L'eau de l'impératrice Sissi

This is one very pretty and demure perfume. It smells like a fantastic mix of plastic dolls hair, lipstick and powder from a compact, and violet pastilles. There is a strong, bright bergamot note in the top, almost too tangy for me. Somewhere in the base lurks some type of gauzy, sheer lactone. At one point it smells faintly coconutty. It took several wears for me to notice anything creamy at all. I can smell the "vanilla", but it's not very strong and seems more like some other kind of creamy note. It feels like this type of violet perfume has been done many times before, but this is one of the nicest ones of its kind. I recently smelled just the nozzle of a vintage bottle of Royal Bain de Caron, and it smells identical to this perfume. Can't vouch for them being the same thing, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

Fresh bergamot scents is sparkling in the opening, then became a soft, velvet floral bouquet. The powdery vanilla is great, quite fluffy. A nice cream cake. I generally can't handle the iris or violet notes, but I will put this into my list.

What a lovely perfume! A playful, happy, light scent which fills the entire room. Initially it's a sparkling violet, then it turns into a more creamy floral.

This was especially pleasant, if not a bit simple. A huge dose of violet and iris up front, a bit of citrus and vanilla in the back end, and not much else going on, truth be told... I really can't fault it, if I'm being 100% honest here, however I do feel like it just doesn't do anywhere near enough. It might be just what you're looking for, but for me it just wasn't daring enough, not anywhere near enough base -- it didn't need to be funky, it just needed something meaty to prop it up. Nonetheless, I did enjoy it, it's just not for me...

Very powdery and heavy on the iris. Nice and well blended but not for me.