Guides & tips
Exploring
vanilla and spices.
Get to know a plant, choose a recipe, prepare for your journey home: find the guides and tools that accompany your discovery of vanilla and spices.
Discover what goes into our products
Follow the plants, gestures and scents that give the products their form.
Discovering vanilla
Follow the journey from orchid to pod: history, curing, species, quality and storage.
Discovering spices
Eleven spices from Madagascar through their stories, growing regions and uses in your kitchen.
The ingredients in our creations
Discover the ingredients we use and creative ideas still in preparation.
Guidance for putting them to use
Choosing, cooking, travelling: useful guidance to return to when you need it.
Estimate your vanilla’s grade
With Grade my vanilla, enter appearance, moisture and vanillin values for an indicative estimate.
Read and compare vanillin percentages
Use the moisture content to convert a value on an as-is basis to a dry-matter basis, or make the reverse conversion.
Prepare for customs
Check the guidance for your destination before travelling with vanilla and spices in your luggage.
Into the kitchen
Dishes to share and sweet treats to make: give vanilla and spices a place in your recipes.
The island’s aromas, in your daily gestures.
Split a pod, cook with it, store it: simple techniques and ideas for what comes next.
Enjoying my vanilla back home
When you return, place your pods in a sealed jar, away from light and heat.
Scents of Nosy Be to take home
Vanilla to cook with, spices to discover and body creations to smell: choose from the current selection and prepare for the journey.
Vanilla pods or powder: how do you use them?
Compare the steps in the kitchen and check what the powder contains: a sweetened mixture is a different preparation.