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Viole Nere Meo Fusciuni 2023

8.7 / 10 76 Ratings

A popular perfume by Meo Fusciuni for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is floral-powdery. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Creamy

Woody

Smoky

Fragrance Notes

Iris

Frankincense Violet

Violet

Sandalwood Cognac

Cognac

Jasmine

Lily of the valley

Patchouli

Ylang-ylang

Blackcurrant Musk

Musk

Oakmoss

Rose

Vanilla

Vetiver

Perfumer

Giuseppe Imprezzabile a.k.a. Meo Fusciuni

Ratings

Scent

8.776 Ratings

Longevity

8.266 Ratings

Sillage

7.666 Ratings

Bottle

8.266 Ratings

Value for money

7.350 Ratings

Submitted by Vaidas, last update on 11/05/2025.

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/09/2024

9Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Mlleghoul
458 Reviews

Mlleghoul

5

you, who never arrived in my arms, beloved

Viole Nere from Meo Fuschiuni is a wistful Rilke poem of a violet. I will say I really love violet, though most I’ve encountered smell very similar, dainty, and delicate in either a powdery or an earthy spring rain-way. Viole Nere, while similarly subtle, presents differently than those nostalgic candied pastilles or small, damp purple blooms. It’s the gossamer violet bruised and thrumming ache of never-quite-becomings, the bittersweet vetiver musk of breathless possibilities half-glimpsed, the gentle, mossy patchoulied decay of late autumn’s dying reminder that things unlived also have their season, their own quiet beauty. A melancholic wisp of frankincense dissipates like phantom ink on pages no one will ever read, a yearning ode to an elusive beloved who never arrived, who was lost from the start.

05/20/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

Helpful Review 2

Elegiac beauty

Viole Nere is difficult for me to describe because while I am used to iris perfumes that lean towards violet (Iris de Nuit, Moulin Rouge, Infusion d’Iris Absolue), I am less used to violet perfumes that behave like an iris rhizome – earthy, cold, buttery, leathery, slightly smoky – and yet are still completely and unmistakably a violet. Each time I wear it, I come away with something slightly different. Sometimes, the sharp, botanical stemminess of the green notes up front make me think of the opening of Iris 39 (Le Labo); other times, I get that bitty, mineralic frankincense powder that holds the violet notes aloft in Maria Candida Gentile’s Exultat.

Nonetheless, there is always a moment in Viole Nere’s transition that makes me think of the green-grey hay notes, powdery moss, and impressionistic jonquils of a grander, more fin de siecle perfume than the surely artisan effort I hold in my hands. The thought that Imprezzabile has somehow knocked up a violet-inflected Vol de Nuit in a charmingly hoky, cluttered workshop far removed from the precision-engineered formulas, weighing scales, and strip lighting of Guerlain’s labs and compounders enters my head and nothing shakes it loose again. Conscious that’s a wild thing to say. Allow me to condition it by saying that Viole Nere doesn’t smell like Vol de Nuit, per se, just that it performs the same trick as the Guerlain does of being at once superbly naturalistic and perfectly abstract, a sort of pointilism of lilac, violet, grey, and green notes.

There is no Guerlinade here, though. Though slightly powdery and earthy, there is more incense dust than cosmetic powder, and no vanilla in sight. Instead, the drydown of Viole Nere features a rubbery, latex-like musk molecule similar to the one that also rounds out Fleur de Peau (Diptyque), as well as another Meo Fusciuni scent, Encore du Temps. It feels a little like a dusty leather or suede in places. This gives Viole Nere a far more streamlined and modern finish than any Guerlain I know. (It’s also safe to say that lovers of Stephen Jones x Comme des Garcons would find Viole Nere an attractive proposition.)

And you know, despite the billing, neither does the perfume strike me as particularly dark. A touch moody, sure – damp violets in a mossy forest clearing, with all the lengthening and shortening of shadows that implies. But even then, I would call it ‘romantic’ or ‘wistful’ before I would call it ‘dark’. I think a good analogy would be L’Heure Bleue (Guerlain) or De Profundis (Serge Lutens). Like those perfumes, while Viole Nere is a serious, deeply emotive perfume, it feels more serene and pastoral than dark. Anyway, enough blathering – Viole Nere is my favourite from the Meo Fusciuni sample set and the only one that makes me feel compelled to own it.

09/28/2024

9.5Scent 9Longevity 10Sillage

Cedric34
13 Reviews

Cedric34

3

Frozen spring

Viole Nere begins with a beautiful Iris similar to the Dior Homme eau de toilette in its original version. And then very quickly it forks into a textured violet, blackcurrant, petit grain and sumptuously chains up to the woody patchouli, oak moss and sandalwood reminiscent of the soil coming out of winter. A gothic atmosphere but soft of a chiaroscuro in a form reinterpreted in our time.
This perfume makes me think of these traditional silhouettes of women from southern Europe dressed in black from head to toe as illustrated in the advertisements for the alcoholic aperitif Porto Cruz. The perfumer has also associated a subtle note of cognac in its composition.
Violette Nere is a dark perfume where black is light.
Undoubtedly one of the top 4 of this confidential Italian perfumery house.

02/22/2025

10Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

VTrancoso
34 Reviews

VTrancoso

2

A journey through time

Despite being a floral, it is a unisex fragrance that begins with a creamy lily that quickly becomes associated with the texture of violet petals. There is a dark rose adding thickness to the composition. Blackcurrant contributes a fresh facet, while Patchouli adds an earthy vibe. All of this contrasts with the woods, oakmoss and vanilla/musk that act as a supporting base. A chiaroscuro of flowers against a background of sweet woods. I didn't detect the cognac note.

Floral, Powdery/Earthy, Creamy, Woody.
It has moderate projection and lasts until the next morning close to the skin.

I don’t consider it a “dark” fragrance. IMHO it is intimate, subtle, elegant, romantic, soft and somewhat melancholic, modern and vintage.

We imagine a nobleman who, through an unknown miracle, travels through time.
In a palace in the mid-19th century, he is alone on a balcony overlooking a flower garden. He wears a purple Victorian outfit scented with the nostalgia emanating from the flowers in the garden. He looks at the full moon on a windless night and dreams of a woman he doesn't yet know, but can guess. He closes his eyes as if expecting something prodigious. In the universe, something somewhat mysterious happens because when he opens his eyes again he is still in Paris, but now in the 21st century on a terrace overlooking a city shining in a twilight sky where a metal tower stands out in the distance. He was in the middle of a party and was wearing a dark purple tuxedo.
There were people talking in groups and music in the air. In a corner sheltered by a small garden sat, alone, the woman he had always dreamed of. They looked at each other as if they had known each other forever and in silence they embraced each other - definitively - dancing to the sound of "Where or When" sung by Carly Simon, enveloped in the perfume that continued to emanate from him.
Some people mentioned that small dark blue butterflies were flying over the pair. But perhaps they were petals from a 19th century garden.

Some things happen for the first time
Seems to be happening again
And so it seems we have met before
And laughed before and loved before
But who knows where or when?

09/15/2025

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Wisivc
2 Reviews

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Wisivc

Very helpful Review 15

Perfume is a soul that shapes our shadow - Meo Fusciuni

"The violet in Spring tells of the blossoming of the soul"

There is a place where my thoughts find refuge from the world, where I read my poems aloud at dawn in March, when the first violets of the year emerge from the still frozen earth.
That place is the garden of my soul. In Viole Nere I address the theme of absence and blackness in which I hide my being, abandon my mind, where the word becomes a boulder to which I bind my spirit and where poetry becomes a form of invocation. Perfume becomes marvel, black on black. I have chosen to tell a new story that has the scent of a Black Violet.

In the morning
when March came,
I would stop to pick
small bunches of violets,
shy and austere.

At night,
I would stop and look
at my garden,
attentive and taciturn.

Absence is a mystery,
of dark dress,
of powdery scent,
of strange emotions.

It is the darkest hour,
when the rain falls.
And for days now
I have forgotten myself.

It is the brightest hour,
when the first violets arrive,
the last snow melts.

So it is written in the booklet for the fragrance. There is more written there - I will leave that unquoted for now. I would like to briefly describe the scent in my own words.

In the opening, for my nose, the iris takes center stage. It initially steals the show from the violet, coming across very dry, dense, almost root-like. But then the violet breaks free from the dark, deep iris base. It becomes sweeter, friendlier, brighter, yet still covered, muted, not too cheerful. The first rays of sun after a long darkness, droplets sparkle in the timid light. Like awakening from hibernation, still not quite sure if everything fits, if one was supposed to wake up. Should one? Does it all make sense? Never bright and cheerful, yet alongside melancholic aspects, it also radiates uplifting, regenerated, fresh life. It is worth it.

A beautiful representation of the first days of spring. Dark, deep, violet and suspicious, but at the same time full of hope, floral, gentle, and delicate. When I smell the fragrance, I inevitably think of l'heure bleue - this is l'heure bleu foncé. Or rather violet foncé. The dark violet hour. This time not shortly after the sun sets in warm summer, but shortly after it rises in cold winter. And always it is the melancholic violet.

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