Le Labo · 2007 · Alberto Morillas

Vanille 44

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5
Le Labo asks $555 for 100 ml
50 ml$398
100 ml$555

VersionEau de Parfum

Warm vanilla wrapped in amber, incense smoke and dry woods.

The drawn Vanille 44 bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Vanille 44’s scent picture, a draft: amber, frankincense, woody notes, vanilla (vanillin), bergamot, sweet orange drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Vanille 44, top notes: Frankincense, Bergamot, Sweet orange, Lemon

Dry-downwhat stays

Vanille 44, dry-down: Amber, Woody notes, Vanilla (vanillin), Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

17 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.

5 citrus4 herbs & lavender3 florals2 woods2 sweet1 spices

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

Not for the smell2

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Encens SuaveMatière Première · shares frankincense and vanillaabout $403 for 100 ml
Vanilla BarkaAmouage · shares frankincense and vanilla$540 for 12 ml
Invictus VictoryRabanne · shares frankincense and vanilla$150 for 100 ml · about a quarter of Vanille 44’s $555
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.