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When Scents Tell Stories and Fairytales Fragrance
Violette Market is a small, still largely unknown perfume manufacturer. But one that you should take a closer look at :)
Its owner, Lori Cochran, creates all the fragrance oils herself, drawing inspiration from myths and fairy tales, travels and pirates, vampires and other creatures, as well as from long-gone times.
Each scent tells a story and transports you to foreign worlds. She has even created a story that is told through scents, but more on that later.
I stumbled upon her fragrances by chance: I really liked the hazelnut note in "Hermessence Vetiver Tonka," and I was looking for more perfumes with hazelnut. This led me to "Creature Candy Hazelnut," whose description already made my mouth water. I checked out the "Violette Market" homepage and let myself be enchanted by the stories, and despite the not-so-cheap prices, I was tempted to make a blind purchase: "Hazelnut," of course, and "Mexico City." I also received samples of "Grandmother" and "Havana."
"Havana" instantly conjures images in my mind, images of a coffee gathering in a slightly smoky room. On the table sits a cake - one whose freshly baked and still steaming dough has been soaked in coffee. While a few spirited ladies enjoy the cake and laugh as they tell their stories, the gentlemen have retreated to a back room to smoke their cigars. A bit of smoke drifts into the coffee gathering but does not push itself to the forefront. One of the ladies talks about her visit to the market and pulls out a small bag of cloves. But it slips from her hand, and a large portion of the intensely fragrant cloves rolls across the table to the floor. Although the ladies make an effort to gather them all up again, the room is now dominated by this scent, which lingers into the late evening hours as the coffee gathering slowly dissolves and the ladies step out one by one into the lightly floral-scented evening air.
The longevity is quite good for all the fragrance oils I have tested so far, while the sillage is rather moderate to low. The perfumes are delivered somewhat carelessly in small brown glass bottles, which is why I deducted points here.
Unfortunately, the scent is not for me, as I do not like cloves, but I find the idea of intertwining scents and stories fascinating - and that this concept works so well.
For those who wish to embark on a more extensive olfactory journey (and have about 800 dollars ready), VM has a special treat: the story of a young London apothecary who sets sail for India to procure rare spices and elixirs. He discovers life at sea and foreign lands, and experiences all sorts of adventures with shipwrecks, pirates, and mermaids. And each stop on his journey is accompanied by a specially created scent.
To be honest: I have never encountered anything like this anywhere else, and if it weren't so exorbitantly expensive, I would love to sniff it and embark on this journey myself!
Its owner, Lori Cochran, creates all the fragrance oils herself, drawing inspiration from myths and fairy tales, travels and pirates, vampires and other creatures, as well as from long-gone times.
Each scent tells a story and transports you to foreign worlds. She has even created a story that is told through scents, but more on that later.
I stumbled upon her fragrances by chance: I really liked the hazelnut note in "Hermessence Vetiver Tonka," and I was looking for more perfumes with hazelnut. This led me to "Creature Candy Hazelnut," whose description already made my mouth water. I checked out the "Violette Market" homepage and let myself be enchanted by the stories, and despite the not-so-cheap prices, I was tempted to make a blind purchase: "Hazelnut," of course, and "Mexico City." I also received samples of "Grandmother" and "Havana."
"Havana" instantly conjures images in my mind, images of a coffee gathering in a slightly smoky room. On the table sits a cake - one whose freshly baked and still steaming dough has been soaked in coffee. While a few spirited ladies enjoy the cake and laugh as they tell their stories, the gentlemen have retreated to a back room to smoke their cigars. A bit of smoke drifts into the coffee gathering but does not push itself to the forefront. One of the ladies talks about her visit to the market and pulls out a small bag of cloves. But it slips from her hand, and a large portion of the intensely fragrant cloves rolls across the table to the floor. Although the ladies make an effort to gather them all up again, the room is now dominated by this scent, which lingers into the late evening hours as the coffee gathering slowly dissolves and the ladies step out one by one into the lightly floral-scented evening air.
The longevity is quite good for all the fragrance oils I have tested so far, while the sillage is rather moderate to low. The perfumes are delivered somewhat carelessly in small brown glass bottles, which is why I deducted points here.
Unfortunately, the scent is not for me, as I do not like cloves, but I find the idea of intertwining scents and stories fascinating - and that this concept works so well.
For those who wish to embark on a more extensive olfactory journey (and have about 800 dollars ready), VM has a special treat: the story of a young London apothecary who sets sail for India to procure rare spices and elixirs. He discovers life at sea and foreign lands, and experiences all sorts of adventures with shipwrecks, pirates, and mermaids. And each stop on his journey is accompanied by a specially created scent.
To be honest: I have never encountered anything like this anywhere else, and if it weren't so exorbitantly expensive, I would love to sniff it and embark on this journey myself!
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