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Thanks to Un Bois Vanille, the famous pod regains its splendor and the gluttony becomes deep sensuality… Would you have thought that Lutens offers a sickening and overdosed juice?
Un Bois Vanille: demonized vanilla for an unforgettable cake!
The magic of Lutens is to break the codes and dictates of fashion, perfumery and the image to make artistic miracles. Moreover, to the simple evocation of waves of gourmet and regressive trends in perfumery, Lutens answers a definitive “I stick to my self-esteem. The waves only concern those who can swim. For my part, I sink straight and take you to the bottom. "1. Let this be clear!
So of course when the artist Lutens offers us his vanilla-based fragrance, Un Bois de Vanille, we expect a lot of things except an eternal scent of a cutesy teenager or one more scented candy spreading in the department store shelves. Moreover, like all Lutens perfumes, Un Bois de Vanille is a mixed fragrance, which already excludes the cliché of an overdose of running sugar.
And it is “against the grain” of the major marketing trends that Lutens will play to create Un Bois de Vanille. He will demonize the candy and bewitch the gluttony to blacken it ... And ennoble it at the same time of course! A Vanilla Wood will therefore be described under devilish features to better create the mystery: “The devil like vanilla loves black. Forget all sentimentality! In each of us, this velvet asserts itself and is refined on a woody contrast. »Serge Lutens for Un Bois Vanille.
A smoky treat for a historic Vanilla Wood
A Vanilla Wood will therefore have nothing in common with the gourmet perfumes of its kind. No ostentatious communication campaign, no bottle with ultra-elaborate facets, no bombastic storytelling. Just a tribute from Lutens to a vanished civilization, the Aztecs, who cultivated vanilla to magnify and brown it despite the blazing sun.
Thus the top notes of Un Bois Vanille will propel us directly towards the sun by sending us the honeyed and exotic scents of beeswax mixed with coconut. The absolute of black vanilla from Mexico sent "right in the head", then melts into honeyed notes and strong in character, already far from everything we thought we knew about the scent of vanilla.
Then the almond paste coats this powerful vanilla with its delicacy to better slide it towards the sweet black and bewitching sensualities of benzoin and licorice. Finally, the woody depths of gaiac wood, sandalwood and tonka bean envelop this sweet mixture with a smoky and balsamic balm.
Voluptuous and enveloping, Un Bois de Vanille is a beautiful confectionery that is no longer offered to young girls all in sugar but to real women where gluttony will turn into sensuality, the devil's sensuality? Nothing is less sure !