Vetiver Patchouli

Montale Vetiver Patchouli opens with a moderate projection of fresh woody and green notes. The opening is unique, intense, impressive, well blended, and very pleasant. The vetiver is bright, fresh, green, pure, with a prominent fresh cedar-like note. The patchouli is a support note, it is noticeable but not as intense as the vetiver. The patchouli has that herbaceous touch but does not make the fragrance feel classy or old school. The pink pepper and carrot are also supporting notes, the pink pepper adds a spicy mild touch and the carrot enhances the earthy and green notes also adding a soft sweet note. The jasmine is a faint accord, just a whiff. The fragrance is linear, the most featured notes, the vetiver, and patchouli come up as soon as the fragrance is applied and continue into the dry-down, also, both are projecting notes as well. Once Montale Vetiver Patchouli has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized, as a moderate projection, earthy woody (vetiver, cedar-like), and green herbaceous (patchouli) fragrance with spicy, slightly sweet (carrot seeds), and faint white floral accords. The fragrance feels earthy, elegant, energizing, exotic, formal, fresh, green, herbaceous, high-quality, masculine, mature, modern, natural, nicely-blended, playful, pure, refined, sharp, slightly sweet, versatile, woody (fresh, bright cedar-like), and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020. WOW RATING: 10/10. The quality, intensity, and pureness of the green notes are impressive. DISLIKE RATING: 2/10. The vetiver and patchouli are very refined, but they are green accords. UNIQUENESS: 10/10. The combination of notes creates a unique fragrance. MASS APPEAL: 6/10. The vetiver is traditionally a note suited for mature wearers. PROJECTION: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet around the wearer, up close, it feels intense. SILLAGE: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 4 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 5/10. Good, about 5 hours with 3 of moderate projection. SEASONS: Winter, spring, summer, fall, colder days, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, business, casual, holidays, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 10/10. Its freshness and intensity make it ideal for any season and any occasion. GENDER: Masculine, the vetiver gives it a masculine character. AGES: 30 and above. Vetiver fragrances are better suited for mature wearers. RECOMMENDATION: Montale Vetiver Patchouli is unique, intense, fresh, and highly versatile. An ideal fragrance for mature male wearers. This is a great buy. BLIND-BUY: No, vetiver and patchouli create a strong fresh, bright cedar-like accord. Sample it first. SIMILAR: These are fragrances in the same genre. Montale Vetiver Patchouli is a fantastic, cedar-like, vetiver, patchouli, and spicy fragrance; Tom Ford Grey Vetiver is very good vetiver, citrus, and musky fragrance; Cartier Declaration Essence features vetiver and softly floral, citrus, and green accords; Terre D’Hermes Eau Intense Vetiver is a vetiver fragrance with a strong classy or school-vibe; Chanel Pour Monsieur is a musky, vetiver and citrus fragrance, classy, old-school, ideal for work environments; Bentley Infinity Rush is a great sweet orange, vetiver, spicy, woody and soft musky fragrance; Montale Vetiver Patchouli is a fantastic, cedar-like, vetiver, patchouli, and spicy fragrance. SUMMARY: A moderate projection, earthy woody (vetiver, cedar-like), and green herbaceous (patchouli) fragrance with spicy, slightly sweet (carrot seeds), and faint white floral accords. The fragrance feels earthy, elegant, energizing, exotic, formal, fresh, green, herbaceous, high-quality, masculine, mature, modern, natural, nicely-blended, playful, pure, refined, sharp, slightly sweet, versatile, woody (fresh, bright cedar-like), and very pleasant.

Vetiver Patchouli leans masculine and opens quite intense but not beastly, smelling fresh, woody and herbaceous; kind of clean rugged without any sharp edges. Worn on the skin it lasts up to 8 hours with 3 hours of moderate projection, on clothes it can last days! The texture feels smooth, of high-quality ingredients and well-put-together. Just allow the notes a few seconds to settle from the sprayer as this needs to breathe before getting your nose on top of it. The cedar is fresh and assertive, vetiver feels clean, bright and fresh, whilst patchouli sits in the background giving it a smooth herbaceous (and slightly medicinal) backbone. Pink pepper and carrot seeds add a touch of slightly spicy sweetness. The jasmine has just enough presence to give it a stealthy floral lift. That slightly medicinal aspect is similar to tea tree oil which sounds terrible but in the perfume, it makes the whole composition quite addictive. The life of the scent is fairly linear and always stays smooth. It has a few vague similarities to Hermes Terre D'Hermes eau Intense Vetiver, yet it’s original enough to confidently stand its own ground. Very versatile mild to cold weather scent that also wears very well in an air-conditioned environment. Definitely unique, original, possibly even signature-scent worthy for the over 30’s. I love it and it smells nothing like any other vetiver scent I’ve tried.

Notes from Montale's website: Top Notes: Bergamot, Mandarin, Pink Pepper Heart Notes: Carrot, Jasmine, Patchouli Leaves Base Notes: Vetiver, White Musk Very pleasant and sexy patchouli and vetiver combination that's on the fresh side, pink pepper is present in a very lovely way. Garners lots of compliments from strangers in public places. Whatever it is compared to at best shares only a small aspect of similarity, just a tiny bit of a reminder, not more, this is it's own thing. The only thing I can compare it to is patchouli de Sumatra from choppard, if you skip the opening of patchouli de Sumatra and reach the heart, youll get something that is similar to vetiver patchouli, and yes vetiver patchouli is an earlier release, and is superior to patchouli de Sumatra. Has nothing to do with Terre de'hermese, please!! That one is unpleasant, sour and bitter. Superior spring and summer scent, lasts and projects very well. Will not shine well in extreme humid days. Better for spring or less humid weather. More of a night scent I have been layering it with vetiver sensuel from mancera, they're dancing in perfect harmony.

For years I've been searching for a patchouli scent that's not a nauseating, sickly sweet vanilla or amber concoction. I love patchouli but wanted something that was blended to be clean and more masculine rather than sweet and feminine. Montale Vetiver Patchouli is exactly what I was looking for. No one here has mentioned it but MVP is a very clean and almost soapy fragrance. It's kind of the cleaner, softer, powdery version of Terre d'Hermes EDT with a twist. Although the carrot note may sound strange, it's actually amazingly pleasant and really adds a lot of character here. I would say it's more masculine but can easily be worn by a woman. Patchouli and vetiver are scents that can easily go very wrong if blended poorly but Montale has managed to get both right with this. After sampling almost every patchouli forward fragrance out there I'm happy to have discovered MVP and will be purchasing a full bottle. One negative is that I hate the crappy aluminum can this stuff comes in. It feels cheap and you can't see how much juice is in it.

I ordered a tiny spray vial with my last perfume order because vetiver & patchouli - yes please! It said it was unisex and I was intrigued by the description. Upon first spray, this is very medicinal. I can't seem to put my finger on what it reminds me of, but in no time the scent changes and I can detect some sweetness - I believe it's the jasmine. This perfume is mixed very well and I can see how men and women alike could fall for it. In an odd way, the medicinal notes I'm picking up on are slightly addictive and make me want to spray more lol Kind of makes me want a full bottle of this, so I can continue to play tag with these notes with a less frugal spray. It's fresh, clean, and non offensive, yet I wouldn't say a safe blind buy, not for a full bottle anyway - the small spray vial I received from fragrancenet - absolutely! If I think to return I'll talk more on longevity etc. 5:30am and I just sprayed this hoping it might entice me to fall asleep, finally... I love to sleep with beautiful perfume on.