VERT
VERT
Galbanum is a bitter-green resin native to Iran with a long history of use in sacred incense, medicine, and perfumery. Vert is a brilliant, natural accord of galbanum combined with yuzu, bergamot, lemon, key lime, lavender, marjoram, coriander, geranium, Jasmine Auriculatum, blue hemlock, opoponax, cistus, loads of vetiver, patchouli, castoreum and deer musk reconstruction. Fresh, bitter-green and citrus-herbal with powdery, rich woody-rooty and warm animalic accents, it has an appealing woody-powdery richness beneath the bitter-green-floral topnote and wears well in warmer weather, never becoming stale or cloying. Jasmine Auriculatum is sheer and luminous, helping make Vert airy and comfortable to wear and to be around. Its naturalness makes it a good choice for daily wear around people who might otherwise object to fragrance; it smells like the outdoors, not like shampoo.
Vert by Clandestine Laboratories is the best "green" fragrance I've worn. It is green...a very bright green. Not necessarily in color, but in freshness and overall scent profile. This is a crystalline green and is what an emerald would smell like to me if an emerald had an scent that was noticeable to humans. The combination of notes in the opening, key lime, yuzu, lemon, lavender, bergamot, all combine to give this fragrance a tartness that is sizzling from a citrus standpoint, but also green. There is also a settling but spicy presence from coriander and galbanum that adds another layer to the beautiful green! And, then there's the vetiver, or as Mark Sage from Clandestine says in the notes list, "loads of vetiver"! I love the way Mr. Sage has brought all of these green notes together and made their sum total much, much better than they are individually. Vetiver alone would simply not smell this good and clean to me. The vetiver's grassiness is very noticeable as Vert drys down, but it is perfectly balanced by the citruses and additional green notes, particularly the galbanum, to create a green fragrance that is memorable, wearable, and energizing.
- Scent Detective on BaseNotes
