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Violet Disguise Imaginary Authors 2012

5.5 / 10 30 Ratings

A perfume by Imaginary Authors for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is floral-fruity. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Fruity

Sweet

Synthetic

Fresh

Fragrance Notes

Plum

Balsam

Violet

Amber

Air accord

Dried fruits

Perfumer

Josh Meyer

Ratings

Scent

5.530 Ratings

Longevity

6.926 Ratings

Sillage

6.626 Ratings

Bottle

6.439 Ratings

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8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/20/2013

8Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Coutureguru
237 Reviews

Coutureguru

Helpful Review 6

It's humble pie time again :) ...

I sometimes babble on incessantly about not liking certain notes in perfumery when what I should be doing is shutting my mouth and letting my nose do the talking ... !?!? ... or investigating :). A note that hasn't had much happiness from me is Violet ... Josh Meyer has changed that with Violet Disguise!

A little bit of research into the creator of Imaginary Authors (http://www.olfactif.com/blogs/blog/7607579-interview-with-josh-meyer-imaginary-authors) provides a wealth of information about this perfumer's aesthetic, especially about the way he conjures up names for the way things smell.
When I look at a pyramid of notes and see things like 'evening air' and 'month of May' my immediate reaction is one of incredulity. I forget that most people don't have the interest in fragrance that I do and that to throw something like 'Ozone' at them would be pointless. Calling it 'Evening Air', however, immediately draws a connotation to something most of us have actually experienced. Rather clever really ...
Now, the Violet note in this fragrance is nothing like the overly sweet and sometimes too pungent fragrances I have experienced. There is a touch of powder here, but it is kept in check by a balsamic note rendering it a little more acidic. Fruit (another bugbear of mine) is also present in this fragrance, but in dried form. One would think that this addition would cause a cake-like effect, but it doesn't ... more so a withered effect which is highly pleasing to my nose ... like a bowlful of raisins, sweet, but tart too.
A certain green quality is also evident in Violet Disguise, making it a fresh and comfortable wear. Longevity and sillage are both excellent.

All in all, I am excited by the fact that I have found a Violet fragrance that I like. This one is definitely full bottle worthy!

05/29/2013

8Scent

Ysbrand
84 Reviews

Ysbrand

7

Month of may (and evening air)

Well, i am another one who can join in the bunch of skeptics when i read such ingredients as month of may or evening air. Honestly, it sounds like something a fairy godmother would enumerate on a Disney movie song while she is casting a spell surrounded by helping animals. It is cute, but it is hard to be taken seriously. Smelling Violet Disguise i have to say that such terms are not only appropriate but also accuarte, since this fragance has a highly "atmospheric" quality that strongly recalls the coolness of Jean Claude Ellena´s musks and unlit incense of eau de gentiane blanche.
Chilly, minty air, almost electric, and some sort of breezy, non-descript flowery but maybe dandelions, spring-like thing going on... all that without smelling like an air-freshener! It is Beautiful.

The violet is not very noticeable in the beginning, is all about the month of may. Of course it is there in the background, assisted with a slightly savoury, slightly smoked gourmand note that reminds me of guaiac wood, but again, there is not guaiac listed, so i assume is the dry fruits. I like it because it is mysterious and earth-bounded and goes in another direction than the evening zephyrs.

After a while, the refreshing airy notes comes back and forth, but are not always there; then we have more or less what i expected from Violet Disguise a priori. That is, something a bit more autumnal, but not that much. Plum mingles with the savoury, dry note of Decay i mentioned earlier. The flowers are a bit dizzy, aldehydic, ethereal. I have only smelled De Profundis once, but it gave me the same feeling. To my nose, the violet is not sweet nor specially prominent (maybe thats why you like it Coutureguru ;) ) and that is ok, because a disguise is more about looking like a flower than smelling like it.

My first contact with the Imaginary Authors cannot be more positive. I have a taste for strange. My veredict is, bottle worthy (despite i hate the label), although not for a blind purchase (specially if you expect some sort of violet soliflore)

06/06/2013

1Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

Palonera
467 Reviews

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Palonera

Very helpful Review 12

With all due respect: an imposition!

Violets are something wonderful.
Delicate and small and violet and oh-so-lovely, they scent their way into my heart, sometimes mystically cool like in "The Unicorn Spell", then softly powdery like in Andrea Maack's "Smart" or nostalgically time-traveling like in Detailles' "1905" - the violet always has something touching, fragile, and at the same time so strong that it has an irresistible effect on me.
Well, violet pastilles don't necessarily have to be it, but otherwise - yes, yes, very gladly.
So I was quite curious about "Violet Disguise", the veiled or - depending on interpretation - disguised violet.
May month and evening air found their way into the pyramid - ingredients that couldn't be taken too seriously, yet struck my carefully guarded romantic nerve and led me to expect a delicate, softly floral, and rather girlish little water, for maximum seventeen-year-olds in white cotton dresses with flower crowns in their hair, dreamily looking out for the prince on the white horse.
Ah yes.

Not at all.
If a violet was indeed processed in this Eau, just a single tiny one, it is indeed well hidden.
"Violet Disguise" stabs me with an extremely synthetic, immediately inducing physical discomfort olfactory lancet in the nose, punches me in the stomach, and awakens, like its sister, the terrible orchid, the instant-scrub reflex, which I also struggle to resist here.
It can't be as bad as I perceive it, as the look at the reviews of my predecessors wants to soothe me - true, it gets even worse.
A strangely sour-alcoholic note crystallizes out and evokes the strongest associations with vomit - at this point, my hair stands on end and I have to hold myself back very hard not to rush to the sink and put an end to the horror.
Fortunately, "Violet Disguise" soon returns to the indefinable synthetic sweetness - I can vaguely sense fruity notes, but cannot clearly identify them, and there is no sign of a violet to be found anywhere.
I still find the smell very unpleasant, my stomach is not pleased with the experiment - and my hope for a short longevity, as promised by Ergoproxy, shatters more and more with each passing hour.
In fact, "Violet Disguise" lingers on my skin until the following morning - by then, the base has become more subtle, warmer, and softer, yet I cannot recommend it at any point.

Josh Meyer has impressively shown with "Bull's Blood" and "Memoirs of a Trespasser" that he is indeed capable of creating wearable and even good perfumes - but unfortunately, with the two floral scents I have encountered so far, he has also delivered real impositions.

01/10/2015

1Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Endorphin
19 Reviews

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Endorphin

English Fruit Bread

Take:

280 grams rancid butter
140 grams brown sugar
130 grams candied lemon peel
280 grams flour
140 grams candied orange peel
4 eggs
as well as at least 1 kilo of dried fruit, finely chopped, and all the sweet-fruity things that need to be used up

for refinement, use cheap bitter almond and butter vanilla flavoring.
And please no rum, we don’t want to give the creation a hint of class!

Bake for 90 minutes at 180°
after cooling, preferably wrap in violet parchment paper for eternity or for an arch-enemy.

04/19/2013

3Scent

Ergoproxy
1130 Reviews

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Ergoproxy

Helpful Review 6

Here hides not only the violet

Violet Disguise is probably the top contender for the fragrance with the most absurd ingredients. Evening air and May month top pretty much everything I have read so far about unnecessarily sensational ingredients.

What are these scent notes supposed to convey to us? I suspect that in this case it is supposed to represent the famous hint of nothingness that this fragrance develops for my sense of smell.

Right at the beginning, I can detect something like a synthetic violet for the fraction of a second. It doesn’t smell too bad, but then the evening air comes into play and does what it does best, ventilating!

Uh, hello, where did the scent go?

Well, with some effort, I can still sense a hint of sweet fruits, but that doesn’t satisfy me at all.

Compared to the rather loud and brash scents of this brand so far, this one is more than quiet. Almost mute would actually be more accurate.

Well, maybe my brain is filtering this scent out, but then it must have been a group phenomenon today, because my colleagues couldn’t smell it either, and even my partner could hardly perceive anything during my first test.

Somehow, the non-existent fragrance makes me rebellious!

According to the pyramid, I was promised May month and evening air! I know how the rest smells, and I could do without that. Apparently, this fragrance hides not only the violet but pretty much everything that has been dissolved in alcohol.
The detectability of this "essay" barely manages to exceed the 60-minute mark before a completely unscented skin area remains.
Here, I would also like to draw a comparison with the brand Comme des Garçons. With CdG, you at least get something that somewhat resembles what was announced with the absurd scent notes, and you are not left with nothing.
Maybe there was a typo when listing the components, and it should be hot air instead of evening air?

However, Violet Disguise does have one good thing: it doesn’t annoy, and that is something after all.

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