![]() I suspect that the Natura Fabularis collection aims at pleasing the Jo Malone crowd, who seem all too willing to shell out ultra-premium prices for one-note perfumes with the mute button on. Still, if this is what's going on, it doesn't make the perfume itself any more interesting-it's still iris and violets and not much else. After all, ionones derive from carotenoids, the familiar orange pigments we all know from carrots, so a perfume presenting a spectrum of ionones from top to bottom, violet blossoms to carrot roots via iris, is a nice idea (although I have no idea how the saffron fits in) and it seems to fit with the mildly didactic vibe of the Latin names and laboratory-bling of the bottles. It's possible that L'Artisan could be aiming at something instructive concerning ionones, the scents of violets and iris. L'Artisan's collection includes almost nothing that smells like anything else out there on the market, so why put out such a relatively pedestrian take on violets? There must be 40 or 50 perfumes out there in the world that offer some variation on the violet/leather idea, and very few of them have offered much improvement over Jolie Madame. But it seems like the house kind of wasted a bullet here. What is it trying to do? As far as I can see, L'Artisan doesn't really have a straight-up violet fragrance in their book, which is why I was drawn to Violaceum. It's a nice enough scent-elegant, dark, and slightly suggestive of leather, sort of (inasmuch as iris reads as "leather" in perfume vernacular) but I'm not sure I understand why it needs to exist, exactly and the perfume's somewhat desultory vibe doesn't really help much. The violet part pretty much ends within the first 30 minutes (at least on my skin), leaving a kind of shadowy self in the iris materials. The drydown smells both moist and dry, suggestive of the aroma freshly turned black soil. ![]() Also, ifthere's saffron in here, I can't smell it. L'Artisan's blurb about Violaceum says something about the connection between food and perfume, and claims that Daphne Bugey includes a carrot-and-saffron accord along with the violets-but honestly, I just smell iris, which gets more diffused and chalky the way iris does. Then it shows a little bit of violet blossom proper, tamped down by a decent whack of iris. It starts off with some promise-the unmistakably peppery bite of violet leaf (does anyone know if watercress and violets have any sort of kinship? Just a thought) in a sort of dank, moist accord suggestive of dark fairy-tale forests. All the NF perfumes appear to be explorations of a single note and, true to its name, Violaceum smells like violet-for a while. ![]() I would consider it criminal if the quality of any of those were to decline. After all, this house has one of the best back catalogs in the business, with at least a dozen perfumes that literally smell like nothing else on earth, all of which also happen to be well-made and almost shockingly wearable. When perfumes houses do that, it's hard to shake the suspicion that their other products may be getting less attention from the folks who hold the purse strings and in L'Artisan's case, I really hope not. boxes are not available for Second Day Express and Next Day Air orders.L'Artisan's new(ish) Natura Fabularis ("nature mythology") series looks interesting to me, because anything new from this house looks interesting to me but, to be honest, I also feel a little disappointed that this house has succumbed (once again, if you count the Explosions d'Emotions) to the temptation of putting out a more-expensive/higher tier line. If you haven’t received your order within 10 days of receiving your shipping confirmation email, please contact us at with your name and order number, and we will look into it for you. Please allow 48 hours for the tracking information to become available. When your order has shipped, you will receive an email notification from us which will include a tracking number you can use to check its status. Scent Opulence is not responsible for these charges if they are applied and are your responsibility as the customer. Your order may be subject to import duties and taxes (including VAT), which are incurred once a shipment reaches your destination country. Shipping charges for your order will be calculated and displayed at checkout. We offer international shipping worldwide. We will contact you via text message with the phone number you provided at checkout to notify you on the day of our arrival. For orders under $250, we charge $10 for local delivery.ĭeliveries are made 7 days a week from 8 AM to 9 PM PST. Local delivery Free local delivery is available for orders over $250 within Los Angeles, CA. Fedex, DHL, UPS, USPS, DPD and other local carriers
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