# Réminiscence — Si Do > Si Do is a discontinued Réminiscence powdery-gourmand iris that wears very differently depending on the nose encountering it. Some people get a soft, warm, musky iris with vanilla and a nostalgic cosm ## Essence Si Do is a discontinued Réminiscence powdery-gourmand iris that wears very differently depending on the nose encountering it. Some people get a soft, warm, musky iris with vanilla and a nostalgic cosmetic quality; others get violet candy, old lipstick, or a striking carrot note that makes the perfume far weirder than the catalog pyramid suggests. What makes it distinctive is exactly that odd push-pull between “comforting powder” and “eccentric purple carrot-violet sweetness.” ## Scent Profile The opening seems brief and not especially important to the identity. Both wearers and wearers reviewers say the citrus notes are short-lived, quickly giving way to iris and a sweet-powdery floral body. From there the fragrance becomes a contest between several possible focal points: iris for some, carrot for others, and a violet-candy or lipstick effect for yet others. The most useful synthesis is that Si Do is not a photorealistic iris-root perfume. Even people who like it often describe it in adjacent terms: powdery-light violet candy, a vintage lipstick feel, a sugary but non-sticky gourmand, or a floral-musky confection with carrot woven into the iris. wearers reviews repeatedly note that the carrot can be faint and fleeting on some skin but central and almost hostile on other skin. The fruit notes in the base are often said to be submerged, while amber, vanilla, and musk provide the lasting sweetness and softness. As for development, wearer evidence points to limited but real evolution. One wearers reviewer calls it nearly linear, staying in a citrus-sweet iris/pear/carrot/vanilla register, while another describes a heavier floral opening that settles into a more powdery and less ylang-loud base. wearers comments support that broader picture: citrus flashes, then the fragrance stays in a musky-violet-iris zone for most of the wear. If there is a signature accord here, it is powdery iris threaded with sweet violet and a carrot-cosmetic impression rather than a clearly tiered pyramidal progression. ## Performance Performance evidence is thin but usable. One detailed wearers review puts the scent at about six to eight hours with short-to-medium sillage, and several wearers statements land in the same respectable-but-not-huge zone, often around 6 to 7.5 for longevity and sillage. That points to an intimate, moderately lasting fragrance rather than either a vanishing act or a loud projector. There are outliers. One enthusiastic wearers reviewer reported traces still present after 24 hours, but that is clearly not the central tendency, especially since other comments describe it as ordinary in diffusion and more reliant on closeness than on trail. The safest summary is moderate wear with a skin-near to personal-space aura. ## Wearing Context The strongest seasonal read from wearers is autumn and winter, with spring still possible. That makes sense with the sourced scent profile: creamy powder, ambered sweetness, and cosmetic-floral warmth. A wearers reviewer, however, described it as sophisticated and comforting even in summer or fall, partly because the scent carried a sunscreen-memory facet on their skin. So the wearer consensus is not rigidly seasonal, but it does lean toward cooler weather and cozy settings. In use, Si Do seems better suited to intimate daytime or soft evening wear than to loud nightlife. Several comments frame it as cozy, comforting, or old-fashioned-pretty rather than glamorous or dramatic. Practical reading rather than hard consensus: if you enjoy lipsticky powder and retro-tinted iris, it likely works best when you want closeness and texture, not volume. ## Comparisons & DNA Reliable one-to-one comparisons are limited, but the wearer does offer some useful anchors. wearers forum discussion around finding substitutes linked Iris Noir-like “purple” compositions such as Calvin Klein Euphoria, Bottega Veneta, Armani Privé Cuir Améthyste, Givenchy Dahlia Noir, and Nina Ricci L’Extase; those comparisons are partial and mood-based rather than exact, and they matter more for Si Do’s purple patchouli/violet/tonka aura than for its carrot facet. Within perfume-family terms, Si Do belongs to the powdery, lightly gourmand, cosmetic-floral side of iris rather than the dry, rooty, austere territory of the classic iris greats. One wearers statement even says it feels “more masculine than some Diors,” which underscores how odd and non-pretty the carrot-powder interplay can get. If you are looking for a polished leather-iris or clean orris, this is not that; if you want something like violet candy dusted over musk, vanilla, iris, and carrot, that is closer to the actual DNA. ## Reception Coverage is thinner here than for the other fragrances, but it is revealingly split. Positive reactions describe Si Do as comforting, sophisticated, rounded, cozy, and unusually beautiful in a powdery-violet way; negative reactions call it underwhelming, outdated, synthetic, or dominated by a bad violet-candy or animalic-carrot effect. wearers’s small review pool captures the divide almost perfectly, with one reviewer finding Victorian-parlor comfort and another getting nothing but failed violet candy. wearers’s rating of a mixed level from available reports reflects that ambivalence. Enthusiasts who love unusual powdery gourmands or retro lipstick scents tend to defend it; people expecting a straightforward modern iris often seem baffled or disappointed. Blind-buy safety is therefore low unless the note combination itself sounds appealing and you actively enjoy powder-heavy, slightly odd compositions. ## Versions & Reformulation Si Do was part of Réminiscence’s Les Notes Gourmandes series, alongside Do Re, Mi Fa, and Sol La, and both wearers and wearers now list it as discontinued. No reliable whitelisted evidence surfaced for a reformulated current version of Si Do itself. ## Acquisition Notes Acquisition evidence is thin because the fragrance is discontinued and not heavily discussed in current wearers. What the whitelisted sources do show is scattered ongoing interest: recent wearers users still talk about wanting bottles, owning samples, or trying to locate the discontinued scent, which suggests that bottles and samples do still circulate on the secondary market. There is no trustworthy whitelisted evidence here for counterfeit prevalence, batch-code decoding, or stable secondhand pricing. The most defensible acquisition note is simply that this is now a collector/sampler fragrance rather than an easy retail pickup. ## Notable Facts & Lore - The name is solfège: “Si Do,” the last two syllables of the scale in French usage, and wearers explicitly places it as one of the musical titles that completed Les Notes Gourmandes with Do Re, Mi Fa, and Sol La. That naming scheme is the clearest piece of lore attached to the fragrance, and one wearers reviewer even riffs on the backward scale while discussing the scent.