April Violets Yardley for women

sooo,is not discontinued at all,just buy yestarday!no strong but powdery and delicate,very classic and modern at the same time.is a warm perfume,sensual not for teen,very complex...im jsut in love with it...forget acqua di parma...
update:the lasting power is poor :( about 3 hours,but again,sooooooooooooooooo gooooddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now i know this is discontinued , i must go out and buy the cpl of bottles ive seen tucked away in a chemists shop ! I love this scent , really gutted it's gone :(

I see someone mentioned Sea Jade , ive never smelt that one , but have noticed it causes a stir on Ebay

I adore Violet scents.

Bring it back Yardley , and PURPLE juice not the clear reformualtion!!!

I find it kind of strong at the beginning. once it airs out 20 minutes later it smells like violets! Not sure which floral component counteracts with violet scent, but it could have been taken out.

Love this, love this madly, and of course they stopped making it. I will take the sharp, wistful, springtime purple scent of a violet any day, over the cheap rotten fruit atrocities I find at every turn. I've treasured a big bottle of this until it finally 'turned' and got an odd melon smell, so I suppose now I'm in fashion, lol. It's hard to find a violet scent, and now it's harder. Is it true Violetta de Parma uses actual violets? Because I read all violet scent is sythetic, being that extracting scent from the plant is problematic.

Although I tend to find soliflores one dimensional, this is pleasant. I love violets, so I wouldn't mind having something economical to spray generously! Why not?
(and mind you: it's April now- 15/04/11)

Edit: to my nose, there is a "melon" top note, which I do not really like... the drydown is better, more violets and vanilla, but I will not repurchase.

Um, could Yardley please re-launch "Sea Jade?" But please DO NOT re-orchestrate it, PLEASE!!!

Ive just managed to get two bottles of this from a perfectly beautiful lady in London, after it was Dcd I was gutted, and was so pleased that Yardley decided to re promote it last September as part of their Winter Collection! I would add a word of warning though to those seeking it out - it appears to have been reformulated. The new notes are as follows ~

Top - violet leaf, lemon, Lime, geranium
Heart ~ Parma Violet, Jasmin, Iris, Ylang Ylang, Tuberose, Rose
Base ~ Vanilla, Powdery accords, Benzoin

The heart smells just like it used to, perhaps not as crisp or green, the subtraction of the LOTV was a loss IMHO, and the top notes are evidently different... I knew the second I sprayed it even before I looked for the new composition of notes that it had been altered - thats *why* I went looking...LOL! The citrus notes in the top are not at all attractive and this new composition (at least in the top notes) smells a *LOT* like Penhaligons Violetta, which I also have - in fact those first few minutes of opening are almost identical to PV. The top doesn't last long thankfully and it settles into a beautiful violet accord much the same as the original - and thats the real deal here... the parma violet heart is really something to be admired. There is a slight Rose overture to the heart that enters fairly late that I wish fervently wasn't there, it certainly wasn't in the original formulation to my recollection. The base is totally unobtrusive... Im an oriental vanilla loving girl, and you wouldn't know vanilla or the benzoin was in this.

I know this is trivial, but the juice is also not purple anymore...LOL... its clear now = I rather liked the look of the deep purple perfume sitting on my dresser :(

There are a lot of people I know who wouldn't look twice at a low end Yardley fragrance, but this one is really special... its really got a lot more worth than its baby price tag. If you are a floral lover and like me you have a sweet spot for violets, then this is well worth looking at - even with the reformulation. I will admit that the original was far better, but I still love this, even with the new semblance to PV. Id say if you arent looking to drop the $ for Penhaligons, then this would be the perfect alternative! Ive had most of the commercially available violet frags on the market and while I still prefer Berdoues Violettes De Toulouse, as far as true violet fragrances go, and while I would no longer class this is a soliflore like its original, this still one happens to be one of the best.

I get sharp, clear, penetrating, refreshing, cossetting, true, violent violet. I have not been without a bottle of this for 40 years (not the same bottle). I spray on my pillow or pj's before bed. Borsari's Violetta de Parma is great too, but softer, more powdery. Yardley's April Violets is far superior to what its very modest price suggests.

I just bought some from cheapsmells.com, £10.50 inc. p&p. lovely

this smells kind of old and funky from the bottle but once it makes contact with my skin...just heavenly! This is the violet scent I have been looking for! Pure, sweet, violets with hints of other notes but the main star of the show[as it should be] is the beautifully scented violet. Gorgeous! I am so happy to have gotten my hands on this rare Yardley fragrance.

I love AVs I wear it to bed everynight and I fell so clean and feminine it is sweet and powdery but refined too a true violet and one of the only ones I would think I can smell nothing but violet no other notes. I get so sick of rose this is a bit different it takes me back to 1900 an era I would have liked to live in, they used violets in perfume a lot then, sometimes I layer this with a franapanni perfume I have for fresh daytime summer use. AP is hard to get now and I found a big bottle in a small country town I was so pleased love it a true classic Grandma or not who cares.

Have used April Violets for years. Really sorry to see it taken off shelves around the world. It is one of Yardley's nicest and enduring perfumes.

Surprisingly pleasant scent - very feminine, not too "old ladyish", unlike many Yardley perfumes.

I can sense the vanilla note in this one, and it makes this fragrance more impressive than any other "violet scent" that i smelled until now :) Its fresh, floral, cute... comfortable. Im really like the color of the liquid... and the sensation of a dewed violet near to me. Its also feminine and relaxing
For me, its very suitable to be in comfort reading a book... or to be in comfort with few friends at the house :)