Vanilla Haze Extrait de Parfum.

Vanilla Haze arrived as an answer to a question Fugazzi hadn't asked out loud yet: what if the original wasn't dark enough? The Eau de Parfum opens bright, plays friendly, and keeps its complexity for the drydown. The Extrait de Parfum version, launched in 2025, was built for people who want the complexity upfront. Bram Niessink pushed the concentration to 30% and let the composition breathe in a different direction. Not sweeter. Roasted. The vanilla stops being dessert and starts being the pod itself, smoky, resinous, almost savory. Hazelnut stays toasted rather than nut-crusted. The coconut milk turns into a texture, not a note. This is the same scent, aged badly in the best possible way.

The unusual pairing here is hazelnut and clove, they shouldn't work, but in Vanilla Haze they do because the coconut milk and Cashmeran sit between them like a buffer. Cashmeran is the quiet achiever. It adds that soft, powdery warmth without pushing the fragrance into linearity. The Akigalawood in the base is a Fugazzi signature material, a proprietary wood that reads as both dry and sweet, giving the drydown a specificity most vanilla fragrances lack. The double dose of Bourbon vanilla (Orpur quality, sourced from Madagascar) appears at both the heart and base, which is why the vanilla doesn't disappear, it just keeps deepening, layer after layer.

Thirty minutes in, the lemon has gone quiet. What replaces it is unexpected: the clove. A sharp, warm spike that cuts through the coconut milk and makes the whole composition feel less soft than it started. This is the turning point. The vanilla was hiding behind the hazelnut, now it steps forward, but it's not the extract kind. It's the pod. Charred slightly. Resinous. The saffron appears here too, threading through with a metallic warmth that gives the heart a slight edge. By hour three, the coconut milk and Cashmeran have won. The fragrance settles into something powdery, warm, and long. Caramel and musk hold the drydown close for hours. On clothes, it lasts until the next morning.

Vanilla Haze Extrait de Parfum is too new to have developed the kind of community consensus that defines a cult fragrance, but it's arriving in the right moment. The appetite for Gourmand-adjacent scents that don't smell like frosting has grown steadily. This Extrait sits in a space between mainstream sweet and full niche: accessible enough to wear daily, unusual enough to draw attention.