Robert Piguet Fragrances • Visa • Fragrances

*TOP REVIEWER* YoHarajuku on 11/16/2012 1:01:00 PM more reviews by YoHarajuku

Age: 25-29   Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool   Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium   Eyes: Hazel    

This is a great classy scent: a sweet vanilla, with a slight fruitiness. Only reason I wouldn't buy again is it just didn't make me swoon. There are far better fragrances out there.

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lalki1 on 6/23/2012 1:27:00 PM more reviews by lalki1

Age: 36-43   Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Warm   Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium   Eyes: Green    

Very sweet and fruity but it also smells chemical to me and not interesting.

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*TOP REVIEWER* cocorocha on 3/5/2012 5:05:00 PM more reviews by cocorocha

Age: 30-35   Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm   Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine   Eyes: Brown    

...this is nothing like Angel,nothing like Prada edp, nothing like gourmands that this smell has been compared to..
this is straight forward fruity chypre,very very Molinard's Miss Habanita or Parou's Patou Forever kinda way...
nice, creamy,very beautiful opening, but popsicle sweetnes make me want to run far away from this one....very nauseating, sinthetic sweetnes....
and respect, but so not gonna pass me buy again:))

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perfumegirl on 4/11/2011 7:58:00 PM more reviews by perfumegirl

Age: 44-55   Skin: Other   Hair: Brown   Eyes: Brown    

Had a sample love this fragrance it lasts and is so interesting, love it Fracas is too strong to wear many places, this is delightful as it Douglas Hannant, wonderful fragrances

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dundada on 2/2/2011 9:28:00 PM more reviews by dundada

Age: Unknown   Skin: Acne-prone, Dark, Warm   Hair: Black, Relaxed, Coarse   Eyes: Black    

Yeah Visa's alright smell-wise but Bandit ends up smelling better, more interesting and different.

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*TOP REVIEWER* atomic_girl on 10/17/2010 8:39:00 PM more reviews by atomic_girl

Age: 30-35   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral   Hair: Brown, Curly, Medium   Eyes: Hazel    

I don't know what the original Visa smelled like, but the rerelease of Visa is a divine creamy-woody oriental. I've seen it described as a chypre, but to my mind chypres are dry scents, and Visa is anything but dry.

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*TOP REVIEWER* prettykitty1 on 9/12/2010 2:43:00 PM more reviews by prettykitty1

Age: 36-43   Skin: Combination   Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium   Eyes: Other    

If Shalimar were a woman who had a long-lost brother or tomboyish sister, it would be Visa. The family resemblance is definitely there, and while I realize these scents aren't from the same house, they very well could be.


Visa is moderately vanillic on my skin, but it is more incense and leather than anything else. At times, I catch a hint of powder too, but it's so restrained that it could never overwhelm the other components of the scent.


I fell in love with Visa the moment I spritzed it on, and as it wore throughout the day I was pleased by how well it captured my favorite aspects of Shalimar without ever becoming too sweet or powdery (which I admit can be a problem with Shalimar if applied too liberally in warm weather).


Visa's leathery incense *could* make it suitable for a man, and yet it's not so masculine that I would hesitate to wear it. It's perfect for all the times when I might want to feel like Jo March from "Little Women," while Shalimar makes me feel like her uber-femme sister Meg.

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Stonie on 6/28/2010 5:19:00 PM more reviews by Stonie

Age: 44-55   Skin: Combination   Hair: Blond   Eyes: Blue    

This review is for the reformulated Visa by Guichard.
I can sum this scent up in one word -SWOON!

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*TOP REVIEWER* Mac789 on 10/11/2009 10:45:00 PM more reviews by Mac789

Age: 44-55   Skin: Other   Hair: Other   Eyes: Other    

Visa is something for which it takes repeated exposure to develop an appreciation. For once, the notes alone do tell quite a bit of the story, minus an important middle tonal narrative.



Visa is all parts of a peach--the slightly raw greennness of underripe peach (here rendered by violet leaf); stewed and jammy cooked peach; peach "leather" (a "gourmand leather" accord, per the notes), sun-blushed, rosy peach (a white-rose note unfurls in the heart notes).
There is also the impression of a peach latex, which is unexpected, rubbery, and, if one can escape the idea of a BandAid, pleasurably kinky.



Kinky peach? Indeed, with a hit of fermentation at the top and a dark streak of immortelle cutting down through the center to a light leathery base. This "gourmand leather," which is abetted by vanilla bean, is more rubber garment than it is cowhide. Visa is baby powder for grown-ups who like to do things with aforementioned latex and have no need for furtiveness.



Visa succeeds in not being sweet. It is powdery to a degree, but at the moment that the powder association seems most prominent a bitterness of the peach kernel appears, removing the cosmetic aspect that such a tone conveys. Visa is subtle stuff, as befits a fragrance that seems so personal and less about signature than it is about secrets.



Chypre base is very, very faint. One could easily speculate on how Visa might have been done differently, with more assertive base (i. e. Mitsouko or perhaps even Patou 1000) and heavier floral. As it stands, the peach in Visa stays throughout, unlike in Mitsouko where it frequently fails to make an appearance.



Visa is probably the most successful (commercial fragrances) of the "nouveau chypre" cheat that turns the traditional base into two-thirds of its former self or sweetens it so heavily that it becomes little more than vanillic patchouli and a ragged edge of vetiver. It's not a big scent and chances are that anyone smelling it for the first time might find it unremarkable. Visa's oddity takes time to appreciate. I don't find that much of a similarity to Angel, except for the fruit/patchouli mechanism; Angel is an industrial complex and Visa is not. The patchouli is also much thinner.



I'm a sucker for Piguet's black cubes and consider them chicest of the bottlings. I even prefer Visa in this bottle to its original bottle, which was sportif (and I have no idea what the original smelled like). Visa is a definite mood fragrance, rather than a "setting" fragrance, and is worth seeking out for being just this much left of center.

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*TOP REVIEWER* drvogue on 7/21/2009 1:22:00 PM more reviews by drvogue

Age: 36-43   Skin: Dry, Fair   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Hazel    

This is my idea of an elegant fruity chypre. It's fruity and sweet but has that old fashioned powdery quality which makes it a classic beauty. Of course, feel free to interpret this as "old lady" perfume. It probably is which is why I love it even more.

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HolliVomit on 6/11/2009 9:53:00 PM more reviews by HolliVomit

Age: 25-29   Skin: Sensitive, Fair   Hair: Black   Eyes: Blue    

really fruity, sweet and warm, but it feels nearly oily to me which i do not like.

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danaful on 1/30/2009 3:16:00 PM more reviews by danaful

Age: 36-43   Skin: Normal   Hair: Brown   Eyes: Brown    

It's entirely my fault. I bought this unsniffed because of how much I like Bandit & Fracas. MISTAKE. To my nose, the violet is overpowering and the whole package is a lot like Lady Stetson or something you'd buy at the CVS. Not that I'm trying to be snobby, but it's very common and when I wore it, I felt like I needed to wash it off.

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debrsl on 8/17/2008 1:48:00 PM more reviews by debrsl

Age: 44-55   Skin: Dry   Hair: Brown   Eyes: Brown    

A variation of Angel. I love it!

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Aquababac on 6/15/2008 7:32:00 PM more reviews by Aquababac

Age: 36-43   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium   Hair: Blond   Eyes: Green    

Scent-strip was one thing, skin - yet another. Fruity opening that so quickly gave way to weepy violet, that I almost forgot what the opening was, a couple of more minutes later and vanilla had a blast on my skin, lasting for a couple of hours. Of all the listed notes, this was it... on my skin. Hate violets, hate unbridled vanilla...

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jemimagold on 4/25/2008 5:43:00 PM more reviews by jemimagold

Age: 36-43   Skin: Other   Hair: Other   Eyes: Other    

I was surprised at how much I liked Visa. I love Piguet's Bandit (in moderation) and hate Fracas (just too much) so I was a bit apprehensive to see whether Visa would evoke strong scent feelings as well.

As for the top/middle notes, I caught orange blossom, neroli, amber with just a touch of oak moss for depth. Visa seems similar to Annick Goutal's Nuits d'Hadrien but without the spicy cumin notes.

Overall Visa is a warm, elegant scent that would be appropriate for all sorts of occasions. I also think it could work in all four seasons, even the hotter months.

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harumaki on 3/22/2008 10:58:00 AM more reviews by harumaki

Age: 30-35   Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Neutral   Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine   Eyes: Blue    

Visa.. Lovely - but it struck me as oddly reminiscent of something I had worn, out-worn, and started to dislike because of it became so overworn by every other girl - Angel.. and I just can`t get that out of my mind. Sure, Visa is more sophisticated, not as plastic as Angel, but the structure is basically the same, and it`s just a bit of a turn off for me.. Wanted to like it quite a lot, actually...

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PatchHag on 2/18/2008 9:00:00 PM more reviews by PatchHag

Age: 44-55   Skin: Other   Hair: Other   Eyes: Other    

Agree with almost everything the previous reviewer said. It's a beautiful soft, warm oriental fragrance that never shouts. It's along the same lines (for me) as Armani Code, but you don't have the fruity notes that scream for attention. It's a "go to" scent, the kind of thing you reach for and know that it will always be appropriate and never be too sharp or strong.

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my3sons on 1/22/2008 1:20:00 PM more reviews by my3sons

Age: Unknown   Skin: Other   Hair: Other   Eyes: Other    

My heavens, how I love this. What a fabulous soft oriental - not powdery soft, but warm soft. In the same vein as a more mellow OJ Tolu, Coco, Fifi, Anne Pliska line of scents. Starts out with a fairly strong fruit note (similar to the opening of Anne Pliska, but not quite as prominent) that fades quickly and melds into warm, spicy, soft oriental heaven. No notes take top billing here, but soften into one another. My closest comparison is a softer, more rounded Tolu. Fabulous.

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