Description
Verveine d`Été previously known as Verveine (Verbena): A billow of freshness with a spicy middle note.
“You walk in the Summer Garden in the heart of Saint Petersburg. There was a refreshing rainstorm this morning, and you sit on a bench in the French garden designed by Peter the Great. You bend down to pick up a ball dropped by some children. All at once, a perfumed wave of freshness hits you: basil, lemon, bergamot, verbena, and a touch of oak moss. You would so like to take this perfume along with you into the warmer hours of the day…” – a note from the brand.
The main accent in previous edition of the fragrance was made on the essence of the Verbena from Provence (France) with its slightly green and tart smell, fresh and lemony.
To enhance the Verbena note, Yuri Gutsatz imagined adding a whole bouquet of plants and herbs from Provence like Geranium, Sage, Thyme, Lavender and Neroli with the addition of woodsy notes like Sandalwood and Vetyver.
Evreyoushka – :
I have many lemon and verbena scents in my wardrobe. This is by far the brightest but also most dry.
voviksk – :
This is a beautiful, vivid verbena scent. It’s very uplifting and refreshing and is perfect for summer. I loved how citrussy and zingy it is.
dieggo – :
Open with pretty strong Verbena note that maybe can’t smell other notes, but wait a moment, can start feeling that I am in the middle of herb garden.
After lemon verbena smelling then start to smell Lavender and light Campher note mixing with Verbena, then Thyme and Sage are joyning to the ending.
This is just like summer herb garden. Close my eyes and I can imagine summer breeze, sunshine, sounds of bees, white cloud like cotton candy.
Beautiful and poetic.
SN313 – :
A walk through the Summer Garden, located in the Peterhof Palace in Saint Petersburg, is the starting point for the creation of Verveine d’Été, a fragrance that brings a fresh look to the Verveine perfume, created in 1978 by Yuri Gutsatz.
To portray the invigorating aroma of this garden, notes of basil from Egypt, verbena, lemon and bergamot from Italy, vetiver from Haiti, eucalypt from China and oak moss were used.
Verveine d’Été is citric and limpid. Joining the lemon with the verbena is like waiting for an almost astringent result. Particularly I like this smell, but many people can not withstand scents with the verbena note very present, because of the strong connection they make with the smell of some cleaning products or those car freshners.
On the skin, there is no miraculous evolution. The scent opens with a lot of citric content and walks towards a mossy, almost fougère base. And when applied, it exhale very powerfully, by the way.
Within the current line of Le Jardin Retrouvé, I would say that Eau des Délices functions as the youngest brother of the citrus family, while Verveine d’Été is the middle brother and Citron Boboli, the eldest. And even being a perfume full of more volatile ingredients, it has good durability on the skin. On mine, for example, it survived longer than Sandalwood Sacré.
Verveine d’Été is unisex and fits with those warmer summer days, as well as spring nights.
If the garden of the Palace of Peter, the Great (Peter I of Russia) possesses this scent, then it is worth a walk there. It lifts any spirit or mood!
avatar0185 – :
I consider myself a summer person. The sun makes me feel complete, I love to spend my days at the sea and I dream that one day I will live in a beach house, with a hammock to spend my free time in, while reading my favourite book. If I could choose a smell for this dream, I would pick something refreshing, zesty but yet somehow complicated. Verveine D’Ete manages to be exactly what I imagine. It is the kind of perfume that I would love to smell around me, rather than on myself because on my skin it becomes abit masculine, but this doesn not affect it’s beauty. The vetiver and the citrusy notes stand out for me, and they make this perfume sparkle just like water drops in the sun!
dxy789Bessinepome – :
Wat a nice fragrance!