Before victor vanille started baking cookies he was a man of the sea at least that39s what he tells everyone his heroic stories of glorious travels and glamorous parties on tropical islands do sound a little bit too spectacular what we do know for a fact is that he lost his sea legs and his heart in madagascar to a staggering beauty called mahavanille who was selling homemade cookies on the beach now they live a life of cookies spreading vanilla love all the way to brussels