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ilmir33 – :
So this is lilac! I assumed the floral was a white floral bouquet. The scent is light, watery, and very floral.
As it turns out, I’m not a fan of lilac. But those who like it, or who want a slightly different floral from the usual, I’d recommend it. Medium sillage, good longevity, beautiful scent.
VasiliISk – :
EDIT: having now bought a full bottle of En Passant to complement my Le Sillage Blanc, a few more wearings have allowed me to appreciate En Passant more deeply. It is a very calm and soft scent, but I am seeing a growing complexity and sophistication to this one. I think I should learn to give scents more of a chance before reviewing them!
A very clean, refreshing scent that is quite pretty. It is very pleasant on me, with just the slightest floral hint above a slightly nutty, soapy base. Possibly too innocent and fresh for a 40-something woman though 🙂 …?
Ditc – :
I would love to step out of my apartment and smell this wafting down the street, but it’s too powdery for me to wear. I feel the same way about Jardin Clos. Lilacs are my favorite flower, but never seem to make for my favorite perfumes. If Clair de Musc smells heavenly to you, but is the kind of thing you would rather spray in a linen closet than wear, you’ll probably feel similarly about En Passant. Lilac fans looking for less powder should try Opardu.
EDIT: I take it all back! The more I try this, the fresher it seems. If you get self conscious about the powder, I suggest spraying it on your wrists only, never your neck. With the right amount of distance, the powder disappears.
My sister finally graduated from Daisy because of this fragrance.
vinogradsel – :
ItI love this. I’m always cautious of floral perfumes but this has become a fragrance that on certain days I just crave. It is feminine and free without being cloying or cliche. I adore lilac and this perfume is a very clean and natural rendition, yet also delicate, not over-powering, to the point that I only want to wear it on days that I’m not going to be around other strong smells. It’s a fragrance for a care free day and a beautiful dress, it’s a day to be appreciated and admired. I wish it lasted longer but if it did it wouldn’t have that delicacy, so I use it frugally but indulgently if it’s an En Passant day. It’s delicious.
Edit: this Does Not Work on a very hot day. Way too sweet.
kipelov – :
Lighter than light.
Personally, I’d like to put these three FM floral perfume in one family:
En Passant, Eau de Magnolia, Carnal Flower.
En Passant is that innocent young daughter, simple, linear, transparent.
Eau de Magnolia is the educated older sister, much more refined, an impeccable young lady.
Carnal Flower is their femme fatale mother (let’s assume femme fatale also have kids, for whatever reason), who probably murdered their father and inherited his fortune: sensual, attractive, deep, full of unexpected turns.
Inzage – :
En Passant, “In Passing”, was designed to evoke the smell of driving through lilacs in the spring. Dewy, lightly floral, and crisp, it cools the nostrils with each whiff. A memory of the perfumer passed on to the noses of customers, a true masterpiece.
aleksandrsm2010 – :
Oh I just love this forever. Beautiful creation – lilac and green. I wear it to work, on daytime occasions when I have to feel confident. While it is linear it is beautiful. This is just very well made with just the right amount of complexity for day time. Definitely not a soapy fragrance, I would classify it is a green fragrance that is very chic, even if you dont like green fragrances. It stays. Best for spring !
slach_23 – :
If there’s a better lilac perfume, then I don’t know it. This is a soft, natural lilac with cucumber essence, perfect for springtime. On my short list for FB.
smalinkin – :
Natural white lilac scent.
Truly divine!
Only I don’t know if it’s good or bad that it’s light enough. Maybe if it was not so light, it would be less natural.
One of the best lilac scents in perfume world.
glok77 – :
You can catch a lilac flower in a green field or you can also spray En passant in your body, inside the comfort of your home. Olivia Giacobetti works with minimalism and realism, especially in this job. It’s natural and subtle. Some say Giacobetti is Ellena in skirts, but I think she created a new way of exercizing perfumary, especially with this perfume.
Amotterenoded – :
I really wanted to like this, but once again, my skin chemistry decided otherwise. So I endured it for a day and was happy to scrub it off. I agree with another reviewer that it can, on some occasions, smell like bread. To me it was like a soapy lilac scented bread, which is neither romantic nor desirable to wear. The same goes for another perfume of Olivia Giacobetti’s “Tilleul”. So wanted to love it, because I love linden blossoms, but it did not happen. Soap, soap, soap, too much soap and way too little linden.
autopom – :
So light, lithe and dreamy.
It seems white lilac sways in the wind in this airy fresh presentation. Cucumber and aquatics keep this perfect for Spring and Summer. Its not a classically green fragrance more like a morning dew feel. Elegant.
Balabas – :
It does carry some melancholy. It’s feminine, delicate, but also resilient. A bath of Lilac with a few slices of Cucumber on the eyes. There is something seductive about it, like getting ready for an encounter with a stranger. Clean and innocent, but misterious at the same time.
Not my tipical choice, but I very much like it.
alkan – :
This fragrance is tremendously comforting in it’s easy beauty. It gives me the urge to hug myself: one of those scents that keeps me insulated from a world that can be full of noxious stimuli at times. Gentle, smooth floral, nothing overpowering but yes: confident.
sanek75rus – :
I really love Frederic Malle’s range and find his collection very creative and appreciate his work on perfumes. He is very inspiring and as technically his collection is very successful and no perfume goes wrong on your skin. I love Noir Epices, Une Fleur de Cssie, Une Rose, Portrait of a Lady Carnal Flower… When you start to wear them, you don’t want to wear another perfume from different brands.
My childhood was great and have an amazing memories with lilacs. When I smelled En Passant, I was so excited to find some part of my childhood. I have to say, it is beautiful perfume. But, just beautiful and nothing wrong with it. Unfortunately, it is not what smelled lilacs from my childhood. No green garden, no rain (soory), no woods…Just beautiful floral composition.
lobookk – :
When I was a child, I used to snug myself under a lilac tree with a good book in my hand and I spent my entire day preoccupied with an imaginary world and caught the breeze of the lilac whipped by the wind occasionally.
Olivia Giacobetti achieved to capture the lilac note truly , but it is more than a straightforward lilac scent because this fragrance evokes memories of my childhood.
Lbk – :
There is something melancholic about this fragrance, it tugs at my heart strings. The smell of the sun on hay, offering a glimmer of light and hope, then a wash with cooling cucumber, providing a very wet texture, combined with the delicate and soft lilacs. Oh, the wet lilacs!
It constantly reminds me as a teenager cycling home from a fun visit, past fields in the sun, later feeling chilly and get showered on. As I approach home with a very heavy heart, I cycle past a neighbour’s house with an enormous lilac tree, heavy with purple blooms. The rain collected in the tiny flowers, the scent filled the air and perfumed my sorrows, and I’m filled with wonderment over how I could smell something so innocent and pure when the world can be so ugly. It really is a beautiful and heartbreaking scent.
afiop – :
En Passant is a consummate spring scent. It balances a cool, aquatic heart with soil-like accents to recreate the tension at the center of lilac—the crispness that doesn’t quite disguise an oily nature. I’ve seen En Passant described as muted and pastel, euphemisms for vague, washed-out fragrances, but there’s too much shadow and undertow in En Passant for it to be considered bloodless. Giacobetti might play with simplicity but she doesn’t settle for it and she doesn’t spare the cream in the recipe. The perfume is padded precisely where it needs to be. En Passant’s semblance of simplicity is a red herring, though. It might come off as spare but it conceals a sophisticated approach and becomes more detailed the closer you look.
A lot has been made of the perfume’s cucumber and wheat notes, how they modulate the central floral accord and keep it from becoming too sweet, too simple. It’s true that the accord is unexpected. And it’s remarkably effective in creating the detail that lets the perfume simultaneously portray a single flower and an entire season. But embedded in the accord like drop of ink in paper is a waxy/nutty, almost tactile facet. It widens the central floral sketch and gives the perfume’s trail weight and momentum.
Depending on whom you talk with En Passant is either an essay on rain, a sort of modern descendant of Après l’Ondée, or a lilac soliflor. Impressionism or representation. Visual art terms only have ballpark accuracy when applied to perfume.
Representation is tricky and the assumption that recreating ‘nature’ is perfume’s highest modality is still widespread. Giacobetti, like Roudnitska before her, challenged the premise. His answer to the question of how perfume relates to nature was to compose a detailed muguet soliflor still life. From her fig perfumes for Diptyque and l’Artisan Parfumeur to her carrots, irises and roses Giacobetti offers a succession of solutions to Roudnitska’s question, as if to imply that there are at least as many explanations as there are subjects. With En Passant, she creates a faithful lilac soliflor at the same time that she offers a more upbeat vision of a rainy day than Jacques Guerlain’s. It’s a fantastic accomplishment for a seemingly simple lilac soliflor.
from scenthurdle.com
mainkaft – :
Empress Alexandra, the last Tsaritsa of Russia, loved lilacs. As lilac was a melancholy Victorian shade, it makes perfect sense that this was her preferred color and flower (although she did also love white lilacs). Isolated by bitter aristocratic circles that hated her, a tragic misunderstanding of Russian society, and the need to be strong for her kind yet vacuous, inefficient, and at times carelessly cruel husband, and grown pale and sickly out of anxiety for her hemophiliac son that made her so helpless she leaned on the advice of an opportunistic Siberian peasant — the fresh, sweet nuances of blooming lilac are elusive and transitory, much like the few moments of true happiness in her life.
And yet, this fragrance is a scent of happiness – for a passing moment, she is in a garden at Livadia in the Crimea, in an unusually chilly spring, enjoying the misty spray from a nearby fountain as she gathers white and purple lilacs, blissfully inhaling their freshness. The light breeze carries the faintest scent of bread, from the tea tables being set for her and the Tsar. One of her maids-of-honor plays a balalaika, and the music matches the laughter of her children playing nearby. For this passing moment, the sweet overpowers the bitter, and she smiles.
Faphyncanaply – :
The opening is extremely realistic of a fresh lilac . I remember as a child I used to walk with my grandmother through a very suburbian and Lush neighborhood to the Lake near her home. As we walked, we passed through hundreds of bushes of lilac. It is a memory deeply embedded in my consciousness and the opening notes of this fragrance smell exactly and I mean exactly like they do in real life . it’s stunning and almost takes me back because of its similarity . it fervently takes me to that moment and certain times it’s almost uncalled-for. I may have to buy it just for that memory alone, but I must say, it’s not as stunning as other fragrances in my collection. I’m more of a gourmand / woody kind of consumer, but the absolute realism and pristine qualities makes me want to second-guess my next purchase.
777anmark – :
Newly sprayed on, En Passant is a beautiful and very realistic lilac. I grew up with lilacs outside my bedroom window and have always loved them. This is certainly a good one, at this initial stage. After a couple of hours the fragrance moves, seemingly indiscriminately, between lilac and cucumber. I find this a little disconcerting but it is also interesting as there are definite similarities between the two scents, different as they seem. I would certainly not have thought to put the two together, myself, but I can see the thinking behind this fragrance now.
At three hours the fragrance is mostly lilac again. There is a pleasant soft lilac where I have sprayed the skin of my arm, and the fragrance I am inhaling from the air around me is mostly lilac, although there is still a hint of cucumber and I am not sure how much I like it. The lilac remains very true to life, but unfortunately so does the cucumber. I am totally unable to pick up any of the other notes at all.
After five hours there is no scent left at all on my arm, and the little cloud of perfume in which I have been walking around all day has dissipated. I am disappointed in this fragrance on my skin. I feel it promised a great deal, but failed to deliver, and the juxtaposition of the lilac and cucumber made for some discomfort throughout the life of the fragrance.
At the end of nine hours I became aware of an unpleasantly shrieking note, which hung around me for the rest of the day and reminded me of damp clothes…and cucumber. Unpleasant. This is not one for the “want shelf.”
Projection is average throughout the life of the fragrance. I had no difficulty smelling the perfume on myself until it disappeared at five hours and then reappeared, hideously transformed, at the nine hour mark. Longevity is five hours as a reasonable fragrance, on my skin.
DRON1975 – :
my first impression reminds me of a hippie chic, i really like it except for it smelling like wheat crackers.
CRYPOSE – :
I have never smelled a lilac in real life. But this perfume reminds me both of the dewy green/white smell of fresh lilies, and the soft pollen of mimosas. It’s lovely and rather simple. Being a rather green, wet floral, I feel it would be nicer for warm weather.
itosha – :
I like lilac in this but base is awful… Basically you known it’s not going to be good when cucumber and water are listed as notes
grek13 – :
definitely a perfume more suited to a lady who would be comfortable in a white cotton shift dress and natural nails and hair…basically the opposite of me. I have Portrait Of A Lady on my other hand and it suits me much better.
edit* After a couple of hours this reminded me of Olympic Orchids Sakura, another beautiful scent which is ill suited to my personal style.
SPOULPADESE – :
7/10
DebatDap – :
It is a wonderful lilac perfume. On me, the most prominent note in the beginning is the lilac, which is very close to the natural scent, and a “green” note- like a smell of fresh grass or leaves if you rub them between your fingers. There are also hints of other flowers, but they are barely noticeable. After a while the lilac starts to weaken and the scent becomes mostly sharp green with a touch of flowers in it. I’m not getting any “wheat” though…Again ,the smell is amazing, unfortunately, the sillage is very poor (I have to rub my nose on my skin to get anything) unless you dunk yourself in a bucket of it- which, considering the pricey tag is not a good idea.
MARTY510 – :
A truly authentic take on lilac that is soft and romantic. Sheer and lilting, I think it’s the finest lilac I’ve ever sniffed in perfume form.
The notes are lilac, cucumber, wheat, watery notes, petitgrain. The cucumber adds a crisp greeness and the grassy notes a touch of earthiness. Silage is moderate, longevity–well, to be determined. I’ve been wearing for 4 hours and it’s still going strong. Many thanks to Mara Rothman for the generous sample.
UPDATE on longevity; over 10 hours and still going..
marina77 – :
Cool, sweet, powdery opening. Lilac. This is definitely a fresh/ozonic fragrance. A pure, clean lilac but with a mustiness in the background that only adds to the naturalness. Very low sillage – almost disappears to nothing within a hour or two after which it lingers as a skinscent – but it’s so beautiful that I don’t even care. A cool, early spring scent. There’s not much I can think of to say about it but that’s not because it’s not a great perfume but because it’s so simple; simple and lovely.
alido_rei – :
En Passant is absolute perfection in a bottle and wonderful for spring and early summer. In AZ, though, I think it would get stifling in the 100+ degree weather of anything between late May and through October. It smells like a bouquet of fresh cut lilacs in water, or as if you passed a lilac shrub after a cool rainshower.
The wheat-y/bread-y smell doesn’t come through on me at all, just flowers and green and cucumber. I can get a good couple of hours out of this fragrance, though it’s very strong for the first hour or so. It also radiates like crazy.
Edit: so we recently moved out of state to a much cooler, wetter area. En Passant shines in broody, stormy cool weather.
zyaba84 – :
En Passant Incarnated
A lean feminine figure, In comfortable not so sporty pale color clothes, with little to no make-up, she is aerial and speaks the sound of silence. Relaxed and composed, she is passing you by.
The most beautiful feminine floral smell besides Carnal Flower IMHO
Review from a guy
csg382Negeltzex – :
Love love love. Clean, beautiful, sophisticated.
vorotairkutsk – :
This is not a creation that most get right away but it is a masterpiece of sophistication, whispers, dreams, illusions and mystery with darkness and depth as well as animalic sensuality added to its supposed springlike soft and quiet beauty which it most definitely is not but to understand this magnificent creation you have to try it several times in my opinion. I did not like it at all when I first sampled it. But I do love lilacs even if not necessarily on me until now because many times lilacs were used in oldish smelling perfumes. The lightness and wet crispiness added to this gorgeous soliflore as well as the green notes take away any old lady vibes from this perfume but instead take you into a world of impressionism and surreal paintings. It is a wonderful journey this scent evokes you to go through. On me it is very animalic and sensual which most have not noted but the musk in the drydown is prominent on my skin. I absolutely love this and bought a full bottle. I wanted a springtime perfume which is not too heady yet this is not light either and the animal touch which is almost skinscent like really adds to how sexual this perfume is which I never first suspected. This is not for a simple woman, this is for someone with a lot of complexity, who is sophisticated in style but sensual as well, not to be worn with jeans and shorts but with a black dress and red lipstick. It also definitely makes you think of arts and thus is for an artistic person. It is a very unique fragrance, not something you will smell on many other people.
user721248 – :
Wow!!! what a price tag! I don’t know if I’ll ever have the chance to own this, when even a 5 ml sample costs $30. Must be heavenly!
атос – :
When I first tried my sample of this, I was sure they filled the vial with water…that’s all I got, Nothing.
The next morning, with my nose fresh and clear from slumber, I gave it another try…
Oh my. It has been some time since perfume has touched me so deeply, right straight to my heartstrings. En Passant truly is something out of a dream, soft as a whisper, a personal dream for you only. It’s one of those ethereal moments where your walking in the early morning hours, just before dawn, and it’s the morning after a soft rainfall. You come upon a path of lilacs, fresh and dewy wet. A dense fog is settled in, making everything that much more surreal. Sunlight begins to filter through the fog turning everything into the softest periwinkle lilac shade of purple…a powdery purple.
A heartbreakingly beautiful delicate, dreamy, ladylike lilac that has made me fall in love whether I like it or not…I must have it.
It surrounds you in a delicate cloud of soft purple lilac dreams. This is one of those scents I want to wear just for me, a special moment, like reading a favorite book, watching one of my favorite old black and whites with a fine wine, having a favorite cup of tea, things close to my heart. Special moments. Lilacs are usually blooming in abundance around my birthday at the beginning of May, so I have always considered them a flower close to my heart.
En Passant will definitely be on the top of my birthday wishlist…
Feminine, Gorgeous…
I am sitting here wearing this listening to Edvard Grieg’s” Last Spring ” and it truly is music for the soul…
A masterpiece indeed
Poolellexhaub – :
An early promise fulfilled with the initial strong and heady hit of “wet” lilac, like someone has just swiped their hand across a bed of dewy and newly opened flowers. It is achingly lovely, and so evocative of early spring.
But like that bright and shimmering period between the last snows and the early hesitant buds, it hits the skin and is gone within a few hours – far too soon. Heart notes dry down to a sweet powdery floral which, with very little sillage, quickly evaporates to an almost soap-like and barely-there essence on the skin.
I’m giving it a thumbs up, but it only just scraped it because of its initial gorgeous beauty. However at £100 for a 50ml EDP, it isn’t worth the money, no matter how sublime those top notes are.
Assakra – :
It seems to me that Olivia Giacobetti wanted to create a soliflore white lilac as if it were a simple agreement, beautiful as when in a moment you can smell lilac by a gust of wind, so it feels soft but very persistent.
Start by aquatic and sea cucumber notes, feels fresh, watery and very natural lilac, evolving to a more vaporous dry lilac, but always lingering in that the soliflore minimal and simple concept.
This gives me a bright purple, serene, innocent and above all very touching concept.
En Passant is pure sophistication.
Rating: 8
mvf08 – :
A couple of days ago, I went almost in tears re-testing it on paper, it’s really hard to describe how I feel with this perfume. Astonishingly beautiful.
boychenko1985 – :
En Passant is an extraordinary lilac perfume. I gravitate toward purple florals, so I have tried many lilacs and I find this to be the best by far. I cannot think of another perfume like it to provide a comparison.
Unfortunately, in every kind of weather, my skin destroys En Passant. The lilac does not last for more than a few minutes; it quickly morphs into what smells like a cucumber prominent men’s aftershave. Not necessarily a bad thing! But I really don’t care for it on me, so I cannot even give myself the occasional spritz just to enjoy the lilac. Unlike other lilacs I have tried, I don’t get any indolence in this one. In spite of the aftershave-y dry down on me, I would still say that is scent skews to the traditionally feminine.
Fortunately, EP wears entirely differently on my BFF. The lilac lasts and lasts on her, and it remains well blended through the dry down. So at least I was able to hand off my supply to someone who wears it well! Considering how different my friend’s and my experiences are with En Passant, I highly recommend sampling prior to buying. If, like me, you find that you cannot wear EP, consider giving Pacifica’s French Lilac body wash a try to satisfy your lilac cravings. It works for me
kondrashova.ew – :
Truest lilac scent in the world. When I first tried it, I rejected it for being too linear, too one-note, perfect as that note is. I wished it had a noticeable wheat or bread scent, as well: it would have been perfect.
I took a scented strip home in my purse and forgot all about it, decided to choose between Le Parfum de Therese and Un Lys Med.
Next day I fished that scented strip out. En Passant had not resolved into a musky or soapy smell, it had instead become absolutely radiant. On a strip of paper, no easy feat.
I can see myself wearing this in all seasons, especially the spring and fall.
Went back to the store and bought a full bottle. Radiant perfection.
Ineruditus – :
clean lilac, light and airy. Just like strolling in a spring garden.
yvm – :
This perfume reminds me of nivea original scent lotion…a softer version. i tend to smell the lilacs the most…haven’t quite grasped the citrus but i think it would be great on a hot day where my body chemistry would pull it out.
i like to layer this with christian dior eau savage for a bit of soft green to boost up the lilac.
Burtalkro – :
Wearing this today and getting clouds of warm and comforting scent. If I hadn’t read the notes, I would’ve sworn there was mimosa and “Barbie-head” in this.
enlictuct – :
Oh WOW, Among the most beautiful fragrances I have ever tried.
I feel like I am bathing in a pool, filled with fresh cut lilacs.
It is so nice when a flower is respected for it’s beautiful and true aroma, that it can stand alone almost naked and stripped from compotition of other notes. Sometimes we just have to bow for nature, for giving us the most beautful scents, and for Frederic Malle for capturing it for us to wear end enjoy.
This is worth the pricetag.
мурашков – :
Dewy lilacs after rain is what Frederic Malle En Passant evokes to me. It smells very realistic and pure. I could almost feel the pollen among the delicate petals. Although the fragrance is pratically linear, I can smell something reminiscent of rice vapour in the opening.
I especially appreciate the subtle touch of cucumber and wheat. They complement the lilac with their slightly quirky characteristics without distracting from the main theme. I don’t smell bread per se, but the wheat provides a sort of dry nutty powdery warmth, which balances beautifully with the aquatic cucumber.
The sillage is very close to skin, and the longevity is around 8 hours. A deceivingly simplistic lilac soliflore, yet the subtle nuances prevent En Passant from being boring. Although I’d suggest againt blind buying considering the price and the aquatic aspect of the fragrance, I think it definitely worths a try if you’re interested in a clean green floral.
kuzya17031971 – :
I love this fragrance.Simple yet elegant.
kalianik – :
One of my most-favorite perfumes. Just gorgeous.
homer-nsk – :
A beautiful lilac and green wood perfume. I don’t like the watery dry down as much, and I don’t smell cucumber or wheat at all, but the lilac is very natural and realistic and has good longevity.
A few years back a bad ice storm broke half the branches off of the lilacs in my brother and sister-in-law’s yard, and my SIL’s heart along in the bargin. She loved those flowers so much. I think she may be in for a bottle of this come her birthday.
Aerohopleneriqnp – :
Extremely true to ingredient! Lilac-beautiful, cucumber-beautiful. I will use this , everytime the swedish darkness seems to never dissapear. True spring, true schoolbreak, true pureness without ANY scent of powder 🙂
tutorialzz – :
I owned a bottle of this a few years ago, and eventually sold it, since I liked it better sprayed on my linens than on me. What I loved about En Passant was that it made me feel I was in a beautiful early summer meadow surrounded by blooming Queen Anne’s Lace. Since I had never heard anything about any notes, I didn’t expect anything of a lilac nature, nor did I notice anything like lilacs. Instead, En Passant creates its own environment, and if you can enjoy it on that basis, you may like it more than if you have specific expectations of its smell. Another fragrance which reminded me a bit of this, although I discovered it later, was the first Kate Spade fragrance. I wouldn’t say they smelled the same, but they brought back summery memories which seemed connected, and had a light nostalgic fresh floral quality. I might have been able to wear both of these scents better when I was younger. They just don’t seem to do well on my skin anymore.
Cartergeons – :
Smells of fresh lilac – truly beautiful. However, it is also very linear (strike one), and the longevity and projection are disappointing (strikes two and three). Though I’ll continue to use my sample on weekend days, when I don’t expect my fragrance to carry me into the evening, I can’t see investing in this one.
Валерия Апокина – :
I can’t really enjoy this because it is only the lavender that I get. Might as well go outside and dive right into a bush of lavender flowers. It’s very soft and glam so to speak. I like perfumes that are sexy and this isn’t that. All in all very well made perfume which just isn’t for me at all.
EmersonBlankenship – :
The best lilac perfume ever! Very realistic, soft with a great dry-down!
artedange – :
Don’t trash yours, Appleberry, send it to me! I think it smells just like fresh, growing lilacs, leaves and all.
This is the sort of fragrance I wish was marketed to the young girls. I would like them to smell like fresh, simple, flowers, not like some cheap version of sexy.
srkolopmers – :
it smells kinda powdery like baby powder, but not totally… I know hard to describe. I don’t find anything smelling aquatic.
FriendBrady – :
This was my first niche perfume I bought from Barneys. I bought a 100ml for two hundred and something dollars… VERY DISAPPOINTING
after a couple sprays, I used less than 1/10 of the bottle, I couldn’t use it any more. It just smells aldehydic. I know that nowadays, after so much science development(sorry English is my second language),it is impossible to find a perfume that uses all natural ingredient because there is such high demand. And perhaps only super rich people who pay fifty thousand dollars or more(actually more than that since Killian personalized perfume costs fifty thousand dollars and they do NOT use all natural ingredients. Killian smells so cheap and gives me headache I was so disappointed. Total marketing)
Anyways, back to En passant, I hoped the more I use the more I’ll get used to it and love it,,,,, but that never happened. It is still almost full and perhaps gonna be trashed.
MypeWiffibeh – :
This one is a picnic in a park on a crisp spring day.
As others have noted, the lilac is very realistic and pure. It’s definitely the star of the show. The cucumber gives the aquatic edge to this and it does so beautifully. This isn’t tropical island aquatic, it’s more babbling brook aquatic.
This is a simple, clean fragrance that just begs to be worn in the springtime. Green, first and foremost, but with an airy quality underneath.
Longevity isn’t wonderful, unfortunately. I got about 4 hours out of it and only 3 of those was the scent still running at full steam. Sillage is moderate.
I’d jump to buy a full bottle if this lasted longer on my skin.
hollman – :
I went from Chanel Exclusifs to Frederic Malle. This is my first FM and I have a bottle of Angéliques Sous La Pluie on the way. As well this is my first Fragrantica review – so I must say WOW reviews really need to be taken with a light heart as just like music fragrance is so subjective. Different people wear perfume for different reasons.
Day 1 – 3 sprays from a full bottle this a.m. @ 7:30 of my En Passant and I can still smell this lovely scent – 9hrs later. It is a very subtle, unique, clean scent that I love. I feel like I am wearing something very special – just for me. The person I want to smell it will and that is all that matters. I’m at work and don’t want to offend so this is great. This last longer than my Chanel Exclusif – Jersey as this time yesterday that stuff was long gone.
So far so good En Passant makes me very very happy…
Cheers!
erik11 – :
This is a lovely, non-nauseating lilac, but dang, it’s gone after an hour. I have a tester given to me as a sample, so I know I won’t be purchasing this one.
Swewlyextelve – :
This is pleasant. It’s a soft lilac with fresh/aquatic nuances and a breath of fresh cut sweet grass. The aquatic however, is not an ozone/rain element, it