i cant smell violet

okay idk why.

i have no idea what violet smells like, although I do smell iris/orris strongly.

are there any violet scents with no iris you can recommend? i have trouble picking it out at all, and its supposedly similar to iris.

i tried Casamorati - Dama Bianca Eau de Parfum and i only smell the weird kumquat. i also tried Cheirosa '59 and it just smells like butter. i had L'Eau d'Issey Solar Violet but I believe I only smelled iris in it.

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Perhaps Balenciaga Paris would work for you? If I'm not mistaken, you're looking for the kind of floral powdery clean/fresh smell of violet, but rest assured, I'm not a violet expert! Check the reviews on this one, and see if it helps.

Hello ! You will probably always smell iris in violet, since their scents have a lot of molecules in common (violet scent is reconstituted in perfumery anyway, you can't extract its smell from the plant for industrial purposes).

For a violet with no root, no powder, and so, less iris, maybe you can get your nose on Féérie, by Van Cleef and Arpels ? https://www.parfumo.com/Perfum...

I know it's discontinued, but it's really reminiscent of violet candy to me and not at all of iris. I heard Violette from Berdoue is a nice cheapish violet that leans in the same direction.

ps - sorry, I looked for a while, but I have no idea how to insert perfumes in the message 😅

Hi, to instert perfumes in your comments you type: # then you type the name of your perfume and then some choices appear of which you can choose (and click on) the one you mean to show.

Hello, I would recomment Insolence Eau de Parfum there is some Iris in it too, but if you can't smell violet in there, I wouldn't know what to recomment...a very strong violet scent .

Violetta di Parma

La Violette

Accordo Viola

Violette Eau de Parfum

These actually really smell like violet, not like some weird, strident, ozonic, aseptic vintage powder.

I concur. This is an *intense* violets fragrance. It’s like getting slapped by a bouquet of violets on steroids. The EdT and EdP are so strong I can smell them, with the lids on from feet away. At first I found them to be too strange for me but I’m beginning to enjoy. They were the only fragrances I have I could even remotely smell when I had COVID anosmia. I would spray them all over myself for a fleeting anything and I used them to retrain my brain to recognize scents.