Considering the growth of the perfume industry from the 2000s up to today, we notice a rapid speed in every part of this trend and a corresponding decrease in quality and innovation. Many perfume houses that begin today are not lucky enough to be introduced at Pitti or Esxence exhibitions next year. Those who survive with the aid of budget injections are replicas of others who formerly gained some fortune. Only a few surpass innovation and justly deserve to be introduced decades later. One of those houses of perfumery is Masque Milano. An Italian premium fragrance house with a brilliant portfolio. Today's post is a tribute and appreciation to their vetiver-optimized fragrance, Homage to Hemingway.
The Oldman and the Sea, one of the greatest classics of all times, is the muse behind this creation, for which the fragrance is named after novelist Ernest Hemingway. We daresay it's one of the best vetivers appeared in niche perfumery and whoever has an iota of vetiver love shimmering in his heart will dig for it for sure.
If you crave a vetiver perfume with prominent earthy aspects, softly damp, woodsy, realistic, not afraid of being dirty, raspy spicy, gently smoky, measuredly dark, a tad fruit and gingery to bring you to an ultimate intrigued extent, Hemingway should place in your shopping-in-priority basket. This is a stupendous vetiver with linear performance and minimal composition in which perfumer Fanny Bal hires the least possible notes to make brevity optimized to function and beauty at once.
In this fragrance, she takes several different species of vetiver root oil and enhances the leathery facets with cedarwood and patchouli, and sharpens it with a crisp, spicy top including ginger and rhubarb. Yes, it's a simple and straightforward fragrance with great impact.
No doubt that for the strong chords of vetivers and the robust scaffolding of leather, patchouli, and cedarwood in the base layer, the tenacity and projection are both superior.
Hemingway
$145.00 USD
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