Vetiver by Carven

missan

This new version of Vetyver is really a joke. These reformulations that most of the companies are doing with these old great colognes will of course strike back.

Maybe they are ok if costing $2-3, not more.

rafaeleleniz

The original Vetiver by Carven was outstanding and I remember as a little boy being fascinated by it, an uncle of mine used it and I would sneak into his bathroom and just smell the bottle, never to dare to try it on me.
2 weeks ago I found in ebay a 3.4 oz bottle and I could not resist it. When it arrived it was not the bottle I remembered, instead it was a squared bottle that reminded me of BBW perfumes, but with rounded edges, nothing special.
I sprayed on me and what a huge disapointment, it was not the Vetiver I liked when a boy, it is not bad, if you did not expect something better, but for me it was horrible.
The opening citric notes smells more like candy, almost like a lemon drop with some tar, absolutely synthetic, the heart is nothing to call home for, and the drydown is cheap and synthetic, plasticky, a bit like used gauze.
They keep altering great fragrances and I think they are cheating on the costumer to use names of great old fragrances to bring new fragrances that are not even the shadow of the original

fotolux

If you see the bottle as pictured, grab it. But, this bottle is no longer in production and the newer bottle is oval with a metal cap. Moreover, the formula has been altered. The newer scent is sweeter and less complex - a major disappointment. Carven's Vetiver (at least the modern version): the vetiver is light, the citrus topnotes (which look strong fro the pyramid) weak and fleeting, and the remaining notes suitably blended into an amorphous, dull base. Why do fragrance companies do this? Do they think we will not perceive the difference?