Description:

floral, powdery, soft, romantic, feminine, fresh

Olfactive Profile:

Violet flowers smell soft, sweet, and powdery. This note is often used to add a fresh and romantic character to fragrances.

Facts:

Ionone, the compound responsible for violet's natural scent, activates our scent receptors but then binds to them and renders them inactive, meaning we can only briefly perceive violet's scent. Moments later, the scent resurfaces as a new stimulus since the brain did not perceive it moments earlier, so each encounter with violet feels like the first time.

candles with violet: