Sweet Vanilla
Sweet Vanilla is Montale offering their most uncomplicated warm register: vanilla and tonka bean opened by heliotrope's powdery-almond warmth, the combination immediately placing the composition in the skin-comfort category. The almond note deepens the heliotrope, and sandalwood with amber in the base extends the sweetness into a dry, warm drydown that keeps the composition from becoming purely confectionary. A fragrance that smells like a warm room rather than a dessert: inhabited warmth rather than edible sweetness.
Why We Carry This
Sweet Vanilla's heliotrope-tonka base is more sophisticated than the name implies: heliotrope's cherry-almond quality gives the vanilla a powdery warmth that pure vanilla extract does not possess, and the sandalwood base extends the drydown with genuine staying power. A better construction than the simple name suggests.
Scent Profile
Top notes: Bergamot, Mandarin Orange, Cardamom, Lemon
Heart notes: Vanilla, Tonka Bean, Jasmine, Heliotrope
Base notes: Vanilla Absolute, Sandalwood, Amber, Musk
Character
Accords: Vanilla, Sweet, Gourmand, Powdery, Warm Spicy, Musk
Perfumer: Pierre Montale
Launched: 2013