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Bilik – :
Why was this discontinued? We all like it!
murat – :
I will use this to layer with fragrances which are sweet, and therefore not necessarily to my liking.
I think Benzoin figures prominently in Kerbside Violets because I am getting something between paint and petrol, but perhaps that’s the intention…kerbside might indicate the road and the petrol driven cars on it. It also has a medicinal green quality to it. The violet note is green leaf, not soft powdery flowers.
I believe this has some merit, even if it isn’t the feminine soft violet fragrance I usually enjoy (Insolence Extrait), but for me it won’t be a stand alone.
скрал – :
Oh so beautiful (but I love violet leaf fragrances). At first spray, it reminds me of Grey Flannel, but with less floral notes. Then quickly calms down to something closer to Fahrenheit or Calvin Klein MAN. Lush violet leaf with an earthiness similar to wet concrete or peat, lending a nice powderiness. Perfect scent for a rainy summer day
катрин – :
I really love this one…it’s a weird mix of Choward’s violet candies and gasoline…but it works…(I have the perfume spray version)…
oya419speagoessenda – :
I’ve had this in the balm formula a couple of times, but it always expired before I managed to use it up.
The violet scent here is so lovely, so natural and earthy.
It really does make me think of a violet actually growing from the ground instead of flowers being distilled into a perfume.
I bet this would smell absolutely amazing on a lot of men.
I hope they’ll bring it back one day, although I never tried the liquid and it might be a different animal entirely.
hovo1981 – :
Kerbside Violet: Violet leaf plus the smell of concrete and chain-link fencing after a thunderstorm. It feels edgy and industrial, but might also remind one of the smell of a grassy playground after the rain. This is not a straight-up violet or violet candy that you get from many other violet frags out there like Violettes du Czar. Super interesting and a favorite on my shelf right now.
Diabllo III – :
Quite green and cold for my liking. As much as i love violet i dont really enjoy this one. It has a melancholy feel to it.
edic – :
Very floral, but masculine, strong fragrance. Very green, jungle-like, perfect for hot days.
ЛёКа – :
Urban-industrial, steampunk violet. Immediately very very powdery, strangely wet green, very earthy. Metal, concrete, tar… I don’t like it but I like the idea of it. So rock on, Kerbside Violet.
sem1970 – :
Update: I let a friend smell my solid straight out of the tin, and she got so excited! “IT’S FANFICTION KISSES! THEY ALWAYS SAY THEY TASTE LIKE THUNDERSTORMS AND STUFF AND THIS SMELLS EXACTLY LIKE THAT! I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS EXISTS, I’M SO HAPPY OMG!” So according to my friend, if you want to smell like fanfiction (or cheesy romance novel) kisses taste, this’ll do you. It definitely does smell like wet weather, specifically a rained-on field of grass out behind the elementary school or something like that. Personally, it still just reminds me of chewing on flowers/grass/flower stems in the aforementioned field as a kid, because I guess I just enjoyed diversifying my vegetable consumption or something?
Anastasia_Nasya – :
Lush’s Kerbside Violet is that totally kissable stranger on the subway platform who eats those weird purple mints from the newspaper kiosk.
There’s a blast of burning coal and then bruised wildflowers and finally ashy sweetness.
Voltikus – :
Just received the solid version. I can definitely smell the violet, but I also get a lot of wet green stuff, like chewing on a flower stem as a kid or having to use your teeth to make the hole in the stem for a daisy chain because you’ve bitten your nails too short. I’m not sure I like that bit. That goes away after about an hour though (at least I think that’s how long–I put it on before a class and now that the class is over, the eating-flowers-in-a-field-after-it’s-rained bit (don’t judge, we were all weird as kids) is gone and now it’s just a nice soft violet, a bit powdery. You can use the solid stuff fairly liberally, as the sillage goes down after a while, but beware the early stages if you do.
Skaksteat – :
Not for me.
I love Violets so I sort of blind bought a small travel sized spray of this fragrance – mistake. I actually smelt the solid perfume and tested that out and it was a fresh Violet, very pleasant.
The opening is piercing green woods. I sprayed it twice and my husband about 8 feet away from me wrinkled his nose in disgust asking what I just sprayed – he didn’t believe it was supposed to be a perfume.
My reaction wasn’t as negative as my husband’s, but I found it too fresh spicy, too woodsy, too green and I had to wash it off.
I gave it away to my grandma, who loves Violets, but she too passed it on. I checked the expiration date and it wasn’t expired and I bought it directly from Lush.
I’m tempted to go back for the solid perfume, because I did enjoy that smell, just not the liquid.
urbaclela – :
piercing at first, and then a loveliness that lingers.
i love “kerbside violet” mixed with another lush fragrance called “lust”.
i was told at the lush store that “kerbside violet” will be discontinued.
please don’t.
carpinteyropmj – :
After an almighty initial blast of piercing metallic effluvia which very nearly scared me away, Kerbside Violet settles into an insanely accurate rendition of tiny violets dusted with a fine powdery mist of wood and damp verdure. An iris strewn violet dry down which lasted for a few good hours on my skin and has me remembering the gorgeous coupling of Vanessa Ives and Dorian Gray in Penny Dreadful, that is to say, a sexy victorian love affair.
IIroroK – :
When I was a kid I used to get on my hands and knees and smell the violets in my Nana’s garden. I always preferred this to the smell after they were picked, it was never as fresh or as strong. This perfume smells just like that, green, floral, with a hint of clean earth. While it is a subtle smell it is incredibly lasting, just as strong 24 hours later. When I wear this I smell it all day and think of my Nana.
dionnnn – :
This one is so weird. But a weird I can appreciate, but also not quite understand or like on my skin.
I was expecting that dewy, after rain type garden smell but it was quite far from it. Kerbside Violet is very metallic and peppery. I would have never expected this to form so spicy for a violet based frag. Over time it stays this way, for a good 2-4 hours. After that I totally get the classic woody/powdery type of scent from it, which is okay. It smells rather like a makeup bag.
Overall, unique but not for me. Impressive longevity and sillage.
FrostForse – :
This (the spray) to my nose starts out as crushed violet leaves, very green, bitter sap.Then it turns nostalgic and it took a while for me to remember where I smelt this before but here it is: the smell (not taste) of swedish sweets called “hallonbåtar”. So I guess i must be getting raspberry out of this, combined with a faint violet. The drydown had a very faint rose and woods. A quirky, green, slightly floral and not overly sweet gourmand as far as my experience goes.
macug – :
This is quite the interestingly odd yet addicting scent. I am reviewing the solid perfume. I love it. It is unique and somewhat dark and melancholic. Hiding underneath the initial odd depressing opening lies an earthly beauty. There is the prominent violet but it feels strange I guess the name is fitting. Imagine being in a run down city with a large basketball court and playground. The concrete and asphalt are old and cracked. The nets from the hoops are long gone. Graffiti on the walls and rusted old swing sets. Off in the corner between the old crumbling asphalt lies a little violet peeking through – it’s a refreshing sight in a dilapidated concrete jungle. It’s just odd and out of place, not fitting and it simply should not be there but you just want to keep sniffing hoping it does not disappear. The solid is very nice and has great lasting power.
tioma91 – :
I recieved this perfume as a gift this last christmas, and I fell in love inmediately!
Kerbside Violet, is a weird and quirky violet… herbal, green, almost metallic and oh so cold! has all that 70’s green/darkish perfume kind of style… bitter yet sweet and powdery when it settles down on skin, but always very unusual, this is cold-hearted violet, nothing sweet except for the powdery notes on the drydown… with strict green notes, like directly from the dewy forest…
Lasting power is very nice… on me is about 6 to 7 hours with very good projection. Compliment getter.
Smells vintage… vegetal and powdery, it’s the spirit of the violet captured in a tiny cute bottle…
Absolutely love it!
Greetings from Chile!
fedorovds – :
Smells like the La Brea Tar Pits, and car exhaust…then it morphs into a beautiful, haunting violet. Kerbside Violet is a polluted version of Meteorites…like Meteorites spilled on steaming asphalt. It’s so unusual and unexpected, I can’t help but be drawn to it. The perfume spray starts with the bitumen note, full-blown, but it becomes a sweet wood violet (Viola odorata) that is simply haunting in its aromatic accuracy. It’s shocking to have a scent start out so deeply disturbing, and then become comforting and achingly pretty. This is a true work-of-art that’s hugely underrated. I love it.
TrideThem – :
Didn’t work for me. Reminds me of the cleaner Pinol.
Shustrila – :
If only this excellent musk composition had a little better longevity! To me Kerbside Violet is the smell of a Krtek (Little Mole) tale. I can’t but praise it’s naturalness. A perfect, dreamlike fragrance — with so little longevity and sillage! The base is rosewood which I like a tad more than sandalwood.
wasser-odin – :
This is a strange one: I have a total love-hate-thing going on with this perfume. Most days I can’t stand it, but when I feel like I can and I spray it on, I can’t stop sniffing at my wrists.
It’s a very sharp, metallic kind of violet, which totally reminds me of blood. It’s a cool mental image, but not something I like to smell on a day-to-day basis. It’s very powerful at first, and can easily give me a headache. You only need one spritz in my opinion. After letting it settle a while the sharpness gets a little mellower and reveals this gorgeous mixture of violet, it’s leaves and the ground it grows in, with a little powdery aroma in the background. It gives me a feeling of a cold, wet day in the summer. Weirdly the mixture reminds me a little bit of licorice, but I smell licorice in everything for some reason… And this isn’t very edible licorice, it’ just a weird little note that I get.
This is a very unique perfume in my gourmand-heavy wardrobe, and everytime I wear it it’s certainly a breath of fresh air. I’ve been contemplating about giving it away as I wear it so rarely, but when I do, I’m so weirdly drawn to it. This is a perfume to be careful with though: the longevity and sillage are pretty powerful, and this has the potential of knocking people down.
starglo – :
The spray is sharper and very “minty” compared to the wax
gk110751 – :
This is a review of the solid version:
There is a lot of violet leaf in Kerbside Violet, so instead of demure and sweet violet flowers, you get fresh, wet, borderline metallic and sharp violets (roots and stems and all) rising from dark earth. The mid and base notes have more violet flower than the top notes, and as a result they are woodier and more powdery, but just as gorgeous.
Kerbside Violet is not very complex, but as a fragrance it is pure punk rock: Vigorous, unexpected, and fun; a breath of fresh air in a genre that is starting to suffocate under its own weight.
IMO Kerbside Violet is a unisex frag and would work well for most genders. 4/5 stars
drum – :
This is really a very descriptive name! The oily quality of the oud has sort of a leather asphalt accord which does remind me of flowers growing along a road. The violet is true to nature and powdery fresh. The oud helps the scent last longer than most violet scents. Lovely!
G.A.V.83 – :
In my search for my perfect violet scent, I’ve come a step closer with Kerbside Violet. Typically violet on my skin gets crushed by other florals its paired with, so I was happy to see a fragrance where violet stands as the sole floral note. When I first tested it on my wrists, my immediate reaction was a resounding “NOPE” and I kept moving. the top note was way too harsh and synthetic for me. Very bitter, almost spicy? However, as I ambled my way down the mall, I kept getting whiffs of the most beautiful violet. I thought, “surely that can’t be me” only to sniff my wrists and be assaulted by that harsh green again. But lo and behold, after a while a delightful powdery violet smell emerged. Seems like a feminine fragrance, but I would love to see it get picked up by men- violets mixed with that green spiciness i think would call back to the time men wore violet oil in their hair. Not particularly berry/candy-like like many violet fragrances, not floral like others. Just a slightly powdery, true violet smell, like when i use to pick them in my backyard and smell them as a kid.
That top note though. Yikes.
Lirpenox – :
Wow…this is an up-close and personal scent of the violet. Realistic and true, it is the leaves, stems, earth and flowers. That little tiny purple woodland flower that I adore so very much in my heart right here fresh blooming in the damp woods on an early morning hike with fog all around from the rain the night before. Quite the little fairy tale scent for me because of the realistic whole plant theme…there is definately a living magical world going on here. woodland green sprites and fairy magic…
With this scent I feel like it can be Spring year round right here on my wrist…violets all year long! Yes, a full bottle is in the future for me…
vovariga – :
This is not a violet scent but a violet leaf scent. Which is not floral, but an olfactory of spicy fresh cut grass with a bit more depth. The violet leaf mostly encompass the entire fragrance with just a small hint of wood & jasmine. It a nice, fresh, (I would consider) gender neutral scent. But there is absolutely no violets in here nore is this at all a traditional floral fragrance. If that is what your looking for.
Someone needs to edit the notes on this page.
Jura227 – :
On me this is leafy, earthy, woodsy and aqueous, like walking through woodland after rain, or crushing damp green plants underfoot. There’s something faintly acrid there too, like cold metal.
I can smell powdery violet in the tin but on my skin it’s barely there – though some of the greenness could easily be violet leaf. Occasionally a hint of violet sweetness emerges as the scent develops but it’s subtly floral rather than like Parma Violet pastilles.
I have the solid version, which is the least concentrated, and it’s fairly delicate. (From the other reviews I suspect this is not true of the spray!) While this perfume doesn’t overwhelm me with delight or have great sillage, the flipside is that it isn’t too strong for office wear and brings a refreshing breath of the outside in. I keep the tin in my desk drawer for a mid-afternoon pick-me-up once whatever scent I applied in the morning has faded.
The way this smells on my skin, I could imagine a man wearing it comfortably, maybe even more so than a woman.
andreafanasev – :
Yeah! I’ve always “wanted to like something” from Gorilla Perfumes considering their unique, down-to-earth aesthetics. A breath of fresh air amidst the common, often douchey aim for fragrances to scream luxury. But one by one their scents have left me disappointed at the least and repulsed at the worst. Kerbside Violet is officially the first from the line to reel me in. It’s a razor sharp violet ripping through a wet, dewy, urban morning. There’s also some subdued, wet vinyl as others have mentioned, akin to an inflatable alligator that’s been chillin in the pool all day. No doom and gloom here for me, though I do think there’s something inherently gothic about the almighty violet. This is almost like Narciso Rodriguez For Him took a light dose of antidepressants and went to a beach in the Pacific Northwest. A small amount of glassy melancholia but far from amped up. Kerbside Violet performs like a proper EDP and less is definitely more, justifying the somewhat high price tag. I’m no gender nazi when it comes to scent, but this may be too feminine for my taste. Still I’m left impressed, intrigued, and on the fence about a purchase.
polinchiktro – :
Well FINALLY: I walk into my local LUSH and find a few new frags on the (too small) frag display area. I SO WISH LUSH WOULD SELL A LARGER VARIETY OF FRAGS IN THIER USA STORES !!!!!! But whatever.
First tried their new All Good Things…and yuk. Awful.
My eyes delighted upon seeing this! Kerbside Violet. Heard of it but never tried it. WHY? Because LUSH is U.K. centric and does not give a crap about their USA stores. That’s why!
Anyway:
This is a harsh , abrasive violet that smells like it’s trying to grow out of concrete.
It’s cold and hard. It should be called “Violet Hammer Storm”.
Says “for Women” but the hard edge is perfect for men. This would be the punk rock cousin to Geoffrey Beene’s Grey Flannel . Industrial skank violet!
I like it–killer longevity and sillage (rather KILLAGE!) .
I can spray it on a couch in Chicago and smell it all the way to NYC.
As with ALL LUSH frags: This is not for everyone. Do not Blind Buy.
EDIT————- update—————
I ran out of my small bottle a year ago and did not replace it until TODAY.
I forgot how nice it was! And like most LUSH’s “Gorilla” line- combative in a punky way. This is unisex !
artimoahka – :
I was expecting violets in a Kenzo Flower style, but this instead is damp, crushed, earthy violet leaves. Bleak, dark, bitter, moody and very gothic. Couldn’t say better than in enjoythesilence review below. If I were Harry Potter, I’d wear this to go to the Cave, to retrieve the Locket. But here is the thing, on me 2 hours later after the application I catch wiffs of something akin to Mitsouko. Akin in a powdery, warm, eadible, nutty, gingerbread way. Later yet it becomes a transluscent sweet skin sent. I won’t wear this often, and I don’t love it, but I will want to experience this journey from time to time, for the thrill of it. At the end I wore it to work instead of to the Cave, and I got compliments, people think it smells increadible. Well, so much the better.
xsander – :
I went to LUSH a few days ago to get a few things when there, shining like a beacon, sat KV in the fragrance section. I was delighted because for at least a year now I have wanted to try it. I bought it without even trying it on.
I sprayed it on myself fairly liberally the next morning…what a difference between my imagination and reality. It lasted about 3 hours on my skin and during this time it was nothing but wet asphalt in the summer heat with a feeble, timid violet squashed into Lust’s animalic base. I love Lust. I do not love this. The musk and woods here don’t blend so well; everything smells harsh and aggressive, except for the alleged violet note which I barely detect. I actually loathe this fragrance. It cannot hold a candle to the violet masterpiece that was Tuca Tuca. They smell nothing alike to me.
Also it reads masculine to me so gentlemen may like it. I do enjoy several other masculine fragrances but cannot abide this. I had the 10ml spray and shipped it off to someone else to try.
verdenvikt – :
Oh my lord, I finally got the spray bottle today. Jeez this is so different than the solid. It’s what I have been hoping for an more since it was released. Indiana finally got it and it’s so intense. Very deeply earthy and metallic green. I dare compare it to prada violette and la violette by Annick goutal (without the strange hint of aerosol). It’s like getting kurbstomped into a violet bush and dirt.
sevok3202 – :
Been longing for this for a while. Wasn’t willing to pay 90 for a tiny bottle in the states. I got the solid and it’s a heavy violet. I prefer metalic green, astringent violets. This is right between that and the sweet violet. Very good and powerful as lush usually comes. As someone said before, very similar if not the same as the ultraviolet bath bar.
Рик – :
Being a bit obsessed with both violets and Lush, I’ve wanted to try this scent for a while but distribution problems have rendered the Gorilla III collection as essentially unavailable outside of the UK. Although this isn’t the definitive violet scent for me, it’s one of the best scents that Lush has released in some time, and certainly a fragrance worth checking out for anyone into cold, glassy florals.
It’s a simple scent: violet leaf (a medicinal green material) and a note that smells like rosewood or mahogany (industrially polished wood with a touch of soap) is met with a barely-present slither of jasmine and that’s about it. Combined, these notes smell a bit like herbalized green rose — slightly bitter, a tad metallic, and exceedingly damp. In fact, that’s how I’d describe this scent overall: silvery and wet — like dicing crisp vegetables. It’s glassy and transparent, yet it’s not overly fragile; it smells the way a neon light looks after a downpour — a dejected, shimmering reflection on the sidewalk. Facets of the naturals emerge in unpretty ways (a minor soapyness; an acrid, stemmy trace), but what predominates is the dampness and the chill — a standoffish earthy effect that sidesteps the already-tired petrichor cliché. There’s not a lick of powder or cosmetics that are often associated with violet/iris scents — this is really quite green. It reminds me more of a freshly mopped flower shop floor than it does a floral perfume (CBIHP’s To Smell a Flower achieved this effect too). Whereas I had hoped it might smell more like the Daddy-O products (a thick, coumeric, chewy violet), I do like the direction they’ve taken here. I can’t see this being much of a hit with your average Lush shopper though, as many of the brand’s products are considerably more sweet whereas this one is borderline chilling. Last, there’s not a lot of foundation behind it, so it doesn’t perform that well — a crisp opening that breaks down into a low-level grassy hum over the course of an hour. Consequently, I might describe Kerbside Violet more as an EdC-style splash for goths. Brisk, green, naturalistic, and somewhat morose. I dig it.
prisillasuc – :
Having finally got my hands on this fragrance, I am astounded that no one has yet compared this to Imogen Rose!!! How is this possible. At the very least, the opening is exactly, spot on, like Imogen Rose. It’s a bit lighter perhaps. Granted, my experience is with the solid, but I actually only own the solid version of Imogen Rose as well. I get no obvious violet from it at all. It is green so I am wondering if perhaps Violet Leaf is the version of violet that is included. I’ll wait to see how it dries down, but for the moment, KV is IR!
pigmalion83 – :
Huge big green scent with powdery violet – go easy on the spraying because it is pretty overwhelming.
I hope that this settles down soon because I’m quite fond of breathing on demand and this is inhibiting that!
Airena – :
Violet based scents hardly work well with my skin chemistry. This is a violet and mud combo mess on me with damp notes. Lucky are those who get straight up pure sweet Violets!
smeagsEmign – :
This is so pretty and so natural. It doesn’t smell perfumy, not that perfumy is bad, but sometimes I just want to smell good. It’s a close to you skin scent that smells scrumptiously devine. Hard to find though.
dominoxs – :
A living violet…flower, leaves, steam, and roots plucked fresh from the ground before you. At first it’s very green, dewy, and bitter. Then an after wave of dry powdery violet florals coating everything like purple frost. This is not a sweet candied violet. I find this could be worn by a free spirited hippie, or a fair lady wearing gloves, there is something elegant yet raw about this.
Meres1k – :
Retro, boheme, hippy. A green and powdery violet.
тыны – :
On me this is a straight up, pure violet scent. How amazing is that?! Smells like those French Flavingy pastilles. Sugary, powdery, candylike floral. Love! If you crave the scent of pure sugared violets to play on your skin – This is perfect. You’ll feel like the Sofia Coppola version of Marie Antoinette roaming a candystore.
baimet2009 – :
Kerbside Violet, by, Gorilla Perfume, Lush.
As I left the busy olfactory cacophony of the local, Brighton, Lush store and wandered home, I lazily strolled through the intimacy of the Royal Pavilion Gardens in which various cheerful persons were busking: their young faces playfully painted like cats sporting majestic whiskers, just as birds twittered merrily in the early evening calm and, in the busy streets beyond, itinerant magicians, mime artists, and various ‘living statues’ performed to small crowds as part of the opening weekend of this year’s Brighton Festival. Indeed, I wondered if, following a serendipitous time-slip of sorts, whether I had wandered in to a larger street performance of The Winter’s Tale such was the overt Bohemian quality in the air and, looking towards a spectacular weeping elm tree that had just abundantly come in to flower, took in the diverse pungent green and dusty smells wafting from the various flowers and plants in the garden. As the light suddenly shifted due to the subtle appearance of a net of rather muted partial cloud-cover, and the shadows capriciously lengthened, I watched as a man complete in a stripy onsie resembling a pantomime Gaul complete with jaunty beret indefatigably blew streams of bubbles in to the air: their slippery iridescence hypnotically glorious before the inevitable collapse of their rapid expiration. A squirrel scampered up the peculiar contours of the elm: the tree’s stout trunk a platform upon which the magnificent umbrella of its cascading braches and bushy foliage could be seen to be cleverly grafted like a woody prosthetic. The squirrel stopped and appeared to look upon me, singularly, with a sense of mischief and tease and I reflected that at any moment I might hear the tell-tale clickety-click rattle of a friendly large stick insect beckoning me towards the stony steps of an occult labyrinth hidden somewhere underneath the nearby Royal Pavilion Palace. Awaiting its appearance and amidst all this dizzy magic, I checked my wrist, re-sniffing the area whereupon the heady delights of Kerbside Violet seemed to brew as if mythically nourished by the blood pumping through my radial artery, the forthright unapologetic violet chord eloping in to the air with the pastel, near-cloying, textures of ylang ylang and rosewood with unconditional carefree gay abandon.
A sort-of large, weird, tumbling, off-chypre, organic, distant and raw variant of Geoffrey Beene’s revolutionary Grey Flannel, I stood amazed at the depth of enquiry required to comprehend the fullness of this ‘simple’ perfume and the way in which it was pulling me in: its olfactory hues as bright and green as the hazy sunlit forest in which an innocent Ofelia could explore before the descent: the latter dramatized by charcoal, steel blues and shadows as lit by the fullness of the moon: the earthy, saline, musky taste and smell of the nearby ancient faun most apparent before the arrival of its physical being in to the realms of the living.
Spellbinding!
iztverivantal – :
Very earthy wet Violets. I liked tuca tuca far more in comparison. Has medium sillage and lasts long.
Furweng – :
If there ever was such a thing as a killer violet then Kerbside Violet has a pretty good chance of winning that title. I have been looking for a strong and “definite” violet scent for a while, tried and dismissed Tom Ford´s blond violet scent, considering his exclusive violet creation….but none gave me that “This is it. It´s what I was looking for” feeling.
KV did. I am currently discovering the floral side of my olfactory self and am surprised how well florals can be actually worn.
KV is a steampunk heroine : tough, persistent, willful and oh so beautiful. She knocks you down but you love to wake up seeing her features 🙂
It is a pleasure that the Victorians certainly would have deemed guilty.
Iris also plays a supporting role. Earthy and grounded, greenish and damp and a very good companion for the violet.
Projection : one spray only will do to be clearly noticed when entering a room.
Longevity : medium on me…which means about 3-4h but that´s ok for me.
All in all a beautiful creation.
roznuk – :
Lovely monster violet.
I agree it’s like ripping grass and shrubs. It smells earthy then comes violet with a sweet powdery edge, but nothing like those candy violets around in mainstream.
I like Violetta di Parma by Borsari more than others, but that is a polished violet perfume, while Kerbside Violet is an explosion of the earth, but it doesn’t go without an elegant touch. Generally feminine, but since Lush perfumes smell more like pure smells rather than perfumes, there is no clear gender label.
KV becomes sweeter in time on my skin and a little powdery. Nice.
LUKA79J – :
Amo la violetta e da anni sono alla ricerca di una fragranza dedicata a questo fiore che mi faccia innamorare per davvero.
Voglio una violetta densa e cremosa, un po’ cupa, quasi oscura. Una fragranza che mi faccia avvertire la sensazione di avere sulla pelle qualcosa di color viola, un colore intenso e vellutato.
Una violetta sensuale ed audace che non mi ricordi la ” Violetta di Parma” di Borsari (un ottimo profumo ma, secondo me, adatto ad una donna del secolo scorso).
Un aroma di violetta che sia potente e persistente, non delicato e timido.
Una violetta femminile all’ennesima potenza e che mi faccia sentire a lungo avvolta da una nuvola fiorita che mi protegge dal mondo esterno.
L’ho trovata !!!!!!!!
Ed è proprio questa fragranza di Lush
La adoro
chups182 – :
Oh Kerbside Violet…you beautfiul monster. Kerbside begins with a powerful blast of what can only be described as green. Seriously like you’re ripping grass, shrubs, flowers, and other plants out of the ground and shoving them up your nose. GREEN. TERRIFYING GREEN! Then out of nowhere, it’s gone. Whats left is a strong natural violet scent, supported by jasmine and ylang ylang. About 20 minutes in, the rosewood comes through to add a bit of complexity to the florals. This fragrance is a sweet and powdery floral that has some serious power to it. Large sillage and a good lasting power. I would call this fragrance unisex but its seriously teetering on the feminine side.
lenakomlik – :
I purchased a bottle of this in September whilst at a work meeting (I work for Lush)
To me, it’s Tuca Tuca’s little sister, who appears during the day, rather than at night.
Its a soft, powdery, cold, delicate violet compared to Tuca Tuca’s heavy, deep, rich and smoky scent
I love both. I’m addicted to Violet!
Kerbside Violet reminds me of Guerlain’s Apres L’Ondee. Not identical but in the same forest.
I hope this becomes part of Lush’s range in store, as Volume 3, which this fragrance is from, has not been guaranteed to be in all stores in the future. Fingers crossed!