Description
Vetiver is described as a marriage of golden, unctuous woody aromas and exquisite tropical floralcies, both feminine and masculine, mild and powerful.
“For me, being a perfumer is like being a chef or painter – taking ingredients and coming up with your own recipe, your own creation. I was about 16 years old when I first smelled vetiver, and it’s been one of my favorite raw materials ever since.” – Caroline Sabas.
Top: Apple, Petalia®, Blackberry. Heart: Sampaquita, Jasmin Vintage Oil. Base: Haitian Vetiver Oil, Cedarwood Oil, Indonesian Patchouli Oil, Australian Sandalwood Oil.
Available as a 10 and a 100 ml Eau de Parfum. Vetiver was launched in 2017.
polispen – :
I am so dissapointed..! As a lover of vetiver, I expected a lot from Commodity.
This is a strong medicinal patchouli/vetyver opening, which becomes a bergamot/vetyver after 30 minutes. The velyver is very soft, almost subtle and unnoticeable on you. I did not notice jasmine to be honest. No apple either…
VERY low projection 2/10. On the skin it stays for a while. This is a pass for me…
For a more prominent vetyver I would recommend Diptyque Vetyverio, Clean White vetyver or Escentric Molecules Molecule 03.
lydrasp – :
I love this on my husband. It works really well with his chemistry.
vlados412 – :
This is one of the best versions of vetiver I have ever tested and I have tested nearly every single vetiver there is as its my fav note!
reminds me of Haitian vetiver by ermenegildo zegna, fresh, spicy and a little dirty… perfect combonation. if your a fan of vetiver please get your nose on this!! 9/10
DragMar – :
For some reason, I get long haired gray kitten, playing with the cellophane wrapper from a package of pipe tobacco–in an antique store, after the most of the carpets have been cleaned, and the hardwood floors polished. It’s like it doesn’t really know what it wants to be, but it’s ok with that.
It’s not my favorite from my Commodity Storybook, but it’s inoffensive. It might be interesting to mix with something a bit sharper – perhaps the Bergamot?
*edited to add that, while I like it better with the Bergamot, it’s now as if the kitten has knocked over the shopkeeper’s gin and tonic. At noon.
dimych – :
just WOW.
10/10
npolik – :
Bought a 10ML Travel Spray of Commodity Vetiver from Sephora. WOW just beautiful super freshness in a bottle! I wore it in summer/srping and whenever I need an olfactory lift! Unlike other vetiver this is ultra smooth refined and a little different so unisex for sure.
Opening I get a sweet note I believe to be Jasmine,with pathchouli again a very smooth not overbearing type,blackberry giving it more depth and vetiver,with just enough cedar to not overtake and sandalwood.
This is beautiful quality juice,not tested on animals(YAY!) and will get you compliments from most people you talk to.
It lasts ages I get 8-12 hours from 3 -4 sprays no problem!
olc051speagoessenda – :
This is predominately patchouli and vetivert with a little jasmine and berry in the background. I agree with the whiskey comments, this is peaty and slighly sweet. I also get incense. This is sultery, sexy but also down to earth.
⛤⛤⛤
rom4eh – :
I almost found this hard to describe…..
Vetiver from the house of Commodity is not your typical green, sharp fragrance. Commodity has a very different take on vetiver and it is rather intriguing!!
Here is the note break down:
Haitian Vetiver, Indonesian Patchouli leaf, Apple, Australian Sandalwood, Blackberry, Jasmine, & Cedar (..maybe a few others).
From my sample, I get a sweet, citrusy, whiskey-ish type smell up front followed by a Jasmine Cedar dry down in the end. As the fragrance settles there is this nice almost sweet saffron-ish type of aroma that envelops due to the combination of Cedar, Vetiver, Jasmine, and Apple. This is a really nice fragrance from a house recently discovered.
(Note: I tried all but Leather and Tea and this seemed to be the one I gravitated to the most).
Definitely full bottle worthy; so bottle worthy that I went back and got a bottle….shhhhhhhhhhh, don’t tell my wife!!
Performance:………………………………………………………………..9/10
Projection: (big cloud for the first 30mins, tapers slowly)…..8.5/10
Silage:………………………………………………………………………….8/10
Longevity: after a shower…still whiffs going 5 hrs. in…………..9/10
Overall:…………………………………………………………………..8.6-9/10
Very Nice!
(P.S., slightly reminiscent of Royal Mayfair-has a medicinal, eucalyptus-ish, airy edge! Royal Mayfair is lite, Vetiver Commodity is heavy-handed)
gevorg21665 – :
Strong, woody, almost smokey. I get all the base notes clearly – the vetiver, the patchouli is fairly strong, the cedar, the sandalwood – and only the base notes. To me this smells more woody and warm, and yet also cleaner and plant-ier than Whiskey. (I’m probably feeling this way because this has sandalwood and whiskey has musk). A little too masculine for me
руммо – :
For months I looked for a fresh scent that wasn’t overly sweet or aquatic and worked in South Florida weather, and I finally found it with this one! This is actually my first vetiver-based scent, and I find it to be fresh, green, floral, and very clean. Two sprays gave me good longevity–I was getting whiffs of it at my desk around 5pm after having sprayed it on at 8:45am, and my mother could smell it on me at 6pm from about 8-10 inches away from where I sprayed it (shoulder). It’s a sophisticated scent without being too mature, and as others have said, it’s subtle but still very present. I could see this working for nighttime especially if it’s hot out, but I wouldn’t use for clubbing (try commodity’s book for that). Otherwise, daytime/office/casual/formal are all appropriate for this. Definitely for ages 21+ In my opinion, but still a modern, aromatic and unique fragrance that’s bound to garner complements.
F_arti – :
On my skin this opens with a camphor note backed up by vetiver. About half hour in the camphor is gone and fruity notes blend in and are quickly joined by flowers. The fragrance was light from the beginning and now it just a skin scent already. It’s a simple, clean, fresh, fruity, floral, woody fragrance. Not vetiver centered. The performance really lacks.
Scent: 5.5/10
Longevity: 6/10
Projection: 2/10
Jeosekevy – :
Beautiful clean vetiver with a bit of patchouli and light fruity notes. Jasmine is detectable and rounds off the vetiver. Very nice, safe fragrance and it shines in the hot weather of South Florida. It lasts a long time on me.
spicy_1307 – :
I’m getting jasmine overload on this. The Vetiver note is there as well as the patchouli but jasmine dominates and makes it somewhat of a dirty Vetiver. Not bad by any means but this is no soapy Vetiver. Can’t decide if I like it but I spray it on and keep going back to my arm to sniff. Must be something there….
Mevng439Negeltzex – :
Heavy Vetiver scent. There is a dominant Vetiver note that fades into a light woody floral scent. you can smell a hint of Patchouli but the main thing you get out of it is vetiver. It is very different from Tom Ford Grey Vetiver in that there is not a strong citrus presence. Commodity went in a very different direction. Still, a very nice vetiver scent that is a good work scent.
It is a extremely long lasting and people will be able to smell it on you even if you can no longer smell it on yourself. As with all the commodity products it blends very well into your body chemistry.