Vegan Violet Water | Edwardian Downton Abbey Perfume

Violet Water
1893-1927 Recipe
VEGAN
~Tall Plastic Sample Spritzer: 4 3/4 ” Tall Bottle: 10 ml (Picture to come)
~4oz Glass Bottle: This comes in a glass bottle with a screw top. Want to add a sprayer? Click the drop-down menu.
Vintage Label
Can be used as – perfume, linen, room freshener, bathwater, & so much more!

NOTE: Please keep in mind that while this is labeled as a perfume, this is not a perfume in the sense of what modern perfumes are today. Toilette waters that are scented with perfume oils are on the lowest spectrum of the perfume scale. Historically, toilette waters were used for lightly scenting things like rooms, sheets, gloves, as well as the body.

The smell of violets has been revered for centuries, but the flower itself can’t give off enough oil and when it does the smell doesn’t last long. Therefore, for centuries, oil has been extracted from the leaves but in addition, other violet-smelling ingredients have been used, like Orris Root. It is said that true violet oil does not exist. And the violet/leaf oil does not carry the true violet smell. They both have different scents. The flower possesses a sweet, powdery, woody-floral scent which is due to ionones in the flower. These ionones were first separated from Parma violets by Tiemann and Kruger in 1893. The discovery of ionones triggered the successful production of synthetic violet notes identical in scent. This means that before 1893 – using the oil produced by the flowers and leaves, one was not able to obtain the exact violet flower scent. After 1893 Violet waters, perfume, cosmetics, and toiletry products became very popular with the introduction of synthetic violet. Our violet water is post-1893. We bring you the true scent of Violets, just like the 20th-century women loved.

Historically Violets were associated with love, luck, wisdom, and protection and associated with Libra, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.