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Lui Versteegii House of Heartistry 2024

8.7 / 10 7 Ratings

A new and limited perfume by House of Heartistry for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is earthy-woody. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Earthy

Woody

Leathery

Green

Chypre

Fragrance Notes

Ambergris

Ambrette seed

Arborvitae Belize orange

Ceylonese sandalwood

Dominican orange

French labdanum

Haitian vetiver

Indonesian oud

Indonesian oud (sumbawa)

Italian orange Myrrh

Myrrh

Nagarmotha Oud

Oud

Pakistani nagarmotha

Papua oud

Patchouli

Pinyon pine

Ponderosa pine

Rosewood

Siberian deer musk

Sri Lankan oud

Thai oud

Tuberose

Vanilla

Vanilla absolute

White oud

Ratings

Scent

8.77 Ratings

Longevity

8.67 Ratings

Sillage

8.37 Ratings

Bottle

8.67 Ratings

Submitted by Chizza, last update on 08/22/2025.

Interesting Facts

14 bottles were produced.

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Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/23/2025

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

bhanna
11 Reviews

bhanna

1

A perfect patchouli oud

Where do I even begin? This is, to me, a perfect perfume. I have not found another scent that is so well blended and fits my personal taste so perfectly.

I first smelled Lui Versteegi as part of a friend's collection. My first impression of it was that the name sounded obscure and regal. Off a test strip the fragrance invoked the images of wood cabins, damp marshes, and pine forests.

In the time since, I've started collecting Heartistry fragrances myself and after some swaps managed to track down my own bottle of Lui Versteegi. I can now give a more complete impression:

The opening of the fragrance is this amazing chord of tuberose, citrus, and patchouli. For me it creates this image of dried orange peels and a bouquet of white flowers in a dusty old house.

From here the oud becomes apparent and carries on with the patchouli into the heart of the fragrance. The Gyrinopes Versteegi species for which the fragrance is named is also known as Sumbawa oud and is native to Indonesia.

The two primary Versteegi oils are extremely special. Oud Said ("say-eed") is an artisan co-distillation of two batches of Versteegi wood from the same island, while Sumbawa Seufi is a legendary distillation from a single old tree. Versteegi has a rich masculine profile with notes of bootshop leather, antique wood furniture, and old books.

This "antique library" scent from the patchouli and oud projects very well and lasts for hours. The heart has a touch of airy pine and slight aquatic mountain air feel from the ambergris and musks, but finally settles into this rich dark and earthy base that goes on and on. This is definitely the darkest Heartistry scent overall.

If you have a chance to sample this, don't hesitate. If you adore patchouli as much as I do you will find this to be a masterpiece.

05/20/2025

8
Bottle 9
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Christscents
38 Reviews

Christscents

2

My body was covered in dirt, yet the leaves grew

Lets start with some poetry!
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Mortified
Left to rot in the shallow grave
On me the green thick leaves grew
Once I thought I was brave
The wind breezing blew
Now I know I was tis but a slave
The time almost Flew
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A nice little poetry to get the day started! Now when i say this i mean something more than a scent, this is powerful and alluring, not a scent that is for everyone. Its deep and rich and fits the house of heartistry perfectly, now when you think of a scent like this, its not something you often get, its something you may forget easy and in its own scent just fades away from you, now dont get me wrong this is art, but its pushing the artistic boundaries. Its not made for you or me, its made for your last day as human, a piece perfectly fitting for one of my favorite books called "no longer human.
-“I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.”
- No longer human, this quote describes what i feel when i could understand this scent, it isnt for you or me, but it was for you me, but it was already too late, we are already dead. We have yet to understand the beauty of scent we can only obtain after we are buried deep in the dirt and forgotten about, thats when we can live again as we used to.

Now lets talk about the scent itself, this is dark, darker than anything ive tried from the house of heartistry, its pungent and when you first spray it has a rich and warm almost golden touch, but its ripped away from you directly, not even 5 seconds pass and youre hit with a heavy and earthy vetiver, its earthy like nothing ive tried before, in the sense of my grave being dug down and filled with dirt, but yet im not dead, i lay there waiting for it all to end, or maybe i want to be picked up again and given a second chance? No its already too late, im already dead, now im buried with dirt in my face, the scent is coming up my nose, its growing second after second, now its too late to even save me, the flesh is gone, but another scent creeps on me, one of the coffin, the wood itself has started to grow in my nose in such a way that I feel dead, this scent is darker than you think.

When you get to the heart, youre already long dead in youre journey, but one thing is still alive, the little green plant growing on you, the little green patchouli leave sticking out from your grave, slowly covering it all with a smell of heavy and rich patchouli in the dirt, truly an amazing way to feel what could have been of you before you passed on, maybe thats the meaning of the scent, to hold on to what you have, maybe we need to cherish one and other before dirt and green leaves are all over our graves, and that is something i can appreciate. Someone make me creative director or something, I think I'm giving Eric free story elements for his scents :D.

Now what is left when you have rotted long time, youre left with oud and a slight hint of a sweet vanilla musk, this is finally time to leave your body be, ascending to the next level, for all you gave on earth you get a heavenly musk back in return, and that musk shows in a lot of Erics scents, its his DNA perhaps in these scents!

What can i even say more than this, the scent of cherishing is earthy, rich, green and slightly musky, thats the perfect way to describe this scent and what it feels like!