Dries Van Noten · 2024 · Alexandra Monet

Vanille Camouflage

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Sharp green galbanum, cypress and fig over ylang-ylang and sandalwood, melting into rich, boozy vanilla, benzoin and ambery woods.

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Vanille Camouflage’s scent picture, a draft: galbanum, cypress, fig, lentisk, ylang-ylang, sandalwood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Vanille Camouflage, when you spray it: Galbanum, Cypress, Fig

As it settlesheart notes

Vanille Camouflage, as it settles: Lentisk, Ylang-ylang, Sandalwood

What staysdry-down notes

Vanille Camouflage, what stays: Vanilla, Benzoin, Ambery woods, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

4 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender1 florals1 sweet

Citrus1

Herbs & lavender1

4 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

RawdahMaison Origine Paris · shares cypress, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, vanilla and 1 more$316 for 100 ml · about the same as Vanille Camouflage’s about $369
Tubéreuse ImpérialeBDK Parfums · shares cypress, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, vanilla and 1 moreabout $252 for 100 ml
OscarOscar de la Renta · shares galbanum, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, vanilla and 1 more$109 for 100 ml · about a third of Vanille Camouflage’s about $369
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.