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The scent is also leafy thanks to the vetiver and perhaps some hay, and leathery. Yokan and green tea the perfume actually features a black bergamot teaĪccord but the palette of green notes color the liquid a different tonality. Then wander in the direction of a Japanese pâtisserie shop offering mochi, Wonderful green freshness which is slightly gourmand - my thoughts Here Coeur de Vétiver Sacré takes on for me some ofĬomposition a bit and go back to it more unaware, it diffuses a Well rendered by the expression "vanilla of the East" as its leaves scent Pandan or Pandanus, an important olfactory note in Asia used in manyĬulinary compositions but also in erotic rituals. Notes, tea and vanilla it ends up evoking for me, as I said before, the sweet scent of Somehow through the mingling of dates, green Of a religious place lost in the middle of the jungle like Bali inĬoeur de Vétiver Sacré is perhaps most characteristically a Incense and spices including saffron convincingly evoke the sacred aura

It all smells as if a green, exotic jungle hadīeen enclosed in a dark leather-bound wooden chest. More to the front of your perception: the cardamom, perhaps theĬoriander (the pepper + green scent), and ginger.

Mutlti-faceted approach may explain why vetiver here is neverĭefinitely typified and strongly coded as would have happened with a more expected overdose of vetiver. Is rather courageous to propose a novel take on it. In a contemporary perfume culture where vetiver fragrances are by no means rare, it

Said that she " wanted to create a different and sensual vetiver by revealing all its facets." She was reportedly interested in getting " as close as possible to the wood itself," On a more symbolic level it might be an allusion to an idea of the centrality of the sacred which can only be approached with circumspection and deference and incrementally while one feels on the verge of escaping the awesomeness of its aura, a notion reflected in labyrinthine temple architectures. Idea of a straightforward vetiver fragrance. The final analysis - the perfume meanders and takes detours around the If Coeur Sacré de Vétiver is a vetiver perfume - and it is one in Hyperlinking to Dzongkha by l'Artisan Parfumeur authored by nose Bertrand Duchaufour makes me realize that this is how I also characterized his composition. To me rather than a downright vetiver opus. Rather translate as being rather close to the sweet facet of Pandanus leaves although tarragon seems to be a good reason for it.Ĭomposition comes across as being a green and black leather scent Nuance reigns supreme over the composition which I later ascribe or Nuance poised between grass and hay were a sophisticated, cutting-edge molecular slicing of oneīrilliant facet of vetiver, the doubt recedes as the more classic scent of grassy If you hesitated and wondered whether this green "banana leaves" seems to draw like a green frieze on the dark wall of the The soft, sweetish and green nuances of the accord I mentally call The latter note gradually takes on a more pungent animalic characterĮvoking the smell of a freshly cured leather saddle, a non-advertised Notes: bergamot, orange, black tea, tarragon, date, dried crystallizedįruits, saffron, ginger, pink peppercorn, vanilla, incense, musks.Ĭoeur de Vétiver Sacré opens on a delicious, complex mix of scents which smell principally to my nose of green banana leaves, black pepper and dark leather. This new vetiver composition while remaining vague about any particular locales which might have been concretely visited does reference the East as the scent is seen as being " An offering to the gods, a mystical journey between West and East, a woody fragrance, light and magnificent." The East is here characterized as " magic" and constitutes the final destination of a " dream voyage" rather than being presented as a page torn from a travel diary. L'Artisan Parfumeur is well-known for the stock it puts on exoticism and far-away travels to renew its inspiration (see for instance Dzongkha Fleur de Liane). The common point in her work these days appears to be a focus on an Eastern / Middle-Eastern sources of inspiration. She is the author for them of Opus III and Memoir Man, the latter still upcoming this fall 2010. More recently she seems to have been particularly appreciated by Omani perfume house Amouage as one of their go-to noses. The composition is signed by perfumer Karine Vinchon of fragrance company Robertet, who also did the organically-certified L'Eau de Jatamansi for the house. Coeur de Vétiver Sacré (Heart of Sacred Vetiver) ( see flacon here) is the latest fragrance to have been released by niche perfume house L'Artisan Parfumeur.