Descrizione
The familiar leaves of V. odorata are heart-shaped, slightly downy, especially beneath, on stalks rising alternately from a creeping rhizome, the blades of the young leaves rolled up from each side into the middle on the face of the leaf into two tight coils. The flowers are generally deep purple, but lilac, pale rose coloured ore white variations are also frequent. There is a remarkable botanical curiosity in the structure of this plant (cleistogamous), it produces flowers both in the spring and in autumn, but the flowers are different. In spring they are fully formed and sweet-scented, but they are mostly barren and produce no seeds. In autumn they are very small and insignificant, hidden away amongst the leaves, with no petals and no scent, but produce abundance of seed.
INCI name: AQUA, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, VIOLA ODORATA EXTRACT, SORBITOL, CITRIC ACID, PHENOXYETHANOL, SODIUM HYDROXIDE, ETHYLHEXYLGLYCERIN