Vetiver Oriental Serge Lutens for women and men

First I thougt, oh, nice, but this is a masculin fragrance! But later, I had to change my opinion, this is a totally unisex scent, and I love it!

Vetiver Oriental is a rich mossy green fragrance. Has just a hint of sweetness and I wouldn't mind if it was sweeter. I didn't really smell much of the sandalwood and musk. Overall, I really liked it.

I am sure this could be very nice, it just doesn't behave well on my skin. It turns out very masculine, period. Vetiver Extraordinaire, you are still my one and only...

I agree with armchair sailor and perfumeaficionado. This IS worth trying for people who don't like vetiver too. Opposed to dozens of other perfumes who just bang you on the head with pure vetiver, here the vetiver is part of a whole which is fascinating.

It sounds silly, but to appreciate VO, one needs to drop the idea of just "smelling well". This perfume is a masterpiece and its goals are way beyond this. It has a complex and somehow tortured composition. The vetiver is very smoky to start with. It allmost smells like ashes AND vetiver AND maybe some incense. The chocolate refuses to manifest itself on my skin, but others found it. The beginning has nothing sweet, it is tough, male, sure of itself, a bit unfriendly.
But drydown is surprising: it is very mild, flowery, it made me think of lilac. So almost the opposite.

Don't want to offend anybody, but any woman wearing this dark, looming perfume, with the exception of Angelica Houston or Angela Merkel, would puzzle me.

I don't like vetiver.
I know, I'm the only one who doesn't, so sue me :) I think it's dull, too aftershavey.
But here, in its complex lutensianum treatment, it becomes interesting, sweet and edgy.
Not a masterpiece, but an impressive attempt.

Upon first wiff, Vetiver Oriental is darkly mysterious and seduces the senses making everything else around you fade away leaving only the creamy, resinous, balsamic notes wash away the hard edges of the day. The first olfactory register is how incredibly well structured and balanced this fragrance is. The symphonic harmonies between top, middle and low notes are truly breathtakingly beautiful. They each shine simultaneously with a remarkable clarity.

The earthy grass notes of the Vetiver melt into the layers of Benzoin, Labdanum, Sandalwood and are sweetened by Amber and Iris. The whole effect is somewhat gourmand in a superb dark bitter chocolate truffle confection. It engages with body chemistry beautifully, as it molds to the skin its depth builds and the warm Amber and Sandalwood notes come alive with oriental spice.

It transports me to the Silk Road, the exotic silk and spice trans-continental pipeline for the world’s rarest and most valuable aromatic gifts of Persia, Arabia, Somalia and Java-Indonesia. It also invokes a slight biblical cord in me of the time the Book of Esther was sent from Susa to provinces as far out as India and the Kingdom of Kush during the reign of Xerxes the Great (485-465 BC).

Vetiver Oriental is most definitely a nocturnal fragrance. It smoldering darkness should cast its spell well after the sun has set. The Empress of the Tarot also comes to mind, sweet spicy incense wafting around her throne as she wields her scepter and orb. The Empress can either represent life itself or the smothering of all living things until they succumb to the underworld. This describes Vetiver Oriental, a little goes a long way, a delicate application uplifts life although being heavy handed can choke the life right out of you.

This sophisticated fragrance is a luxurious must have for special occasions or the rare evening of solitary splendor of sitting alone gazing at the fireplace with a cognac contemplating what life must have been like along the Silk Road.

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yes, it´s beutifull but not at all original. on my skin it resembles vetiver by mazzolari (except that it does not change, unlike the mazzolari). and it´s just cloyingly sweet, i don´t get who needs that amount of sweetness that is present in some lutens´s scents. I am testing this with arabie now, and the sweetness is very comparable. they even have similar drydown, fruits and spices of arabie replaced with a tiny trace of vetiver... such a pity!!!!!

Nice oriental, smoky with a black tie feeling, but i get mostly vetiver and woods with an under note of burnt vanilla rubber. This does not happen on my sister, though, who wears woods very well. The burnt rubber note isn't bad, in the same way it can be okay in Bvlgari Black, but it does make this one a bit of a scrubber on me, as the burning synthetic edge gets cloying after awhile. Will work very well on some and a must try if you are exploring Vetivers.

Yesterday I decided to try my sample of Vetiver Oriental. I am ASTONISHED with it. What a class, what a delicious scent, what a beautiful evolution…everything seems perfect to me on this scent.

What makes this one so special is not only the chocolate. What makes it especial is the fact that it is a Vetiver without that classic aroma of Vetiver + herbal notes, which always ends with that characteristic smell of after shave that suffocates if is too much applied.

In Vetiver Oriental, the Vetiver is discret and well blended with the other notes. What I also feel with beauty is the Sandalwood notes.

That is something kind of funny: in certain moments, after hours of its evolution, it reminded me Narciso for Him in some nuances, which I wouldn’t give 10 stars. But this smell not made me nauseated as happened to the first one.

Vetiver Oriental is very rich. To me, it stays in the same level, for example, of Habit Rouge. But, for Vetiver Oriental I give 10 stars!!

I agree with Zoka.This perfume is my signature scent.

I've just got it, smelt, ang fallen in love...
In my opinion it's the best vetiver fragrance. On my skin it smells:
-first like smokey vetiver with black tea, and Iris
-than like a bit sweet vetiver with dark choclate
-finally oriental vetiver with labdanum, amber, musk and some guaiac and sandalwood.

It's very special and elegant fragrance, not for everyday. I think it's suitable for special occasions, I'll be wearing it with suits or dinner jacket.

It's unique and gorgeus perfumes, one of my fovourite Serge Lutence's.

This is first time that vetiver is not rounded with citrus notes (i dont like them). Pure woody, light smokey fragrance, seems so natural, little dry, strong and powerful. I dont feel chocolate at all, just vetiver. It is on my wish list.

Ooooh, I shiver on how much I LOVE THIS scent! It's spicy vetiver met w/ warm chocolate. It's very natural and raw. You almost feel as if you are in a far away place, unfamiliar yet intrigued. Normally I'd say that SL fragrances were overdone and cloying, but this is something special and very thought out. It's beautiful for a man or woman.

I love Vetiver in all editions and this is one of the best.