V Canto
V Canto
108 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Vanilla and opoponax establish immediate sweetness, but malt cuts through with a warm, grain-like earthiness that feels almost savoury. Within moments, you're caught between biscuit and honey, an opening that suggests comfort without surrendering to cliché.
Milk rounds the composition into creamy softness whilst rum introduces a subtle boozy warmth, and davana adds a smoky, almost tobacco-tinged depth. Bourbon geranium and lavender provide spiced-herbal grounding, preventing the sweetness from overwhelm; this is where Mirabile truly shows its hand—a fragrance more interested in conversation than statement.
Tonka and vanilla absolute emerge, doubling down on creamy sweetness, but clove and patchouli inject spicy, slightly animalic darkness. Musk anchors everything into skin-scent territory, where the fragrance becomes almost powdery and intimate, lingering as a warm, spiced-cream whisper rather than a declaration.
Mirabile arrives as a studiously creamy gourmand, though one that eschews the typical caramel-and-vanilla predictability of its category. The opening vanilla and opoponax establish sweetness, yes, but the malt introduces something distinctly cerereal—like the warm, biscuity scent of toasted grain—which immediately complicates expectations. This is not a dessert fragrance masquerading as sophistication; it's genuinely caught between comfort and complexity.
The heart reveals V Canto's true ambition: an unexpectedly savoury-sweet interplay between milk, rum, and davana (that peculiar, almost smoky floral) creates a contradiction that somehow coheres. The milk softens everything into powdery creaminess, whilst bourbon geranium adds a spiced, slightly green grittiness that prevents the composition from collapsing into pure sweetness. Buchu—typically a supporting player—whispers citrusy, herbal restraint beneath the rose absolute, which itself reads less floral and more as a deepening of the composition's honeyed character.
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