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goldxan – :
Based on reviews below, I got a sample from Aedes and tried it hoping to duplicate the same mind-bending experience I had with MPG’s Route de Vetiver.
No joy.
This is a linear rosewood scent. I don’t even smell a hint of vetiver. If I want to smell like rosewood, I can do so for a lot less than the $135 a bottle Santa Novella charges.
nature_green – :
Starting off smelling like a black oil slick, SMN’s Vetiver is a vetiver that takes no prisoners. It’s bold, raw and in yo face.
The vetiver oil is of high quality: bone dry and stone-faced, with both woody and earthy, soil-like facets.
However, like others below have said, I swear there’s rosewood added to this. If so, it adds some transparency and airiness to what would otherwise be a brutal, earthy beast of a scent. I love pure vetiver oil, but I really enjoy this added floral facet.
On the other hand, if this is nothing more than vetiver oil and alcohol, then SMN have struck gold and found one of the finest quality vetiver oils I’ve ever smelled.
MY RATING: 9.5/10
Andreyssss – :
This excellent fragrance opens with an almost shocking blast of raw, bitter, green, iodine-infused vetiver. Santa Maria Novella Vetiver is strong and pungent and it lasts all day long: uncharacteristic for an EdC. The fragrance is beautifully done, with an old fashioned, bone-dry, mossy and powdery dry down that seems to be the standard backbone for Santa Maria Novella. I can see how some might find it perfumey due to the rosewood and powder in the base, but to my nose it has more of an old school barbershop feel than anything else. I very much enjoy it; especially on a hot summer day, but it has the heft to be worn all year long. If you like raw vetivers, barbershop fragrances, and green mossy scents, this one could definitely be for you. But, you have to like vetiver – seriously. This one is not easy-wearing by any stretch of the imagination: the polar opposite of citrus-laden, polite and easy-wearing vetivers like Creed’s, Tom Ford’s or Roja Dove’s. In contrast, Santa Maria Novella is powerful, dry as a bone, strong, and old school. The opening is nostril-searing. A definite must try for true vetiver fans.
chepur41 – :
Really, I mean: Vetiver essential oil is very good itself. You can use pure and you feel to be already in front of a complex fragrance as of its many tones. Than is difficult to fail when you make a fragrance based on vetiver. Officina Santa Maria Novella goes to that goal, and is able to destroy such beautiful aroma creating a sort of Yeti of vetivers.
Almost all the colognes of this House smells like medicines or ancient remedies for tooth pain, flu, breathing complicances, cholera, or if you are lucky: the cough syrup of Marco Polo.
Then well, this herbaceus scent smell like a wet fabric forgotten in the garage for weeks, honey and eucaliptus, fat for shoes flavoured with orange flowers and gas for lighter. Finally appear what remain of vetiver. There must be birtch, geranol, orange blossoms and some else. Really in this Maison they must blend by chance. . Because is impossible to choice to do such mess with intention.
takarralO – :
This minimalistic composition opens with a rough, dry and in your face blast of raw vetiver that made me immediately believe I had found my new holy grail. Unfortunately, after one hour or so, rosewood takes over surrounding the scent with a “perfumery” vibe that’s definitely off-putting for my likes. Amazing opening, depressing drydown (I’m sorry but I’m hypersensitive to rosewood).
Rating: 5/10