Viole Nere
A black violet for March dawns: cassis brightness, iris powder and an earthy base of vetiver, patchouli and incense.
Perfumer: Giuseppe Imprezzabile
On March dawns, while the year's first violets push up through still-frozen ground, the maker reads poems aloud in a place described as the garden of the soul. Viole Nere takes on absence and the blackness one hides in, and the name is literal: the maker chose to tell a new story with the scent of a black violet.
The starting point was love for the garden as both a physical and a spiritual place. The violet here is spare and delicate but firm in character. A bright snap of cassis stands for the freshness of damp, cold March mornings, and vetiver, patchouli and incense pull the scent back down to soil and roots.
The aim was to update a tradition by balancing powdery, fruity and woody notes. Violet and iris lead a floral accord of lily of the valley, jasmine, rose and ylang-ylang, while cognac, sandalwood, oakmoss, vanilla and musk give it weight. The maker calls it a 1920s violet for the new century.
