Description
“From crackling sap to balmy resin. Smoky wood to sun-seared stone. Purple dusk to ink-black night. Aedes de Venustas’ seventh scent explores the age-old landscape of Africa in a tribute to ancient ebony…Grenadille D’Afrique.
Grenadille d’Afrique expresses not only its namesake tree, but also the primal landscape in which it grows. Intriguingly described as “fossilized wood rubbed in a vanilla accord”, this strongly contrasted composition sets its dark heart off with luminous notes.
It is dusk or dawn? Sparkling bergamot captures the last rays of the sun, while a purple haze of lavender and violet spill their powdery moonlight on the savannah grasslands… Run through from twigs to roots with aromatic, juniper-scented sap, this olfactory portrait of the mythical African Blackwood tree is built around a “trunk” of Haitian vetiver. With its complex facets of wood, smoke, earth and flint, it is the vertical axis that draws together the fragrance’s vegetal, animal and mineral notes.
Turned into combustible resin by a lash of ambery cistus labdanum, vanilla exudes its balsamic warmth. Bleached wood, skin-soft bark and sun-heated stone release the day’s heat into the ink-black night, cooled off by a breeze of musk…” – a note from the brand.
Grenadille d’Afrique by Aedes de Venustas is a Oriental Woody fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Grenadille d’Afrique was launched in 2016. The nose behind this fragrance is Alberto Morillas. The fragrance features bergamot, violet, lavender, juniper, vetiver, labdanum, vanilla and musk.
BUZJ777 – :
Green boring. Just that I don’t relate to green dominated scents in any passionate way just as a hater of anything sweet and candylike would not to all the vanilla scents out there.
My main moan are the lack of anything exotic; a scent using Juniper, vetiver and the 2 most overused florals in the designer game?? Come on
Yes the amber/vanilla adds a bit of modern sweetness – but it’s not like they’re uncommon in the ingredients list of a billion other perfumes either.
No matter how good the Quality; it shows through here. You’re paying £150 for this bottle remember; DG Homme Intense smells quite close similar and that is barely £50.
A better, more upmarket smell will need a different floral or accompanying notes, simple
My rating: 2/10
altvr – :
The opening is nutty, earthy and mellow as the vetiver, labdanum and vanilla take centre stage. The top notes seem to last for only a fleeting while. These dry down to a predominantly vanilla and white musk base which is very pleasant. Intimate even.
Grenadille d’Afrique doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it’s lovely. If you’re looking for something loud you won’t find it here, in fact I would call this a skin scent, but one that’s comforting and personal.
hellser – :
Grenadille d’Afrique is another Alberto Morillas creation for Aedes de venustas. This one is very different from Palissandre d’Or, the other Morillas creation for this house. It is supposed to be an interpretation of the African Blackwood tree but in reality is a somewhat sweet, powdery vetiver.
Violet and lavender are up front, joined by the a herbal juniper and vetiver heart. The vanilla sweetens things up a bit while the labdanum adds a bit of dryness to the whole composition. Overall, a very pleasant feeling combination of notes for me here, especially if you like violet or powdery notes.Projection is quite strong for the first hour and a half or so, easily 6 feet. settles in a bit after that but I was getting strong whiffs for a long time. Really good there. Longevity again is in the 6-8 hour range. So very happy with the performance.
Final thoughts. This is another good release from this House and Mr. Morillas. Did not wow me as such but I really enjoyed wearing the frag and feedback was good as well. Not Full bottle but definitely decant worthy. If a sweet floral, powdery take on vetiver sounds like something you’d like, definitely sample this.
Chessy Luv Mackky – :
This wonderful fragrance reminds me of dark cherries and tobacco ♡♡♡♡♡
slepoy_ – :
I love incense frags and woody notes as well as lavender, so I thought this was going to be out of sight. It’s meh. I have a large 8 ml sample from STC. This is day one. It’s a warmer spring day and this just…dissipates. The top and middle notes have a fruited sweet quality with a synthetic vibe (vanilla and vetiver perhaps? And the violet may be adding to that as well, a weird candied sweetness). Violet is not a note that does well on me. But the rest of it is quite nice after an hour. I wish the lavender was pumped up a bit. The dry down IS good. It has a real laudanum dry down with a faint whiff of animalic (barely there), a warm “amber” quality is there nose to wrist, (the vanilla kicking in). By the two-hour mark this is hovering about 3 inches from where I spritzed. I’m going to give it a few more wears (we have some colder days moving in at end of week, so I’ll try then).
alexmai – :
I’ve always been intimidated by vetyver, because of its sharpness and acidity (think of Creed Green Irish Tweed, for example).
Grenadille d’Afrique, instead, comes as the perfect contradiction to my decade long resistance to this note.
The vetyver in this fragrance is central and evident, true, but there’s an incredible work of softening, smoothing the edges, polishing the final effect by way of musk and labdanum, so that the final result is incredibly balanced and pleasant.
lqt193elipseskism – :
The most surreal greenish note of vetiver in the perfume world. Period. It is dark woody herbal green which will grasp you in its powerful spell. This is genuine Indian Vetiver. Absolutely stunning. Masterclass. Just tried it at the perfumery boutique in Barcelona.
Игорь-KOLA – :
Oh my goodness, this is a lovely, sweet, musky, powdery scent for all year round day. The powdery scent stays with the musk and sweet at the same time. Now, I can say the Aedes Perfumery House hit a home run with this perfume. It is great to know of an American Perfume house is serious in giving the customer the very best new fragrance.I will be adding this to my niche collection.