Fumidus

Black and white. Starts like a black burned tire cloud and then fades into a nearly white and quite earthy but very clean and clear vetiver. PROFVMVM ROMA is always tiptoeing on the line that divides simple from simplistic, but here, I feel that the mood is as good and as simple as it can be. This is barely a perfume. Two clearly detectable notes. Smoked birch and then vetiver. Whiskey? Not really. Other great and superfamous perfumes have a vetiver core with always a moltitude of satellite-notes gravitating around it, and it makes sense. Usually is better to follow the grammar of the olfactory composition rules. But here you have vetiver and only vetiver. And that is very unique. Imbarassingly minimalistic beyond every common sense. Vetiver root. Period. Having only one clearly detecteble note in the drydown can be a huge limit. With PROFUMVM ROMA everything is always natural and vetiver is a root that brings the memories of all the tiny nuances of earth and undergrowth. And when you can focus only on vetiver without any detectable backgrond noise you can have a very deep, naturally complex and interesting experience. So it is possible to feel the complexity of a specific natural landscape trough just one note. To me it only happends with FVMIDVS. Very persistent, light and minimalistic. The best vetivercentric fragrance around.

fumidus is about so much more than smoke! wonderful earthy vetiver performs a languid pas a deux with malt whisky and the smokey embers of a dyings birch fire. this is by far the most interesting of the entire PR line and is the only one i currently own (i did buy arso but it was too 'wussy' to rate as a smoke frag; just boring cedar mostly, so it got sold. bois d'ascese has replaced that niche in my wardrobe much better....). fumidus is quite linear but the proportions change, leaving the wearer with a gorgeous maltbarrelwoodsmoke vetiver to contemplate the cosmos. i respectfully and firmly assert fumidus as a top masculine, second only (imo) in that category to vintage guerlain. if you wish sycomore had more hair on its chest, try this out ;)

I could have sworn I wrote a review about this before. I must be going crazy, or I am reviewing too much lol. I distinctly remember asphalt near a basketball court memory. Sigh. There is no need to reiterate I suppose. This fragrance is for fragrance connoisseurs only. Tough guy fragrance. I use it as a palette cleanser. Don't get me wrong, this is very well done. It distinctly smells like smoke and burnt grass. And it is done so well the image gets burned in your brain. It's almost like the fragrance installs this memory into your mind and when you search for burning grass, an image of Fumidus pops up. I don't recommend if you are not a serious collector. If you are, I don't consider you serious if you don't have it in your collection.

This is my "going to war" perfume. If I have to be somewhere I don't want to be with people I don't want to see I'm busting this bad boy out. In the drydown this is one of the more refined and smooth vetiver fragrances I have put my nose on, but be warned there is nothing redeemable about the opening! I won't bother to describe it, smell is subjective but it is in no way appealing. I would only recommend this if you are a seasoned collector and you have a soft spot for oddities. I got mine after robes08's recommendation and I love having it in the collection, even though I seldom wear it.

This is lovely. Reminds me of Private Label, slightly. Kinda similar to Encre Noir's inky vetiver, but with some very peaty scotch thrown in. Most reviews make this out to be incredibly smokey, but I don't get a lot of smoke or burnt woods. It lasts a long while, but I feel I've already covered it with the two scents mentioned. Edit: Actually, maybe it's Sycomore I'm thinking of...just smells so familiar. Not every scent is designed to attract a sexual partner. This one is purely for lovers of the really raw, earthy vetivers.