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Haitian VetiverGrey Vetiver
Three materials is the whole of the note row for Tom Ford Grey Vetiver Parfum 100ml, and a composition this short has nowhere to hide, which is either the appeal or the problem depending on what you want from a bottle. Haitian vetiver is the subject. Vetiver from Haiti is the smoky, slightly nutty, earthy kind rather than the grassy green kind, and here it is given the whole of the second half to itself: dry, rooty, faintly bitter, with a mineral quality that reads as grey rather than brown. If you do not like vetiver there is no point in going further.
Orange blossom opens it, sweet and cool and quite brief, softening the first impression before the root takes over. Saffron bridges the two, dry and leathery with a bitter edge, and it is the material that keeps the orange blossom from making this pretty. Parfum strength is the whole argument for buying it. The oil content is high, so a short, simple formula becomes extremely long lasting rather than loud: expect ten hours or more, sitting close to the skin for most of that, with the vetiver still legible at the end of the day. Two sprays, and really no more than that. It suits men, works in any season, and is as appropriate at a desk as at dinner. For someone who wants vetiver and nothing else dressed up around it, this is about as direct as the material gets in a mainstream bottle, and the 100ml size makes the cost per wearing reasonable. Released in 2023.
Estee Lauder had already built and run the beauty business when, in November 2022, it agreed to buy the brand entire and license the fashion side to Zegna, a name that had covered fashion, eyewear and beauty since 2005.
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