Iris
Opoponax
Honey
Cinnamon
08/01/2025
ClaireV
969 Reviews
ClaireV
1
Finished my last bottle - can someone tell me if the EDP is as good?
With a wardrobe stuffed with challenging, amazing, difficult, tempestuous perfumes, Volutes stands out not because it 'stands out' but rather because it doesn't. It's the battered leather jacket in your wardrobe that you just can't bear to part with, and reach for over your fancier coats even though it's falling to pieces. Love isn't rational. It may not even be love - it may be simply a reflex.
I smell a cool, starchy iris, warm honey, blond tobacco, a hint of rubbery leather from the saffron (only at the start), and some nebulous resins in the base. These notes all smell quite blurred and perfumey to me, in the same way that baby powder smells like rose, chamomile, and heliotrope all swirled together but never distinctly of themselves. Volutes sits on the skin like a creamy balm at first, but as time goes on, dries to a texture like fine, powdered sugar. This is not a sweet scent, however. The iris exerts its influence here from top to bottom, reflected in that cold, vegetal starchiness. The tobacco, although not smoky, adds body to the iris and makes it slightly more 'of this earth' than irises tend to be.
It is not exotic, but it is even-tempered. When I still had it - I finished the last of my two bottles a few years ago - I would wear buckets of it, carelessly sprayed around my person until it dripped, like honey, from the tips of my fingers. I let it run in rivers down to my belly button. No matter how much I sprayed, Volutes remains this utterly pleasant, low key piece of background music to my day. It's a fragrance on cruise control. Can anyone tell me if the EDP retains the magic of the EDT? I suspect not...
I smell a cool, starchy iris, warm honey, blond tobacco, a hint of rubbery leather from the saffron (only at the start), and some nebulous resins in the base. These notes all smell quite blurred and perfumey to me, in the same way that baby powder smells like rose, chamomile, and heliotrope all swirled together but never distinctly of themselves. Volutes sits on the skin like a creamy balm at first, but as time goes on, dries to a texture like fine, powdered sugar. This is not a sweet scent, however. The iris exerts its influence here from top to bottom, reflected in that cold, vegetal starchiness. The tobacco, although not smoky, adds body to the iris and makes it slightly more 'of this earth' than irises tend to be.
It is not exotic, but it is even-tempered. When I still had it - I finished the last of my two bottles a few years ago - I would wear buckets of it, carelessly sprayed around my person until it dripped, like honey, from the tips of my fingers. I let it run in rivers down to my belly button. No matter how much I sprayed, Volutes remains this utterly pleasant, low key piece of background music to my day. It's a fragrance on cruise control. Can anyone tell me if the EDP retains the magic of the EDT? I suspect not...
