Vetyver Lanvin (new) (2003)
by Lanvin

When I first put this on it felt strange. No vetiver opening at all. It was more of a typical clean sporty style. Throughout the drydown I get wafts of vetiver. The aroma was intermittent, coming and going like a summer rain. While I found that interesting it was ultimately boring and didn't last.

Fresh and nice enough, but not very original and a bit boring. It doesn't move me.

I think those who dislike this fragrance are probably missing the point. This is not your typically green Vetiver. Lanvin's Vetyver smells almost of aquatic blue grass rather than the earthy/woodsy use thereof in Guerlain. This scent is very much based on the grassy, rather than root, portion of the vetiver plant. Wonderfully refreshing.

Well I disagree! This my favourite "pure" Vetiver, light bright, lasts ages with just a couple of squirts and economical to boot. The more mature noses will point out its relative lack of "sophistication" and it is lacking in the dry earthy notes of the really expensive stuff. For everyday wear this keeps up the just showered effect perfectly. Dunhill Original does it with sandalwood this with vetiver.

A very light fragrance, which opens nicely balanced with some citrus and some coniferous note — juniper, most likely. The citrus notes are nothing great but the juniper is quite nice. I’m waiting for the vetiver. The heart adds spice, herbs, and jasmine, but already the scent is becoming lighter and losing substance to too great a point IMO. I’m still waiting for the vetiver. By the time the basenotes arrive, most of the fragrance has gone from my skin sillage-wise. The dry down has a good aroma but it is rather light, it is primarily cedar and musk rather than vetiver. It doesn’t last long. Lanvin Vetyver is one that would work very well at the office. Its pyramid would have one believing that it’s a complex scent with many notes popping up here and there. It isn’t like that at all. It is refined and sweet — too sweet for my taste; its coniferous sweetness is quite linear, and I don’t have the faintest idea why it was called “Vetyver.” Even as an acceptable office scent I see no reason to buy a bottle of this because I have for years been enamored of Lanvin L’Homme — a light, clean, not-too-sweet wonderful office fragrance with miniscule pretensions toward vetiver.

Smells to me like C Herrera's 212. Not bad and it sticks around quite well. I am not old enough to know what the origianl was like, but this isn't my fav scent. It's bright and it stays that way....