Description
Vetiver is one of the loveliest woody materials on the perfumer’s palette. Four facets express themselves in turn in a green freshness: the earthy tone of slightly smoky Vetiver Java roots, the woody, dry strength of American cedarwood, the balmy, resinous, almost spicy note of myrrh and finally the sensual crispness of the green odour of crumpled leaves with the chypre accents of galbanum. While none of the facets tries to take precedence over the other, precisely because allure refuses to impose itself, the vigour of the beautiful woody, earthy notes of vetiver almost single-handedly carries the entire composition, bestowing a distinct masculine dimension, slightly severe but pleasant and harmonious. This fragrance evokes the duality of nature: severity and clemency, freshness and warmth, dissonance and harmony, noise and silence. The scent of earth after rain, the fresh air of early mornings, fumaroles of tobacco mixed with spices, the scent of old-fashioned soap, the whiff of an old dark herbalist’s shop… all sources of inspiration evoking a spellbinding journey into the sacred history of India, where, in tropical humidity, wisps of smoked wood and mystical fumigations of offerings intertwine. Surprisingly appealing.
