Violette Market's recurring Halloween-themed collection is themed around a haunted Western ghost town called Diablo Canyon. The Violette Market site is down right now, but I know Diablo Canyon was up for a bit before they took the site down for maintenance. I'm not sure if it will still be there when the site is back up, but I'm hoping so, so I'm reviewing a past Halloween scent that's been back at least a few times, Bag of Bones. My decant is from 2012.
And the site should be back up soon (yay!); an update Violette Market posted a couple of days ago on Facebook read: "It's been a while since I checked-in with everyone here on FB. (If you follow us on Instagram, you are getting the most up-to-date postings and progress from me as we move forward with our new website and new collections) We are very, very close to going live with the new website and once that happens, you will be able to select items from our new Traveling General Collection for Autumn 2014. Our Limited Edition collection will go live closer to the beginning of October, and Halloween. Please be patient with our new website for the first few weeks. There is a tremendous amount of work that goes into building a website from scratch, on the same spot where another website once lived, and little things can arise from all that data. If you have any issues, or would like to drop me a note, for any reason, good or bad, please send me a note from the new website. That will be the quickest and most efficient way for you to get in touch with me from now into the future. Our yahoo account is really only for Paypal (and it gets very confusing if the same customer sends us the same message but utilizes all the mediums to get in contact with us and sending messages on FB is not a great idea because we are not on FB daily, and sometimes it's weeks before we have the chance to login) We look forward to seeing you soon at the NEW VM website and thank you for your love and support of VM. We are changing, we know we are, and once the new website goes live, you will get to experience those changes with us. We are very excited and we hope you will be as well! Love from the VM team, Lori, Liz, and Mike."
Price: Not currently available for purchase; I think the regular price for this series is $17.50 for a 5 mL amber glass bottle of perfume oil with polyseal cap.
Samples: Not available.
(More details about price and shipping can be found in our Company Overview post about Violette Market.)
Description from the website: "Two very dry ambers, scorched-sweet sandalwood, aged vanilla husk, faint clouds of dusty desert air, golden spices, one smiling skull, and one lone bullet."
This scent is quite sweet straight out of the bottle, with an air of corn syrup about it.
That sweetness quickly dissipates, and the perfume blooms into a deliciously smoky sandalwood-vanilla combination that reminds me very much of one of my favorite VM scents, Smoking Plum, but without the sweetness of the plum or the black tea notes involved--just smooth incense goodness.
The amber and vanilla combine to give an impression of beeswax--or there's beeswax in here that's not a listed note. But the scent reminds me of a beeswax candle that's just been snuffed out, with smoke rising from the wick; or the smell of a darkened room lit with candles and wreathed with clouds of incense. (It has something in common with Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab's scent The Lights of Men's Lives, a candle wax and smoke scent.) It's soft, subtle, and slightly dark.
In the vintage I have, at least, it's not a very complex or changeable scent. But it's good at what it does, and what I think it does best is this: I see a lot of posts on forums around this time every year from people who want to smell like a bonfire, or like autumn. Bag of Bones is a great scent for this. It evokes smoke and cool air, but not with the aggressive realism that would make people think you'd actually been standing downwind from a fire. You could layer it with your other favorite autumn scents--pumpkin, apple cider donuts, marshmallows--and give anything that extra ghost tracery of smoke and dry, autumnal chilliness.
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