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Violet Powder with Green Edge
I perceive “Etherea” as a classic violet scent that, while it doesn’t offer a grand spectacle, is a very solid, pleasant, and unexciting companion throughout the day.
In the opening, I detect a delicate gardenia leaf dusted with the finest violet powder. Creamy, dry sandalwood is also noticeable from the very beginning.
As it develops, “Etherea” remains primarily a powdery and very soft violet scent on my skin.
It doesn’t offer much excitement, but I like it because it is truly charming, depicting a lovely light violet flower, and it also has a pleasantly moderate, embracing warmth and a very quiet sweetness, in contrast to the overpoweringly sugary sweetness I have encountered in many other violet fragrances.
What tempers the sweetness is a slightly perceptible gardenia, which not only adds a white, gentle floral quality but also provides a delicate green outline to the violet. It could be that the lily of the valley contributes a bit of green. I can’t distinctly smell the scent of the lily of the valley. In the heart, I additionally discover a slightly “dirty,” that is, slightly indolic note in the background, which likely comes from lightly dosed jasmine, but fortunately fades away soon after.
After about 2 hours, “Etherea” has settled; there are no more changes. What I wear in the following hours is a bright, very soft (mimosa), slightly powdery and dry-sandalwood violet scent with minimal hints of gardenia, which brightens and refreshes the quiet fragrance a bit.
The clove eludes me. And I also don’t notice any vanilla until the end. Perhaps it is hidden in the light powdery layer surrounding the violet. However, I do not perceive it as a vanilla scent.
Of the base notes, I only distinctly notice the sandalwood, which forms the foundation on which the violet grows from beginning to end, gently enhanced by a fresh hint of pepper that provides just enough energy to keep this fragrance from falling asleep despite its calm, deeply relaxed powderiness.
On me, “Etherea” is almost exclusively violet and a bit of gardenia on a sandalwood base.
The fragrance never becomes too violet-sweet or too girlish for me. It doesn’t come across as if it were made for young girls. It is a very calm, somewhat old-fashioned powdery (in a positively old-fashioned sense) violet scent that sometimes almost seems sober due to the woody base.
In the opening, I detect a delicate gardenia leaf dusted with the finest violet powder. Creamy, dry sandalwood is also noticeable from the very beginning.
As it develops, “Etherea” remains primarily a powdery and very soft violet scent on my skin.
It doesn’t offer much excitement, but I like it because it is truly charming, depicting a lovely light violet flower, and it also has a pleasantly moderate, embracing warmth and a very quiet sweetness, in contrast to the overpoweringly sugary sweetness I have encountered in many other violet fragrances.
What tempers the sweetness is a slightly perceptible gardenia, which not only adds a white, gentle floral quality but also provides a delicate green outline to the violet. It could be that the lily of the valley contributes a bit of green. I can’t distinctly smell the scent of the lily of the valley. In the heart, I additionally discover a slightly “dirty,” that is, slightly indolic note in the background, which likely comes from lightly dosed jasmine, but fortunately fades away soon after.
After about 2 hours, “Etherea” has settled; there are no more changes. What I wear in the following hours is a bright, very soft (mimosa), slightly powdery and dry-sandalwood violet scent with minimal hints of gardenia, which brightens and refreshes the quiet fragrance a bit.
The clove eludes me. And I also don’t notice any vanilla until the end. Perhaps it is hidden in the light powdery layer surrounding the violet. However, I do not perceive it as a vanilla scent.
Of the base notes, I only distinctly notice the sandalwood, which forms the foundation on which the violet grows from beginning to end, gently enhanced by a fresh hint of pepper that provides just enough energy to keep this fragrance from falling asleep despite its calm, deeply relaxed powderiness.
On me, “Etherea” is almost exclusively violet and a bit of gardenia on a sandalwood base.
The fragrance never becomes too violet-sweet or too girlish for me. It doesn’t come across as if it were made for young girls. It is a very calm, somewhat old-fashioned powdery (in a positively old-fashioned sense) violet scent that sometimes almost seems sober due to the woody base.
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