Phantom Zone: Le Labo Violette 30

So, part of my StC order from last time included a le labo that I have never heard of (well, I never said I had encyclopedic knowledge of these.) Looking on the interwebs I found came out at the end of 2025, but there seems to be nothing at the le labo website about it. Which would normally have me going after it like a dog after a frisbee.

CB I Hate Perfume Wild Pansy and AG La Violette are ones with violet that I have enjoyed and Uncle Serge’s de Profundis (although that is a little more Chrysanthemum than violet, not to mention long gone) and his Bois de Violette are ones that I love.

This one? I think I must have a block or something. Reviewers had written about the Aldehydes and violets and this and that but I got some washed out aldehydes (Chanel No 5 would just look at this disdainfully, grind a Gauloise under her pump and walk away) and not much in the way of violets/ Notes (from Fragrantica) are:

Top notes are Violet, Aldehydes and Rose; middle notes are Cumin, Incense and Saffron; base notes are Cedar, Amber and Patchouli.

I guess I get some of the saffron or the cumin in the slightly earthiness of this. Note that I write “slight.” It also seems like it really wants to go play-doh on me as some violets can (looking at you Caron Bellodgia), but thankfully doesn’t go there.

But it doesn’t really seem to go much of anywhere on me, unless I am not smelling something. But perhaps subtlety is something that I am unused to in perfume and this is too subtle for my neanderthal desire to smell pretty. Or smell of anything at all.

I promised a dog with a frisbee..

Since this isn’t on their website does not show this as being available I don’t know what the pricing is going to be. There’s a FacePlace page that’s dated 10/25/25 that reads that it will be coming “soon.”

I’m afraid I won’t be waiting with bated breath.

I don’t see it on the website so I don’t know the pricing on this one. I am assuming that it follows the rest of the line and is around $250 for 50ML. Don’t hate me for not caring enough to do the legwork.

Have you tried this? Do you like le labo? (I do, even with that silly “expiration date” and “mixed fresh” thing) Like violets? Discuss in the comments. My sample is from Surrender to Chance.

This just in: My neighbor stopped and asked at one point if I was wearing cologne. I told him I was and he said it was really pretty. So someone can smell it and is pleased. Maybe after a few tries I’ll smell it too..

This just in even more: I am smelling more of it and it’s quite lovely. Very quiet, but lovely. I want to say that it has something in it that I can’t place: something makes me want to say it’s like FM Dans Tes Bras, but while similar, aren’t quite the same. And I am too lazy to get my butt over to the FM store on Melrose Place to cadge a sample, since I never reviewed that one either. Well, I am too lazy to do it today, anyway. Stay tuned..

Images: my iPhone and Pexels.