Vetiver Roja Parfums 2012 Parfum

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8.4 / 10 264 Ratings

A popular perfume by Roja Parfums for men, released in 2012. The scent is green-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Green

Spicy

Citrus

Fresh

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Litsea cubeba

Bergamot

Lemon

Heart Notes

Cistus

Grasse jasmine

May rose

Base Notes

Vetiver

Cedar needle

Cedarwood

Amyris

Celery seed

Galbanum

Labdanum

Nutmeg

Oakmoss

Pepper

Pink pepper

Caraway

Gaiac wood

Perfumer

Roja Dove

Ratings

Scent

8.4264 Ratings

Longevity

8.0228 Ratings

Sillage

7.4228 Ratings

Bottle

8.9238 Ratings

Value for money

5.7121 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 26.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The scent was re-released in 2016.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/01/2024

5
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Sirbennyone
163 Reviews

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Sirbennyone

Helpful Review 3

You are looking for a masculine - timeless vetiver fragrance..., then take this and you will LOVE it!

Hello everyone,

i'm not really a friend of vetiver and have been for 10/20 years and if I'm honest I've kind of "buried" the idea of finding a vetiver that I like, or one that has a raison d'être.

And recently (still testing my way through, more Roja reviews to follow) and so far I've found 2 that are really good one of which is coming soon to my 300 (!) review - the Harrods pour Homme, but this is purely about the Vetiver Parfum!

What can you expect?

A slightly fresh, green and dry woody fragrance.

A tangy, fruity and almost creamy bergamot + lemon greets you right at the start, then it goes quite briefly into the spicy corner with nutmeg + pepper, which gives the fragrance a wonderfully masculine character and then it drifts off into green. Here we have a mix of cedar needles and oakmoss and then the "star" of the fragrance enters the stage - vetiver.

It was always there (even before), but then more in the background and now it presents itself in the front row!
How do you explain vetiver?

Vetiver itself is a grass or bush and the fragrance effect of the pure oil is very dry and (seems) woody, it is in my opinion one of the notes of a well-groomed gentleman. This note gives a professional impression and fragrances such as Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette or Vetiver Eau de Toilette also play with this note, but the Vetiver Parfum is a different LEAGUE...

H/S is ever good (I have a 2022 batch).

When and where to wear?

At work (in the office), to any appointments, out to eat, birthdays, Christmas and even in summer (please be discreet! ) it works without any problems. A real one ALWAYS works - DUFT.

Price...

Yes, you have to want + be able to, it's just Roja...
Nobody forces us to buy an expensive product.

If you like this fragrance, then (but only then), I wouldn't recommend it to you!
And now have a nice day/evening, or whatever you read this review, LG the Benny
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04/16/2021

3
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 10
Longevity 6.5
Scent

BartS
21 Reviews

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BartS

Less helpful Review 11

Average vetiver in the most beautiful bottle

I should mention before I get started that I'm pretty unsympathetic to the Roja brand. Not Roja Dove itself, but everything around the brand. A lot of fragrances are pretty average, but hyped up quite a bit due to marketing and the whole shishi.

The fragrance starts for my feeling pleasant zitirisch, where you notice from the beginning that the vetiver is the core of the composition. This is a less earthy-green but for a woody-grassy wellness vetiver that I actually quite like. The vetiver of Roja itself is reminiscent of Vetiver Fatal or Bal d'Afrique. Also, the scent is very easy to wear and so not oppressive at all. Really very pleasant is the Roja.

Durability is really enormous whereby I have the feeling in the projection that is very close to the skin. The bottle is just a Roja and looks just mega.

As a conclusion, I can only say that the for me is in no way worth the money. Absolutely overdrawn and I would always reach for the better Vetiver of Tom Ford, Atelier Cologne or Guerlain.

12/11/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

Very helpful Review 5

Overpriced dailyness

Not much to say about this, except for the fact that the “extrait” name (and the price) may be somehow misleading. Vetiver Extrait smells great, but well... simply put, it’s no different from any good vetiver scent. It’s a really simple, smooth, light straightforward vetiver, classy and cozy, not particularly powerful (actually, not at all) or rich, just diligently bearing most of the usual nuances of most vetiver scents – it feels initially zesty, peppery and crisp, slowly becoming smokier, rootier, still keeping vetiver’s traditional subtle feel of “oily grassiness”, subtly paired with a rather conventional base accord of powdery-dusty notes. It’s all good, really. It wears extremely well, it feels refined and laid-back, carefully mannered enough to avoid any “raw” earthy effect – on the contrary it feels rather polished, bright and distinguished. It conveys an extremely enjoyable albeit slightly pedantic sense of calm, class, confidence and sophisticated weightlessness. If compared to dirtier or richer vetiver scents, this is quite on the opposite spectrum – it feels very clean, almost ethereal. Even a tad too much, as it soon feels quite – if not, completely – unexciting, and almost kind of mute (I suspect there’s some generic “woody smoothener” used here – some very generic plushy woody base). The longevity is a bit weak, but that’s the price to pay for higher concentrations of natural materials.

So all in all, it’s unquestionably nice. But really only that. For £ 275. Not grounbreaking, not heart-melting, not mind-blowing – just an impeccable everyday vetiver fragrance for office time. Ready to let your rock and rule the printers’ room and the vending machines’ corner. Just as any other good vetiver scent. It can be fantastic for you if you like vetiver, but in no way it can be worthy that price and that pomposity (and come on... for that price, some crap cardboard box? I want my box to be lined in Elton John’s skin!). It does no more and no less than any simple, solid vetiver fragrance (there’s so many of them I can’t even think of a couple of specific names to mention – Guerlain? Carven? Ford’s Grey Vetiver? Heeley? Anyone, really), and I think there is really no standout features that would explain why one should prefer this over others. Clearly, the value lies in the “status symbol” allure of the brand and the presentation. And that has nothing to do with fragrances, so... Anyway if you’re really wealthy and you really like vetiver then go for it, otherwise I see really no need to break the bank for this.

6,5-7/10

03/24/2015

10
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

Drseid
819 Reviews

Drseid

Helpful Review 3

Reference Clean Vetiver

Vetiver Extrait opens with a nose tingling mix of effervescent lemon and bergamot before quickly moving to its heart. As the composition reaches its early heart the lemon remains, sans bergamot and effervescence as it joins clean citric, grassy green, slightly woody vetiver infused by bitter-green resinous galbanum and slightly sharp cedarwood, with a relatively subtle wet concrete-like undertone. During the late dry-down the composition loses the wet-concrete-like undertone, with the clean vetiver remaining, supported by slightly powdery oakmoss in the base through the finish. Projection is excellent and longevity outstanding at around 20 hours on skin.

Roja Dove's Vetiver Extrait is not the usual vetiver presentation I go for. I love my vetivers rough, aggressive and smoky, and Roja's Vetiver is none of those. One might think that I disliked the composition as a result, but that would be quite far from the truth. To the contrary, while this presentation of vetiver is more of the grassy, clean variety, it uses extremely high quality raw materials throughout. Another distinguishing aspect of the composition is its very appealing use of natural smelling lemon through most of the composition's development. If there was an aspect that required a bit of getting used to, it would have to be the concrete-like undertone that hangs around through the entire mid-section, but while the accord is a bit unsettling when sniffed up close, when experienced in the composition's generous sillage it melds rather nicely with the lemon infused vetiver, giving the composition a distinguishing facet while still smelling extremely pleasant. "Pleasant smelling" is probably the best descriptor of the end result, come to think of it. This is the kind of vetiver composition that even folks disliking many others may still enjoy wearing due to its highly refined clean nature. While I maintain there are a lot of great vetiver options far below the composition's relatively stratospheric price point per ml, if one can afford Roja Dove's Vetiver Extrait, it is hard to say it is a poor investment, especially if you enjoy your vetivers of the clean, polished variety. The bottom line is the $395 per 50ml bottle Vetiver Extrait is quite the bank account buster, but Dove delivers the goods with top-notch raw materials and superb execution earning it an "excellent" 4 star out of 5 rating and a solid recommendation. I don't know if I can personally afford the price to purchase a bottle, but I certainly envy those that can and do.