Honey
Labdanum
Oriental rose
Tuberose
Sandalwood
Spices
Blackcurrant
08/12/2025
ClaireV
969 Reviews
ClaireV
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A rose that emerges pixel by pixel
Voile presents a rich, nutty vetiver-honey opening quite similar to parts of Onda Voile d'Extrait. It smells like hazelnuts pounded to a paste and mixed with vetiver roots and dry honey power, except that hazelnuts have a natural sweetness to them, and this nutty vetiver-honey accord is quite intensely savory and 'mouth-dry' in feel. Compared to the fruity-minty EDP, the opening of the Rozy Voile feels darker, more subdued, smoother, and pleasantly 'dank'.
Later on, I get a lot of sweet, dusty rubber, reminding me delightfully of strawberry-flavored rubber erasers we used to use in my primary school. I presume this must be some combination of the tuberose and the styrax. The fruity, rubbery, and dusty elements peek out from below the nutty, savory honey and vetiver layer, and to my surprise, I begin to sense the shape, at last, of a rose, as if the disparate elements and notes I just identified are tiny pixels in a TV screen, only coming together to form a picture when you take a few steps back. The effect is extraordinary the rose only appears when you peer at it indirectly and from afar.
Roses in perfumery are reconstructions built using many different notes and compounds, ranging from cinnamon and lemon oils to geraniol, so I really admire how Vero built a rose using a whole set of unrelated notes, and ones that other perfumers don't seem to be using - the rubber of tuberose and styrax to suggest the layers of wax on those big, fatty, nostalgic roses used in vintage rose chypres, the touch of honey to approximate the honeyed sweetness of Bulgarian rose oil, and the damp, nutty vetiver suggesting the grassy greenness of stems…..
Later on, I get a lot of sweet, dusty rubber, reminding me delightfully of strawberry-flavored rubber erasers we used to use in my primary school. I presume this must be some combination of the tuberose and the styrax. The fruity, rubbery, and dusty elements peek out from below the nutty, savory honey and vetiver layer, and to my surprise, I begin to sense the shape, at last, of a rose, as if the disparate elements and notes I just identified are tiny pixels in a TV screen, only coming together to form a picture when you take a few steps back. The effect is extraordinary the rose only appears when you peer at it indirectly and from afar.
Roses in perfumery are reconstructions built using many different notes and compounds, ranging from cinnamon and lemon oils to geraniol, so I really admire how Vero built a rose using a whole set of unrelated notes, and ones that other perfumers don't seem to be using - the rubber of tuberose and styrax to suggest the layers of wax on those big, fatty, nostalgic roses used in vintage rose chypres, the touch of honey to approximate the honeyed sweetness of Bulgarian rose oil, and the damp, nutty vetiver suggesting the grassy greenness of stems…..
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