Violettes de Toulouse Berdoues 1936 Eau de Parfum

Violettes de Toulouse (Eau de Parfum) by Berdoues

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Violettes de Toulouse (Eau de Parfum) (Berdoues)

6.6 / 10 46 Ratings

Violettes de Toulouse (Eau de Parfum) is a perfume by Berdoues for women and was released in 1936. The scent is floral-sweet. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Powdery

Green

Fresh

Fragrance Notes

Violet

Jasmine

Lily

Cyclamen

Fruity notes

Musk

Bergamot

Iris

Almond blossom

Sandalwood

Ratings

Scent

6.646 Ratings

Longevity

6.139 Ratings

Sillage

5.737 Ratings

Bottle

7.854 Ratings

Submitted by Lissy, last update on 18.11.2023.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/04/2015

7.5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 2.5
Longevity 7
Scent

Briarthorn
91 Reviews

Briarthorn

2

Just as I'm getting into it, it's gone.

It opens with candied violets that aren't too powdery. There is a fruitiness that is sometimes dominant in the opening and sometimes it a bit more in the background.

The heart is a mixed floral bouquet with musk. The violet is the dominant floral in the bouquet with some iris and lily behind it. There's a tad of sandalwood in there too.

The drydown has more sandalwood and musk. It's a clean musk. I like it.

It has moderate sillage but it fades quickly. It only lasts about 2 hours on me.

May
31
2014

07/10/2013

10
Bottle 2.5
Sillage 2.5
Longevity 5
Scent

ChapeauClack
16 Reviews

ChapeauClack

Helpful Review 3

Candied Violets

Some years ago I was hunting for a violet candy scent . Everything about those tiny purple chrystalized flowers is just so lovely: the way they look, their strange grassy perfumey taste and of course their wonderful scent, at once sweet, flowery, green and cool.

Violettes de Toulouse is basically this candy bottled, with some musk and buttery iris thrown into the mix. It is indeed a very tame perfume, more of an airy whisper than an assertive statement. Adorable albeit regrettably shortlived. Spraying on fabric will probably work better than applying directly to the skin. And call me infantile, but I'm in love with the box and the bottle. They look straight out of my great grandmother's boudoir.

06/06/2012

7.5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 7
Scent

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Very helpful Review 3

Nineteenth-Century Violets--still beautiful today

There are several excellent violet soliflores available, and I find many of them very similar to one another, particularly those which date back to the nineteenth century. It seems to me that if you like one of them you'll like all of them, including this one, Berdoues VIOLETTES DE TOULOUSE edt. My bottle claims to contain the original composition, and I do believe that it does.

I love natural-smelling violets, and that is what this is, essentially. Comparing this Berdoues offering with Borsari VIOLETTA DI PARMA or Molinard VIOLETTE or Christian Celle CALYPSO VIOLETTE or L'Artisan Parfumeur VERTE VIOLETTE, I have a tough time deciding which one I like the best--because I love them all! The drydowns end up being very similar, though they all start out a bit different. Some are a bit more sweet or a bit more green, but violet is the focus in all.

Of the soliflores familiar to me, VIOLETTES DE TOULOUSE edt smells closest to--indeed, nearly indistinguishable from--VIOLETTA DI PARMA edp, both of which are more like cologne than parfum. These are light and airy, almost watery (but *not* aquatic!!!) solutions of violet. Not too sweet, just a bit green, a little bit powdery. Very natural and innocent without seeming childish.

These are not complex creations, just a celebration of the natural beauty of violets. The longevity of VIOLETTES DE TOULOUSE is a bit better than VIOLETTA DI PARMA, but it's still not great. But that's okay, since it gives one the license to spray and re-spray with reckless abandon!