Leave your more “vanilla” expectations at the door.
Through rows of twirling tendrils and tangled vines grows a rare orchid flower that blossoms only once a year for one day only. A hermaphroditic flower with both male and female organs nestled deep in the throat of the bloom. Her name is Vanilla Planifolia—A delicate orchid that requires sensitive care and a nurtured harvest. On the day of her opening, a farmer must gently pollinate her and wait up to 9 months until her thick green base swells into the long seedpod we know as the vanilla bean. It’s then plucked from the vine and cured until that divine aroma of true raw vanilla finally reveals herself. She is a complex creature with unmistakable allure, from first shy blossom to aromatic climax.
In keeping with the seductive allure of this complex creature,100% natural Dirty Vanilla is Heretic’s interpretation of the orchid herself: A rich, hypnotic fragrance teeming with natural, vine-grown vanilla on a bed of warm, velvety amber musk.
Heretic founder Douglas Little describes his “Dirty” series as taking classically beautiful natural ingredients and putting a new spin on them – letting their hair down, smudging their lipstick and exploring new territory.
NOTES
Top: Cedar, Coriander, Ho Wood
Middle: Vanilla
Base: Patchouli, Sandalwood, Styrax, Vetiver
PERFUMER
Douglas Little
HOW IT WEARS
Opening with the creamy soft plushness of vanilla orchid, Dirty Vanilla unsurprisingly gets dirtier as it wears. The earthy crispness of cedar, ho wood and sandalwood counter the dirtier notes of patchouli, styrax and vetiver, creating a perfect balance of dirty and clean. We love that while of course Dirty Vanilla has a little sweetness, it’s never overly sweet. It lasts really well on the skin for a natural fragrance, we generally get around 6 – 8 hours wear as it mellows into an almost animalic musky vanilla scent.
LORE LOVES
We really think this may be the most unique vanilla fragrance we have at Lore – it is anything but your stereotypical sugary sweet vanilla, it’s wild and carnal in its earthiness. Vanilla is considered by many to be an aphrodisiac, and we think this scent is proof. As it dries down the earthy, musky tones come alive and melt into your skin in the most intoxicating way. This is also one of Heretic’s best layering scents in our opinion, it smells good with pretty much every scent in the range!
ABOUT THE BRAND
Heretic – one who does not conform to the ideals or opinions of the masses; one who follows their own path.
Created in 2016 in New York by Douglas Little, Heretic Parfum is a fragrance house with a mission to show the provocative side of naturals and the dirty side of clean.
Based on the mysterious, sensual and feral aspects of nature, Heretic began with a conscious choice to do things a little differently. The fragrances in the line are all plant based, made up of a blend of essential oils, concretes and absolutes, blended with non-GMO safe synthetics and alcohols to create challenging, unapologetic, visionary scents.
“Natural fragrances are much like wine in that you can detect nuances of the plant, the soil, and its surroundings. They have characters that cannot be achieved with synthetic copies. These fragrances are alive, they create an olfactory fingerprint” – Douglas Little.
As Heretic boldly disrupts the status quo of the fragrance industry with their radical transparency, their fragrances delve into the esoteric world and the realms of homeopathy, ayerveda, and herbology.
All Heretic Parfum fragrances are cruelty free and vegan, and range from 100% natural to 47% natural.
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