Note

Water Violet

The name suggests a delicate, watery flower, but I do not know a reliable characteristic scent for this plant. In perfume, it could be interpreted as a fresh floral heart beside green or aquatic notes.

In 2 perfumes.

Found in Reflection Woman and Her Desert Reflection

Most popular with water violet

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to water violet more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Floral and woody above all. Reaches for lactonic, amber and yellow floral far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for citrus and vanilla.

  • floral
  • woody
  • sweet
  • amber
  • white floral
  • lactonic
  • musky
  • green