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GIT and VE - 2 aquatics?

post #1 of 12
10/6/06 at 7:33am
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I know at least one other person who agrees with me that GIT has an oceanic drydown. If 2 people agree it must be objective, a psychotic woman once told me. Why don't the reviews ever mention this? Are we insane?


And one of the most interesting things about the scent to me is that I smell water, fresh water this time. Does anyone else get this? It's a very prominent note of the fragrance, I think: fresh water.
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post #2 of 12
10/6/06 at 7:38am
what's the temperature of that water you smell?
warm? tepid? cool?
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post #3 of 12
10/6/06 at 2:03pm
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I get a bit of ocean too, the most likely culprit is the inheirent nature of the ambergris.
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post #4 of 12
10/6/06 at 2:39pm
I'd hardly call VE an aquatic though. GIT--perhaps.
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post #5 of 12
10/6/06 at 4:03pm
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I smell water!!! I'd say cool water, no allusion intended, spring water, a bubbling spring...

but maybe hot water has a stronger scent?

I can smell it! Water isn't odorless!
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post #6 of 12
10/6/06 at 4:13pm
Vetiver Extraordinaire? An aquatic? I dont know what gave you that idea !
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post #7 of 12
10/6/06 at 4:46pm
GIT: There is definitely a "mineral" water smell on drydown. I find it pleasant and unique. It is not the Creed note.

VE: I too find there to be a slight aquatic scent, but not as pronounced.

TNMA
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post #8 of 12
10/6/06 at 6:34pm
I don't perceive anything oceanic about either one of them.

With five woody notes, Vetiver Extraordinaire is best described as a classic/crisp woody scent. Green Irish Tweed is a fresh fougere with no evidence of anything oceanic. The oceanic/marine Creeds are Millesime Imperial, Erolfa and Silver Mountain Water.
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post #9 of 12
10/6/06 at 11:31pm
Not the slightest hint of any oceanic/watery/aquatic in GIT. At least, not in the sense of say Aqua Mutu, which I don't like, but which is pure seawater.
Though, maybe my senses fool me, as I don't find any aquatic in Laguna PH, which many basenoters claim does have lots of it.
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post #10 of 12
10/7/06 at 1:07am
Aqua Motu isn't water to me, it's light coke after ice has melted. Diluted light coke. Not too nice
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post #11 of 12
10/7/06 at 1:10am
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again in VE I'm not talking seawater, talking fresh water!!

no salt! not oceanic at all.... agreed! but it smells like. . . a lake
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post #12 of 12
10/7/06 at 5:34am
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Originally Posted by supermarky

again in VE I'm not talking seawater, talking fresh water!!

no salt! not oceanic at all.... agreed! but it smells like. . . a lake

I think it is the (rather strong) pink pepper note you mean? I had never thought of it like that, but if I try I think I can see what you mean.
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