I have a sample of Vetiver Extraordinaire sent to me by Les Senteurs. Trying it for the first time today as some rubbed off into my hands as I tipped the sample vial's content into a sprayer... As I...

I have to confess that I was originally wrong when I wrote the review for Vetiver Extraordinaire a few years ago when I said: "Not my cup of tea. I was expecting sweet freshly mowed hay -- I got dir...

I have only recently started a love affair with vetiver - I've had to work my way there over many years. And this scent is demanding in that it wasn't an easy love to acquire - up front the scent cra...

This opens with a green but dry woody blast. A very non-offensive, pure wood, maybe smouldering because it was not quite dry enough yet for the fireplace. The drydown is smoky, almost like embers fro...

Austere, dry as the driest martini, with vetiver the dominant note by far, unlike some vetiver frags where it's plainly paired with citrus (Guerlain) or spices (Etro) or present only in name (Creed). ...

Beautiful and earthy vetiver with a quality I can best describe as wet roots steeped in monsoon mud. Defintely not one of those chilly bracing vetivers, in my opinion. Second only to The Diff Compan...

This is what I thought Tabarome would smell like. A scent that Humphrey Bogart and Winston Churchill wore. Bergamot and vetiver with woody herbs and a slight skin musk scent...It's leathery and spicy...

It was bound to happen. A Malle I can honestly say I detest. Vetiver is from the root of a rainforest grass, also know as khus-khus. It imparts a very pungent green, earthy, dry, and perhaps acrid ...

I got a sample of this from a lovely MUA-er, and at first test I thought: nice but I'll pass. I had just fallen for Vetiver Tonka and this one seemed a little too green. But when I really wore it, I r...

Sigh. I wish I'd hated this. I got some in a split, and it is utterly gorgeous. It opens with what may, for many, be a mildly frightening cedar hinting at B.O. But ignore that. Almost instantly, ...