To paraphrase freud its not the evil who are full of regrets but the good both the devil and vanilla like black no sentimentality here within each of us this mellowness grows stronger and more refined thanks to contrasting wood notes our fragrance expert says un bois vanille is vanilla seen through a prism where the spicy creamy cherry and woody facets of the ingredient are all intensified to create a vanilla taken to the extreme it straddles the line between hedonism and cloying