If you’re looking for a new perfume to bring you into warmer weather, your mind might automatically go to floral, fruity, or solar scents. But what about an unconventional option, like vanilla?

are probably wearing vanilla perfumes, or Dior J’adore, or Thierry Mugler Alien, which were not rose-oriented.” In the mid-2010s, a wave of niche fragrance brands began redefining the rose ...