Grey Vetiver by Tom Ford

mypersonalharmonics

Great scents never are the cause of controversy. This is a great launch and everybody seems to agree on that.

I am a woman who loves vetiver. I adore guerlain's vetiver. This one is sharper and less herbaceous. If guerlain's interpretation can ground and soothe you, ford's can help you rise some centimeters above the ground.

curtis.w

I wasn't too keen on the frosted glass bottle, but I got over it quickly. This was the first try-and-buy scent for me in quite a while and is definitely a standout as far as recent masculine releases.

It starts out with vetiver, a borderline sweaty grapefruit note, and some dry woods and quickly progresses to a spicier, woodier, slightly smoky heart, akin to Armani Bois D'Encens, and ends with a smooth cool vetiver with a hint of warmer woods. Like others have said, there's some saltiness as well, and while I thought the wet paint smell might have been the workmen painting outside my apartment last week, there's actually a bit of that in there as well. Not groundbreaking, but still, a very good and modern take on the classic masculine vetiver.

mariotgomez

I received a sample of this fragrance about a week ago when I purchased some skin care products.

I immediately fell in love with the juice of Grey Vetiver. This is going to be a hit and I know I will be smell this scent on everyone. This is a must have fragrance. Wristsniffer gave a great description, so I will not duplicate my same thoughts.

I have not been able to stop thinking about this scent and not wanting to use entire sample. I keep asking myself, "Do I want a fragrance eventually everyone will have in their collection?" Yes, I do!

I will purchase it, wear it for awhile until it becomes too mainstream. then I will put it aside for a while, then returning to this masterpiece.

Wristsniffer

My boyfriend, being the vetiver fan that he is, was really excited to try this one and I'll admit, being the vetiver fan that I'm NOT, that it's very nicely done. It smells much better on his skin than it did on the test strip - more smoky and less sour.

While I LOVE L'Occitane's Vetyver for men and the warm cigar smoke note it brings with it, I can't stand Encre Noir in all of it's sour, wet, linear rootiness. I think Grey Vetiver is somewhere in between the two and surprisingly better than most mainstream scents that have been released on the mens' side of the fragrance world this past year.

It's very salty and reminds me of the ocean and marine fog - it's not aquatic in a soapy sense, more aquatic in that it reminds me of being on a boat on the ocean, in the early hours of the morning, before the sun has broken through the mist and warmed everything up. Portside, someone is smoking a pipe, and you catch drifts off that smoke every now and again. Someone has recently made repairs to the boat and the smell of freshly painted wood is very present. The air is still cool and wet, and what you smell most of all is the salt as it's pulled up from the sea and carried in the arms of the fog as it drifts past your nose.

My favorite scents on my guy are dark - Bulgari Black, Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille, etc., but this one gets high marks in my book, despite its lack of warmth. It has a three dimensional personality and it reminds me of the way the sea really smells when it's fresh and clean and free of rotting fish and algae (not in the way so many aquatics attempt to smell with "marine" notes which just end up smelling soapy). When I smelled Alien by Thierry Mugler, I felt there was something magical about it - something appropriately other-worldly and different - a three dimensional mist so to speak, and this is the only other fragrance which has managed to capture that cool, misty note for me. In Grey Vetiver, it's surrounded by smoke, roots, and salt instead of Alien's jasmine and ambery-woods, but the effect is not lost. I'd give it seven stars out of ten.

rakester23000

grey vetiver by tom ford is another winner for the great creator