Les Parfums Matières - Bois de Vétiver
The opening is crisp and slightly medicinal — mint cutting through blood orange's tartness, giving an immediate fresh-spicy snap.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 accords.
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- Woody80
- Earthy80
- Aromatic70
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Blood Orange
- Ambrox
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is crisp and slightly medicinal — mint cutting through blood orange's tartness, giving an immediate fresh-spicy snap. It smells outdoorsy without being aquatic, grounded rather than airy.
Ambrox carries the transition into the heart, adding a diffusive, slightly woody-mineral quality that bridges citrus and base. Vetiver arrives dry and earthy, with patchouli providing depth and a faint mossy roughness underneath.
The finished scent reads as a clean woody-aromatic with earthy traction. It projects moderately and dries down to a close, cool vetiver skin. Suited to cooler weather and settings where something understated but textured is appropriate.
Scent twins
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