Matière Première · 2023 · Aurélien Guichard

Vanilla Powder

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Matière Première asks about $280 for 100 ml
50 mlabout $191
100 mlabout $280

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Woody palo santo over a dark Madagascar vanilla made white and powdery with coconut, wrapped in clean musks.

Matière Première says

You’ll smell Vanilla Absolute Madagascar, Palo Santo Oil Ecuador, coconut powder and White Musks.

More from Matière Première’s description

It also mentions Heliotrope, Madagascar Vanilla Absolute, Coconut and Ambroxan.

The house’s page

The drawn Vanilla Powder bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Vanilla Powder’s scent picture, a draft: vanilla, palo santo, coconut, white musks, heliotrope, ambroxan (ambergris) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Vanilla Powder, top notes: Palo santo

Heartas it settles

Vanilla Powder, heart: Coconut, Heliotrope

Dry-downwhat stays

Vanilla Powder, dry-down: Vanilla, White musks, Ambroxan (ambergris), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

3 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 florals1 sweet

5 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

Rouge SmokingBDK Parfums · shares vanilla, clean linen, heliotrope and ambergrisabout $252 for 100 ml · about the same as Vanilla Powder’s about $280
Sugar BlastInitio · shares vanilla, coconut and ambergris$420 for 90 ml
No.15 Vanille InfinieMaison Louis Marie · shares vanilla, clean linen and heliotrope$100 for 50 ml
More from Matière Première5 more perfumes

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.