Vjola

It's a bouquet of flowers exploding in close proximity. Most definitely extrait strength. Read very strong! It easily lasts for half the day. Don't for heaven's sake spray the blood orange coloured juice anywhere near your clothes. One quick spritz on my hand and it has surrounded me in a cloud of flowery heavenliness. The violet is strong and has to be as it's competing against the divas tuberose and jasmine. The Lily of the valley, calendula and magnolia seem to be yelling as well. It now gets a bit peppery and perhaps herbally. A bit too peppery for me to feel comfortable. It reminds me of the 1980s heavy hitters. All these flowers to my mind make this a scent leaning a touch to the feminine. It's quite linear on my skin. All the notes yelling at once! Sometimes the tuberose is in the lead and then the jasmine has another go at out doing the other flower divas. I can only really imagine this scent as a one for night wear. A night at the opera. Dressed up to the nines in your best dress and jewellery. A shoulderless, tight fitting long velvet dress plus a sexy wiggle. It's the scent of a diva. Phenomenal longevity and huge sillage in this 20 degree room.

This one is great on my wife! Tommelise (YouTube) was not wrong: a great floral for sure!!!! I think it’s mostly heavenly white flowers but not sure. Update: That white flower part (the main part that projects) is only during the top notes I learned. I tried a bit on myself. I like the smell of white flowers so I was curious to see what would happen. It opens with a unisex-able honeyish set of amazing white flowers, but then an herbal note kicks in (marigold?), and then it switches to a lilac smell (which my wife loves but reminds me of soaps, shampoos, and scented kleenaxes unfortunately), and then it dries to a light feminine vanilla. So only the opening—the heavenly white flowers part—would work for a dude but all of it is great for ladies. For my wife these are still my top favorites: Ajmal Wisal Dhahab, Ajmal Viola, and Rasasi Sharina.

All the big heavy hitting florals—tuberose, lilly of the valley, heliotrope, jasmine, rose—are on stage here, with the back up singers calendula, magnolia and honeysuckle. But the star of the show is violet, and her mic is turned up. A quality vanilla in the base, managing to hold all the competing florals together and adding much needed balance to the composition. Vjola reminds me of a florist shop during the wedding high demand season, and is really beautiful, but too heavy for warm weather. A little goes a long way. Enjoying my decant

Fresh floral opening,powerful hypnotic... violet is not powdery, but almost "fruity". I like the harmony that you can feel in this perfume, there is something mysterious but beautiful and captivating. In the drydown it is fantastic, with the vanilla sweetness that gives the initial flowers, rounding and giving a definitely sweeter aura while remaining a floral/mysterious parfum. Autumn scent. The sillage is enormous (1-2 sprays council) and longevity (12 + h) on me. Beautiful. Sillage: 10/10 Longevity: 9/10 Scent: 9/10 Overall: 9./10

Beautiful intense floral. I love the pairing of violet and tuberose. It makes for a heady, indolic and almost intoxicating scent. There is something deliciously alien about this. It is almost like the scent of futuristic flowers after a nuclear apocalypse. It's dense, sweet and almost reminiscent of 80s powerhouse florals like Poison. (Tuberose). I really get an olfactory similarity to Love in Black by Creed, which also has a significant amount of violet in its composition.