Vanille Violette Laurence Dumont for women

Immediately upon smelling this I thought... nostalgic...but what? Baby powder! But done in a very grownup way. Opening is similar to Tokyo Milk's Honey and the Moon except with more fresh violets and vanilla replaces the sticky honey. As it dries down it turns into talcum powder, still with violets in the forefront. Compared to other reviews it only yields slight sweetness that keeps apart from being as gourmand for me. Wearing this I imagine myself as a flapper dusting myself with french powder before a night on the town. Very simple but with a vintage feel. I'll use this for spring days when I want to smell light and fresh but I'd rather turn to Honey and the Moon for the edible violets. I've also been enjoying Balenciaga Paris's wet/earthy chypre take on the flora.

well, once again, i seem to be the odd one out here.
vanilla? check
powder? check
sweet? comforting? ultra fem with a dash of school girl? CHECK
but where are the violets???
in all honesty, this is a gourmand/marshallow/powder sweet FEMALE vanilla....
and thats it no violet for me : (

A really nice violet scent..But violet should be listed in the perfume pyramid since this is a violet fragrance.

Really beautiful and what I was looking for in Angel Violet, but the latter was overly sweet. There are a lot of similarities to Kenzo Flower and LD's Vanille Violette, especially on the dry down. I would say this is a really safe choice if you are looking for a softer, powdery floral.

VANILLE VIOLETTE is another very appealing fragrance from the Senteurs Gourmandes line in which vanilla appears but does not steal the show from the star, in this composition, violets.

I have tried a number of violet-rich frags in recent months, and many of them seemed more like plastic violets than fresh ones. VANILLE VIOLETTE, in contrast, does not have that plasticky quality at all. The violets here are noteworthy, not pushy, as I have sometimes found.

There is not a lot of development to this fragrance, but it is a pleasing synthesis: violet and rose petals sprinkled with a touch of vanilla sugar and sustained by benzoin. I've eaten rose petals before, and this composition makes me wonder whether violets might be edible too! In any case, I'm adding VANILLE VIOLETTE to my wish list.