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Vetiver & Golden Vanilla Jo Malone 2020

7.8 / 10 175 Ratings

A popular perfume by Jo Malone for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is spicy-woody. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Sweet

Smoky

Oriental

Fragrance Notes

Vetiver

Grapefruit tea

Bourbon vanilla

Cardamom

Perfumers

Mathilde Bijaoui, Mane

Ratings

Scent

7.8175 Ratings

Longevity

7.6149 Ratings

Sillage

7.0152 Ratings

Bottle

7.8147 Ratings

Value for money

6.984 Ratings

Submitted by AmyAmy · last update on 11/28/2025.

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/02/2020

7.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Augusto
177 Reviews

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Augusto

Top Review 18

Warm Vetiver, not new.

I like the concept: Oriental Vetiver. At first, it has a distinct cardamom note, making it spicy and immediately warm. The vanilla also comes in soon, rich and not too sweet, but the namesake sweet grass hardly comes through on my skin. That's a pity, as it lacks the cool-exotic counterpoint.
Overall, this Malone strikes me as somewhat borrowed from ELDO's Fat Electrician upon the second sniff, although I prefer the latter because it has a clearer vetiver and the chestnut cream is more refined.
As a base, there’s a slightly powdery tonka that makes an impression, but it again reminds me of JM's Myrrh Tonka. Oriental vetiver lovers will surely want to test this, but AugustA doesn’t need to have this one, even though it’s well made.

08/20/2023

9Scent 7Longevity 5Sillage

Aspasia0
61 Reviews

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Aspasia0

Very helpful Review 11

Don't be fooled by the name

I love discovery packages! Why? Because they help me discover scents I would never have noticed otherwise. I am a staunch opponent of any vanilla, outside of the base where it’s hard to avoid. And even though I like vetiver, I would never have thought to pick up a tester, let alone spray it on my skin, that already has vanilla in its name. Oh, what I would have missed...

The scent reached me within a discovery package and since the sink and Linda hand sanitizer were ready, I was brave enough to spray this sample on my wrist. What unfolded on my skin was not the dreaded vanilla bomb, but a sauna infusion, and I love saunas.
Completely perplexed by how something with such a dreadful name for me can smell so great, I sniffed my wrist every 5 minutes for the next few hours. It really smells like a sauna infusion. I can almost feel the heat. The scent is warm, spicy, soothing, and surprisingly complex for Jo Malone, in my opinion. Although only cardamom is listed as a spice, which is clearly noticeable, I feel like I can perceive a variety of other spices underneath. The vetiver brings in a slightly woody note, completing the image of the sauna for me.

12/20/2021

7Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Sonjannick
12 Reviews

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Sonjannick

Helpful Review 5

My Thing with Jo Malone

I have a special relationship with Jo Malone fragrances. I am a total fan of the ... (what do I call it)...purity (?) of the scents. I would describe almost all from the house as "pleasant." However, I haven't found one that I would personally like to wear as a perfume. I think it's the perfect decision that Jo Malone sells their fragrances as candles, because for me, most of the scents are somehow really "candle scents" (even though it almost feels like a "sacrilege" to call such pleasant fragrances just that, but that's how I feel...).

But now to this specific scent: Vetiver & Golden Vanilla is one of the few fragrances from Jo Malone that I also see as a perfume. For me, it is a beautiful, warm spicy (rather masculine) vetiver scent. Nothing new, but simply pleasant!

12/27/2020

9.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

AaronNaxos
3 Reviews

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AaronNaxos

Less helpful Review 4

Golden Boy

For me, this is the best vetiver scent I have smelled so far. The vanilla is really only subtly noticeable and beautifully rounds off the whole experience. It's not particularly unique, but it is the fragrance for which I have received the most compliments from women in the short time I have owned it.

11/10/2025

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

KatAnLo
11 Reviews

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KatAnLo

1

it would have been a mistake...

... not to buy it. Sprayed it in the store. Thought "oh this is definitely a men's scent, what a shame." Drove home. Regularly the bottle hung on my wrist, because now the vanilla was there. A warm, full vanilla. There is great annoyance, because the store is 45 minutes away from me. A week later, I can't take it any longer. Blissfully acquired the scent. Cardamom is clearly noticeable. The longevity is phenomenal. Sprayed it fresh and drove to work, and the seatbelt still smells after 2 weeks. Not a blind buy, you have to test it. But if the spark ignites, buy it. It is well on its way to becoming my new signature.