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Aedes de Venustas
Aedes de Venustas 2012

Signature / Aedes de Venustas by Aedes de Venustas

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Signature / Aedes de Venustas (Aedes de Venustas)

7.2 / 10 289 Ratings

A perfume by Aedes de Venustas for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is fruity-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Fruity

Fresh

Green

Spicy

Smoky

Fragrance Notes

Rhubarb

Tomato leaf

Frankincense

Green apple

Vetiver

Hazelnut

Honeysuckle

Red berries

Perfumer

Bertrand Duchaufour

Ratings

Scent

7.2289 Ratings

Longevity

7.1211 Ratings

Sillage

6.4217 Ratings

Bottle

8.3201 Ratings

Value for money

5.940 Ratings

Submitted by Beautycase, last update on 06.03.2024.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/17/2023

8
Scent

DogiCoco
345 Reviews

DogiCoco

Helpful Review 2

Something different for the warm seasons!

Summery, fruity and refreshing, but definitely not your average fruity summer freshie. Aedes de Venustas Signature starts with a blast of juicy rhubarb. The apple is not a dominant note, but I think it supports the fruitiness of the opening and even adds a hint of natural sweetness. The tomato leaf plays a much more important role. I love the smell of tomatoes and their leaves, but most perfumes that claim to have this note are kind of disappointing to me. I often don't get it at all. Here I do. It truly smells like a fresh vine of tomatoes. So it's quite green, even aggressively so, but at the same time immaculately blended with the rhubarb.
A base of vetiver and incense gives the scent a cool, dry depth. As it dries down, the greenness of the fragrance shifts from fruity towards earthy.
The hazelnut note is very subtle, blink-and-you-miss-it, it's not gourmand or warm, more like unsweetened ground hazelnuts far in the drydown.

Cold, dry and overwhelmingly green scents are usually difficult to my nose, but Aedes Signature seems to be an exception. I think the rhubarb, which adds so much liveliness to the scent, balances the other notes very well. Like a dash of bright, reddish pink in a sea of dark green.
It also helps that I really enjoy the tomato leaf.
Even though this is still not something I would pick for myself, I like it a lot. It feels very modern and exciting, even after 10 years.

04/02/2023

5
Pricing 10
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Mlleghoul
353 Reviews

Mlleghoul

Helpful Review 7

Eau de muppet...but hear me out

I feel like if you are going to make a signature fragrance for your brand, then you are likely going to choose notes that are universally loved, you’re going to make something everyone can agree upon, you’re going to make something safe, and probably a little basic. That’s…not what this is. It’s weird. It’s offbeat. It’s utterly unexpected. And it’s incredible. To be fair, it says right in the copy that it aimed to break from traditional perfume structures, but come on, how often have you heard something like that only to smell the same thing you’ve smelled a million times? What an oddball cast of characters: The tangy, fruity, acidic zest of rhubarb, dry woody incense, and bitter chypre accord with sweet vining notes of honeysuckle, sour green apple, and the sharp aromatic grassiness of tomato leaf. Hazelnut and vetiver are also listed in the notes and add a lovely, cozy warmth, an aspect that you'd think wouldn't belong here, but somehow it does. If you were going to make a perfume from olfactory extractions of the myriad, wildly differing Fraggle Rock personalities, their goodness and goofiness, their kindness and cleverness, and all their wild dreamy, delirious energy, you would end up with this funny, magical scent. If that's too much, imagining eau de muppet, you could also imagine wrapping yourself in a cozy, rumpled old cardigan smelling of nutty, custardy skin musk and stepping outside on an early summer evening to wriggle your toes in the fresh, warm dirt and watching a symphony of flowers in your garden closing themselves up, petal by petal, all of the shadows swallowing all of that green as the sky darkens and night falls.

08/16/2020

8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

MaKr
9 Reviews

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MaKr

Very helpful Review 15

Surprises

I got a remainder of this fragrance as an addition in a souk package The brand was not known to me before, so I looked at the fragrance pyramid here and was very sceptical at first:
The composition sounds to me like the recipe for one of those weird smoothies where you add to the fruit and vegetable mixture a green hideousness like raw spinach or seaweed. Here just poisonous tomato green.

Well then, home office makes brave, I can only be a pain in the ass Wow, a great, fruity and sour freshness blows towards me, estimated wind force 6 ;)
First pleasant surprise, because up to now I have always associated freshness with citrus, and fruity with sweet.
I am completely blown away how well it all fits together!
The delicious smell reminds me of the "extra sour sticks" I used to love to snack on as a child, only the whole thing smells much more natural here.
As if I had picked currants in the garden with green fingers after having used up the tomatoes.
Also the apple, which for me in many fragrances only smells synthetically like shampoo, here it could be one of the first clear apples.
Vetiver is of the soft green kind that I like and the incense puts a glow over the whole thing
To sum up: I'm shocked, the scent is on my wish list.

12/18/2012

7
Scent

Drseid
819 Reviews

Drseid

4

It Grows On You...

Aedes de Venustas (new) opens with a bit of green apple, coupled with honeysuckle and just the faintest whiff of hazelnut used as support. The heart notes add a powerful non-smoky vetiver arising from the scent's base, and a nice rhubarb and incense combo that take center-stage while the apple and honeysuckle still remain in a supporting role to add a bit of "sweet and sour" balance to the composition. The dry-down is primarily the remnants of the incense and vetiver. Projection and longevity are both good.

The first time I sampled Aedes de Venustas (new) I really did not care for it, and when grabbing my sample again to prepare for this review I fully expected to pan the scent as being a bit too "out there" for my taste. After further review I guess I have to change course and say I like it quite a bit, actually. The green apple, vetiver and incense composition really grows on you, and the rhubarb, while definitely different also works well with the other notes once you get a bit used to it. I doubt I'll be buying a bottle of this one as it is not quite to my preferences, but I definitely can recommend it, and award it a well-deserved 3.5 stars out of 5.