Realm
Germaine Monteil (1975)

A nice vetiver. It doesn't smell especially vintage, to me. The only vetiver I've worn routinely up to now is Elie Saab, and this is in the same general style as that. This is softer, and a little more old-school smelling, but not much. The funk in this has an older-smelling woodiness - I think it's just the vetiver. It smells like something that could be IFRA compliant.

It's fine. I like it. I have a nice bottle of the cologne. The packing is good. I hope it grows on me, and I don't know why it wouldn't, but my initial feeling is that it's nice, but not that exciting.

This solo men's scent from the house of Monteil came out in the mid-1970s, when men were supposed to smell strong and repellent.

It is a very bitter, dense mixture of vetiver, oak moss and musk, rounded out a bit by tonka and vanilla.

Still it's mighty powerful stuff and anyone into the "powerhouse" scents of the 1970s and 1980s will be right at home.

Apply lightly - still affordable on Ebay.