Cured vanilla pods

Vanillin can crystallise on well-cured pods as fine white needles, the givre. No share is given here: no measured figure with its method is filed.

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fragrance material

Vanilla pods, cured

Five cured vanilla pods, the house’s own model. Modelled in-house (procedural, in Blender); its size is typical of the material, not a measurement; not a photograph or a scan.

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Five cured vanilla pods (Vanilla planifolia): the green fruit of an orchid, blanched, sweated and dried over months until it turns dark brown, supple and glossy, with lengthwise wrinkles and a drier tip. Modelled in-house from the pods on the Materials page’s specimen shelf.

In the room

about 19 cm long, 12 cm wide, 2 cm high. Modelled, not measured: a typical size

Source

HombreOils, in-house: modelled, textured and baked in Blender from the forms of the specimen shelf on the Materials page

Licence

in-house

Model

12,000 triangles (simplified from 14,160)

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The record

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Name

cured vanilla pods

documented

Finally, in the conditioning stage, dried pods are stored at room temperature for 3–4 months to undergo chemical and biochemical reactions like esterification, etherification, and oxidative degradation, which enhance aroma quality (Anuradha et al., 2013).

GC-5 · Cuan-Escobar et al. (2025). Effect of different killing methods during curing on the phytochemical and bacterial composition of Vanilla planifolia using multi-omic approaches · read 2026-09-30

confidence B

Kind

natural

perfumery convention

the trade’s shared vocabulary; no single source

the cured fruit of the orchid

confidence B

Botanical

Vanilla planifolia Andrews

documented

Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews (Ramos-Castellá et al., 2016), a member of the Orchidaceae family, is the only orchid cultivated for human consumption due to its production of an aromatic fruit: the vanilla pod (Ahmad et al, 2020;

GC-5 · Cuan-Escobar et al. (2025). Effect of different killing methods during curing on the phytochemical and bacterial composition of Vanilla planifolia using multi-omic approaches · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Part

the fruit, the pod, cured

documented

Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews (Ramos-Castellá et al., 2016), a member of the Orchidaceae family, is the only orchid cultivated for human consumption due to its production of an aromatic fruit: the vanilla pod (Ahmad et al, 2020;

GC-5 · Cuan-Escobar et al. (2025). Effect of different killing methods during curing on the phytochemical and bacterial composition of Vanilla planifolia using multi-omic approaches · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Extraction

none: not an extracted material

see harvest and processing

not extracted: the material is the cured pod itself; it is made by the Process record `curing` (the house’s review had filed curing as an Extraction; schema v2, the house’s review)

Grade

not on record

not on record

no grade on record; the page’s “Madagascar Bourbon vanilla” name has no filed source

Descriptors

not on record

not on record

no descriptor source filed

Regulation

not on record

not on record

no Regulation record yet

Price band

not on record

not on record

nothing on the site is for sale and raw-material prices are left out until the sourcing phase (the decisions log)

Wikidata

Q12008959

documented

seed pod of Vanilla planifolia

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the Wikidata item’s English description; a label match: the item is “vanilla bean”, described as “seed pod of Vanilla planifolia”; chosen from a name search (2026-09-30)

confidence B

Harvest and processing

• curing (post-harvest): curing of the green pods in four stages: killing, sweating, drying and conditioning
  documented

  The curing process includes four stages: killing, sweating, drying, and conditioning.

  GC-5 · Cuan-Escobar et al. (2025). Effect of different killing methods during curing on the phytochemical and bacterial composition of Vanilla planifolia using multi-omic approaches · read 2026-09-30

  killing starts the enzyme reactions that produce the aroma compounds (GC-5); sweating keeps the pods humid in boxes while the aroma and colour develop (GC-5). The page’s “blanching” is one way of killing (hot water)

  confidence A

  record

Constituents

• vanillin · share not on record
  identity: documented

  In exceptional-quality vanilla pods, vanillin crystals can be observed in the form of small white needles (called, in French, givre) (Figure 2).

  GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF · read 2026-09-30

  vanillin crystallises on exceptional cured pods (givre); in the green pod it is bound as glucovanillin, “a key precursor of vanillin” (GC-5)

  confidence B

  share: not on record

  no multi-sample measured figure with medium and method is filed

In history

• Vanilla flowers pollinated by hand (1830s–1840s)

Films and plates

• SPEC-8 · vanilla: the /materials specimen still · still
• OR-8 · vanilla: the origin film (the field to the bench) · queued: the master queue lists OR-8 as queued (the render queue’s list, read 2026-09-30); no path until it is rendered and published
  a render-time texture (Forest Floor; a render input only): "Forest Floor", eye-candy.xyz (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0; a render-time texture (Bark Brown 02; a render input only): "Bark Brown 02", Rob Tuytel (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0

Claims register

Every sentence and number the site states about this record, with its status after the 2026-09-27 review.

• softened · natural vanilla contains hundreds of compounds (was: natural vanilla contains 200+ compounds)
  unsourced · the claims register

  softened by the house’s review 2026-09-27. no filed source counts the compounds of cured V. planifolia; GC-6’s 313 metabolites are compiled for wild relatives, not V. planifolia

  where the site says it: /materials, “Calabrian Bergamot”

• softened · Aroma compounds: Formed during curing (was: Compounds: 200+)
  documented · the claims register

  GC-5 · Cuan-Escobar et al. (2025). Effect of different killing methods during curing on the phytochemical and bacterial composition of Vanilla planifolia using multi-omic approaches · read 2026-09-30

  no filed source counts the compounds of cured V. planifolia; GC-6’s 313 metabolites are compiled for wild relatives, not V. planifolia. the house’s review (2026-09-30): the where hint re-pointed to the vanilla facts row (it had pointed at vetiver’s identical row). the house’s review (2026-09-30): the row now reads “Aroma compounds: Formed during curing”, from GC-5: killing “enabl[es] enzyme-substrate reactions that produce aroma compounds” (GC-5); no count is given

  where the site says it: /materials, “Madagascar Vanilla”

  confidence B

Sources

1. GC-5 · Cuan-Escobar TA, Cuellar-Sánchez A, Gómez-Velázquez HDJ, Monribot-Villanueva JL, Guerrero-Analco JA, Gutiérrez-Díaz I, Luna-Vital DA. Effect of different killing methods during curing on the phytochemical and bacterial composition of Vanilla planifolia using multi-omic approaches. Food Chemistry: X 2025;26:102269. DOI 10.1016/j.fochx.2025.102269. PMID 40034982. PMCID PMC11872573. doi.org/10.1016/j.fochx.2025.102269 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0
2. GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF. Vanilla beyond Vanilla planifolia and Vanilla × tahitensis: Taxonomy and Historical Notes, Reproductive Biology, and Metabolites. Plants (Basel) 2022;11(23):3311. DOI 10.3390/plants11233311. PMID 36501350. PMCID PMC9739750. doi.org/10.3390/plants11233311 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0
3. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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this record as data: /data/material/cured-vanilla-pods.json · version 4 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence B