Mito by Vero Kern VdE + EdP

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Post by Sister Mary Magdelene, Patron Saint of Perfumers

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Oh faithful ones please ready yourselves to hear of divine beauty. Sometimes to fall into blissful sleep, I count on green floral chypres. In my fragrant world, nothing could offer greater pleasure than the idealised landscape that a wonderful perfume in this genre can conjure.

Mito Voile d’Extrait – Vero Profumo

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Mito Eau de Parfum – Vero Profumo

And here are two distinct but related olfactory paintings of delightful garden scenes, both inspired by the gardens at Villa d’Este in Tivoli.

Mito Voile d’Extrait

Mito Voile d`Extrait Vero Profumo FragranticaPhoto Stolen Fragrantica

Fragrantica gives these featured accords in one line:
Citruses, magnolia, champaca, jasmine, galbanum, hyacinth, cypress, moss

This is a scented garden drawn from the perspective of someone who, eyes drawn to a cool shaded corner, has launched herself into and across a wide lawn and thrown herself down on the grass. She did not pass time in detached strolling and admiring from a paved walkway, no she ran straight in to be amongst the damp greenery, to experience dark cushions of moss and inhale the loamy smell.

Mito Vero Profumo Grassy Girls Peter Sheik FlickrPhoto Stolen Flickr

Here where she lies there’s a grassiness and I won’t say wetness, lest you imagine it aquatic, but a damp and earthy mossiness. As she lies looking up through branches to a clear autumn sky, wafts of ripe fallen fruit reach her from the ground beneath nearby trees. The fruit is rich, full and ripe, but not over-ripe or winey in the way of Roudnitska’s Femme or Parfum du Thérèse, instead this is fruit that has fallen full of juice and most certainly split upon landing to release the complex uncultivated aroma of something like a guava.

Flowering trees most certainly grow in this garden, she lies distant from them, their fragrance reaching her on the breeze. It is one of the particular achievements of this fragrance that the sometimes heavy florals of tuberose and champaca are here restrained, seeming to float down from their high places. The effect is naturalistic, as though the scent of them truly did waft through on a breeze. They unfurl on my skin, mirroring perhaps how the fragrance of blooms in sunshine becomes warmer and creamier. This mid-afternoon glow carries on for quite a few more hours.

Mito Eau de Parfum

Mito EdP Vero Profumo FragranticaPhoto Stolen Fragrantica

Fragrantica gives these featured accords in one line:
Citruses, magnolia, champaca, jasmine, galbanum, hyacinth, cypress, moss

Here she returns to the garden on a warmer drier day. On this visit she is out in the open walking the paths. In the sunshine pungent volatile oils are releasing on the breeze. There is a resinous pine. Galbanum and verbena fizz and sparkle. The verbena recalls the opening of Jean-Paul Guerlain’s Eau de Guerlain, but where that one continues on a calm and cool trajectory, this Mito whirls and dances on my skin, it’s a live thing! A light fresh jasmine sends its sweet breath her way. As she strolls, her body becomes warmer. The dusty smells of the gravel kicked up by her feet and the muskiness of her own skin mingle with the aromas of the garden.

Mit Vero Profumo Magnolia_blossoms flupf DeviantArtPhoto Stolen DeviantArt

What Vero Kern has done here is a minor miracle, she has composed two beautiful observational perfumes. They are clearly pictures of the same garden seen in different seasons. They come with my highest recommendation and a warning to wear only if it is safe to be distracted by the beauty for several hours.

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Surrender To Chance has samples and decants of a range of the Vero Products

Pray tell, have you experienced the holy sweet waters of Saint Kern?

Go in peace,
Sister Mary Magdelene, Patron Saint of Perfumers

24 thoughts on “Mito by Vero Kern VdE + EdP”

    • And rich blessings to you sweet angel for sharing the divine gift of these two with I, perfume’s humble servant xOx

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  2. Sister Mary,
    I have not yet tried the holy waters of Mito. I will search some out and anoint myself lavishly.
    Lettuce spray.
    Portia xx

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    • Oh Mother Superior! I can help with a little VdE, but confess I have drained the last drop of the EdP!
      I’ll send what I have your way with fragrant blessings.
      xOx

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    • The Lord moves in mysterious ways. Who know but the wishes of His loyal servant Christine W may be heeded and she will lay nose on these treasure before long.
      xOx

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    • Bless you child for your confession which contains its own absolution. As I revealed above, these two are distinct but related wonders, you are to be forgiven indeed praised for prayerful devotion to both.

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  5. Good morning, Sister Mary.

    I have tried several of Vero Kern’s revered holy waters. All are lovely, but my experience with the Mito EDP is my least favorite. I am put off by my perception of a very strong, almost Calgon lemony, top note. Perhaps the Extrait is more my style?

    Thank you so much for another beautiful and thorough review! I especially liked your concept of an “observational perfume”. Benedicata et venerabilis es, et omnia laude dignissima!
    Azar xx

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    • Good morning to you Azar, fellow traveller on the fragrant path – I confess it was three or four wearings of both these holy waters before the EdP overtook the VdE in my adoration. The stridency of the verbena like opening is singular, as you say, and I did think it too much on the first few wearings. But I came to crave it even in preference to the easy creaminess of the VdE.

      Like the harsh bergamot opening of Shalimar this raspy lemon has grown in my affections both for its invigoration and for the beauty it heralds.

      Tantum ergo Sacramentum veneremur cernui.

      xOx

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    • Whoops! Should read “Benedicta et venerabilis es, et omni laude dignissima.” Sorry for any confusion. I don’t do latin anymore.

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      • So few of us do, post Vatican II… O Domine, miserere.

        Now, you just take the pleasures of Mito where you find them in the Voile.

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  6. I must confess, I love them both. When I cannot decide which one to wear, I spray them both on different spots and let my movements do the blending. Mito was one of the very few where after smelling it on me the DH said, “Mmm, you should get a bottle of this one”.

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    • Tatiana child, you are dancing the Lord’s dance. Whilst the EdP and the VdE each have a particular story to tell of the gardens, there is most certainly a beautiful conversation had between them. Blessings upon you!

      And this spouse of yours on the lay path – a refined choice! A man of taste and discernment. Blessings upon him and your union.

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  8. Another beautiful review, thank you! I’m yet to try any of these, I see Surrender to Chance has 15% off Vero Profumo at the moment, hmm tempting.

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    • Child, I thank you for those kind words.

      I suspect your guiding words may lead a few of the flock to Surrender…

      Baaaaa!

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  9. I haven’t tried this one but I am familiar with some of the other holy waters of Saint Kern. I worship at her Rubj altar.
    Bless you Sister.

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    • I do believe I have small dabs of Rubj and Onda somewhere. I must sniff them out Poodle.

      Thanks for popping by, bless your curly head.

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