The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Infini (2018) is a contemporary composition by William Fraysse, and the 2018 version treats the idea of infinity not as a concept but as a feeling: a sweetness that doesn't end, a warmth that refuses to taper. Pear, vanilla, jasmine, and Mysore sandalwood are the structural pillars; pink pepper, bergamot, and orange give the opening its lift. The result reads as floral-fruity-gourmand, a category the house approaches with unusual restraint. Fraysse builds the scent around a tension most gourmand compositions ignore: the desire for something sweet without the cloying heaviness that usually comes with it. The fruit notes and pink pepper open the door, bright and almost brittle, before the warmer materials take over and pull the composition into something denser.
What makes the 2018 Infini worth attention is the pairing of Mysore sandalwood with white musk and Siam benzoin, a combination that anchors the vanilla without smothering it. When the perfumer threads Mysore sandalwood through benzoin and vanilla, the sweetness gains gravity instead of float. The pear and jasmine provide contrast at the top, a brief brightness before the warmer base materials take over. For a composition labeled floral-fruity-gourmand, the architecture is unusually grounded, more about texture than sugar.
The evolution
The first ten minutes belong to pear, pink pepper, and bergamot, a brief bright entry that smells like cold fruit with the skin still on. Jasmine enters quickly behind it, lifting the fruit into something more floral and less sweet. By the thirty-minute mark, the vanilla has arrived properly, and the composition begins to settle into its true register: warm, creamy, spiced with benzoin and myrrh. The Mysore sandalwood shows up around the two-hour mark, giving the vanilla a wood-grain undertone that keeps it from reading as dessert. By the next morning, what's left on the inner wrist is a faint powdery sweetness with a sandy, resinous warmth, close to the skin, barely there but unmistakably Infini.
Cultural impact
Infini sits in Caron's current catalog as a contemporary floral-fruity-gourmand, a composition that draws attention for its treatment of sweetness rather than the intensity of its sweetness. Within discussions among enthusiasts, the Mysore sandalwood base tends to emerge as a focal point, with wearers noting it as the most distinctive element of the composition. Reviewers have commented that the base is where the scent finds its personality, with one wearer describing it as the most interesting part once the opening has faded. Wearers who return to it tend to be vanilla-leaning but unwilling to commit to sweeter, louder compositions.
