Saturated Sleet violet

From the Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare, to fill. A technical color term in modern usage — saturation is one of the three axes of HSL (with hue and lightness). As a modifier, saturated implies that the hue is at or near its maximum chromatic intensity. Sits at the bold-and-bright top of the grid.

Middle English slete, icy-rain-or-snow-rain-mix. As a color modifier, sleet implies an icy-rain-and-half-frozen-and-driven quality, the visual register of North-Sea-and-Yorkshire-Moors-sleet hand-icy-rain-and-half-frozen-and-driven North-Sea-and-Yorkshire-Moors-sleet-and-Pennine-pass sleet-and-icy-rain-and-half-frozen surfaces under North-Sea-and-Yorkshire-Moors-sleet-and-Pennine-pass Yorkshire-Moors-and-Pennine-Way-and-Cleveland-Hills North-Sea-front-light. Sits at the modifier-and-weather end of the grid, parallel to hail and rime in usage.

Viola odorata, the European sweet violet — small, fragrant, and the original meaning of the color name in English (the Violet of the rainbow). The color refers to a fresh sweet violet blossom in late winter: a saturated, slightly red-shifted deep blue-purple with the matte finish of small five-petaled flower. Cooler than amethyst, warmer than indigo, with the perfumed weight of a flower used in Roman garlands and Victorian eau de toilette.