Perfume Review: L'Eau de l'Imperatrice Sissi by Maison Nicolas de Barry

Heckofa name for a perfume and heckofa name for a house, LOL! An obscure violet perfume, but I highly recommend seeking it out if you are a violet lover. 

This is one very pretty and demure perfume. It smells like a fantastic mix of plastic dolls hair, lipstick and powder from a compact, and violet pastilles. There is a strong, bright bergamot note in the top, almost too tangy for me. Somewhere in the base lurks some type of gauzy, sheer lactone. At one point it smells faintly coconutty. It took several wears for me to notice anything creamy at all. I gave it a rest for several weeks, then I tried it again after having worn dozens of other perfumes in that time, therefore, "recalibrating" my nose. Then I could smell the "vanilla", but it's not very strong and seems more like some other kind of creamy note. 

It feels like this type of violet perfume has been done many times before, but this is one of the nicest ones of its kind.

I recently smelled just the nozzle of a vintage bottle of Royal Bain de Caron, and it smells identical to this perfume. Can't vouch for them being the same thing, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. 

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