€9.00 – €17.00
Vanilla Tahitian 15% Tincture
Eleonora Scalseggi has this to say “Vanillas are climbing orchids hailing from Central America whose seed pods exhale one of the most divinely intoxicating scents (and flavours!) on earth. Very complex to produce – requiring a very time consuming hand pollination in the first place and then a long, delicate curing process of the seed pods because surprisingly these are odourless when just picked from the plant. It is only after this curing process that the moist, plump vanilla beans will have developed their widely sought-after, mouth-watering aroma. A truly fascinating natural material.
Along with the more famous Bourbon vanilla (Vanilla planifolia), Tahitian vanilla is one of the few other cultivated vanilla varieties and displays a much brighter aroma profile, less dark-woody and tobacco-like and instead more radiant floral vanillin, caramelised-sugar sweet along with warm hints of dry plum notes. A more straightforward vanilla than the bourbon quality, to be preferred in compositions where no woody or tobacco notes are desired.
Tinctured at 15% in ethanol and conveniently aged and mellowed for one year, this product is a cost-effective and easy to work with alternative to other natural vanilla materials (notoriously often difficult to dissolve into ethanol), boasting good longevity for a tincture and a luscious drydown.”
Botanical Name: Vanilla tahitensis
Origin: Tahiti
Kostis Pap (verified owner) –
This vanilla product is way more different than the vanilla bourbon absolute. In my mind it’s associated with cream-flavored food products. In fact the word “crème” is very close to the odor of the Tahitian vanilla. The odor is soft sweet vanilla with a top note of some medicinal-sweetness and a dairy background that could be easily described as a light and soft sweet cream. This is a soft creamy masterpiece. After 10 minutes it smoothens a lot to become a wonderful light creamy natural note with cherry-like fruity aspects in its dryout. The effect of the word “soft” here is that the Tahitian product seems more of a “natural” vanillin, than a more caramel-like natural sweetness of the absolute products.
If there was a tool for creating imaginary meals in Heaven, I could easily order vanilla cream bowls flavored with this odor every single time. The sense is so fulfilling that you feel instantly bliss and happiness all over your body. Well, even if they don’t serve Tahitian vanilla flavored meals, at least I could have some smelling strips with this tincture solution on it, can I? Please?? God???
MissLayla (verified owner) –
Wowza! This vanilla is absolutely gorgeous! It has a radiant, “floral vanillin” character to it. It has an initial caramel crackle in the beginning (yes I meant crackle- I’ve paired it with some amazing aldehydic white florals) and it just exalts anything you pair it with. It makes a natural jasmine sing, is incredible with gardenia and just knocks me out when combined with tobacco absolute. I am in heaven! It’s liquid gold and I just can’t get enough. Adam… never stop carrying this, it my favorite vanilla I think I have ever smelled.
Love,
Miss Layla