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ФКЕУЬ – :
I’m sad to report there is no noticeable yerba mate in this enjoyable offering. Unlike its cousin-in-theme Duel, which features a wonderful mate note paired with citrus, Yerbamate is a green talcy scent that starts off softly herbal but not even close to the smell of yerba mate in any of its diverse uses.
You can think of most Villoresi fragrances to have a clear idea of this mix of herbs that he does so well, although here it is much subtler. The general feeling is of a fresh, albeit rich green tea with vanilla and hay that is quite original and easy to wear. I was expecting something greener with a more herbal drydown (Philosykos in mind) and this is my only personal complaint… it goes pretty fast into the vanilla talcy floral that we all know. However I love it and recommend it for everyone into unusual yet not weird scents for summer. It has great lasting power and ok sillage. Only word of precaution: if you dislike perfumey scents you better sample this first.
(“perfumey” = cosmetic like, soapy in a penetrating floral way and rather artificial (and loud for this reason)… interesting word as we all seem to use it but can’t come to a shorter meaning…).
SEREGASEM – :
This is a warm, comfortable and extremely attractive masculine fragrance. It starts out with a nice tea note and transitions smoothly into a classic coumarin/lavender fougere. It’s maybe a touch old fashioned but the term “classic” is probably more appropriate. Just all around handsome, solid work.
Jony West – :
An other masterpiece for summer.
8/10
nicolaich86 – :
Yes, tea, plenty of grassy and green notes mixed in a huge range of other herbal, floral ingredients, in Villoresi signature style that makes most of his releases really particular and unique. Sadly this one, despite the nice name and the narrative gets overshadowed by such a strong dose of powder that it keeps on lacking something – the powder also is not a big blast of orris root, which could have been a nice feature given the overall earthy, herbal concept, but rather a dry cosmetic generica. Really had high hopes for his, alas to date, Comme des Garçons’ Tea from 2000 remains my reference when it comes to all sort of dried herbs, be it mate or black tea.
niki746 – :
Village behind Trees Paul Cézanne 1879
goroblisiotte – :
Mate is an herb consumed as tea and much used in Argentina and southern Brazil. It is beloved by the “gauchos” , cowboys from this region and most of the people. So it is tea like.
wll239intitytek – :
I’ve never smelled Yerba mate tea, but I like the smell of this. Except for the opening…it smelled herbal with a blast of mint, and maybe dried grass or hay. It didn’t last, and as it dried down it became much sweeter and softer. I still get the dried greens, but now it’s much nicer. I smell a slight bit of smoke in the background, which works great with the prominent sweet notes. The mint completely disappeared on me, and after awhile the smoke got more noticeable, the woody resinous notes came in, and the whole thing became less sweet and just a little powdery. Really interesting fragrance to me, and definitely not the usual tea scent. It didn’t smell anything like I expected based on the description. I really like it.
abrek06 – :
This really is a truly green fragrance also does not smell or synthetic or soap as most fragrances fall into this olfactory group.
I tried a few Villoresi fragrance among all of his collection, but this is my favorite so be a smart, daring, original, intriguing, and overall commitment to be a very good mix.
As happens to many Italian fragrances, is too fresh and subtle, this lacks greater projection, but perfect in the rest.
The aroma is easy to summarize:
Yerba mate tea held under an aromatic smoke-perfect tone and a touch of very natural grass and achieved added to a fresh and floral background. Drying with woodsy facets and a mossy point that enhances the smoky facet of tea and yerba mate, exactly as if you were smelling the smoke released mate, the smoke from the “la bombilla” (container where prepares) this drink is popular in much of South America: especially in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
I think a flawless fragrance for daytime use and hot days. The value is very good.
This has to be tested, sensational.
Rating: 7.5
grek03 – :
I’ve been wearing LVYM for a week now, on and off. What stays on my skin after 8/10 hours is a very pleasant, mild,minty smell that ruls parallel to a graceful lavender. Soothing but not sweet. I am going to save the rest of the decanter for the summer, and then consider a FB. I can connect with this as a girl, but it could be an appropriate scent for an angelical boy or a dashing old gentleman.
dima.riga – :
Not a fan of Greens … but
This one is very Lite and Ground hugging at the same time. A delightful and humble creation that deserves a special place amongst your best perfumes.
Initial Whiff:
Pretty awful in my experience. Stay away from people for a few minutes, run around the house… i don’t know. Let it breath faster.
Then comes this wonderful earthy note, reminds me of an old barn, probably used now as a studio for a happy person, The building and the landscape is beautifully kept, earthy paint tones, treelines forest behind on the side, bails baking in the sun. Dark clouds hovering over the other valley but beautiful rays of golden sunlight shining in the morning, falling over dry grass.
Please test a sample before you buy, probably not everyone’s cup o’ tea.
Prus – :
Profumo “verde” diverso dai soliti. Dopo circa mezz’ora, si scalda in un bel mix di erbe essiccate delicate. Spruzzato sulla pelle ha una longevità medio-bassa ed un sillage, all’inizio moderato, ma tende presto ad essere molto basso.
Spruzzato sui vestiti, le cose migliorano di poco. Personalmente non amo i profumi che dopo 3 ore perdono la loro “potenza” e finiscono per essere sentiti solo se mettiamo il naso dove li abbiamo spuzzati.
Per chi invece ama i profumi “delicati”, questo potrebbe essere una vera novità nel panorama dei profumi verdi ed aromatici.
gneloyglaz – :
i have this perfume.i can iust smell tea note in it but it is so relaxing and sedative perfume,sense of green tea lands.
gnn_gnn – :
Natural greenish delight.
This is truly unique.
This is truly comforting.
This is truly enchanting.
My only complain is that top notes goes too quickly, drydown is nice but lacks that incredible greenish freshness present in the opening.
If you want something that is really different, and smells natural, test it. This is perfectly unisex, by the way.
JelenaZuvela – :
After having had a terrible experience with the beautiful complexity of Teint de Neige by Villoresi, I was very careful to approach Yerbamate. But my caution was completely unfounded. This fragrance is beautiful and left me pleasantly speechless. After all, for someone like me, greener, mossy and deep spiced concotions carry me to a a contemplative, almost melancholic mood. Saudade, perhaps? Or…wait…
Tarragon, mint and tea, which are already a feast for my olfactory senses. This combination is far more evocative than the name seems to suggest: smell of sun dried yerba mate carried by a wet wind on the border of a distant meadow. Bended, greasy leather horsery garments tickling under the weight of a sleepy “huasa”. The effect is a bit puzzling: not too rough and not outrageusly “healthy” and fitty like many other greenish fragrances could be. On the other hand, rosewood brings softness and the citrus zestiness adds effervescence in the top notes. Wisely, top notes are discreet and well blended. And as I am always fascinated by different uses of lavender, Yerba Mate surprised me with an almost blue lavender note. It’s a subtler and almost powdery-creamy, but a still recognizable lavender.
I do not know if in Yerba Oak Moss is still contained: it develops into the finest earthy note I ever smelt. Mossy, spicy, yet somehow elegant-floral and herb-rounded. And then, amazingly, I dive into the well know accord of citrus notes again. Something that I have already experienced at wearing Habit Rouge on hotter summer afternoons.
Yerba Mate reminds me a little of dried Ilex Paraguayensis in an elegant old drugstore with wood-paneled walls and drawers in which the herbs were sold openly. Such wonderful shops are still present in my hometown, Parma. An exquisite, almost eighty years old benedictine monk still runs a wood-paneled herbalist shop next to the Abbazia di San Giovanni. 🙂 Anyway, Yerba is a stunning fragrance with a strong personality.
ильнур80 – :
Combination of fresh mint tea, the mint combines with Mate to make place for dry earthy notes like hay, labdanum and galbanum but the minty notes will not dissapear. That is why this perfume is so very well made and so interesting!!!
With this perfume are wearing a very attracting, fresh, magical and sexy invisible cloak around you.
IIAPA3uT – :
True is the review below describing it as “hay drying in the sun” – exactly this! And in particular, to me it opens first with the almost-freshly-cut grass, and then quickly goes to drier hay scent, like in a sort of time-comrpessing machine. Didn’t scense much mint, actually.
Perfect for July-August, in my opinion.
It is not sweet, but dry and non-intrusively herbal.
cannabis_uk – :
Yerbamate in essence : after shave + baby powder. Are you familiar with Felce Azzura ? The very nice powdery chypre body care line from Italy ? I love it and I found a lot of Felce Azzura in this scent.
If I should transport Yerbamate into a painting/photo it would read “Man with small child sitting in front of a haystack.”
On me YM is partly masculine and partly soft as a baby´s cheek – so strange but very comforting and quite unusual. It has that dreamy feel to it. An afternoon in the countryside, birds are singing and the sun caresses your face while you are strolling around.
My perception of Yerbamate seems to differ greatly from what all others smell or feel from this perfume. The reason why I now got myself a full bottle is that dusty, somewhat nostalgic aura that evaporates from Yerbamate. In a very positive way. This scent is old-school, like Carey Grant and Shirley Temple in one bottle. A hint of lavender, a tiny dose of oakmoss behind the powder puff, it all blends into something very peculiar. Along with Habit Rouge this will accompany me through spring and summer.
Sillage : medium (good for the office)
Longevity : decent (approx. 6h on me)
андрей 257 – :
Entering into little tea shop you can feel this scent. It’s a black tea with a mint. The perfume is dry, warm. I do not smell fresh, green notes of freshly cut grass. I detect the smell of hay drying in the sun.
Drying down it becomes more warmer and sweeter but not candy-sweet.
It’s a natural scent with a superb quality. I like this perfume, but I don’t think it’s relates to my character.
It would be excellent on a man!
juljka – :
When I applied it I pushed immediately the “don’t like”-button but it seemed to be too early because now – after half an hour – I really love the fragrance! It’s a classy nice perfume although in the beginning you smell only “stingy” tea which is really harsh to your nose but after a certain time it develops a nice powdery scent. This is one of the best things in our passion – it never becomes dull and predicted 😉
vladil19 – :
Green, herbal and perfumey.
Wish perfumey part was minimized and that way fragrance can be naturalistically fresher.
I smell; grass, leaves, herbs, mint, small amount of tea and flowers.
This one’s evenly Unisex.
Also, after 15 minutes it becomes softer with hints of powdery notes:)
Silage’s good 5-6 hours.
qaws124411 – :
green powdery and bitter-sweet..
not so natural
and tea leaves and the end
5/10 something doesn’t work
xrenvam – :
Yerbamate smells good–it’s fresh, natural, and unique, and the tea note blends well with the mint to create a cool, dry accord that is slightly sweet and very green. Occasionally there is a baby powder-like, medicinal quality to it as well. Yerbamate is a quality scent, unfortunately I don’t feel much of a connection to it. As such, I can’t see myself wanting to wearing it very often. Yerbamate is mostly linear, with solid projection and average longevity.
mlide – :
Chocolate limes! A surprising burst of the rememberence of these favourite sweeties without the actual overpowering sweetness of real boiled sweets. Made me laugh and brought an ‘I want to eat my own arm’ smile to my face. A dash of mint, but to me no tea. A quick change to a long unfolding of mellow honey and soft flower petals with an underlying darker note that gives a little mystery. Yet neither floral nor sweet – I find it hard to describe this scent, other than it seems that so many of the notes others get from it are not the ones I find. It is delightful, elegant without being cold, assured without being brash or false, enfolding and feminine without being sweetly eager to please or fearful of being an individual. Not a scent for girls but one for a woman who likes who she is.
I wish I could break this down into notes, which would be of more help to others. Yet to me, on me, this seems to have very little in common with the given notes or those others describe it as. Maybe this is one worth a try even if you are put off by the descriptions. It may be totally different on you too. I habitually turn to sweet florals, and bought this after a wonderful session with Les Scenteurs in London. I asked to be taken away from my comfort zone and I found Yerbamate. And while it isn’t a scent I naturally would have turned to, I find it deliciously wearable. Actually, no, don’t try it- if you liked it it wouldn’t be all mine anymore, would it!
bli777z777nes – :
È come essere in un grande giardino
con l’erba appena tagliata
è quella la sensazione che ho avuto annusandolo
assasinvlad – :
I second previous comments that this is a dry fragrance- almost like sticking your nose in a bag of loose green tea and having a good sniff.
This scent has a typical complaint from me: the Vetiver is too strong. When i sniff my wrist I get that uncleaned body smell, layered with a shake of baby powder. Fans of Bal a Versaille and Shalimar may enjoy this for hte similarities.
This is not a bad scent, it is an interesting scent. ‘Interesting’ in the ‘what did you think of your blind date’ kind of way. Worth trying, but for me it’s not my genre.
Dj_A_L_I_G_A_T_O_R – :
Pretty impressed by this VERY green and well crafted, well balanced and with a great evolving process. It’s like being in a big “jardin” (garden) with lots of plants.
9/10
lzwuyewehfi88i – :
Clean slightly tobacco-y dry tea. Goes on sharp at first, but fades fast to a soft scent without being sweet, powdery or warm. It doesn’t resemble anything that I’ve sampled on today’s market. Definitely interesting and unusual without being off-putting or unwearable. Think summer and a pale green linen dress. This is the lady at the tea party with the hidden tattoo. The tattoo is a unicorn, but it’s still a tattoo. She giggles, but it’s only when she’s telling a dirty joke under her breath. Friendly, approachable but in the end different. Even weird, but in such a nice way.