Une vanille

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• Romantic

Une vanille is a black vanilla pod, dense, almost moist, with that natural richness you smell when you split it open.

From the opening, the vanilla is smooth and rich, with a sweetness that is present but never cloying. It keeps a dark, almost spicy side that gives it relief and avoids the dessert effect.

Tonka bean rounds everything off with a slightly almond-like facet, making the texture softer and more comforting without losing that depth. The vanilla moves between softness and power, with something very natural yet a little mysterious.

An essential note in perfumery, vanilla moves between soft, creamy notes and woody, spicy ones, with facets of leather, caramel or tobacco. Our vanilla absolute is grown in the Sava region of Madagascar, the world capital of vanilla harvesting, with its ancestral know-how.

Obvious is a French fragrance house founded in 2020 by David Frossard, a discreet but essential figure in niche perfumery. A former distributor who spent more than twenty years supporting the rise of Byredo, Juliette Has A Gun, Atelier Cologne and Liquides Imaginaires, he founded Obvious after a path that was as philosophical as it was professional. Because before perfume came philosophy, and it was in Descartes that he found his brand's name: self-evidence, that moment when truth presents itself without needing any explanation. His starting point is an admission: niche perfume had lost its way. Too much convoluted storytelling, too much ostentation, too many screens between the juice and the person wearing it. Obvious is his answer: strip away everything that hides, everything that serves to justify a price rather than give pleasure. The bottle is made from recycled glass, the alcohol is organic, the cap is cork from offcuts of wine-stopper production and the packaging is paper with no cellophane. Not a marketing move, but consistency. David Frossard did not create a green brand, he made an honest one. Less is more. This is Obvious.