Grey, rainy days = Vetiver. Fight me.

One of the first real rainy, grey days I've experienced in the UK for aaaages (how weird to be able to say that?), but it's still quite warm. So that's a cool weather (and somewhat mood) matching challenge!

For me, rain/grey is a great match with vetiver. It's a green, slightly bitter but 'wet' note, it can lend itself to a certain moodiness (that I often associate with London rain), but can also be fresh and add some lift.

Now, here's where Vetiver Fauve really fit the bill today: it is inspired by The Jungle Book, and has a humidity adding to the lush greenness - which really suits the often muggy weather in London - but there's also a surprising tropical pineapple note in the opening that feels a bit juicy and transportative. This opens up into fig (a year round and favourite note) and delicious cypress woodiness. Oh and did I mention it LASTS like crazy?

Of the A&M line this is a polarising scent that can elicit some Very Big Feelings from certain reviewers. And last time I was in Guerlain in Covent Garden, I was happily chatting A&M scents with a young couple who couldn't have been more than 19, and the guy who was trying to flex with his perfume knowledge was exclaiming how VF was terrible and how nobody could like it... and the (until that point) very stoic Balkan security guard came over and very seriously looked him in the eye and said, "No. No, you are wrong: this very good perfume. MANY many people love" as though his ancestors had been insulted, and that put an end to that! 😄😄😄

So the security guard and I are big fans (top 5 for me). What do you think?