Terre d’Hermès Eau Intense Vétiver is an Eau de Parfum by Hermès created in 2018 by Christine Nagel, her first reading of Terre d’Hermès. The house describes it as an intense woody fragrance, where the depth of vetiver combines with the liveliness of green bergamot and Sichuan pepper, and sees in it a new luminous vibration, an unprecedented expression of the power of Terre.
Kevin, of Now Smell This, likes the opening but finds Eau Intense Vétiver far less intense than its name suggests; The Candy Perfume Boy judges it magnificent, warm and luminous, almost a pillar in its own right.
What critics say
A deceptive opening
Kevin devotes a review on Now Smell This to Eau Intense Vétiver on October 11, 2018. The opening, a burst of bitter orange and very peppery bergamot, wins him over to the point of wanting to buy the bottle right away.
Rose geranium and a rich vetiver hold his attention for a moment, before a woody, musky base, less captivating, takes over. He finds the fragrance far less intense than its name suggests and prefers the original Terre d’Hermès, for its mineral facet.
A warm vetiver
On September 10, 2018, The Candy Perfume Boy sees in the fragrance a reinterpretation of Terre d’Hermès that shifts the woody and mineral balance toward a vegetal woodiness. The opening, sharp and zesty, softens; the vetiver, warm and roasted, with salty and anise-like nuances, remains subtle.
The critic judges it magnificent, warm and luminous. His only reservation concerns the fragrance’s place in the line: it seems to him to break away from the Terre family, to the point that it could have become a masculine pillar in its own right.
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