  We show in this article how perturbative approaches~from our work with Hitrik
(see also the work by Anantharaman-Macia) and the {\em black box} strategy
from~ our work with Zworski allow to obtain decay rates for Kelvin-Voigt damped
wave equations from quite standard resolvent estimates : Carleman estimates or
geometric control estimates for Helmoltz equationCarleman or other resolvent
estimates for the Helmoltz equation. Though in this context of Kelvin Voigt
damping, such approach is unlikely to allow for the optimal results when
additional geometric assumptions are considered (see \cite{BuCh, Bu19}), it
turns out that using this method, we can obtain the usual logarithmic decay
which is optimal in general cases. We also present some applications of this
approach giving decay rates in some particular geometries (tori).
