A vanilla with no manners and no mercy. Forbidden vanilla rides in hard with a flask of bourbon at her hip, the sweetness laced with gun smoke and pink pepper sparks.

Dried fruits spiced with nutmeg add a juiciness, while black olive gives it a salty edge. A whip-cracking stampede of deadwoods and resins rides through the haze, before the whole scene drops into a dusty sunset of tobacco, molasses, and black vanilla.

Gunsmoke, pink pepper, nutmeg, dried fruits, forbidden vanilla, Bourbon, black olive, tobacco, deadwood, molasses, resins, black vanilla

Margaux Le Paih-Guérin

French perfumer Margaux Le Paih-Guérin grew up in her family’s perfume business in Brittany, surrounded by fragrance and the wild landscapes of the Breton coast. Fascinated from an early age by the emotional power of scent, she creates perfumes that explore the space between smell and taste, drawing inspiration from cuisine, spirits and cocktails.

Her style is instinctive, sensory and often unexpected, moving away from classic perfume structures towards more abstract and vivid compositions. As part of the FLAIR studio in Paris, she has created fragrances for brands including BORNTOSTANDOUT and Sora Dora. She's also the nose behind the Vanilla trilogy by Sarah Baker. You can discover several of Margaux Le Paih-Guérin’s creations in our collection here.

Alcohol, Parfum, Benzyl Benzoate, Benzyl Cinnamate, Benzyl Alcohol, Cinnamaldehyde, Coumarin, D-Limonene, Eugenol, Farnesol, Isoeugenol, Linalool.