So Elixir Purple Eau de Parfum

This is so good. I like it a lot better than most popular sweet patchoulis out there. This is an interesting one because its description of balsamic, spicy, aromatic etc made me think I ́d be a demanding and heavy scent. Not so! The intense bergamot in the opening certainly makes for bright and almost clean patchouli dominated scent and the tuberose in it is, to me at least, not milky in the least, but flirty and happy and sunny. Lots of woody vetiver makes it almost green and yet it comes together in the sweet softness of benzoin. I really cannot smell vanilla or tonka, but I am sure they add to the balsamic aspect of this quite multifaceted fragrance. The first time I wore it I got a compliment from a stranger in a store - a woman - who said I smelled amazingly fresh! It ́s true, it does and that IS slightly strange considering the opulent notes. I mean, we ́re not talking fresh like some Calvin Klein summer smell, but still more fresh than cloying this definitely is. Fresh AND serene - great smelling perfume that manages to be expertly blended. There is also something quite fruity, limey maybe, about it. Or it could be merely the intensity of the bergamot. Is a very lovely scent and I will probably get it once I am out of my first small bottle. Oh, and by the way, I would LOVE if more fragrances with tuberose were using tuberose like this! Even though I enjoy the milky and true-to-its-name tuberoses out there, this is much more fun!

So Elixer Purple Eau De Parfum by Yves Rocher is a beautiful femme perfume that starts out candy sweet, quickly turns into a fresh floral bouquet, and ends with a sexy/salty note. It has a modern Chanel vibe to the scent. I don't smell any patchouli, if its there, its well hidden, I certainly don't smell any grape. Whenever there is a purple packaging people tend to make themselves think about grape. Really how many fragrances use GRAPE as a scent? As far as I know I don't even see any GRAPE BODY SPRAY on the mass market. I notices one reviewer on here say it reminds them of Dior hypnotic poison. That is criminally insane! SO to that I say are you crazy? Dior Hypnotic poison is a INE YOUR FACE PUNCH of black licorice candy or root beer, as a matter of opinion, with a hint of vanilla bourbon and playdoh. None of those scents are in So Elixer Purple. Just because the ad campaigns use similar color schemes (dark purple/Dark Burgundy) does not mean the fragrance is similar at all. I think most reviewers are better off NOT READING THE NOTES prior to reviewing. So many reviewers are talking themselves into what they logically think a perfume should smell like and their reviews end up wildly inaccurate. I have heard that Hypnotic Poison has recently been "reformulated", so if the new reformulation does in fact smell similar to So Elixer Purple then I retract my above statement.

What a fitting name! This definitely is "elixir" to me. Blindbuy which I fell in love with instantly. I bought So Elixir EDT a couple of years ago, but wore it only once or twice - didn't really suit me. This one has all the good features of So Elixir, but is definitely more exciting and diverse. I'm often skeptical when perfume lists tuberose as one of the notes - it's seems like 9 out of 10 times tuberose is wayyyy too powerful and dominant, leaving no space for other notes. Luckily that's not the case here. In So Elixir Purple the tuberose note is absolutely beautiful! Honey and milky, addictive... Yes, SEP's very sweet, so sweet in fact it reminds me a bit of Midnight Heat (Beyoncé) and Midnight Fantasy (Britney), but fortunately tonka bean makes this much more pleasant and mature fragrance to wear. Patchouli, vanilla, incense and woodsy notes also work together beautifully. Be careful with the application! So Elixir Purple comes with a strong sillage. Longevity's great too: stays on my skin up to 12 hours. I'm so glad I didn't give up on this just because the original So Elixir (or the EDT) didn't really have that _magic_ in it. Absolutely stunning fragrance from Yves Rocher. Looking for a mysterious, purple night? This is it, bottled.

Very nice! It's strange; when I first sprayed it, I really got that menthol/muscle rub scent, but then it dried down to a floral-patchouli smell. Upon reapplication about an hour later, I get that fruity zing at the very beginning, what people are calling grape-y but I imagine is really the bergamot, then a lot of vetiver. The vetiver is probably what was registering to me at first as muscle rub. I don't really smell tuberose, interestingly enough, or it's blended in such a way that it doesn't stand out. I got this in a swap, and I had been hoping it would fall along the lines of very edgy, niche-like French fragrances that are outside of my usual fruity-floral-gourmand boundaries. It's as I hoped! This will be one of my "don't mess with me" perfumes. Edited to add: this fragrance has become a great love of mine, and I now have a backup bottle and the lotion thanks to a most generous Fragrantican!

Trying this the first time I thought it was quite sharp in the beginning, almost lavendery. Then it turned into something unrelated. Grapes and grapefruits.. I just didn't get it. Luckily I always give my perfumes several chances because sometimes you grow into them or they just need to rest on the shelf for a bit after buying. So I started wearing this every once in a while. With each time it grew on me more.. and now I'm completely obsessed and absolutely love it! It's sparkly, almost a bit fizzy.. But it has depth that I failed to notice the first time. Love the patchouli & incense, giving dark and mysterious vibes. Perfect blend of sweet and dark! A few friends have fallen in love with this after smelling it on me. Have had loads of compliments. Husband loves it, too. Very unique. Took me a while to understand but it has become one of my all time favourite perfumes!