Notes: green notes, galbanum, hyacinth, oakmoss, lily of the valley, lime, vetiver, basil, iris, jasmine
This is the first green floral perfume, created by Germaine Cellier in 1947.
Vent Vert is up there with Guerlain Vetiver as a pure green perfume that feels very much like “me”.
Green florals can come out so pristine they’re practically prepubescent; or they can compromise on verdancy with warmer notes. Vent Vert doesn’t do either. It just doubles down really hard on brilliant, bitter, laser-green galbanum, which adds an edge that isn’t present in, say, Estee Lauder’s Pleasures. The cut-grass and galbanum blend together seamlessly into a single fresh-sharp-green note. And then it opens out into a vernal, bright hyacinth, and a little wisp of lily-of-the-valley and maybe jasmine -- but the galbanum sticks around too. I love the delicate fierceness of it. It’s like an angry fairy.