Zest+Vetiver

picture this: tree bark that just got squirted with lemons. except its actually one of the best things you've ever smelt. sweet lemon, warm earthy tones, kinda musky. This thing performs like none other in my collection with easily all day on my skin and a few sprays fill up rooms. I have yet get bad comments on this and only get praises, even having heard "smells like you took the pure essence of spring, milked it, and then let that age like fine wine only before glorifying yourself with this scents presence, which i don't think your worthy of" -my friend. Now, one downside, this thing is pricy and not too popular so i see where there is some hesitancy, however; i have a workaround. I literally got my bottle off of Depop for 50$ (80$ off not including taxes) from a reseller WHO IS ACTUALLY LEGIT and sells actually quite a few colognes and perfumes for incredible prices so if you wanna check them out their name is like Perfume Queen or something. overall 9.4/10 spring cologne, couldn't be more happy with this for only 50$

I don't get the Sauvage connection at all. The only Sauvage I like out of the whole line up is the edt, and Michael Malul's Zest and Vetiver smells like none of them. It does however smell like a citrusy, blue, clean, soapy, and incredible men's fragrance. Thus far, I have bottles of Ocean Noir, San Lucas, and Citizen Jack, along with decants of Amber + Smoke, Cartoonist, Jet Black, and Zest + Vetiver, and by far I think Z+V is the best one. They're all great actually- none of them are challenging and they are incredible scents for beginners. They all smell designer and they're easily likable. Other than the above description of Z+V, I can't really describe it any other way. It's clean, it's citrusy, and it's soapy and blue. It's a summertime scent for sure. I don't get the tree bark, earthiness, or vetiver to be honest. As for longevity and projection, I can't tell. I've only sampled it a few times on my wrist so far.

Soft, fresh, powdery and round (guessing its the orris root), this fragrance is an amazing summer scent for those who don't want to blow up a room, but still get noticed. The lime is a bit sharp on the opening, but very quickly settles into well blended citrus, orris root, and lavender scent. As someone who is not a fan of really bright and projection bomb-citrusy summer fragrances, Michael Malul killed it with this and gave me my first summer-scent that I feel comfortable wearing daily. With mild projection and longevity, this is perfect to wear outside in the sun where the heat can assist in projection. Only thing with this, and seems to be a trend with Michael Malul, is that it dries down into a skin scent pretty quick. I would give it 2-4hrs of projection but up to 12hrs of skin scent. This can be a pro or con for you, depending on what your intentions are with this perfume.

First fragrance review I've ever done, but smelling Zest + vetiver on my shirt for the last 5 hours has made me so happy I just had to let the people know! I have many Michael Malul's, all bought from discount sellers or auctions because $140 is definitely overpriced. But if you are asking yourself which of his line is worth a retail price, it's definitely Zest + Vetiver. I know Ocean Noir gets alot of hype, and rightfully so, it's a wonderful delicious blue scent. But is it worth $140? No, not in my opinion. The longevity for Ocean Noir is like 3 hours on my shirt, maybe 1 hour on skin so you have to overspray which means you need to pay that $140 again much sooner than if you go with Z+V. I layer Z+V with D&G The One Gold Intense and I want to smother myself with my own shirt it's so good!

It opens up like sauvage edt, then after a minute or 2 its just slightly changes gets some slight additional sweetness, but still very similar to sauvage. I then put the strip down for 5-10 minutes, picked it up again, it turned into 1 to 1 armaf urban man elixir, I need to compare but from memory, and I wore UME a lot in recent times, and it smells EXACTLY like it now. Maybe the sweet fruit aspect is just slightly turned down but this whole sweet fruit citrus accord has the exact same scent. Which is great because UME is a crazy good perfume but its cheaper and it has crazy longevity and performance, so I dont really see the point in getting a full bottle of this. But man, what an incredible scent, blind buy worthy, just a thing of beauty really, all year around signature worthy scent