Geranium
Grapefruit
Green notes
Vetiver
Palo Santo
Tonka bean03/06/2025
Twstratt
6 Reviews
Twstratt
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Love at First Smell
I’ll start by saying I’m generally very disciplined and regimented with my fragrance buying. Whenever I get a sample I usually spend some time with it, rank it side by side with other samples within its category, and then plan a buy in the future for things that stand out in a category I’m looking for a full bottle within. I do admittedly love the House of Xinú, so I was excited to select Vetiverde as one of my free samples from a luckyscent order but I was surprised at how quickly I fell in love with this fragrance. I dabbed it on the top of my hand with one of those little lucky scent dabbers as one does, and within an hour I’d ordered a full bottle which is VERY unlike me! Part of it is that this is just very firmly in my lane. Bright uplifting open with citrus slightly sweet stemmy green notes. A great spicy geranium mid, and then vetiver and sandalwood in the base. It’s a joyful unisex fragrance that is basically a greatest hits album of some of my favorite notes put together in a very cohesive, unique, creative way. It has a nice radiance off the skin that leaves a really nice trail in the air that I got whiffs of for hours even off of the little dab on my hand. I am a big fan of LV Lovers for some of the same reasons and Vetiverde has some adjacency to that fragrance in composition (spicy, citrus, green, creamy, woody) but I feel like it actually nails the Lovers brief as I remember hearing it more precisely. It’s just a bright uplifting Happy (Pharrell reference) fragrance with all of the quality of ingredients and subtle complexity I expect from Rodrigo Flores-Roux and Xinú. Instant love, Xinú take my money again lol.
