Vetiver Insolent Miller Harris 2016

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A popular perfume by Miller Harris for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is spicy-woody. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Green

Resinous

Earthy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Indian cardamom

Elemi resin

Black pepper

Italian bergamot

Heart Notes

Provençal lavender absolute Amber

Amber

Iris

Base Notes

Haitian vetiver Moss

Moss

Tonka bean

Perfumers

Mathieu Nardin, Robertet

Ratings

Scent

8.1184 Ratings

Longevity

7.7155 Ratings

Sillage

7.1157 Ratings

Bottle

7.6151 Ratings

Value for money

7.561 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 06/09/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection Editions Collection.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/10/2022

6
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

JackHunter33
90 Reviews

JackHunter33

Helpful Review 4

A Wearable Vetiver Scent!

Now this is quite beautiful that I'm quite taken with the scent. I get a wonderful smelling cardamom with black pepper, iris and elmi. The elmi smells like light honey, lemon and pine and it mixes in with soft woody smell and elevates the scent. This sets the stage!

Underneath this amazing mix is the star of the show, the Hatian vetiver. Which pushes up out of the soft woody cardamom mix and is accompanied by a touch of lavender. Making this scent smell spicy fresh and warm at the same time. I got to say it smells really good!

10/18/2024

7
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 5
Longevity 8
Scent

Einfinken
74 Reviews

Einfinken

1

Smoky woods

This is a really lovely deep and smoky scent. It truly smells like burning twigs and leaves, a forest in the distance, a frost is in the air. Underneath, and I presume it is the tonka, a slightly roasted marshmallow sweetness, but the sweetness is still decidedly roughened and charred.

I find this intensely smoky for about 4 hours and then it seems to suddenly just vanish. The fire quenched. I really like this and I enjoy wearing masculine leaning scents even as a woman (there is a time and a place) but I do ultimately think Vetiver Insolent is just a tad too masculine for my tastes to be wearable in public. At home, on a cold winter weekend though maybe. This is ultimately a scent I want to smell, just not on me. It would be better on my husband.

11/01/2020

6
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Jazzbob
80 Reviews

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Jazzbob

Top Review 18

Warmth & Security

My grandfather turned 80 this summer and instead of organizing a big party, we went with him in a family group of 15 to the Bavarian Forest for a week. In his younger years he has crossed much higher mountains - he once even climbed the Elbrus, which is the highest mountain in the Caucasus at 5,642 meters - and before he started to work in various professions, he did an apprenticeship in forestry, through which he acquired an immense knowledge of the flora and fauna of the local forests.

I associate vetiver insolent with a - in the best sense - grandfatherly security. The fragrance creates a great combination of classic woody-aromatic and warm, soothing notes. In my mind's eye I see the typical autumn colours and imagine the sun's rays shining through the last remaining leaves on the trees.

As you would expect, vetiver is the dominant note from the start. It does not appear grassy-green, but has similar facets to Chanel's Sycomore (EdT): woody, earthy, slightly smoky and also a bit nutty. Black pepper is only initially recognizable as a pungent nuance and cardamom gives the fragrance a pleasant, not too strong spiciness. The heart notes are hardly noticeable - perhaps iris and lavender add a slightly powdery side. The tonka bean in the base is also far from being as loud as it is in many more modern fragrances, but the accompanying sweetness, fortunately very subtle, and the symbiosis with the spice result in a chord that is marginally reminiscent of gingerbread. The perfumers have really skilfully implemented this and demonstrated a sense for the subtleties, because here nothing really points in the direction of gourmand and the fragrance retains its natural, woodsy-aromatic qualities.

In the first two to three hours Vetiver Insolent is even relatively strong perceptible, but after that unfortunately only quite weakly skin-near with me. For me this is a little bit too little, but for some people this should be enough - especially since I can't complain about the durability.

In the autumn and winter of your life you take it easy. My grandfather would actually be physically very fit for his age, but his Parkinson's disease makes everything more strenuous and even everyday life more difficult for him. Luckily, my parents and grandparents live right on the edge of the forest, so even in these difficult times he can still enjoy nature with all its simple beauties.

12/12/2018

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Landlord
23 Reviews

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Landlord

Top Review 14

Vetiver in the Christmas bakery

As a big fan of the Vetiver fragrance complex I was very much looking forward to the test of "Vetiver Insolent". I've been strolling around Miller Harris a long time. I would like to include one of the Londoners in my collection, just because of the incredibly beautiful flacon design with its mixture of impressively clear form and slightly playful graphic design. Beautiful!

But sei´s well, first of all the inner values count - and they don't come across as insolent, cheeky and impudent, but they do know how to confuse in a pleasant way. In the beginning, pepper rises into my nose, cardamom and already at the beginning a hint of dark vetiver. A mixture to which I can think of nothing better than to call it earthy-gourmandig - which actually fits!

In the heart, the scent increases considerably in sweetness, there are hints of Christmas baking, cardamom remains and it becomes cinnamon and gingerbread. The earthy vetiver of the opening retreats discreetly. The sweetness is a bit borderline for my nose, but just in the area of the pleasant... until in the drydown fresh, earthy vetiver determines the scent again and provides for a beautiful, male drydown, which you can still enjoy after 8 - 10 hours...

After three tests, this Miller Harris still hasn't become a purchase candidate, but I will take a look at the souk. Maybe I can get hold of a bottling to enjoy this very unique vetiver scent this winter still occasionally...

08/04/2018

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Minigolf
553 Reviews

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Minigolf

Top Review 9

Of "hunting trophies" and chance finds

Sometimes you hunt for months after a certain scent, rummage in perfumeries, the "souk" at Parfumo and elsewhere. I don't want to miss any opportunity to get to the coveted piece (I was like this with "Bandit" and "Sortilege", for example).
And sometimes lucky coincidence plays a role in discovering a fragrance whose existence we didn't know about yet.
That's how I felt about "Vetiver Insolent" by Miller Harris.
It was recently in the souk to find, I read the side of the fragrance through, found that he would be something for my nose, and made a trade request.
To my surprise came a positive answer, so "Vetiver Insolent" landed now with me and at my exchange smell now soon another "nose" enjoys.
So far, so good.... There are many vetiver scents now, most are good to very good, but often have one thing in common: the concentration on the earthy-green properties of the fragrance Vetiver root (acetate..) with some "companions" , which vary it slightly, from company to company slightly modified.
Big exceptions are rare, but there are "Vetiver Bourbon" by Oriza Legrand, "Encre Noire" by Lalique and now "Vetiver Insolent" by the English company Miller Harris.
And the latter has the unusually surprising charisma of a kind of fougeré with fresh herby-floral-green parts of lavender, a "Zwischenbau" of balsamic-resinous "Orient-Inslays", a powdery seeming iris aura that always reappears unexpectedly up to parts of spicy-peppery sprinkles.
This makes this "English" fragrance so versatile and exciting that I can discover other little surprises each time I wear it.
Even in the current "test session" I sniffed something new...
I seem to be waving a note of laurel, from afar, not really graspable.
Occasionally appearing briefly, only to withdraw like a phantom when I think I can grasp them.
I must still smell some times completely exactly, in order to be able to "comprehend" this smell really.
I really like it and it does.
Although I wasn't chasing him "like the devil behind the poor soul".
According to the motto: "Unvehofft comes often"....

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