Vanille Havane at Indigo Perfumery 

Perfumer Antoine Lie and founder Valérie Pulvérail wanted to celebrate the singular ingredient vanilla by taking you on an immersive Virtual Reality journey through its olfactive complexity. 

“When you take a vanilla bean, and smell it, the scent is very complex,” says Antoine Lie. “The idea was not just to do a typical candied sweet vanilla, the artificial flavor everyone is familiar with. Instead, I wanted to reveal all the rich facets in the bean, so I pushed the rum, cocoa, spices, tobacco, floral and leathery facets…”