Vetiver – SANTA MARIA NOVELLA | Woody & floral fougère cologne
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135,00 € - Regular price
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135,00 €
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Vetiver reconciled with light.
Fresh, floral, deeply rooted — without ever becoming heavy.
Vetiver often intimidates — it's imagined as earthy, heavy, dark, reserved for assertive men's perfumes. Santa Maria Novella, whose Florentine officina has existed since 1221 and whose botanical knowledge spans millennia, offers a radically different interpretation here. A fougère cologne that embraces vetiver's luminous side — slightly citrusy, slightly floral — rather than its earthy depth. The result is a composition that reconciles this material with those who had always found it inaccessible.
The composition opens with a fresh and aromatic vibrancy. Lemon, jasmine, and petitgrain establish a light and slightly floral clarity — clean, luminous, preparing a smooth transition to vetiver. Orange blossom, rose, and vetiver build a remarkably elegant accord at the heart — vetiver is dry and slightly smoky, but rose and orange blossom surround it with a floral sweetness that considerably softens it without neutralizing it. Oakmoss, patchouli, and vanilla finally settle into a woody and slightly sweet depth in the base — enveloping, persistent, giving the composition its structure and longevity. Vetiver SMN does not impose itself. It settles — gradually, enduringly, with rare precision.
Vetiver Cologne is the perfume for those who have long sought a vetiver — and had not yet found the right one.
Concentration
Cologne
Family
Fougère
Sillage
Moderate
Gender
Unisex
A word from Maison Diaphane
Vetiver SMN is the version we recommend to those who have never managed to wear vetiver. The rose and orange blossom in the heart completely transform the material — vetiver is there, present, but in a luminous and floral version that is not often encountered. The vanilla in the base further softens the whole. A vetiver of reconciliation.
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Vetiver Cologne by Santa Maria Novella is a unisex fougère cologne created by the oldest perfumery officina in the world, founded in 1221 in Florence. It approaches vetiver in its most luminous and accessible dimension — surrounded by soft florals and an enveloping woody-vanilla base. Available at Maison Diaphane, official retailer in Angers, for €135. Free delivery from €100 (in France).
Its olfactory pyramid is built around a floral and woody orange blossom-rose-vetiver heart of great elegance, preceded by a fresh and luminous lemon-jasmine-petitgrain opening, and extended by a woody and slightly sweet oakmoss-patchouli-vanilla base. In Cologne concentration, the composition unfolds all the lightness of vetiver treated in its most accessible register.
Vetiver Cologne is a timeless woody and floral fougère cologne with moderate sillage, ideal all year round, worn by women as well as men.
What is the difference between this Vetiver SMN and Frédéric Malle's Vetiver Extraordinaire?
Vetiver Extraordinaire (Dominique Ropion, FM) is an Eau de Parfum centered on Haitian vetiver in all its earthy and smoky complexity — a refined and minimalist composition that does not seek to soften the material. Vetiver Cologne SMN is more accessible and more floral — surrounded by rose, orange blossom, and vanilla, it treats vetiver in its most luminous register. One is for vetiver connoisseurs, the other for those who want to discover it.
Is vetiver truly present or too discreet in this cologne?
It is clearly perceptible — dry, slightly smoky, with that characteristic earthy dimension — but enveloped by the florals in the heart and softened by the vanilla in the base. It's a vetiver that doesn't assert itself immediately upon opening but gradually gains strength on the skin. It asserts itself as the cologne dries — that's its particularity.
Why classify this perfume as a fougère rather than a woody family?
The fougère family is defined by the classic lavender-oakmoss-coumarin accord, and its woody and herbaceous derivatives. Vetiver Cologne SMN falls into this territory thanks to the oakmoss in the base and the herbaceous and dry structure of vetiver — it's not a creamy or sandalwood woody, it's a dry and slightly foresty fougère woody.
What season is Vetiver Cologne made for?
All year round. The citrus freshness and floral heart make it light and suitable for spring and summer; the oakmoss and patchouli in the base give it the necessary depth for autumn and winter. It's an all-season cologne — versatile, balanced, without seasonal constraints.
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