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Spiritueuse Double Vanille
Eau de parfum · Jean-Paul Guerlain
Vanilla in overdose, made heady with rum and set on cedar: a long-haul voyage.
- House
- Guerlain
- Family
- Amber
- Perfumer
- Jean-Paul Guerlain
- Year
- Not disclosed
Spiritueuse Double Vanille pushes Guerlain's favourite material to excess. A Madagascar vanilla, worked as a tincture, shows all its facets: smoky, woody, gourmand. Rum gives it a liqueur-like turn, like a ship's hold laden with barrels and spices.
Rose, jasmine and ylang-ylang soften it with a floral breath, before benzoin and cedar extend the trail. A warm woody amber, for winter evenings and lovers of unapologetic vanilla.
Fragrance notes
The house names its notes without sorting them into top, heart and base. Notes as published by the house. official source (new tab)
Main accords
Volute’s reading: the intensity of each accord.
- Vanilla95 / 100
- Amber70 / 100
- Woody55 / 100
- Gourmand50 / 100
- White floral35 / 100
Seasons
- Autumn
- Winter
Moments
- Night
Spiritueuse Double Vanille in detail
Spiritueuse Double Vanille belongs to L'Art & La Matière, Guerlain's collection in which each fragrance starts from a material. Guerlain has made vanilla one of its signatures, and Jean-Paul Guerlain treats it here as an overdose, intoxicated with rum and set on cedarwood, like a long sea voyage.
Guerlain lists its notes without sorting them into stages. Vanilla dominates, round and deep. Rum adds a warm, liqueur-like note. The flowers, rose, jasmine and ylang-ylang, brighten it without overpowering it. Finally, benzoin, a resin with vanilla accents, and cedarwood give it an amber, woody foundation.
Spiritueuse Double Vanille is worn in the evening, in autumn and winter: a dinner, a night by the fire, an end-of-year celebration.
Three amber fragrances in our catalogue share its materials: Ambre 114 by Histoires de Parfums brings together rose, cedarwood, vanilla and benzoin; Ani by Nishane pairs cedarwood, vanilla and benzoin; Side Effect by Initio Parfums Privés finds rum and vanilla again, with tobacco.
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