Violet Tendencies

Bitter, herbal, medicinal kind of leather. The opening is so disturbing. It's terribly vegetal and unusual. And then, I waited for half an hour or so. The raw leather melted everything into its warm embrace : the violet leaf and galbanum became softer and more rounded and the oud gave a spicy vibe to the whole scent. This is not your typical soft sueded leather, usually paired with iris. This is raw and serious, deeply manly but perfectly unisex. One of the best offering from Smell Bent in my opinion. I'll probably buy a full bottle as soon as it's on sale !

I'm not a leather kind of girl...per say...but I'm finding I love clean "new leather" scents. I adore Violet Tendencies. The clean leather is beautiful, rather neutral. I find maybe a trace of the violet, but it's oh so slight.

Lately, I have grown unaccustomedly fond of violets as a note, so of course my first Smell Bent interest was in Violet Tendencies, and woo baby!, what a violet! There is nothing shrinking about this purple leather clad whipmistress, wafting a little oud and a dry bit of cedar behind a HUGE leather and violet cloud. I am not personally fond of wearing scents that are too dry or somehow "masculine", but this is neither dry nor masculine on me, even though my skin gobbles most sweet notes. It dries down to a smoky violet leather that is honestly very sexy and very feminine, in a naughty kind of way. I do Wish Violet Tendencies had a longer duration - after 2-3 hours it seems to fade away into one of those "skin scents" that don't rock my particular fragrant boat, since I love big sillage and long lasting perfumes. But it is still very much bigger bottle worthy. An 8/10 for the scent, alas, a 3.5/10 for lasting power As an aside, there are some definite similarities between Violet Tendencies and my much cherished violetesque/leathery Putain des Palaces by Etat Libre D'Orange. However, Putain des Palaces is a far more ladylike version of this beastly little dominatrix, with a lot more flowers and a lot less leathery raunch.

This smells like brand new leather goods at a leather goods store.

I had very high hopes for this particular scent, as I am something of a violet freak. It's the one floral that is forever my go-to. Usually, I prefer a softer, more muted version - similar to those powdery pastille candies my grandmother snuck me as a child. But, I wanted to venture out, try a BOLD violet, see if we could still be pals... Violet Tendencies (adorable name, btw!) is just that, an assaulting, saturated purple of a scent. That alone isn't off-putting. What I think my particular chemistry reacted unfavorably to was the leather. Now, I actually find leather, suede, & earthier notes quite sexy, but this + me = plasticine, even pleather. It's a BURLY scent - almost unisex. While I do admire that, and feel there has a definite demographic that will appreciate it, I, sadly, will not be in their midst... :(