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Dreddfills – :
Vetiver Velours is a very powdery sub-sweet scent with some vetiver and a semi-aquatic soapy vibe suitable for year round use. The powder looks like a common scented baby powder. It leans towards feminine scents clearly. As time passes it feels like the smell of a deodorant that you have sprayed many hours ago.
Dominant notes are toffee, vetiver, woody notes, mild tobacco and non-smoky benzoin. Performance is moderate overall. It retails here 284 usd per 50 ml. This is not for vetiver lovers.
anelerloncorb – :
Vetiver Velours (Tested from a dabber)
I’m confused, why is there “Vetiver” in the name of this fragrance? Well, for those looking for a sophisticated, non-aggressive, and powdery vetiver will most likely be more than happy with Vetiver Velours.
The vetiver in Vetiver Velours is distinct, dry, bitter, yet it is subdued. It is also powdery. There are delicate spices, oud, and musk alongside the vetiver and there is a gentle warmth around the vetiver from a blend of soft woods/amber-benzoin. The drydown is powdery and ambery. It is completely unisex, lasting power on my skin is good and sillage is soft.
Forex21 – :
A gorgeous and luxurious and unique take on vetiver! Keiko Mecheri broke all of the stereotypes with this perfume, which is much more about velours than it is about vetiver. The sumptuous blanket of orientalia seems to be anchored in amber, though it is not listed among the notes. Well, notes are just metaphors anyway, so it doesn’t really matter what is listed in a perfume’s hierarchy. What matters is how it smells, and this smells ridiculously great. A perfect perfume for a day like today: 14F feels like -3F.
I consider Vetiver Velours to be unisex leaning toward the feminine side, and it’s only going to appeal to those who enjoy rich oriental perfumes. However, this is not a sweet but an ever-so-slightly soapy fragrance. One thing is clear: anyone who is looking for a standard vetiver cologne had best move on. Those fragrances are a dime a dozen. This one is truly unique, and I love it. The perfume equivalent to velours, indeed.
livelostboy – :
Not my favorite kind of vetiver. Well – not my favorite kind of scent as vetiver never really dominates this. Opened with loads of spices. Imagine a wooden spice cabinet filled with all kinds of exotic spices, but here is the catch – the bottles are all empty, so you only get a faint feeling of what the first scent was. It is not bad though – why would anyone want to smell like a spice cabinet anyway? The spices in Vetivel Velours are very well done and elegant.
I’m starting to have a problem with Vetiver Velours at the heart part where the woody notes and spices are joined in by an extremely soapy note which basically smells like non scented soap. So imagine again the wood spice cabinet and put loads of soap in between the empty spice jars. Get it?
There was only a faint bit of aoud in the heart part for me, vetiver is perfectly blended in the background and almost non existent, so don’t try this if searching for vetiver fragrance.
I must admit that I simply seem to not get anything by Keiko Mecheri.