Abîme

True blonde woods. Sandalwood is masterfully blended with the Palo Santo and Cedar here to give a perfect wooded serenity on the drydown. I feel like I am at a women's yoga retreat, outside at a newly built wooden pergola in the dense woods. The air is still, and it's a perfect sparkling spring day - some geosmin in the air. Incense is lit to heighten the experience, and the subtle ashiness reminds us that the fleeting nature of life is what makes it so precious. ... I love this. It feels like it fits that same part of me that adores the Hinoki toiletries from Le Labo. A top contender for a full bottle for me at the moment.

This is a great release. I have to say, I live in the US and the brand's website makes ordering a single sample incredibly easy and not too expensive to order from France. I love this fragrance, the woodiness is moderately sweetened, calming with a creamy/somewhat milky dry down. I don't think it leans too much into the sandalwood "urine cake" territory like in Santal 33 (thank goodness, not my jam). I don't think it's in the same vein as that anyway. I work from home, so I love a "good mood" fragrance like this one. Maison Violet is one of my favorite French brands and I'm definitely picking up a bottle.

Deep smoky + aromatic woody blend....quite beguiling. Draws you in. Warm layers of different woods with pepper - not fully dry but not damp either. Stays intriguing. Really love the almost minty touches brought by the palo santo. Meditative + comforting, yet distinctive and bright at times. The drydown is stunning. Decent sillage. Quite beautiful! FB beckoning...

I think this is the best fragrance of the house. It’s woody and warm and envelopes you with the dearest embrace of palo santo and sandalwood I’ve experienced in quite a while. Not at all posh, or ‘French’ or aggressive, but slightly sweet and down to earth and full of life. Love it!

My favourite everyday wear. It’s a linear cedar and incense but just so smooth. Sweet heat from the chili and that almost aromatic palo santo smoke on this skin. Yes there are plenty like this, but there’s none that do it like this.

Waxy cedar, smoky palo santo, warm spice. A really beautiful blend.

Love it spiritual and super fresh woody reminds me santal 33

A very woody aromatic expression. I LOVE IT

Bright pepper opening dries down to resiny dry sandalwood. My first thought was CDG Wonderwood, but here there is no citrus, and the woody dry down is smoother, warmer, and more well rounded. Through the heart of this it increases in warm woodiness, the pepper grinds finer and drier, and the resinous sweetness comes through. I like this a lot, it's a beautiful woodsy sandalwood with a bit of pepper kick. However, it's a little forgettable for me, and I don't think I need a full bottle.

The wooded notes of this fragrance are very enjoyable. The opening with spices is quite interesting and pleasant. Extraits’ performance never disappoint. However, I can’t tell which elements of the dry down is doing something weird but the base notes combination come to destroy this beautiful experience. Something that I can’t describe other than stinky??? I was toying with the idea to get this bottle but the base notes calmed me down.

Opens with black pepper and palo santo. It dries down quickly to creamy sandalwood and mild cedar. I don't get any incense, unfortunately. Pleasant and cosy, but definitely lakes in complexity, which doesn't justify the price tag for me personally. Plus, it doesn't have much personality, it smells spa-like or candle-like in some way. Performance in both longevity and projection are so-so on me; a bit better on clothes.

A nice tasteful woody scent with some pepper, leans a little heavier on the sandalwood/cedar than the palo santo for me. Very unisex, light, sweet but not too sweet. Nothing too exciting but certainly not bad, inoffensive and work appropriate along the same lines as Gris Charnel.

I really love this. I get a slight soapy waxy smell like bay berries on the bush, and the rest is all beautiful mild woody incense and a bit of the black pepper. Somehow smells exactly like my mom’s best friend’s truck that we went on camping trips in when i was a kid.

If you're into woody fragrances, this will probably this will be your thing. It's nice but I'm surprised according to this website that it's unisex. It might say on the about section of Maison Violet but as a young women, I feel this is strictly a man's perfume

I don’t know how this is as a scent because my dumb ass fell asleep with the tester and dumped it out on to my bed. Bad idea to try testers in bed.

This is the only Maison Violet that is not for me. I can appreciate the artistry of Abime, the sandalwood/incense/palo santo smell really smooth and beautiful with that kick of black pepper. It's not anything I've never smelled before, but it is a very smooth sandalwood/palo santo perfume. The cedar is what kills this for me. I smell like a No. 2 pencil right now. Maybe a woody fragrance lover would enjoy that, but although the pencil shaving smell is bringing back many memories, I don't want to smell like this. I feel like a pencil box, which is not sexy.

Great new launch from the brand. It does well at making the santal 33 DNA a bit more interesting. Definitely smells like there is patchouli in here. Feels kinda like the Palo Santo/Sandalwood is laying on a bed of soft patchouli... maybe its because of how some of the notes play with each other. If you are into that type of a fragrance, then this is a Solid choice

The sweet/smoky notes from the Palo Santo and Cedar were the most noticeable on my skin. I'm a fan of sandalwood, but it get's overwhelmed in this perfume by the other wood notes, and I'm missing the pepper notes entirely. It's a perfectly fine, unisex, woody perfume but the notes that would give it more depth and complexity are absent.

I hoped this would be a great incense frag. I get cumin (which I dislike) in the top notes, and then it's all Palo Santo on me. C'est la vie...

Sawdust. Pencil shavings. It starts out woody. Palo santo and cedar. Tiny bit of pepper. Resin. Incense in dry down.