VETIVER by Etro

Brand: Etro
Perfume: Vetiver
Concentration: edt
Notes:* top - Salvia sclarea, artemisia, bergamot, petitgrain
             middle - orris, vetiver, guaiac wood
             base - amber, plant from the genus Nicotiana
♔Ingredients: Alcohol Denat., Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Isoeugenol, Linalool
♔Information on the packaging: Etro, via Spartaco 3, Milano. Stab. Cantù
♔Brand owner (now): Etro S.p.A., Italy - www.etro.com
♔Made in Italy.

 Vetiver by Etro smells of button/portobello mushrooms, baked peanuts, dry and crumbly earth which makes me think of unpeeled potatoes and sand, and also metallic (but not in a disturbing manner). The vetiver character dominates looking a lot like the vetiver essential oil.

The fragrance does not evolve too much. It only gets warmer and a touch sweaty later on and I see a geranium-like facet appearing along.

I reread the above description and I realise how good the perfume might seem. Yet its problem is that it smells liquid, transparent and it appears as a tisane (with a minimum of sweetness) made of only two or three ingredients. All I perceive is a diluted mixture.

The odour is simplistic, more like an accord that the perfumer intends to surround with other materials in order to gain consistency and interest. The sensation is of a fragrance in its early stages of creation.

If vetiver is the central element in a perfume, I prefer it to be smoky and the overall composition to have more density. To my nose, Vetiver by Etro is an unfinished fragrance, smelling mostly of vetiveryl acetate.

My verdict: 6 out of 10.
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* The notes were taken from www.etro.com (when the fragrance was still available on the website)