@theperfumeguy - fantastic list and guest! Was hoping for you to break out Mr. Laporte’s Route du Vetiver and Mr. Heeley’s Vetiver Veritas… but certainly glad you spoke on the Caron - looking forward to sampling now soon!
Dear Sebastian and dear Dana, thank you very much for this very informative video. I’m very happy to see you guys collaborating again together. I’m Persian and in Persian language, we have a word which is “Dana” and it is pronounced exactly the same way that Dana in the beginning of video, pronaunces her name. “Dana” in Persian means someone who is very knowledgeable. So I believe that her name perfectly suits her.
On his own, I consider Sebastian the top of UA-cam niche frag reviewers. His berth of knowledge is phenomenal and I believe most of his peers would easily agree. When he features Dana, it’s like a master literal course. In fact, they could probably charge for in-person courses, workshops, etc. Just phenomenal.
I can instinctively get why vetiver would be simultaneously "powerful" yet "so easy to drown." Its power is deep and broad, pervasive like the "bass" section of an orchestra, but all it takes is a few "high notes" like the violins and flutes, or even piccolos, and while the depth is still there providing a "world" for the high notes to cavort in, you're not very conscious of the base anymore, even though its power and depth is in fact creating the world those high notes depend on so as not to come off as vapidly lightweight.
Another female that LOVES vetiver here! It’s one of my top 10 notes! I really enjoy freshies with vetiver and powdery fragrances with vetiver. It adds this comforting hug thing that I love! Also makes the frag a little more unique because as you all mention, you don’t find it in female leaning frags often.
Khus khus is the local name from North India. Widely used as a flavour in dairy products. It also has cooling properties, thus used as a sherbet (summer drink). The grass is dried and used as curtains for coolers by pouring water on it and letting it evaporate. You can also find many artistic curtains made of khus.
“You can smell it, jut you don’t want to smell it.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I really dislike it when people tell others that they can’t wear a specific scent because it wasn’t marketed to their gender. Wear what you like. The educational videos are always great!
Vetiver can smell SO many different ways! To say youre not a real woman if you wear vetiver is as stupid as saying youre not a real man if you wear rose or lavender
You are building so constructive team together. Going so deep in a base of scents almost like National Geographics for perfumery. I absolutelly admire Your work.
Dana is wonderful. She takes over but in a very good way. She is so enthusiastic about ingredients and so full of love and energy. I love vetiver too! I totally agree that the essential oil is the most beautiful. I didn’t know it was calming but have probably gravitated to this quality.
I appreciate your angle. Most people get triggered by the taking over and they're not willing to see where it's coming from, nor that that's the whole point of a guest speaker. Cheers
Wow. What an absolutely fantastic segment into the world of vetiver. I have my fair share of those that are easily accessible and love that scent. Love you both. More of these types of pedagogical videos please. I always go back to these with Dana to re-educate my nose. Epic.
In spanish we have the word "cizaña" from zizania>ζιζάνια (weed-tare-gossip-trouble) and we say "cizañoso" to someone who likes to see other people in fights or discussions. I didnt know that and I studied philology 🙈🙈 Thanks, Dana
Dana is BACK! Love it. She and Dalya are my two favorite guests of yours for very different reasons. I learn so much from both but Dana really feels like a professor in her own right with such depth of knowledge. You hit upon all my favorite fragrances- Guerlain Vetiver, Vetiver Coeur, Hemingway, and Fat Electrician. Wearing Vetiver Coeur today in honor of this video. 🎉
Yay, Dana! I loved your old vids together! I learn so much when you two bond in front of the camera about all of the ancient things found in the woods. :-)
Vetiver started in ancient India, and till this day it's used for multiple reasons like drinks, perfumes, soaps, etc it's called Khus in India and it's distillation is done in Kannauj. If you want to know more about Khus try contacting the perfume guru Dr Nikhil Sharan he will explain it, he recently did a video of different facets of Haitian, Indonesian and Indian Vetiver.
I love love love Vetiver!!!!!! I can’t understand how people, especially reviewers say it is polarising. It’s such a classy note that absolutely makes perfumes smell stunning. It’s an addictive smell.
Amazing! This was so interesting to me. I love how vetiver grounds (pun kind of intended lol) some fragrances that have a lot of brightness or airiness. One of my favorite inexpensive fragrances, Zara’s Vetiver Pamplemousse, is a simplistic example of that. Love this type of video; would love the same type with Dana again for other ingredients! Have great weekend!
I've always loved this Ingredient series on your channel featuring A Nose Knows.... these videos in particular literally helped me study my products. Very under appreciated
Great video Sabastion with a very bubbly intelligent woman. Im very happy I subscribed to your channel. Having Dana break down materials and explain reasons for certain materials was fantastic. Thank you to each of you. A+
Sebastian strikes again! I don’t know how you do it but you always seem to read my mind with your video topics. I was literally JUST thinking about how I wish you’d do a deep dive/educational video on Vetiver as I’ve really been falling in love with the note as of late. But then you brought DANA!?! I love Dana, her perspective, her knowledge, and of course her personality is so fun! Thanks man!
I love this vid and every other one with Dana! She's so brilliant. My own vetiver journey started with L'Occitane's Vétyver (mmmm), then followed up later by a box of partially filled sample cards of the original Annick Goutal (amazing!). My go-to "non-expensive" vetivers these days are Commodity Vetiver (discontinued, I believe) and The 7 Virtues Vetiver Elemi. Sebastian, you may like the 7 Virtues as it has a prominent cumin note. Worth trying for its cozy, grounding spa-like qualities--I like to sleep in it, too! More Dana collabs, PLEASE!
Vetiver is definitely one of my favorite ingredients. I like how it's used in Lalique "Encre Noire", "Guerlain Homme L'Eau Boisee", Maison Violet "Tanagra" and a lot of other fragrances. I'm interested to smell all of the other ways vetiver is used in perfumery.
Dana mentioning that one is drawn to the property we most lack .... Which in vetiver is the calming, and Sebastian going " I can see that!!!"😂😂 These videos focusing on one ingredient are great👌
Thank you Sebastian and Dana. Great collaboration. Vetiver is one of my favorite scents. I'm glad you brought up Coeur de Vetiver Sacre. Don't hear much about that one, but love it. I find the range that vetiver can smell is so interesting. Dry, green, dirty, lemony, earthy, herbal, etc. Frederic Malle's Bois D'Orage (French Lover) is one of my favorites, but also like Atelier Cologne's Vetiver Fatal, along with many you mentioned in the video that I own. Thanks, again!
Oh my gosh! This video is so refreshing , I love how informative and educational it is. All the interesting facts and history. All the different perfumes that you shared. Love love the energy of you two. We need more videos focused on ingredients! Thank you so so much ❤
Great informative video! My 2 most worn fragrances are Lalique’s Encre Noir and Zara’s Vetiver Pamplemousse! I sometimes layer them because Zara wears off so quickly 😊
So fun to learn more about the history and versatility of this aromatic plant! Funny story: before Thanksgiving last year, having no idea of how a vetiver frag would smell & no familiarity with ELdO’s frags - but merely wanting to proceed with a very ‘tongue-in-cheek’ gift idea, I purchased a full 3.4 oz bottle of Fat Electrician - dispensing it into 5ml atomizers & then gifting them to all of the *electricians* I work with😉 …therefore, as you might expect, (but at the time much to my surprise) this scent totally charmed my socks off (me, a woman) -and turned out to be a big hit for the guys❤
Interesting video. I like DS & Durga St Vetyver. It’s very grassy green. I think vetiver is good for grounding, and the root chakra. Their cowboy grass has sage and vetiver gives a similar vibe. Thank you for your video.❤
I know there are fragrance components that in their raw, pure state are perfectly repellent, their beauty or at least their usefulness coming through only in their minimal and diluted utilization, but my guess is that the vetiver plant/oil is perfectly pleasing in nature as much as refined for cosmetic use.
Oh yes vetiver I do enjoy it. I like the vetiver to be more unisex rather more masculine. I enjoy it with flowers as it has a tendency to balance out the fragrance. Bal D'Afrique is a favorite. Great video as always Sebastian.
I love it when you both pair up and do a deep dive on an ingredient. I found Hemingway to be really smoky, but I also sense a good bit of smoke in many of their perfumes.
Hello Sebastian, it was fantastic listening to all the history, uses and places vetiver comes from. I am so glad you had Dana back as a guest! This was a very interesting video! I have always considered vetiver to be more masculine leaning. I just ordered myself a 'starter vetiver' with Guerlain's Aqua Allegoria Neroli Vetiver. I want to try it out in a light fresh form to get my nose more used to wearing it as a female. I may check out the Guerlain Vetiver. Thanks for all the excellent info! Have a great day! 💚 ~ Jenn
I'm not sure about laudano. If you tryed the italian word for it, you got it wrong, 'cause labdano is a plant producing a white flower with red spotted petals, used as a perfume, fundamental ingredient of the chypre family, while laudano is a solution of opium (the drug, not the YSL perfume) in alcohol, used centuries ago for medicinal purposes.
You're absolutely correct in that there exist, currently, 2 separate words now used for 2 separate products of different functions. However, some research shows that in the 14-15th centuries, "laudanum" was a tincture which included labdanum, as well as other fragrant materials like musk and ambergris. In time and for a while, it became the opium concoction we read about in novels and it settled as a name for the opium-derrived medicine (with an alternative benzoic one). I was playing (mostly thinking about the marketing-infused recent niche perfume names [many "laudano"s) and omitted to clarify.
More videos with Dana please. She’s amazing. You two together have such amazing chemistry and it makes for a great learning experience about something that can be very difficult to understand.
I really enjoy to watch/learn from this. I ate every word of Dana, and I hear ".., inainte de Hristos" and " nu stiu" ... Asa ca: Fain ce faci, esti o prezenta superba, absolut delicios raspunsul la "De ce porti vetiver?" Multa, multa bafta incontinuare ... Abia astept clipul legat de vanilie :)
Ok guys, I always had great admiration for both of you. I was very disappointed on the fact that Dana had a say on the fact why she doesn’t like Chanel. I don’t know where or when she got the wrong assumption about M. Chanel. She wasn’t a N. Or ever sympathized with that. She was a prisoner during France’s occupation. Her money was taken from her and she was a prisoner at the Hotel in Paris. They didn’t kill her due to implications since she was already famous at that point. After the war she had to restart from zero once again. Please don’t believe on everything you read or hear. How do I know this. My relatives were there with her. I still hold you both in my heart as a great admirer of your work. Marc
Going back through all the videos in this series with Dana, all are awesome. Would love to see an ep going over WTF are Musks since it feels like every fragrance has them.
This might be my favorite of your videos! LOVE vetiver, love the conversation between you two, Dana imparted so much knowledge, just all around awesomeness! Can't wait to try some of these. Thank you
I only have the original of Encre Noire. I also have Tom Ford's Grey Vetiver and another vetiver scent that no one ever mentions, Rogue's Vetifleur. Thanks for this wonderful video. I really enjoyed it!
I loved every minute of this video! I could listen to you and Dana talk about fragrance all day, especially when it's vetiver. It's my favorite fragrance note. I stumbled upon it as a standalone scent purely by accident - I purchased a bar of vetiver soap that Pre de Provence used to make (sadly discontinued quite awhile ago). I enjoyed the soap, but I fell in love with the scent because I kept catching whiffs of it all day after washing with the soap. At first I thought it was coming from someone else, but I eventually figured out that it was coming from me, and that I was getting it from the soap. I swear, I have been on the hunt for "the best vetiver fragrance" ever since. This video gave me several to seek out - thank you!
Vetiver Por Elle is what got me how’d on the smell. If I knew uerkains Vetiver Pour Ele was so impossible to reacquire, I’d’ve used it Les oten. Great video you two.
One of my favorite vetiver scents is Vetiverissimo by Fzotic (Bruno Fazzolari). He did a fragrance called Lampblack which showed the dark, rooty and inky side of vetiver, but then he did Vetiverissimo to show the clean, creamy, milky side of it and I absolutely love it. It's so rich and unique - the milky undertones beneath the herbal grassy notes is so special. It projects quite well and the longevity is great (especially compared to some of his other scents). It is absolutely perfect for this time of year - one of my top spring fragrances and, honestly, it would land in my top 5 of my collection. Edit: Happy to see Dana mentioned that they should have had Vetiverissimo there to talk about. It really is a fantastic fragrance! Check it out!
Absolutely fantastic video. So much insight about everything vetiver. I need more vetiver in my life. Did you mention also Vetiver Royal Bourbon by Oriza L. Legrand, it's very pretty.
Hi Sebastian, thoroughly enjoyed you and Dana tonight. I love to wear my two vetiver perfumes, Guerlain Vetiver Pour Elle, and Guerlain Vetiver.. always get compliments when wearing them, and do not find them masculine at all. And Dana, that guy who wouldn’t ever date a woman who wears Vetiver, he sounds sounds like a real peach. Not! 😆😅 Well done guys ❤❤
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@theperfumeguy - fantastic list and guest! Was hoping for you to break out Mr. Laporte’s Route du Vetiver and Mr. Heeley’s Vetiver Veritas… but certainly glad you spoke on the Caron - looking forward to sampling now soon!
Im sad theres not more of her online, she makes learning about perfumery and scents so joyous and soulful. Dana is THE BEST!
SAME
Agree! Adore her. This is like perfume school and so, so fun.
Dear Sebastian and dear Dana, thank you very much for this very informative video. I’m very happy to see you guys collaborating again together.
I’m Persian and in Persian language, we have a word which is “Dana” and it is pronounced exactly the same way that Dana in the beginning of video, pronaunces her name. “Dana” in Persian means someone who is very knowledgeable. So I believe that her name perfectly suits her.
Ghorbunet beram
On his own, I consider Sebastian the top of UA-cam niche frag reviewers. His berth of knowledge is phenomenal and I believe most of his peers would easily agree. When he features Dana, it’s like a master literal course. In fact, they could probably charge for in-person courses, workshops, etc. Just phenomenal.
Well thank you!! :)
This entire episode was a balm for the soul! Dana is a treasure. I’m off to listen to all of the episodes that she’s been in. 💚
The tonka discussion was great.
Dana is fabulous! Could listen to her all day long. Does she write books about aromatics? Does she have a podcast?
I can instinctively get why vetiver would be simultaneously "powerful" yet "so easy to drown." Its power is deep and broad, pervasive like the "bass" section of an orchestra, but all it takes is a few "high notes" like the violins and flutes, or even piccolos, and while the depth is still there providing a "world" for the high notes to cavort in, you're not very conscious of the base anymore, even though its power and depth is in fact creating the world those high notes depend on so as not to come off as vapidly lightweight.
Wonderfully evocative description. Thank you!
Fantastic parallel. Right on
I love when you guys make videos together! And Dana knows so much about raw ingredients, your videos are so educational! 💕☺️
Another female that LOVES vetiver here! It’s one of my top 10 notes! I really enjoy freshies with vetiver and powdery fragrances with vetiver. It adds this comforting hug thing that I love! Also makes the frag a little more unique because as you all mention, you don’t find it in female leaning frags often.
Khus khus is the local name from North India. Widely used as a flavour in dairy products. It also has cooling properties, thus used as a sherbet (summer drink). The grass is dried and used as curtains for coolers by pouring water on it and letting it evaporate. You can also find many artistic curtains made of khus.
How could I possibly skip this one! It was L'Occitane Eau de Vetyver that opened the door to fragrances for me.
That's awesome. I still have a half bottle of that scent. I loved that it was a creamy vetiver for me. Really a great scent! :)
“You can smell it, jut you don’t want to smell it.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really dislike it when people tell others that they can’t wear a specific scent because it wasn’t marketed to their gender. Wear what you like.
The educational videos are always great!
I love it when you have Dana on your channel 😊I learn so much from her
Vetiver can smell SO many different ways! To say youre not a real woman if you wear vetiver is as stupid as saying youre not a real man if you wear rose or lavender
One of the most absurd comments I’ve ever heard. Shame on the trolls that accused Dana of being unfeminine
and yet the trolls persist
@@catherinelynnfraser2001 some of them are women, so that makes sense 😁
Oh yes, Dana is such a special guest, thank you, thank you and thank you more!!!
Complete language-nut watching here and I loved the part about vetiver being named for the problem it's supposed to alleviate!
I'm not even done watching the video but I have to comment. I love Dana! She pleases my inner perfume nerd in the most satisfying way.
You are building so constructive team together. Going so deep in a base of scents almost like National Geographics for perfumery. I absolutelly admire Your work.
The dream team! And my favourite perfume note too! I’m all ears…and nose!
Hello!!
Dana is wonderful. She takes over but in a very good way. She is so enthusiastic about ingredients and so full of love and energy. I love vetiver too! I totally agree that the essential oil is the most beautiful. I didn’t know it was calming but have probably gravitated to this quality.
I appreciate your angle. Most people get triggered by the taking over and they're not willing to see where it's coming from, nor that that's the whole point of a guest speaker. Cheers
Wow. What an absolutely fantastic segment into the world of vetiver. I have my fair share of those that are easily accessible and love that scent. Love you both. More of these types of pedagogical videos please. I always go back to these with Dana to re-educate my nose. Epic.
thank you :)
In spanish we have the word "cizaña" from zizania>ζιζάνια (weed-tare-gossip-trouble) and we say "cizañoso" to someone who likes to see other people in fights or discussions. I didnt know that and I studied philology 🙈🙈
Thanks, Dana
I have to say this Dana Looks great and Younger Than before… She has lost weight 🙌🏻👏🏼 Good for you
Dana is BACK! Love it. She and Dalya are my two favorite guests of yours for very different reasons. I learn so much from both but Dana really feels like a professor in her own right with such depth of knowledge. You hit upon all my favorite fragrances- Guerlain Vetiver, Vetiver Coeur, Hemingway, and Fat Electrician. Wearing Vetiver Coeur today in honor of this video. 🎉
Yay, Dana! I loved your old vids together! I learn so much when you two bond in front of the camera about all of the ancient things found in the woods. :-)
Nice to see my favorite guest again. Let me sit back and enjoy the knowledge of this perfume Gurus! 😍
💚 vetiver! This was so interesting, Dana is a fountain of knowledge, I love the nerdiness 💚
Vetiver started in ancient India, and till this day it's used for multiple reasons like drinks, perfumes, soaps, etc it's called Khus in India and it's distillation is done in Kannauj. If you want to know more about Khus try contacting the perfume guru Dr Nikhil Sharan he will explain it, he recently did a video of different facets of Haitian, Indonesian and Indian Vetiver.
the return of the queen !
Great getting all this background on all things vetiver, including all the nerdy info😀
Thank you for stopping by! :)
Love when Dana is with you, you have great chemistry together👏👏👏
I love love love Vetiver!!!!!! I can’t understand how people, especially reviewers say it is polarising. It’s such a classy note that absolutely makes perfumes smell stunning. It’s an addictive smell.
I should add that I also love fourgeres so maybe it’s an age thing.
Great to see Dana again, and such a great educational video on Vétiver! I learned a lot!!
Amazing! This was so interesting to me. I love how vetiver grounds (pun kind of intended lol) some fragrances that have a lot of brightness or airiness. One of my favorite inexpensive fragrances, Zara’s Vetiver Pamplemousse, is a simplistic example of that. Love this type of video; would love the same type with Dana again for other ingredients! Have great weekend!
I've always loved this Ingredient series on your channel featuring A Nose Knows.... these videos in particular literally helped me study my products. Very under appreciated
It's not for the masses, mate. It's reaching the precise people it was intended 😁🖖🏼
I have to say I love Cultus Artem Vetiveria - so pure. I tend to prefer it in the fall ❤
Great video Sabastion with a very bubbly intelligent woman. Im very happy I subscribed to your channel. Having Dana break down materials and explain reasons for certain materials was fantastic. Thank you to each of you. A+
Thank you for stopping by! :)
Sebastian strikes again! I don’t know how you do it but you always seem to read my mind with your video topics. I was literally JUST thinking about how I wish you’d do a deep dive/educational video on Vetiver as I’ve really been falling in love with the note as of late. But then you brought DANA!?! I love Dana, her perspective, her knowledge, and of course her personality is so fun! Thanks man!
Love vetiver, love the education. Thank you Sebastian. Great content as usual.
It's always a pleasure seeing Dana here with you. I do like vetiver myself.
Welcome back Dana! Love the depth of research you put into everything. Need to check more fragrances with vetiver.
First ever UA-cam video on the subject of perfumery where I felt enlightened!! Thanks both of you.
Such a great video. Long may Queen Dana reign! She is a delight. ❤
Thanks Dana, learnt so much about this hobby of ours.
It's been awhile,Dana is sooo gorgeous!
Clicked thumbs up before play! Wooh! So in awe and Thanks for imparting your encyclopedic knowledge, Dana! ❤
I am so excited to see Dana back, and especially discussing vetiver which I love! Great video!
I love this vid and every other one with Dana! She's so brilliant. My own vetiver journey started with L'Occitane's Vétyver (mmmm), then followed up later by a box of partially filled sample cards of the original Annick Goutal (amazing!). My go-to "non-expensive" vetivers these days are Commodity Vetiver (discontinued, I believe) and The 7 Virtues Vetiver Elemi. Sebastian, you may like the 7 Virtues as it has a prominent cumin note. Worth trying for its cozy, grounding spa-like qualities--I like to sleep in it, too! More Dana collabs, PLEASE!
Vetiver is definitely one of my favorite ingredients. I like how it's used in Lalique "Encre Noire", "Guerlain Homme L'Eau Boisee", Maison Violet "Tanagra" and a lot of other fragrances. I'm interested to smell all of the other ways vetiver is used in perfumery.
Thanks for sharing!
Learn so much from this! Thank you!!
Dana mentioning that one is drawn to the property we most lack .... Which in vetiver is the calming, and Sebastian going " I can see that!!!"😂😂
These videos focusing on one ingredient are great👌
:)
Great to see Dana again. Great video. Vetiver is an amazing note.
I cannot with her... I adore her! Could watch her all day! I love the way she speaks and how warm she is... love you two!
I can listen to her all day long
Finally Dana is back!
I missed Dana! Happy to see her back.
The videos you all make together are the best. Dana is an ingredient whiz. Your videos are excellent in both quality and content.
Thank you Sebastian and Dana. Great collaboration. Vetiver is one of my favorite scents. I'm glad you brought up Coeur de Vetiver Sacre. Don't hear much about that one, but love it. I find the range that vetiver can smell is so interesting. Dry, green, dirty, lemony, earthy, herbal, etc. Frederic Malle's Bois D'Orage (French Lover) is one of my favorites, but also like Atelier Cologne's Vetiver Fatal, along with many you mentioned in the video that I own. Thanks, again!
Dana is the Goat,great guest.
Love the linguistic and scientific breakdown of vetiver. Very underrated ingredient!! ATH Guapo is my favorite vetiver based frag
Oh my gosh! This video is so refreshing , I love how informative and educational it is. All the interesting facts and history. All the different perfumes that you shared. Love love the energy of you two. We need more videos focused on ingredients! Thank you so so much ❤
This is one of the most interesting fragrance videos I’ve seen on your or any other channel.
Great informative video! My 2 most worn fragrances are Lalique’s Encre Noir and Zara’s Vetiver Pamplemousse! I sometimes layer them because Zara wears off so quickly 😊
So fun to learn more about the history and versatility of this aromatic plant! Funny story: before Thanksgiving last year, having no idea of how a vetiver frag would smell & no familiarity with ELdO’s frags - but merely wanting to proceed with a very ‘tongue-in-cheek’ gift idea, I purchased a full 3.4 oz bottle of Fat Electrician - dispensing it into 5ml atomizers & then gifting them to all of the *electricians* I work with😉 …therefore, as you might expect, (but at the time much to my surprise) this scent totally charmed my socks off (me, a woman) -and turned out to be a big hit for the guys❤
Interesting video. I like DS & Durga St Vetyver. It’s very grassy green. I think vetiver is good for grounding, and the root chakra. Their cowboy grass has sage and vetiver gives a similar vibe. Thank you for your video.❤
Some gems here.
Encalade is one of my favorites.
Whole Marc-antonie barrios lineup is fire.
Welcome back dana great duo video
Wonderful Dana as your guest again! 😍😍😍
Vetiver is my favorite note as well!
Thank you for a great video!
Ti pup, Dana! 😘
I know there are fragrance components that in their raw, pure state are perfectly repellent, their beauty or at least their usefulness coming through only in their minimal and diluted utilization, but my guess is that the vetiver plant/oil is perfectly pleasing in nature as much as refined for cosmetic use.
Dana is a language sorceress:
love it ❤
Oh yes vetiver I do enjoy it. I like the vetiver to be more unisex rather more masculine. I enjoy it with flowers as it has a tendency to balance out the fragrance. Bal D'Afrique is a favorite. Great video as always Sebastian.
I love it when you both pair up and do a deep dive on an ingredient.
I found Hemingway to be really smoky, but I also sense a good bit of smoke in many of their perfumes.
Hello Sebastian,
it was fantastic listening to all the history, uses and places vetiver comes from. I am so glad you had Dana back as a guest! This was a very interesting video! I have always considered vetiver to be more masculine leaning. I just ordered myself a 'starter vetiver' with Guerlain's Aqua Allegoria Neroli Vetiver. I want to try it out in a light fresh form to get my nose more used to wearing it as a female. I may check out the Guerlain Vetiver. Thanks for all the excellent info!
Have a great day! 💚
~ Jenn
Yessss, so happy to see Dana back on the channel! I’m going to school to be a cosmetic chemist so I love learning more about ingredients.
I'm not sure about laudano. If you tryed the italian word for it, you got it wrong, 'cause labdano is a plant producing a white flower with red spotted petals, used as a perfume, fundamental ingredient of the chypre family, while laudano is a solution of opium (the drug, not the YSL perfume) in alcohol, used centuries ago for medicinal purposes.
You're absolutely correct in that there exist, currently, 2 separate words now used for 2 separate products of different functions. However, some research shows that in the 14-15th centuries, "laudanum" was a tincture which included labdanum, as well as other fragrant materials like musk and ambergris. In time and for a while, it became the opium concoction we read about in novels and it settled as a name for the opium-derrived medicine (with an alternative benzoic one).
I was playing (mostly thinking about the marketing-infused recent niche perfume names [many "laudano"s) and omitted to clarify.
Love the video!! Love Dana! Learned a lot! Thank you Guys!!!
Welcome back, Dana
thank you
More videos with Dana please. She’s amazing. You two together have such amazing chemistry and it makes for a great learning experience about something that can be very difficult to understand.
I really enjoy to watch/learn from this. I ate every word of Dana, and I hear ".., inainte de Hristos" and " nu stiu" ... Asa ca: Fain ce faci, esti o prezenta superba, absolut delicios raspunsul la "De ce porti vetiver?" Multa, multa bafta incontinuare ... Abia astept clipul legat de vanilie :)
Wow 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 thank you Sebastian & Dana for this awesome and educational video !!!
Ok guys, I always had great admiration for both of you. I was very disappointed on the fact that Dana had a say on the fact why she doesn’t like Chanel. I don’t know where or when she got the wrong assumption about M. Chanel. She wasn’t a N. Or ever sympathized with that. She was a prisoner during France’s occupation. Her money was taken from her and she was a prisoner at the Hotel in Paris. They didn’t kill her due to implications since she was already famous at that point. After the war she had to restart from zero once again. Please don’t believe on everything you read or hear.
How do I know this. My relatives were there with her.
I still hold you both in my heart as a great admirer of your work. Marc
Going back through all the videos in this series with Dana, all are awesome. Would love to see an ep going over WTF are Musks since it feels like every fragrance has them.
so interesting...i love curious people that are interested in learning and going deeper into subjects ...
This might be my favorite of your videos! LOVE vetiver, love the conversation between you two, Dana imparted so much knowledge, just all around awesomeness! Can't wait to try some of these. Thank you
Amazing info.. would love more videos on different notes of perfumes.
I love this kind of videos, they are so interesting and informative. Thank you both for sharing your knowledge.
Dana has great taste, and as she said, she can kick anyone's ass!
Her energy is great, love to hear more from her.
I love vetiver scents, I enjoy some other notes more but really love vetiver. Great content as usual Sebastian. Thanks for the video.
I only have the original of Encre Noire. I also have Tom Ford's Grey Vetiver and another vetiver scent that no one ever mentions, Rogue's Vetifleur. Thanks for this wonderful video. I really enjoyed it!
I loved every minute of this video! I could listen to you and Dana talk about fragrance all day, especially when it's vetiver. It's my favorite fragrance note. I stumbled upon it as a standalone scent purely by accident - I purchased a bar of vetiver soap that Pre de Provence used to make (sadly discontinued quite awhile ago). I enjoyed the soap, but I fell in love with the scent because I kept catching whiffs of it all day after washing with the soap. At first I thought it was coming from someone else, but I eventually figured out that it was coming from me, and that I was getting it from the soap. I swear, I have been on the hunt for "the best vetiver fragrance" ever since. This video gave me several to seek out - thank you!
Vetiver Por Elle is what got me how’d on the smell. If I knew uerkains Vetiver Pour Ele was so impossible to reacquire, I’d’ve used it Les oten. Great video you two.
I hear you, vetiver sister. I gifted mine to someone who needed it more a long time ago, and have been missing it ever since.
Very intriguing topic. Next is "What is Neroli"? Vetiver and Neroli are so mistaken.
Thanks to both of you for this wonderful video. I always learn something when you team up! ❤
Wearing Sultan Vetiver today. It's 🔥🔥🔥🔥
One of my favorite vetiver scents is Vetiverissimo by Fzotic (Bruno Fazzolari). He did a fragrance called Lampblack which showed the dark, rooty and inky side of vetiver, but then he did Vetiverissimo to show the clean, creamy, milky side of it and I absolutely love it. It's so rich and unique - the milky undertones beneath the herbal grassy notes is so special. It projects quite well and the longevity is great (especially compared to some of his other scents). It is absolutely perfect for this time of year - one of my top spring fragrances and, honestly, it would land in my top 5 of my collection.
Edit: Happy to see Dana mentioned that they should have had Vetiverissimo there to talk about. It really is a fantastic fragrance! Check it out!
Absolutely fantastic video. So much insight about everything vetiver. I need more vetiver in my life. Did you mention also Vetiver Royal Bourbon by Oriza L. Legrand, it's very pretty.
big, BIG Oriza fan over here :)
Dana is AMAZING. Bravo
That was amazing! So much knowledge, experience and enthusiasm.
I forgot Terre d hermes too! 👍😁
Hi Sebastian, thoroughly enjoyed you and Dana tonight. I love to wear my two vetiver perfumes, Guerlain Vetiver Pour Elle, and Guerlain Vetiver.. always get compliments when wearing them, and do not find them masculine at all. And Dana, that guy who wouldn’t ever date a woman who wears Vetiver, he sounds sounds like a real peach. Not! 😆😅
Well done guys ❤❤
There are plenty of people who would never date me, but most have more solid reasons than me wearing vetiver. Oh well