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5
Light and airy violet
The unexpectedly spring-like weather in Boston must be what is driving me to don violets, violets, and more violets. Usually April is all about frozen rain, but not this year.
Violets are the perfect springtime flower. Clean, slightly sweet, natural-smelling and refreshing. Violet soliflores are a perfect alternative to colognes. In fact, violet soliflores really are colognes, especially when they have the longevity of L'Artisan Parfumeur VERTE VIOLETTE! I love this scent, but I have to say that the longevity is the poorest of the nineteenth-century-style soliflores familiar to me, including Borsari VIOLETTA DI PARMA and Berdoues VIOLETTES DE TOULOUSE. This composition is very close to those, according to my nose, and so anyone who likes any of the three will like the others as well, it seems to me. These are all slightly green and not at all sugary, while still being a bit sweet.
Pricewise, the Borsari and the Berdoues are the way to go, but I picked up a large bottle of VERTE VIOLETTE at the recent L'Artisan sale, and I do not regret having done so. The bottle is labeled eau de toilette, but to me this is a cologne. Of course, I feel the same way about the Borsari, which is labeled eau de parfum!
The problem may be with the ionones used to reproduce the scent of violets. Apparently, they block olfactory receptors, masking the scent to the wearer. It's possible, then, that others can smell this on me, though I do not smell anything at all after a couple of hours.
