Comme des Garçons has launched To Vetiver, a new spicy woody fragrance.
An enthusiastic olfactory poem about one of our most favorite ingredients.
TO VETIVER is an exhilaration of echoes of an exalted journey along time immemorial and time to come.
Inspired by Christian Astuguevieille’s eternal adoration of vetiver and composed by Antoine Maisondieu and his blessed nose, the hope for TO VETIVER is for lyrical experience of emotion, a happenstance of love and creation, for the ages
The notes include black pepper, white thyme, vetiver, opoponax, ambrofix, musk and myrrh.
Comme des Garçons To Vetiver is available in 100 ml Eau de Parfum, $188.
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I have so many vetiver fragrances but am never opposed to sniffing a new one. In fact, I would be surprised if I didn’t buy this. 🙂
Well it sounds good, and it’s red…two points in its favor right off. But we shall see…
This sounds very appealing but I’ve never heard of “ambrofix” and it sounds dangerously close to the dreaded Ambroxan😬
It is Givaudan’s version of ambroxan.
Why, oh why ruin a good thing???!
Well without smelling it there’s no way of knowing the concentration…I suspect even people who dislike ambroxan (including me, often) wear it without knowing it is in their fragrance. So possibly they ruined a good thing! But possibly not.
Also ambroxan is found, naturally, in real ambergris…and real ambergris smells incredible.
Oh, and I also liked Escentric 02, at least back in 2008 when I smelled it, and it apparently has lots of ambroxan.
So when I say I don’t like it, what I mean is that it seems to “take over” many fragrances…makes them smell “same-y”, and this is especially true of masculines, plus I think they are using it more often these days, which again makes everything smell “same-y”.
Thank you, Robin. That’s a much more nuanced view of Ambroxan and its look-alikes. If I’m honest, I actually enjoy it in Alfapart Milano hair oil and can tolerate it in very small doses in other fragrances where, as you said, it doesn’t dominate. My negative reaction comes when it’s all I can smell, like oak in wine – too “same-y”.
Oooh, I will have to try this one. CdG used to have Vettiveru, a pretty straight-ahead vetiver, which I enjoy for a long time before I swapped it away. Bottle was very generic. Maybe Vettiveru is still around. ..