Venice (for women)

Mellyhelly

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 :-)

morgataria

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=)

dobi

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!

katyas

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.

Malegria

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.

Vickalena

I know only re-edition of Venice - very soft oriental scent.
I feel amber and light vanilla in the base. It reminds me Calvin Klein Obsession (for women), which I like too. Venice is a light, "decent" scent - with more charm, than obsessive erotism...

guest_Nikita

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?

Malegria

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.

Nuppu

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.

guest_PLEASE BRING BACK

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!

Nuppu

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.

Marianne

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.

Marianne

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.

guest_Maria

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