Top Notes 
Raspberry leaf
Blackcurrant
Pink pepper
Heart Notes 
Violet
Wisteria
Base Notes 
Heliotrope
Orris root
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When late autumn becomes spring...
...then perhaps Tentation de Violettes has its scent components in play. This violet temptation deserves closer inspection!
The fragrance comes in a round bottle, identical to the new bottles for Secrets de Volupté and Gandali - only the colors differ slightly. This bottle is nice, but a bit boring - for me, that's a downside.
However, Tentation de Violettes has a content that brings a smile to my lips. The scent instantly brings spring back.
The opening is wonderful. Raspberry leaf in all its naturalness! As a young pioneer, I collected and dried raspberry leaves and then delivered them for further processing. Fresh raspberry leaves smell like the fruits, but without the sweetness of the fruits. A wonderfully fresh, fruity-green natural scent. If there is indeed pink pepper and black currant in here, then at best to support the raspberry aroma. I wish this top note would last longer, it's so beautiful.
The violet in the heart note is very carefully dosed and is clearly overshadowed by the wisteria (Glycine or Wisteria). Nevertheless, the violet note comes through lightly and delicately, but has no chance of developing into a violet monster. This is ensured, alongside the wisteria, by the heliotrope (vanilla flower), which joins in quite early and keeps the fragrance in the lovely softness and floral quality with which it began.
The iris provides the dryness of the base, but is not perceivable as such.
My conclusion: this fragrance is worth testing and wearing. I see it more on young women, but I think that women of older generations could certainly wear it too.
The scent is floral, unobtrusive, zesty but not piercing, rather soft and pleasant. Fainting spells in the surroundings are not to be feared, rather the opposite.
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Addendum: as I could see on the Isabel Derroisne website, ID apparently is transitioning all fragrances to this new bottle. Thus, ID fragrances will only be available in uniform bottles in the future - at the expense of individuality.
The fragrance comes in a round bottle, identical to the new bottles for Secrets de Volupté and Gandali - only the colors differ slightly. This bottle is nice, but a bit boring - for me, that's a downside.
However, Tentation de Violettes has a content that brings a smile to my lips. The scent instantly brings spring back.
The opening is wonderful. Raspberry leaf in all its naturalness! As a young pioneer, I collected and dried raspberry leaves and then delivered them for further processing. Fresh raspberry leaves smell like the fruits, but without the sweetness of the fruits. A wonderfully fresh, fruity-green natural scent. If there is indeed pink pepper and black currant in here, then at best to support the raspberry aroma. I wish this top note would last longer, it's so beautiful.
The violet in the heart note is very carefully dosed and is clearly overshadowed by the wisteria (Glycine or Wisteria). Nevertheless, the violet note comes through lightly and delicately, but has no chance of developing into a violet monster. This is ensured, alongside the wisteria, by the heliotrope (vanilla flower), which joins in quite early and keeps the fragrance in the lovely softness and floral quality with which it began.
The iris provides the dryness of the base, but is not perceivable as such.
My conclusion: this fragrance is worth testing and wearing. I see it more on young women, but I think that women of older generations could certainly wear it too.
The scent is floral, unobtrusive, zesty but not piercing, rather soft and pleasant. Fainting spells in the surroundings are not to be feared, rather the opposite.
*
Addendum: as I could see on the Isabel Derroisne website, ID apparently is transitioning all fragrances to this new bottle. Thus, ID fragrances will only be available in uniform bottles in the future - at the expense of individuality.
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