🌸 Yardey London Hand Cream with April Violets - 3.4 Oz - Nourishing Formula Review

I'm a happy customer! Yardley's hand cream with real violets. It has a wonderful scent and a nice texture for a hand cream. It also arrived well packaged with a timely delivery service. Thanks DC

Now I am not criticizing the seller I bought this item from, a reliable cosmetics supplier/seller with great products and fast shipping. It's my fault I don't know what Yardley April Violet's hand cream smells like. I thought it would be nice and subtle, like the classic Yardley lavender soap that has been around for decades. I thought it was a traditional 1960s-1970s violet scent, nice and light, like Avon Raining Violets Cologne (a product sorely lacking). That awful smell - it's not even…

I think it may have been an old tube of lotion. The smell was not pleasant like a Devon violet should smell. Poor quality lotion. Not bad, wouldn't recommend.

I LOVE L'Occitane violet creams and oils. But they are limited edition. I've been looking for a substitute and found that violet-scented products are very limited. I was hoping this one might work. However, for me it completely missed the target. The lotion is good but the smell is not the same.

Although I'm satisfied with the quality of the hand cream, I was very disappointed with the smell. There is absolutely no essence of violet in it. Not at all. I have several other violet scented products and regularly buy Yardley April Violets so I know what the scent should be. The smell of this cream isn't unpleasant, but it's NOT purple, and certainly not the April Violets that I remember. I was going to buy Yardley April Violet Cologne but I'm not going to spend the money right now…

The cream tube was not sealed, it was opened, the cap was sealed with tape. This was for a gift basket but since it doesn't look new I can't turn it on. With the current health concerns, it's also concerning that a skincare product could be printed. Too bad.