To Vetiver eau de parfum spray 100ml by Comme des Garcons
To Vetiver eau de parfum spray 100ml by Comme des Garcons
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On skin, TO VETIVER opens with a crackle of Black Pepper Absolute and the bracing clarity of White Thyme Oil from Spain, a vertical spark that slices through the air like a lighthouse beam. Those head notes are not polite seasoning; they are friction, ignition, the moment a match head flares before the darkness reasserts itself.
Then the heart note – Vetiver Oil DM, extracted from the roots of the grass – slides in and “heart‑grounds” the composition, a bitter‑green gravity that feels both mineral and earthy, like wet roots clinging to riverbanks. Here, vetiver is not the clean barbershop cliché but something older, more stratified, layered with mud, stone and memory, a root system that has been listening for centuries.
Amber (rendered here as Ambrofix) and Opoponax Oil from Somalia weave through this rooty core, bringing a low, resinous hum that feels lit from within, recalling sacred fumigations and temple smoke. Musk (Moxalone) and Myrrh Resinoid close the circle, giving the drydown a skin‑warm, faintly animalic hush.
Top notes: Black Pepper and Thyme;
Heart notes": Vetiver and Opoponax;
Base notes: Ambrofix™, Musk and Myrrh.