Vetiver perfume comes from a root, not a wood. Chrysopogon zizanioides is a grass whose rootstock is dug, washed and distilled. It is one of the few materials that reads mineral and green at the same time, which is why it anchors so many colognes and so many chypres.

Two Première Peau extraits de parfum are built on it at 20 percent concentration. Gravitas Capitale slices Italian cedrat and shishito chili across a wet asphalt accord with Haitian vetiver sunk low underneath, a neo-cologne with gravity. Rose Monotone uses vetiver to keep a crystalline rose cold and unblooming.

Both travel as 2 ml vials in the discovery set; the set price is credited toward the bottle you choose.