This is a Meditation On Violet one of the Empress Josephine's favorite scents. Small wonder as violet is a magical scent whose presences disappears then reappears over time.
Real Violet Absolute no longer exists in the modern world or if it does, only in such tiny & astronomically expensive amounts which I have not yet been able to obtain.
So I had to recreate it. It took me a while but fortunately many of the chemicals found in violets can be nature identical and the rest can be cleverly filled in with other flowers. The accord I created for this perfume, Violet Empress, once again has that magical now you smell it now you don't quality.
(Very special thanks to Diane Ackerman and her marvelous book A Natural History of the Senses for planting this seed in my head so many years ago. If you haven't yet read this amazing work, run don't walk and get a copy at once.)