First introduced in 1922, Love in Idleness was a tribute to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Named after the innocent flower struck by the arrow of cupid and turned into an irresistible love potion, Love in Idleness is built around the soft and delicate violet accord.
Ahhh… the ethereal innocence of the violet flower, touched by Cupid’s arrow, and transformed into a spell-bindingly sensual love potion. Out of Shakespeare’s love elixir, Atkinsons has conjured a shimmering, powdery violet cloud of a fragrance. As
gorgeous and indolent as a midsummer night’s dream, Love in Idleness is the fragrance of
love at first sight– a perfumed tryst between an intensely feminine orris-violet accord and a seductive woody chypre dry down. A neo-Victorian love philter for those who
believe in the magic of fragrance.