Green Vanilla

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Green Vanilla is vanilla read through a green filter. Brands use the term for a vanilla-led accord with green, herbal and woody material laid over the cured bean, sold against the sweet gourmand vanilla rather than as a version of it. A second, botanical sense of the phrase exists and this note is not it. The unripe, uncured pod smells of almost nothing.

Scent Profile

Sweet_vanillic leads, because every attested use of the term is a vanilla and Parfumo files it under its Vanilla gourmand group. It sits well below plain vanilla's 0.90 because the point of the term is a vanilla that has been cut. Green is the word doing the work in the name, and both readings of the phrase supply it: the uncured pod is "grassy", the built accord is "a silky green vanilla". Aromatic_herbal is the herbal-and-coriander lift the retailer copy names directly. Under those sit dry_woody for the vetiver, amber_resinous and creamy_woody for the balsamic body of the cured bean, nutty for the hazelnut, and small fresh_spice, lactonic, sour and earthy values that no source states outright and that are not zeroed for that reason. Spreads on the named facets run 0.15 to 0.25, which is wide on purpose. The evidence is one retailer's copy for one perfume, plus two trade sources describing a different sense of the same phrase.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~20h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand, Green & Aromatic

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

No supplier sells a raw material called Green Vanilla. Suppliers sell Vanilla CO2 and vanilla absolute from cured Vanilla planifolia pods. Eden Botanicals' own page suggests adding violet leaf, celery seed or caraway CO2 to put a green note on vanilla, so this is a built accord rather than a distillate. The botanical sense is a different material. Two trade sources describe the green pod as nearly odourless: "Fresh green vanilla pods smell of almost nothing. Grassy, faintly like a bean" and "Green beans have little aroma... flat, grassy, and underwhelming". Vanillin is made by curing. It is not present on the living plant in any quantity worth smelling.

Usage in Perfumery

Use it where vanilla is wanted and sugar is not. Retailer copy for the clearest example, Regime des Fleurs' Green Vanille, states the method outright: true vanilla layered with coriander, hazelnut and vetiver "to keep things cool". The green material sits on top and burns off. The cured-bean base stays, so the note behaves as a base with a short green opening, not as a green note.