Venice Yves Rocher for women

I had a huge bottle of it ,but I found it very masculine :(
sorry...

Malia, Diana Rigg is indeed so beautiful!!
Thank you so much for your compliments!!

Congratulations, dear Action. New signature, new avatar ;-) They are both beautiful!

Last week I decided Venice to be my new signature.
Although I ADORE Extreme girl, when I was wearing Venice last week, I Knew, this is me..

Lovely, gorgeous, heavenly, sultry, rich, wunderbar.

Amazing review Malia! I feel exactly THE same way!

Oh Venice.. Where should I start to describe HOW beautiful you are?! You are my the most cherished and loved treasure. What am i gonna do when your divine elixir will be finished? No, every drop of your juice is too valuable to me. I enjoy opening your gorgeous bottle and putting you on my skin, no spraying, just applying like in the old days.. taking your royal dark red bottle and looking through it at the light, ruby light. Mysterious, magical, sensual, passional.. It's you and your undescribable fragrance. With you i feel like Venus in Venice. Stay with me forever..

Not my cup of tea, but if you love jasmine and heavy vanilla oriental perfumes, this could be your thing. It highly reminds of something i smelled before. I believe its similar to dior addict...

I received a small bottle of this from nanano. Thanks! When I first tried it, I did not like it. I was expecting something like Samsara, but this was different. I suppose it was the bergamot that gave it a sharp edge. But after it dried down, I was sold. Deep and lovely. Lots of vanilla and sandalwood on me. I think it's best suited for cold weather or nights. Glad it's in my collection now :)

I was given a sample of this and i find it wonderful.It is dark and mysterious .I wish i could find a bottle of this old version.

How I loved this fragrance. It belonged to a friend of mine in college back in the 80's. I put it on at for our night in the town. Next day I had to see my (very cute) dentist, who compemented me on my frangrance. If I could only find a bottle of this precious stuff.... Actually I like a lot of the Yves Rocher fragances, especially if you consider the price. Another one of my favorites is the more recent So elixer, one of my favourites. Great lasting power too, just like Venice.

To previous. Try Must de Cartier or Hypnotic Poison by Dior. Maybe even Python by Trussardi or Obsession for men. These are quite same type of fragrances as Venice.

I liked Venice so much. Please help me to find the resembling aromat. I tried Obsession Calvin Klein but it is not the same.

Hi Jedi!
GREAT review!! I was wondering about the staying power you mentioned. One of the main characteristics of this house is the staying power, at least of their vintages (like Venice and Ispahan etc.), the Secret D'essences and the new So Elixir. Did you ever try those perfumes? I would rate them the best out there in terms of sillage and staying power.
Good luck!
Action

Very pretty, very feminine - velvety, romantic, mysterious. Not for the girly-girl, but rather for the "lady" in you.
Strong-smelling... unfortunately, too strong for me.

The elegant, dark red bottle always made me think of a formal, black tie night at the opera...

I'd say this fragrance is better suited for a night out. Too strong for the office or even a day use, unless you proceed with extreme caution.
Lasting power better than most YR scents.

I Finally have the vintage bodylotion..........ahhhh....heaven...

I used to own the body lotion of this perfume as well, back in the 90's. I was wanting to have that again, but nobody is selling the lotion. So I read in one of my perfume books that if you mix the perfume with perfume free lotion, you can make that yourself! So yesterday I tried that and it worked GREAT!!! Of course I miss the joy of the original bottle and using the original lotion, but this 'home made' lotion does the trick as an add on to the perfume.

So I will be doing this home made lotion maiking with the vintage Orchidee as well. Should you ever ever find that lotion, MY GOD buy it!! It is heaven on earth as well!
Action

Dear guest_Ms.Pink do you honestly have some bottles in stock?lets make my mom happy,because she crazy for that perfume.Please let me kmow how can i get it:)

I always wore this perfume back in the 80's & totally adored it.

I was a huge fan of Yves Rocher perfumes before anyone else had even heard of YR.

This was the fragrance that began my love affair with vanilla based perfumes & heady orientals.

Its sensual & warm & probably the only perfume i can still smell in my mind, id love to be able to get hold of this again.

Oooo! When I ordered my mini bottle based on notes I did not see that this is from 1986! Well, I am going to ignore that, because I liked how it smelled before I saw that it's from 1986! I love all things 80's especially underground music from the era so, meh!It smells beautiful to me..kind of reminds me of Rochas Alchimie, but not a whole lot. I am happy to have a mini bottle of this!

my mother used to wear!thats why i love it! ( but not on me, or another somebody under at least 35;) )

I ordered the re-edition bottle, it was on a special offer, so I bought two. The best part of this scent is its vanillaish drydown...yummie!
I am so glad to discover that the scent is still the same! Wish it came as a spray, nevertheless....
I am happy to posess it again!!!

too strong and heady for me ,oldfashioned in a bad way ,not with charm ,but just outdated.

I have to agree with allexa 27 on this, this has a very 'old' feel to it, like its a perfume that would have been great in the late 80's for example. Alex I dont think you got a bad bottle i think that's just how it smells. It reminds me a bit of Obsession and a bit of Guerlain's Shalimar which Im also not a fan of. Its rich and heavy, i must say all the notes are really well blended, you don't pick out each note separately but its like a creamy sandal-vanilla-musk with subtle hints of jasmine and rose. It is nice but not really what i want to wear considering there are so many amazing perfumes out there these days.

i dont know where is the problem?Maybe my bottle was not right and out dated or maybe this is too oldish kinda smell..I didnt like it at all.I smell lots of aldehydes in it...

Venice by Yves Rocher is one of the most beautiful, sensual oriental fragrance ever made.
I am fragrance-junkie and I know hundreds of scents, but I wear Venice since over 20 years now. VENICE "knows" all my secrets, my happiness, my sadness, my good and bad days. VENICE is me. It's a little similar to Obsession, but softer, more creamy, vanillic, and feminine. It's a unique oriental and I like the cinnamon in that warm fragrance.
I have some old bottles in stock :))

One of my first perfumes. Now I found its brother: Midnight Rain, La Prairie. Incredibly good! Looks elder, deeper, much experienced, rich, expensive.

Now I need to know why companies decide to discontinue fragrances... on which basis? Venice, Ispahan, and Vie Privée were very nice fragrances from YR. Well, also cheaper than my usual tastes, but Venice was different. I still have a very old miniature of this together with a miniature of 8eme Jour (who remembers?) and wouldn't like to give away. I think I smelled some galbanum in Venice, even if I didn't know what galbanum is back in time. Actually no galbanum is shown in the list.
I don't easily get single notes in Venice, rather an overall perception of warmth, opulence, red velvet curtains, gold, sunset. I think the old ad conjured up this imagery for me. It was extremely elegant, feminine and rich.
It reminds me of beloved Samsara, even if they don't bear so many similarities. Venice smells much much cheaper than Samsara, especially the one I knew at that age!
If I could find a bottle of Venice for good price in the original beautiful dark red design i would probably buy it.
Unfortunately Yves Rocher is doing a mess. I could reach a shop by car. They closed it. I just made it in time to buy Tendre Jasmin and Rose Absolue at 40% discount :-)

My first perfume ever.I was around 7-8 years old and it´s was a creme-pefume in a beautiful small bottle(I still got it).I will never forget this one.So amazing!Thanks to this one I early discovered oriental,sweet and spicy perfumes.I allways prefer that kind of scents and I´m sure it`s because of my first perfume-love:Venice=)

This was my first perfume and it was a love at the firs sniff. With it on me I felt special and got many, many compliments.This is my favorite perfume ever.I miss you Venice so much!

I love Venice - I never realized what a lovely scent it was until too late, when they discontinued it here in the U.S. Now they have apparently re-issued it (and another favorite of mine, Ispahan), but ONLY in the European street stores. This is good on one hand - maybe eventually they'll come back to the U.S.? - and bad on the other - why don't we in the U.S. get the good stuff??? Venice is sexy, sweet, spicy and oh so nice! I'm going to be watching eBay and hope to get some more at some point, since I have only a mini size, which I've been parceling out carefully.

I was told by a company manager that they don`t plan to relaunch Venice in USA. I was pretty disappointed, so I went on Ebay and got a bottle, a mini one. I don`t know if it`s because the perfume is old - seller claimed it was pure perfume, but it is EDP for sure - but it smells more light then before, and less distinct.Oh well. I still like it.

Hi, I miss Venice too. I keep the last flacon for special moments. There's isn't any parfume which can compete with you. When do you come back in the Yves Rocher parfume line?

Venice, I miss you.You simply have to come back to me. I was looking for you in so many other fragrances and always find them just not quite satisfying enough. You gave me, a 10 year old girl, a strong belief in my future feminine charms...Like a thief, I sneaked to my Mother`s make up table, to hold you in my arms and inhale your beauty, wishing I deserved you, wishing I was the woman you were made for - gorgeous, tall, dark haired and heavy-lided, living in the 16th century and wearing a long deep red velvet dress with golden embroidery.I never became this lady, being rather washed out and never magnificient, but the confidence stayed with me as long as I remembered the smell of it - Venice.

Ok, it has been almost twenty years since i last time have this, and new re-edition was nice suprise. Does it smell same that I remember? Do I still like it, have my nose and taste chances to different types since teenage?...

Well, Venice is still lovely, it's funny how familiar fragrance bring back those carefree days of school and boys...Venice is slightly powdery and dry vanilla with musk, comfortable and easy to wear, warm and sensual, like dark red velvet. Excellent for colder days.

Re-edition do have new, stylish bottle that is difficult to open, even with instructions on packace. I would have prefered old red one, but I'm happy to even get this one again, no matter of case.

I LOVED Venice Perfume, and shopped faithfully when you carried it. I always ended up buying other stuff too..but nothing compared to Venice..I no longer shop with you, and MAYBE you will consider getting Venice back, and then you'll recieve new orders from me again.
It was a REAL LOSS!

Like Marianne wrote, there is new re-edition on this, Ispahan and Vie Privee (I just got the YR letter offering first two) and i'm now stuggling with myself if I do order or don't, and which one? Hard life :)...

p.s. Who am I kidding? I ordered Venice.

I love it

In Europe, the fragrance has been discontinued, as well, but one year ago, a re-edition of it has been introduced. I'm sure about that because I tested it here in Austria.

Actually, there IS a new edition of this fragrance. The bottle looks like the ones of Vie Privée and En avril un soir which are also new editions of old Yves Rocher fragrances.

This was so good then!

This perfume calls my soul day and night. It is a fragrance of my memories, my youth and my present. Made for me.
I remember of getting this perfume for a Christmas present many years ago. And now, after a quite some time, I again find this warm and fantasizing fragrance excellent for my all use.
If given a permission I could rename this perfume as Renaissance.
It really brings me colours and essences of that manifique epoque!

I have found my fragrance, again. Venice gives me something that words can't really tell. There is something of my childhood, something blue, and something bright, delicious that has no name
yet.

Who has created this perfume? They must have bee there, in Venice, and seen it's nightly views of purple and gold, and felt the mist of never-ending epoque.

I warmly recommend this unforgettable fragrance and i thank it's wonderful creators.

Summary: A fragrance of remembrance and now