Description
The house of Parfums Volnay Paris has rich history and takes us for a journey in time, while offering a persuasive balance between tradition of the brand and its contemporary image. This house was founded in 1919 in the golden age of perfumery. Founder of the house is Germaine Madeline Duval, who started the fragrant journey in the 1920es.
After many years, it was revived with five new creations founded on old formulas of perfumes Yapana from 1922, Brume d’Hiver from 1922, Objet Celeste from 1925, Etoile d’Or from 1925 and Perlerette from 1925. Perfumer Amelie Bourgeois worked on appropriate reformulations, and she managed to maintain refinedness, elegance and sophistication of old formulas, presenting them in contemporary and very feminine way.
All perfumes of the house of VOLNAY are unique for their olfactive connection, since they contain the same notes in their ingredients: powder, vanilla, rose and cloves, which build up to other ingredients in five different ways. These ingredients are square one and signature of all creations of the house – we find them in all compositions, listed as base 4092.
The flacons are inspired by round, herbal form in Art Deco style, with decorations made of blackberry leaves and branches. As symbol of the brand, blackberry branches and leaves suggest energy and liveliness, but also wild nature. Five new fragrances by PARFUMS VOLNAY PARIS were presented exclusively at FRAGRANZE 11 in Florence 2013.
Top notes are bergamot, pink pepper and pink grapefruit; middle notes are ylang-ylang, rose, vanilla, cloves, powdery notes and elemi resin; base notes are siam benzoin, labdanum, patchouli, rice, iris and vanilla.
Kolumber – :
It was among a bunch of free samples that I received from shaghayegh site with my other purchases,when I checked notes list I didn’t know what to expect here.I was just wishing for more vanilla,powder and rice and less labdanum,clove and pink pepper.it’s not as I wished but still I like it
I can get a lot of labdanum here,giving yapana almost a leathery quality but strangely I don’t dislike it as usual.I think it goes well with iris and benzoin;which are other dominant notes on my skin
I can see Shalimar comparison and I agree.there’s definitely a Shalimar gene here(iris-leather-vanilla)but this is a modern,a bit easy going version of Shalimar.while I can’t Tolerate Shalimar because of being too leathery,too smokey,too…,actually hundreds of other “too”s there’s nothing” too” here so I don’t dislike it but I don’t really like it enough to go and buy a bottle(even if it wasn’t expensive) but if you’d like a more wearable and balmy version of shalimar,it’s highly recommendable
Unfortunately I can’t detect any rice or enough vanilla for my liking.it’s a combination of iris,leathery labdanum,a hint of smokey vanilla,benzoin and resin and a dash of cloves.it’s definitely unisex and has acceptable Longevity and sillage
It’s something between ❤❤ and ❤❤❤ for me
یاپانا ولنای عطری هست که میشه اون رو از فامیلهای شالیمار درنظر گرفت.ورژن مدرنتر،متعادلتر،قابل استفاده تر و قابل تحمل تر شالیمار
یاپانا روی پوست من ترکیبی از زنبق،لادن چرم مانند،بنزویین و رزین،کمی وانیل دودی و کمی هم کلاو هست.برخلاف شالیمار هیچ چیز خیلی زیادی در اون وجود نداره.یعنی خیلی چرمی یا انیمالیک یا خیلی دودی و… نیست و بالمی و نرم تر هم شده و درنتیجه پرکاربردتر هست و راحتتر میشه ازش استفاده کرد.هرچند این هم حالت جدی و فرمال و کمی تیره داره اما درمقایسه با شالیمار برای استفاده روزانه مناسبتره.ماندگاری و پخش قابل قبولی داره و هرچند من ازش خوشم نیومد،برخلاف شالیمار ازش بدم هم نیومد.درضمن کاملا یونیسکس هست
braverheart74 – :
I really enjoy the opening of this. Ylang ylang always smells refreshingly vintage to me, and the clove and powder notes make this smoky and enticing. The middle is so seductive it makes the end an even bigger disappointment. I get a sweet benzoin/vanilla/labdanum dry-down, I have to strain to get any rice and I certainly don’t get any depth with patchouli or any lingering spice. I’m hoping Brume d’Hiver will be a better combination for me because I like the notes just not the composition of this one. All Volnay fragrances have the same base with powder, rose and clove and I’m hoping one of them will be for me.
RoraUtterne – :
Remember me Shalimar (version body lotion) or Keora by Jean Couturier or an indian oil which imitate Shalimar, but more powdery and gummy, rubbery. Make me think to the scent used to perfume eraesers and inks when I was a child (firsts 80s).
Nice.