Vetyver

Vetyver has outlived its own deadline in every size, at 75, 175 and 305 euros, with no price cut behind it and no new date in front of it.

Priced as an eau de toilette rather than an intense — 75 euros for the 30 ml, 175 for the 100, 305 for the 250 — and on sale in all three as the month ends. No clearance has started here: the prices are the ones it has been carrying, and the stock is whole.

Vetyver is on the Dernière Chance page and goes at the end of the summer with the other ten. It is an eau de toilette, from 75 euros for the 30 ml, and one of the two in the group nobody gives a launch year for.

No source publishes a proper pyramid for it. The house names three materials — lemon petitgrain, vetiver, oakmoss — at 85.7% natural, and Fragrantica adds caraway, pepper, coriander, ylang-ylang, jasmine and tonka bean without sorting them into tiers, which is why the notes here sit in one block. Patricia de Nicolaï writes about Haitian vetiver's raw nobility and says the spice was there to reveal it, not to smooth it over.