Scent Smackdown: FZOTIC Vetiverissimo vs Nishane Sultan Vetiver

                     FZOTIC Vetiverissimo vs Nishane Sultan Vetiver

I am a vetiver fan and two of my favorites are Vetiverissimo and Sultan Vetiver. Both are outstanding vetiver based scents with their own unique spin. I was really curious how these two would do in a battle of the vetivers. 

Scoring:
Top Notes are weighted 20%, Heart notes weights 30%, and Base notes weighted at 50%.

Round 1: The Top Notes
Vetiverissimo: Dry and green. Only a slight touch of citrus. Already a little earthy, but not dominant.

Sultan Vetiver: Zesty Bergamot. Country hillside grassy notes with hints of smoke.

Winner: Sultan Vetiver. Smells a little more refined and complex. It’s hard to beat what I consider the “country hillside grassy note”. Though Vetiverissimo is still enjoyable.

Score: Sultan Vetiver 8. Vetiverissimo 7

Round 2: The Heart Notes
Vetiverissimo: Guess what, more dry and green. Earthiness is more pronounced. Some woodiness replaces the faint citrus I got right upon spray.

Sultan Vetiver: That country hillside grassiness continues. Becomes just slightly, but enjoyably, sweet. Something like tobacco leaf spiciness develops.

Winner: Sultan Vetiver. A little more complex and a sort of tobacco spice note really compliment the heart here. Vetiverissimo is no slouch as its woodiness really starts rounding out this scent, but it’s Sultan Vetiver here, but not by much.

Score: Sultan Vetiver 8, Vetiverissimo 7.5

Round 3: The Base Notes
Vetiverissimo: More of the same, but with a little more wood and some warming resinous notes come into play. “More of the same” is not a knock, it is very well done and we go into dry down, it keeps the same characteristics from the top to the bottom with other notes jumping in and complimenting the heavy lifting the vetiver is doing throughout this entire scent. This truly is for vetiver lovers.

Sultan Vetver: Turns more rich on dry down. That tobacco note becomes more apparent to me (whether its supposed to be tobacco or not, I am not sure, but I get something like that). The scent feels sort of heavy and ambery than the earlier stages.

Winner: Vetiverissimo. I really enjoy the scent throughout an it stayed pretty consistent inviting other notes to come in play in the background. Sultan Vetiver becomes something heavier than I would like, but it’s not bad by any means. I just think the other scent is more of what I want at the end.

Score: Vetiverissimo 9, Sultan Vetiver 8

FINAL SCORE: Vetiverissimo 8.15, Sultan Vetiver is 8

Thoughts: For me, both of these are an easy bottle buy with no regrets and room in my collection for both. It’s really a fun time to put some scents that are in the same category-ish and smell the difference at the same time. It really helps differentiate both scents when you smell them back and forth as opposed to one day to the next and really helps me understand what each scent is going for.

Vetiverissmo is a sample I kind of went crazy for on the first wearing and swore this could be a top 5 scent for me. Nishane Sultan Vetiver is one I really enjoyed but was outside of my top 10. This little battle has shown me that I underrated Sultan Vetiver quite a bit and maybe, just maybe, slightly overrated Vetiverissimo proving the gap is much closer between the two than I originally thought. 

Hope you enjoy and keep smelling good! If you have any vetiver based scents to recommend, I am all ears!