Well, I don't care for powdery scents or scents that are too "pretty" & I'm loving this. There's a powdery quality but it's not powder ala Bellodgia, TdN, etc. I think this is a beauty. Laurie describes it as quiet & reflective and I couldn't agree more. It's really well balanced (not overdone w/the heliotrope!) and there's some nice grounding woods, which I love. Not overly sweet, thankfully. The name means Place of Dreams & here are the notes: violet, rose, heliotrope, tonka, cedar, vetiver, amber, vanilla, orris, musk.
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Beautiful and well-done scent; the only reason I would not buy a full bottle is that it is not my taste. Violet, rose, heliotrope, musk, orris, tonka, cedar, amber, vetiver, vanilla. A very pretty, powdery floral, rather dry with a salty or green edge, and pretty strong heliotrope and orris.

I like to think I go with the edgier fragrances but the truth is I don't, but at the same time nor do I often wear what I consider to be utterly and completely pretty (I sometimes think this is just hard for me to pull off, because off line I am a rather sarcastic person) but Laurie at Sonoma Scent Studio has pulled off pretty at its prettiest. The violet in this feels as though it has been drenched in cool spring rain and then been left on a plate with rosewater madelines and perfect snow white macaroons. This is gourmand in the sense that L'Heure Bleu is gourmand, there are notes of gourmand running through it, but the fragrance is not edible. This is the sort've of fragrance that other women will complement you on. Bizarrely enough all I can think when I smell this is if you enjoy the prettiness of Le Chasse aux Papillons then I highly suggest you take a sniff of this, they do not smell similar at all, but they run in the same family of pretty.