Love in Idleness

Love in Idleness was very faint when the bottle was freshly opened, two years ago. As time passed, it became stronger and stronger. Despite being an EdT, it equally performs as an EdP does. Love in Idleness is in its sharpest phase in the opening. I get a faint acetone smell, but this is not disturbing, helps to create an atmosphere like a woman had just done make-up and polished her nails. The acetone like smell disappeares in few minutes. This accord was more obvious when my bottle was fresher, it must have lost its sharpness as time passed. The rest of the perfume's life doesn't evolve too much, it's rather a linear development. I can call Love in Idleness a bright powder (it may sound contradictionary but that's excatly what it feels to me), young, pink and dusty. This dustiness lasts from first spritz to the end. It reminds me of a pink colored blush powder that my mother had in 1980's. I can't call this a lipstick scent, because I don't feel any creaminess or waxiness that lipsticks have. It absoulutely feels young despite being dusty. I think berries give this feeling. It's delicately sweet, there's nothing sugary or vanillic. As far as I remember, Love in Idleness may slightly resemble Insolence EdT. Insolence EdT was sharper and white musk was overwhelming for me. It was cleaner and more complex than Love in Idleness. Insolence EdT is clean and fresh powder, Insolence EdP is more floral and creamy, Love in Idleness is bright and dusty powdery. I almost feel the powder grains when I inhale it. Actually I wonder if there's real powder inside, because I had noticed some white stain on the sprayer and cap, at first I thougt that alcohol had dissoved the lacquer on the cap, but when I washed the bottle, all the white stain had been washed out and the cap shone again. Interesting.

Love in idleness is a romantic feminine violet centred perfume. It's quite wonderful and aromatic yet has a slight acetone or nailpolishremover note ,,,. It's lighter and fresher than lipstick rose , another one of my favourite violet perfumes. Love in idleness starts of with a raspberry violet candy note that may quickly remind you of French kiss by guerlain or lipstick on by Mason Martin Margiela, however soon it takes its own turn and is likely the most aromatic , fresh , and romantic feminine fragrance you could own. Starts candied raspberry violets soon goes into a heliotrope vanillaish smell but not too sweet as the irs keeps it powdery and cool then it goes into a slight mossy patchouli base which gives it that classy feminine vibe right to its end. In my opinion this fragrance is a must have for women that are romantic at heart , it's utterly feminine at heart , for women that love make up and love falling in love. Love in idleness is all about being a woman . The fragrance is basically like a magical love story ! If one could capture the smell of LOVE , this would be it. Likely nicer in summer for most but to me this works as an all year round fragrance. It's like a fresh bath product. Violets candies and soap, breathtaking ! It never gets deep or changes that much , it's stayes fresh to the end but less fruity in the middle and end. Complete winner. I hope this will never be discontinued.

Yes. This smells like cosmetic powder or lipstick. Actually, it smells like dressing/makeup room in theatre. I find this smell really close to me, because I work in theatre. It reminds me of all these moments before the show, when you sit there, people are doing your makeup and you are either nervously repeating your text, or you are trying to concentrate because you are so tired you don't know if you can go there and stand on stage, or thinking how you are weirdly calm today and if this is okay, or you are just chatting with your makeup artist, crying of laughter with other actors, gossiping or singing our favourite song.. It is a safe place somewhere in between the real life and life on stage. This perfume smells like it and it breaks my heart a little bit. For someone who does not have this kind of association with carmine scent, I believe it may be boring or even not making any sense. But for me, it makes a lot of sense.

SO AMAZING - Love has truly been good to me~ Not even one sad day~ Or minute have I had since you've come my way. This fragrance reminds me of the initial stages of love. It is like Atkinsons took Guerlain Insolence and said - how can we make this better? smoother? Lighter but a more fulfilling fragrance - BOOM! Love in Idleness. I agree with Supersaiyan below, this is - "sugared almonds".

I agree 100% with @anamandy review. This is very similar to Insolence edt in the spaceship bottle. Very pretty. I own Insolence in the edp which is heavier than this or Insolence edt but if you find both of those to heavy this is a good alternative.