Spiritueuse Double Vanille

Spiritueuse Double Vanille or Jean-Paul Guerlain’s distant travels

Vanilla, vanilla absolute to be precise, has undoubtedly been the territory of the house of Guerlain for decades. It would almost be forgotten, given how much gourmand fragrances have exhaled it in every direction in recent years, but Guerlain was already using this precious vanilla back in 1889 for Jicky! It was Shalimar, however, that gave it its star role in 1925. Of course, the house’s current bestseller, La Petite Robe Noire, also knows how to exhale it around its deep gourmand notes.

Thus Jean-Paul Guerlain gave a new dimension to vanilla absolute by composing this bottle of Spiritueuse Double Vanille, initially intended to be an exclusive fragrance before later joining the magnificent L’Art et la Matière collection, since it corresponded in every way to the “soliflores” already in existence.

By working vanilla in its darkest and most exotic facets, Jean-Paul Guerlain reveals the amber beauty of this fine ingredient, which only needed to be ennobled to finally be appreciated at its true worth. With Spiritueuse Double Vanille, the bean becomes a nugget of gold and its scent an invitation to distant travels…

Vibrant and unexpected, the gold of vanilla dazzles in all its splendor. A surprising composition in which every raw material evokes travel, between its spirituous notes of rum and cedarwood. Guerlain, on Spiritueuse Double Vanille.

Guerlain’s Spiritueuse Double Vanille, a “skin liqueur” fragrance

The delicate nectar of Spiritueuse Double Vanille was first delivered in a simple faceted glass bottle bearing a wax seal, as though the bottle carried within it a precious substance to be preserved in the manner of bottles of fine spirits. Then, rightfully attached to the L’Art et la Matière collection, Spiritueuse Double Vanille took on the golden-plated garment of light shared by its entire fragrance family.

To enter this mysterious world of vanilla, Spiritueuse Double Vanille opens on a surprising marriage of citrus notes and rum. Then, at the heart, jasmine and rose offer their delicate and elegant beauty. Finally, cedarwood, incense, and labdanum form a sillage where woody, animalic depth blends into a mysterious cloud, punctuated by the sweetness of a gourmand benzoin, as a nod to the past and present creations of the house of Guerlain.

A surprising composition in which every raw material evokes travel, the long sea voyages, where the wood of the hull mingles with that of rum barrels and crates of spices, Sylvaine Delacourte tells us about Spiritueuse Double Vanille.