on blotter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 389.
The vanilla fruits appear as chocolate-brown, semi-dry or somewhat moist, dull or glossy sticks, 14 to 22 cm long, which may be bundled in different ways according to origin, or may be sold loose in a box.
The aroma is extremely rich, sweet, somewhat woody and animal-like, tobacco-like and very deep in its balsamic, sweet-spicy body-note.
Vanilla is used in perfumery for its rich and sweet aroma, which is deep and complex, often described as balsamic and sweet-spicy.
The vanilla plant is cultivated for the production of fruits in Mexico, Madagascar, La Réunion, Tahiti, the Comoro islands, Guadeloupe, East Africa, Indonesia, and the Seychelles. The fruits undergo a long and troublesome curing period, which leads to enzymatic processes that turn them brown and aromatic.