I find it bland and, ironically in view of its colour and fragrance, unmemorable. And
Vi fills me with dread.
My grandmother remembered many
Violet people from its first great rise in the charts, and said that naming a girl
Violet seemed to guarantee that she would grow up to be rather stout though corseted, stomp around in flat shoes and be loud-voiced and opinionated! She was a very tolerant person and I never knew her to comment on any other name; certainly not in that kind of way.