Divine Attraction, from Initio Parfums Prives was released in 2015. The perfumer behind this creation is Guillaume Flavigny. The notes are Leather, Vetiver.
I really like this fragrance. Uncompromisingly about vetiver. Opens with that wet stone/cement to drier flint/gunpowder facets, into a plume of slightly moist, autumnal leaf mulch being burned. It's kinda fresh and alive underneath that orchard floor though, not quite green but just nice. Dries down a bit cleaner and more cedar maybe some synthetic woods come out, it's very warm and lovely as a skin scent. Performance being acceptable but surprisingly not amazing considering how it goes on and projects early on. Now having dabbled in perfumery recently I can say that vetiver is one of my go to materials. I have smelled several different types and they are very changeable and superb in their own right. The isolate I'm using at the moment is vetiveryl acetate and as much as I liked vetiver before I embarked on making my own perfumes, it wasn't the material I was itching to get cracking with. I favoured stuff like the rockstars of Rose, Iris, Oud....etc... which in hindsight are actually very hard to get right and it's a costly learning curve. In any case, Vetiver has become one of my favourite basenotes and I have a newly reinvigorated love of it shall we say. Also I can see just how special this composition is, because it's quite hard to minimally compliment and support the smokey, earthy tones of vetiver. I think this does a really good job with the top notes.
I really like this fragrance. Uncompromisingly about vetiver. Opens with that wet stone/cement to drier flint/gunpowder facets, into a plume of slightly moist, autumnal leaf mulch being burned. It's kinda fresh and alive underneath that orchard floor though, not quite green but just nice. Dries down a bit cleaner and more cedar maybe some synthetic woods come out, it's very warm and lovely as a skin scent. Performance being acceptable but surprisingly not amazing considering how it goes on and projects early on. Now having dabbled in perfumery recently I can say that vetiver is one of my go to materials. I have smelled several different types and they are very changeable and superb in their own right. The isolate I'm using at the moment is vetiveryl acetate and as much as I liked vetiver before I embarked on making my own perfumes, it wasn't the material I was itching to get cracking with. I favoured stuff like the rockstars of Rose, Iris, Oud....etc... which in hindsight are actually very hard to get right and it's a costly learning curve. In any case, Vetiver has become one of my favourite basenotes and I have a newly reinvigorated love of it shall we say. Also I can see just how special this composition is, because it's quite hard to minimally compliment and support the smokey, earthy tones of vetiver. I think this does a really good job with the top notes.