Verte Violette L Artisan Parfumeur for women

True to its description, a very pretty fresh violet, but it hardly lasts more than five minutes on my skin. Disappointing from that point of view, (and perhaps rather fraudulent).

This is a very nice green scent. It is not powdery and sweet. It blends well with your chemistry and it goes on light, not overpowering. I think Balenciaga is more sophisticated and yet it is a green violet fragrance as well.

I bought 50ml from L'Artisan website in their sale for £25 blind on the basis that I love violet and green floral scents.
It does what it says, lush, damp green and purple violet with a hint of iris. Lovely.
Spray liberally all over the body, top up as required and sit in a girly violet cloud all day!
It works for me :)

This one certainly lives up to its name. It’s green and it’s violet, opening with violet leaf and a slightly leathery-doughy violet/iris flower accord. As it dries down, it becomes lighter and almost a little aquatic. Along with the violet/iris I smell some heliotrope, something like “leaf alcohol”, a sour, slightly powdery iris, and the beginnings of a musky base. There’s a good bit of sillage, as usually is the case with violet scents.

As it progresses through the drydown, it becomes a little warmer and muskier, without losing its original character. It lasts about 4-6 hours on skin. This is a nice, green leaf and violet-orris scent, but not something that I’d be excited about wearing.

Verte Violette surprised me pleasantly! ive long been dissapointed with sugary, powdery violets that smell nothing like the beautiful flowers i enjoy every spring & sumer. i pick their cute little faces, sniff them, enjoy their color, the smell of wet earth, crushed stem & leaves... no sugar, no powder... in Verte Violette i get a beautiful burst of fresh green leaves, and true violet fragrance, and a little of that "moistness" that i associate with shady beds of violet flowers. it leaves an impression of warm, fresh air, sun & shade.. it softens and stays close to the skin, and eventually does develop a small amount of powdery aspect, but not enough to bother. really a lovely fresh, summer fragrance, although like its namesake flower it is fleeting. a truly beautiful violet fragrance. in fact, its the only one i like.

The overall effect is wet cucumber peels on a wooden cutting board. [3 out of 5 stars]

For me this is the perfect violet. I didn't even know they came like this until someone sent me some in a swap. I think I tried it because I was bored one day and ended up w/a bottle the next.

This is FRESH not dusty or perfumey, not a big powder bomb,not rose enhanced.For no reason that makes sense on paper I even find her a bit warm and inviting. Something green violet iris fragrances will never be famous for.

It surrounds me w/the perfect amount of soft, delicate,slightly green violet. It eminates w/out overtaking. It's sillage is perfect, longevity surprising for this line.

Verte Violette is a constant surprise to me. As I wear it it brings me total delight, utter peace, and I never feel like I put the wrong one on. That's a tall order for any perfume and VV does it all sublimely. I think I may actually use the whole bottle!( I'm pretty sure that's the sound of the rest of my perfume bottles laughing in the background)

L'Artisan Parfumeur VERTE VIOLETTE seems much more like POURPRE VIOLETTE to me, as this is a big beautiful very purple violet verging on a solifore. I love violets, therefore, I love this. The iris and violet leaf are really smothered by the bright violet petals, though, making this as purple as a Big White Floral is white! The opening and sillage are every bit as big as the most bodacious Big White Floral, too, but the longevity is not so good.

I've been noticing that I may have an irrational attraction to violets, so although I'm putting this on my wishlist, I'll have to do some side-by-side comparisons with Penhaligon's violet and Creed LOVE IN BLACK, among others, before adding another Big Violet Perfume to my collection. I already have JOLIE MADAME and EAU De NOHO (not to mention--though I did--sweet plast-icky INSOLENCE, which I absolutely cannot wear...). I seem to have become infected with violet-mania!!!

Violets, violets, violets... like sweet, crushed violets.

I got this sample from LuckyScent and am very impressed by it. It goes on light and simple and then just explodes with lush grassy crushed violet. It lasts for several hours on me.Many viewers here report short life and little sillage but on me both are great.

I prefer Love In Black by Creed. This one is not bad violet, but VERY short lasting power and VERY low sillage. So, for 130-140 dollars, I much prefer pass on this overpriced not too bad scent.


6,5/10

Verte Violette starts with some fresh sweet violet. Somehow it reminds me of Green Tea, only on the optimistic and fresh aspect.

Soon it gets cooler, a little bit powdery and much less sweet than the beginning. I think I can smell the leaves, really fresh (in a semi-aqua way) and green.

Within 30 minutes, Verte Violette fades to only a little trace. Like a transparent veil on you and you have to literally put you nose on the skin to smell it.

It's a pleasant scent to try on. However the disappointing thing is even eau de cologne has a much better prejection and longer lasting power after just one hour.

I find it very similiar in genre to Infusion D'Iris. very pleasant floral, sofisticated and simple, but lasting power is non-existing.

Strong floral. A bit too sophisticated for my taste.

I love the smell of violets, and this is a very authentic violet perfume. I also enjoy iris scents, but could not really smell the iris that's supposed to be in this scent. It's a pleasant, light fragrance, however it is not long-lasting for me - probably only about a half hour or 45 minutes tops. This might be a good fragrance to help relax before going to sleep though.

A long time I searched smell of violet. I tested different violet perfume: elegant, easily powder La Violetta Annick Goutal, magic, beautiful Love in Black by Creed, modern, insolent Insolence EDP. But still, there was not violets that I dream: easily wet, fresh, not too sweet , violet assorted with smell of leaf , joyful, country, forest. At last I have met Verte Violette. There is exactly violet, which I searched - wonderful, adorable, genuine, cheerful. I love it.

Verte Violette starts off with a cool tinge of violet and succulent peppery green leaves. The drydown adds a whiff of powder and has a rooty-earthy, iris-like undertone.
Think of a violet on a chilly early-spring morning waiting for the sun to warm it up with its first rays.
The violet clearly dominates the composition so if you're a violet fan, give it a try.

This is one of my favourite violet scents (the other being Keiko Mecheri's Genie des Bois) and I'm quite surprised it hasn't been reviewed yet. It is a soliflore (well, I don't pick up any of the iris), so not much is going on here, but this violet is just lovely - fresh, dewy, sparkling, green, neither too sweet, nor too "dirty" (like that of Annick Goutal), and most importantly, not powdery at all. It's a very pleasant, easy-to-wear violet, nothing more, nothing less. Works wonders in really cold weather. Could last a bit longer on the skin, though.