Tags
aged vanilla, antique violet, Black Baccara, Cedar, cedarwood, clove, dark vanilla, earthy, floral, green, Himalayan cedar, Permanent Collection, Permanent Collection Perfumes, vanilla, vetiver, violet, wood
Scent Name: Ghost Violet
Manufacturer: Black Baccara, now Amorphous Perfume – Permanent Collection Perfumes
Scent Description and Notes: “Aroma palette is earthy, green, and floral. Highlights include antiqued violet, an antique wooden spiral staircase, aged dark vanilla, and a ghosting of vetiver.
As you ascend the staircase of an 18th century mansion, you feel a chill move through you as a woman dressed in white veils passes slowly across the hallway above you. Upon her head she wears a crown of withering violets. In her hands, she clutches a bouquet of the same. As she fades into the crumbling wallpaper at the end of the hall, she leaves a strange and intoxicating fragrance in the air: Ghost Violet.
Our interpretation of violets features a hauntingly beautiful violet bouquet made slightly earthy by Himalayan Cedarwood and greened ever so slightly by vetiver. On the dry down, quick flashes of cloves and vanilla peek through, softening the violets and enhancing the earth. This unforgettable and ghostly blend has a very antique feel reminiscent of perfumes of the 1930s.” – https://blackbaccaraoils.com/products/ghost-violet
Oil Color: The color of Canola oil with a splash of mahogany-toned settled resin on the bottom.
Bottle Design and Artwork: This is a standard sample vial size with a black cap and tester. The label features the name of the scent in the center, surrounded my stylistic florals with a gorgeous crown on top. The side of the label displays the name of the company in the same black block font, while the back contains the scent notes and the phrase “External Use Only” in a smaller, different black font.
Scent:
- ITI: This is so pretty – a vintage violet and clove with a soft lightly earthy, crisp base with a touch of distant cedarwood. It reminds me of a scent I would smell in a Victorian mansions dressing room.
- Wet: More sedate on my skin than in the bottle, the violet steps back a little, allowing for the clove to move forward, but it isn’t an intense, freshly-ground clove. It’s more watery and certainly very vintage smelling, touched with floral greenness and a delicately vanilla-rubbed wood.
- Dry: Clean floral violet, softly cloved spiced water with a touch of gentle vanilla creaminess underneath after 5 hours. After 8, it has vanished, but this would be worth the reapplication.
Other Impressions: [Wet] “It smells like mild flowers and cocoa butter.”-Tony