Thread: Vetiver Soaps and Creams

Howdy,

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...

Originally Posted by JoeSomebody

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!!

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???

Originally Posted by RJD

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).

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.

Originally Posted by RJD

Howdy,

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 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 O

Originally Posted by rum

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.

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.