Fleur Cachée
Anatole Lebreton (2020)

This is a superb vanilla, spicy, aromatic, fat and yes, very grown-up and not sickly-sweet or cloying. Anatole Lebreton works with very fine ingredients and your can tell. What he used here I feel is not the usual bit used for vanilla perfumes, or maybe it's just the way he used it. Somehow it must be the flower he used, as the name suggests. Indeed it is "Cachée", ie hidden, not obvious. This is not your free-for-all vanilla. I even find a touch of incense but then, it must be the Peru balsam, I suppose, or the cedar, which endows the fragrance with a darker, nearly smoky feel. It's very beautiful.

Explicit vanilla-porn! For adults only!