HERMESSENCE VANILLE GALANTE - HERMES (GCMS CLUB COLLECTION)

Hermessence Vanille Galante – Hermès
📆 Launch Year: 2009
💧 Concentration: Eau de Toilette
🍮 Olfactive Family: Oriental Vanilla
👃 Perfumer: Jean-Claude Ellena
📚 GCMS Club Collection – Archives Gilbert Bendoni
🧮 Number of Ingredients: 24

Vanilla in White Silk 🌬️🌸

Vanille Galante is Ellena’s anti-gourmand vanilla — a fragrance that refuses sugar and warmth, choosing instead to float like cool silk. No pastry shop here; instead, white petals, salty breezes, and the faint sweetness of sun-kissed skin.

The structure rests on a luminous plume of Methyl Dihydrojasmonate and Benzyl Salicylate, creating a floral halo rather than a creamy dessert. Polysantol and Vetiver Haiti give it a polished, dry woodiness, while Osyrol adds a subtle ambery backbone.

A whisper of Vanillin and delicate Ylang-Ylang nod toward tradition, but a mineral freshness, carried by Helional and Ellena’s signature lightness, keeps everything weightless — like a linen dress caught in a sea breeze.

✨ The Result

Vanille Galante feels like vanilla seen through a prism — translucent, floral, airy, and quietly divine.
Not a gourmand indulgence, but a white-petal mirage, where vanilla breathes water instead of sugar.

A hymn to restraint, and one of the most poetic vanillas ever composed.