Vanilla Mudslide
A vanilla gourmand framed by bitter and sweet almond, with coffee, cocoa and a dry vodka edge.
Perfumer: Anne-Sophie Behaghel
A mudslide is a dessert-like cocktail of coffee and cream. Vanilla Mudslide carries that impression into scent, with vanilla in the lead role, composed by Anne-Sophie Behaghel.
It opens in layers of cream: the smoothness of a butter accord and the light milkiness of coconut milk, cut by a thread of bitter almond with an almond-kernel bitterness. In the heart, cocoa and coffee settle over vanilla, and sweet almond joins from the sweeter side, so the two almonds frame the vanilla from both the bitter and the sweet. Davana adds a fruit-tinged shadow.
The base gathers vodka, white musks, ambroxan and Iso E Super. The dry, clear feel of vodka cuts into the sweetness, and together with the darkness of coffee and bitter almond it stops the rich vanilla just short of cloying.
