Violette Précieuse 2017 Eau de Parfum

Version from 2017
Violette Précieuse (2017) (Eau de Parfum) by Caron
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8.0 / 10 48 Ratings
A popular perfume by Caron for women, released in 2017. The scent is floral-powdery. It was last marketed by Alès Groupe.
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Main accords

Floral
Powdery
Spicy
Green
Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
VioletViolet IrisIris
Heart Notes Heart Notes
MuskMusk Lily of the valleyLily of the valley
Base Notes Base Notes
RaspberryRaspberry SandalwoodSandalwood
Ratings
Scent
8.048 Ratings
Longevity
7.041 Ratings
Sillage
6.540 Ratings
Bottle
7.935 Ratings
Value for money
5.911 Ratings
Submitted by multiple users, last update on 05/16/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance was launched in 2017 as part of the "La Collection Privée" series by Caron. On the basis of the information available, it is not possible for us to clearly prove whether it is just a re-release of the fragrance or an actual adjustment of the formula by the house perfumer at the time, William Fraysse.

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Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
9
Scent
Axiomatic

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Axiomatic
Axiomatic
Top Review 33  
Correspondence
My dear Ofelia,

with great joy I received the news that I am sure of your insight and understanding.
Dear sister, life prepares all kinds of twists and turns and even bumpy paths on the road to happiness.
But now I can tell you with an open heart that everything has come to a favorable conclusion.

You are no stranger to my openness, after all, we have remained inseparable over the years.
Oh, how grateful I am for this coincidence!
Please be patient, I'll get around to it, as you always insisted.
My goodness, how Grandma got so angry about that language! Do you remember?
"There are other fashions in this house!"

How she always looked after things demurely in the library.
She always stood bolt upright at the stock ticker with the beautiful glass dome and waited patiently for the delayed breaking news from New York.
Business-minded, that's what she was. And I take after her.
Please bear with me, but your fluff about the pecuniary is still objectionable.
I don't mean this as a reproach, but consider yourself lucky to have me as your guardian of your assets.
After all, Grandma's intuition made it possible to take the gold mark holdings to a safe foreign country and invest them lucratively.
I don't want to know if the Rentenmark could have covered your escapades, my dear!

Enough of the disputes, let's devote ourselves to the beautiful things.
Because I got hold of a newfangled vial of her scent.
Exactly this violet scent from Paris!

Quite fabulous, just like back then.
Wait, I'm going to apply it right after her morning toilet.

Dab!

Quelle bonheur, ma chère soeur!

Do you remember the shopping trips to the Seine?
How she always taught us to sit demurely in the foyer of Caron?
And how the sales clerks gave us these colorful jars with mirrors. These powders were so fragrant!

That's exactly how I still feel about their perfume.

These violets, as violet as those pastilles from back then.
Can you remember her golden pillbox with the enamel patterns? If we were very good, she would open the box very carefully and reward us with these magical sweets.

And her purchase from Caron would have caused horror chez nous in the midst of the crisis.
But she never let herself be put off.
"Live now, pay later". I see it has also become your motto.
Fashions are what they are! At least she still got the matching powder to go with the fragrance, which is almost unthinkable today. The demise of skincare shows its cruel face!

I'll take a quick sniff of the fragrance so as not to spoil the mood.

Oh dear, wait a minute!

Only Caron can master something so delicately powdery.
In addition, these lilies of the valley full of delight and joy! A little sneaky but pure and white.

The wood of the resting base is also elegant, I guess it's sandalwood. Just very little, as she always liked it.
"Not too much and not too little".

But what I find extremely enchanting is this raspberry.
So delicate and ripe for picking.
My goodness, you ruined the beautiful handkerchiefs with lace back then, you cheeky thing! Crushed and squeezed!
How red-smeared the expensive fabrics now shimmered completely unusable in your clumsy hands.
Like bloody bandages.
Oh, I'm already somewhere else entirely.
But it serves me as a transition.

To business, my dear!
As Grandma used to praise?
"The Lord takes, the Lord gives!"

He took Eugen away from me, but I was still richly blessed.
This year, I look back wistfully on that stock ticker with the glass dome.
Everything was simpler and clearer back then.
But I had to adapt to the new fashions and diligently used the time to avoid looking like a baked fish out of the oven.
You should know that my Eugen's generous donations are generating plenty of royalties, i.e. dividends and profits.
Yes, today's networking allows me to keep track of fluctuations to the second.

The fact that your well-being is naturally covered by the Liechtenstein Foundation naturally requires your discretion, as you have already loyally demonstrated.
I just wanted it to be mentioned emphatically.

Now that the coroner's report on the death of my Eugen has confirmed to my complete satisfaction that it was a tragic accident, the first donations will probably only be delayed by a few days. You know how slowly the mills of bureaucracy grind.
Nevertheless, I would like to send you a vial of Caron in advance as a small consolation.
You will be delighted!

Ofelia, I still urge absolute discretion. Otherwise the beautiful dream of a lavish evening could come to an abrupt end.

As she used to say?
"Talk is silver, silence is golden!"

With this in mind, dear sister, I conclude these lines with a greeting of violets and wish you the best of health.

Your Cäcilie
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Scent
Susan

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Susan
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A Weightless Veil Dream.....
Violette Précieuse is one of those rare fragrances that are so extraordinarily beautiful that even the most subtle words can't do it justice.......

Basically, one should refrain from attempting a description altogether...... leave the magic of this fragrance untouched.....

Nevertheless, I would like to venture the cautious - if inevitably imperfect - attempt to convey at least a small impression.......

Violette Précieuse is a tender, quiet and almost poetic fragrance.......it shimmers alternately and in fluid transitions between pale violet and pale greenish-bluish pastel tones.......

The pale powdery scent of violet leaf blends seamlessly with a wonderfully creamy iris and the watery cool clarity of lily of the valley.......a decidedly delicate, almost unobtrusive raspberry note lends subtle sweetness.......while a gossamer mist of musk quietly permeates the entire progression, keeping the fragrance suspended.......the fragile florals are gently supported by creamy soft sandalwood......

Violette Précieuse is not a sweet scent.....no candy scent.......as is often the case with violet/iris scents......here is nothing oppressive, sticky or even loud......

Everything remains soft, restrained and weightless.......elegant, exquisite and precious......as if you were touched by the wings of an angel.....
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Bottle
7
Sillage
6
Longevity
9
Scent
FvSpee

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FvSpee
Top Review 35  
European melancholy
In 1913, everything was for the best. Europe looked back on a glorious past and a bright future. Culture was at its peak, technology was developing at a dizzying pace: cars, airships, aeroplanes, electric trams, radio technology. What poverty still existed would soon be eliminated by economic growth, which had been unbroken and highly dynamic for decades. Disease would soon be conquered by advances in medicine and hygiene. There had not been a truly major war in Europe for nearly a hundred years. Certainly something flared up here and there, and certainly general staffs planned through all contingencies. But certainly no one would allow anything so old-fashioned-crazy as a war. After all, one was no longer living in the days of Napoleon! Pulsating trade and burgeoning industry linked the great metropolises of Europe, luxury trains shot back and forth at top speeds between Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, and those who used them First Class spent their days and nights, no matter what country they were in, in the latest Grand Hotels with French chefs and unheard-of amenities like electric lights and flush toilets. The whole world was European, and if there were countries outside Europe that might rival Europe in a hundred or two hundred years, China or Japan perhaps, it would be precisely to the extent that they would be able to appropriate European science, education, and culture.

Fine-nerved observers could see the cracks, contradictions, tensions, and chasms. The rising tide of nationalism everywhere; ideological racism and anti-Semitism; a lack of women's suffrage almost everywhere; a harsher repression of homosexuality than in the Arab world; workers without rights; unresolved nationality issues everywhere: not only in the Tsardom and Austria-Hungary, but also in Britain, which at that time still included all of Ireland (which was beginning to fight for independence). Then there were the huge armaments efforts, with the development of ever more lethal weapons; the cruelties and exploitation in the colonies, poorly concealed behind phrases of civilising mission. But there was probably almost no one who was not sure or hopeful that these underlying tensions could be defused, under the banner of enlightenment, progress, reform, reason, and science.

It was not enough to be a pessimist in 1913 to foresee in that splendid, vigorous year that it was already to be the summit year of the European world, a tipping, lastling, and turning year. One had to be a true apocalyptic to foresee even a hint of the whirlpool of self-destruction, the shrieking delirium into which the continent was to sink for the next forty years, how it would not be able to stop unleashing its energies, which had become immeasurably great, against itself to the point of fatal exhaustion.

As I love Europe, I often think of what it might look like today had the course been set in a different direction in 1913. If it hadn't been for the fact that the European economy didn't regain the strength of 1913 until the 1960s - trains in Europe, by the way, never regained the speed of 1913 on many lines. If all those who perished on the battlefields and in the camp hells, all those who went mad or were maimed, who had to emigrate, if instead they could have gone on loving, learning, dreaming, bearing children and working in Edinburgh, Metz, Königsberg, Thessaloniki and Kharkiv until they died full of life.

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Violette Précieuse, the precious violet, appeared in the Caron house in 1913. What its formula was originally, how the corsetted ladies and twisted-mustachioed gentlemen felt when this fragrance came to their noses, I do not know. Caron re-edited a fragrance of that name in 2017, which even the Parfumo editors couldn't figure out if it was based on the original fragrance or just echoed its name. What surprised and saddened me is that this beautiful 2017-ish fragrance, which I thank Sniffsniff from the bottom of my heart for sampling, has also been discontinued already. Even after turning over the entire internet several times, I couldn't find any trace of an offer to buy fresh bottles of it anywhere.

Violette Précieuse is a radiantly bright, as it were from the inside intensely violet glowing fragrance, which, if you twist and turn it a little, but can also emblazon in a June, powerful (a bit unreal) light green. The scent is perfect harmony, classicist weightless balance. Crystal-clear notes of lily of the valley, violet and raspberry span a perfect triangle, a scent mirror on which no dust can settle. No hardness comes from the wood, only firmness and structure. From the musk no softness, but only the necessary fullness. Violette Précieuse is a cool fragrance, but not a cold one. It is simple, but anything but banal; it is nothing less than soulless, oh no! - but it is with the utmost precision.

What the fragrance has in common with 1913 is that it is arch-European: the best of classic Western fragrance tradition, firmly anchored florally. An Apollonian fragrance: sensible and optimistic. It has something of accomplishment and self-assurance, a long history behind it. From abysses and nervous exaggerations, from decadence he wants to know nothing.

In other respects, Violette Précieuse rather points ahead to the 1920s, which the bottle's beguilingly beautiful Art Deco (perhaps my favorite design era) is based on: the pursuit of brightness and clarity, the aversion to flourishes and ornamentation. To be sure, the fragrance isn't necessarily bob, cigarette holder and men's suit; it's still too classicist and traditionally feminine for that (though it can work on men). But even less is he corset. What is it then? The perfect fragrance to go with the feathered browband and sexy Charleston dress of 1923. Or perhaps, after all, the elegant nudity of the Little Mermaid set up in 1913.
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Sillage
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Longevity
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Scent
Melisse2

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Melisse2
Melisse2
Top Review 29  
I walked in the woods, I saw a flower standing in the shade
I feel reminded of Goethe's poem by the precious violet. A violet found in the forest, dug up with all its roots and replanted in the garden.
In Goethe's time, there were probably more violets in the forest, when you were still allowed to do that.

I have this association on the one hand because Caron's violet reminds me of a real fragrant violet in the garden. Years ago, I ordered a selection of three varieties that do not propagate, but come back every year and bravely stand up to the competition in the bed.
On the other hand, I find "Violette Précieuse" slightly spicy, which makes me think of forest. But so that no misconceptions arise: The perfume smells only of violets and not of forest
In fact, even without knowing the scents, I smell nothing but violets and musk.
Since there is no pyramid at Parfumo yet, here is the one from ALzD:

Top note: violet and iris
Heart note: musk and lily of the valley
Base note: sandalwood and raspberry

With this knowledge I say to myself:
Yeah, the creamy stuff must come from the iris,
the serious, unsweetened lily of the valley.
And now I also perceive the delicate touch of raspberry, it supports the authenticity of the violet fragrance. There's no sandalwood
I think this violet soliflor is a complete success. Nothing reminds me of violet pastilles. The precious violet is also the complete contrast to the power of Insolence. Instead, Caron's violet has much elegance and little sweetness. This makes it look fresh and natural.

Among the other fragrances from the Collection Privée that I know of, "Violette Précieuse" has an exceptional position because it is actually rather reserved. This also goes very well with a violet for me.

Nevertheless, the scent lasts for more than 6 hours and is very clearly perceptible in the first few hours. For me Caron's precious violet makes the blue ribbon of spring flutter very skilfully.

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