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I am looking for suggestions on earthy style vetiver soaps & creams. I tried a custom Al's shaving products vetiver soap that rocked scent wise. I love the eathy goodness of Jabonman's Wet Earth, Hatian Vetiver, and Vetiver Mandarina & Litsea Cubeba.
I'm not so wild about the perfume-y style vetiver, such as the Razorock Nervous Wreck. I would like to avoid this sytle of vetiver in the future.
What are your suggestions, favorites, and why?
Thanks.
I have the Cyril Salter French Vetiver shaving cream. This is pungent earthy vetiver at it's best. My granddaughter said it smells like crushed lightning bugs. I just like it! When it dries down you get that spicy woodsy earthy vetiver scent at it's finest, not sweet...
What he said... big time!!Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeSomebody
And, if you want a soap that'll match it, let me recommend QED "Vetiver" (oddly, it's currently available only as a shaving stick, rather than the larger tub.)
But wait... there's more!! You can't shave with a vetiver soap or cream, and then not finish with a vetiver afterscent. I happen to have one here, in me pocket: Maitre Perfumeur et Gantier's "Route de Vetiver"
Olfactory pyramid, according to Lusciouscargo.com:
Top Notes: Black currant, leafy green accords
Heart Notes: Bourbon vetiver, precious woods, jasmine
Base Notes: Sandalwood, musk
Cool. Keep'em coming, fellas.
I have Vetiver by Guerlain & Royall Vetiver. Any idea how the Route de Vetiver compares???
I've never used the Royall Vetiver. I own the Guerlain, and find it to be a summery, citrus-y take on vetiver. Route de Vetiver is, OTOH, very much an autumn-and-winter scent (read the reviews from my previous link, and you'll know more).Quote:
Originally Posted by RJD
Another take on vetiver is from Comptoir Sud Pacifique, and called "Vetyver Haiti". I like it... it's not like either of the two I've mentioned. Still another is Carolina Herrera's "Sensual Vetiver" -- more like the Guerlain, but less of the Audrey Hepburn. Two more favorites are L'Occitane "Vetyver" and Jo Malone's "Black Vetyver Cafe" -- the former is woodsy and aromatic, but not "confrontational" like RdV; the latter is an interesting gourmand scent, which stays comfortably close to your skin, but lasts for hours (an evening/night-time scent, for staying-in with your g/f, wife, or mistress).
So, the bottom line is that there are many ways to spend your money on Vetiver afterscents :-)
I know it's going to sound expensive, but for me this is the one soap that I've stuck with for a long time. I've actually started to see it shrink now, given that I've had it for 2 years. The scent is not as citrusy as the fragrance equivalent and it's moisturising and lathrability properties are second to none.
What is it? Creed's Original Vetiver. My Sunday shaving soap.
I think you can stop looking. Jabonman soaps are among, if not, the best scented soaps I have ever found, and the performance it's top notch to boot. I like he's Hatian Vetiver, it sends my mind, to a muddy river bank by a trout stream. I don't know if you can do better than that! That's what happen when you try the best first, nothing else compare. Double OQuote:
Originally Posted by RJD
Oy... the $$$. THE $$$!! And I can't buy the soap, but not the matching afterscent! Still, reading about them is "almost" as good as owning them... at least, that's what I tell myself. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by rum