Purple Love Smoke
by Soivohle (Liz Zorn)

Purple Love Smoke is an unusual natural fragrance. Right away there is an earthy violet tempered with sweetness. It goes on strong and mellows out . Lasting power is not bad for a natural ! Quality essences in this scent.
To summarize- Purple Love Smoke is candied violet earth .
Not similar at all to Ava Luxe's Midnight Violet .

22nd April, 2010.

I recently ordered a group of samples from Soivohle and Ms. Zorn added in a sample of Purple Love Smoke as a bonus. I'm glad she did because, along with Underworld parfum, it's probably my favorite of the bunch.

Last year I went through a 'violet' phase during which I sought out and sampled all manner of violet fragrances. I moved on from that phase having never really found a holy grail violet perfume. With this sample I've belatedly found such a fragrance! Purple Love Smoke features an incredibly deep, rich violet note - it's a touch green, a touch sweet and a touch floral. Paired with the violet note is a smoke "note" that smells like it's somewhere between the aroma of fresh topsoil and that of a smooth tabac. The accord works very well - the notes compliment each other and one can 'focus' their nose on either the violet, the 'smoke', or defocus and catch the general mix of the two.

I'm still learning about Soivohle as a house and have only tried a half dozen different scents. So far I'm very impressed - the quality of the compositions is superb and PLS exemplifies this. As with other "all-natural-ingredient" fragrances I've tried, longevity seems to suffer for the lack of synthetics, but that's a compromise I'm happy to live with if it means having fragrances this good.

20th January, 2010.