The Trained Nose

Guerlain

Vetiver Extreme

What it is made of, at the heart of a wearing — and the colour this page is tinted with. Wider means more of it.

Leads warm spice and citrus, over dry wood underneath. It narrows as the day goes on, and it fades sooner than most of the catalogue. It carries more dry wood than the rest of the catalogue.

The pyramid

top 0–15 min
heart 1–3 hr
base 3 hr +
Consensus needs more than one owner. Right now no one has this linked, so there is nothing to agree or disagree about yet.

What is it chasing?

No original is recorded for this entry. Two kinds of evidence, and they disagree in useful ways.
Closest, as Akin sees it
Ranked by what the crowd says resembles what, with the measured accords breaking ties — falling back to the note pyramid where neither has anything to say. Right about half the time, and the column says which of the three answered.
What people say it reminds them of
Agree and disagree counts. Here is this site’s own owners voting; elsewhere is a tally read from another site.
Tom Ford Grey Vetiver elsewhere 103 / 122
Guerlain Vetiver elsewhere 79 / 14
Roja Parfums Vetiver Pour Homme Parfum Cologne elsewhere 31 / 46
Guerlain Vetiver (Vintage Edition) elsewhere 49 / 7
Malizia Malizia Uomo Vetyver elsewhere 46 / 60
Guerlain Vetiver Eau Glacee elsewhere 29 / 0
Guerlain Vetiver Sport elsewhere 29 / 0
Guerlain Vetiver Frozen Fragrance elsewhere 28 / 0
Frederic Malle Editions de Parfums Vetiver Extraordinaire elsewhere 16 / 16
Zara Vento di Vetiver elsewhere 3 / 6

Compared with

Each of these reads the two side by side, hour by hour: what they share, what only one of them carries, and what people who have smelled both say about it.

On the scent map

Nearest to it at the heart of a wearing, and what put each one there.
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Not yours yet

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