This is your Vanilla Era, embrace it. A scent of innocence and subversion, where vanilla is anything but beige. The correctness of vanilla absolute and white tulips interlude with riotous black amber, elusive iso e super, and spicy coffee been absolute. Heads will turn, hearts will break as this scent reigns for days, months and years.
NOTES
Top: White Tulip, Black Pepper, Frankincense
Middle: Saffron, Cashmere, Beetroot, Iso E Super
Base: Black Amber, Vanilla Absolute, Coffee Absolute, Papyrus
PERFUMER
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HOW IT WEARS
Opening with dewy white tulip, it doesn’t take long before Vanilla Era warms up – the golden warmth of saffron and creamy cashmere wood make way for the vanilla and coffee notes, which are underpinned by the earthiness of beetroot and a spice tincture. Iso E Super elevates the composition, allowing each note to project and last for 6-8 hours on the skin.
LORE LOVES
Vanilla Era is a grown-up vanilla, the new era of vanilla if you like! It’s earthy but still softly sweet, drying down creamy and skin-like. Vanilla is known to have the aromatherapeutic ability to calm and soothe, and that’s exactly what Vanilla Era does, while at the same time helping you to smell absolutely delicious.
ABOUT THE BRAND
In late 2015, Boy Smells began as an experiment in candle-making in the Los Angeles kitchen of co-founders and partners Matthew Herman and David Kien. Herman and Kien began by making the things they’d want to use daily – products that were fluid, essential, but also accessible.
The Boy Smells ethos is all about elevating your intimate world. Packaged in pink and conceived beyond the gender binary, their fragrances – both home and personal – make loving your identity a daily ritual.
Each fragrance draws inspiration from the founders’ memories and experiences, but also takes into account the context and history attached to different smells. Each Boy Smells fragrance is like the complex identity of a person, full of dualities and contradictions, and because of that, wearing them allows you to reinforce your sense of self every day before you walk out the door.
“We wanted to have products that were embracing masculine and feminine simultaneously in a simple and straight-forward way that wasn’t overtly targeted to one gender. It’s a permission to harness your power from wherever you want it.” co-founder, Matthew Herman.
