Description
“A journey in a journey. Where to the North I have known the origin of a Music. Because only if your skin is crossed by the icy wind of this river, you can say to have played too. Walking inside this wind, ploughing the stones scratched by unknown sounds and silently gather Ourselves in a nearly impassable condition. Improvisation is almost silent in flames, sometimes without any reasoning in the most intense truth of a language … as the very act of improvising is evocative, without showing up the feelings the atom, sound of love, closed to ourselves as its scent, insane wind that flows through the mighty and uninhibited space of the art. It is a music with a line, dressed in her true and essential values. It is the rediscovered language, the plant that needs thoughts to be huge, the speaking tree . It is the instant truth of every man. Symphonie-Passion speaks to all times because is inherently linked to a journey,, to a staircase of stones of a bell tower that climbs circular toward an endless gallery of feelings, that poetically engrave in the wood the name of the one who plays humble, but master that moves , surprising and wondering , in which every man should find himself to be aware of what he really is. The engine starts, eager to drop the sound infused of dusty woods and iron among the mathematical archways of the marble, among the ears waiting for that unpredictable harmony that unleash the illusion. This is the world of music: to get carried away by the skin, by the smile and by suffering, black tears of the infinite. As a wood of cedar moves the bank of the fund, majestic and powerful, prickly as its leaves, musically embodies embraced to the musk and the sandalwood. Passing the heart of Vetyver, together involved with the Cachemeran, in a combination of ancient symbolic and modern technology. Opens and concludes the Gregorian journey of the Passion, the olfactory concert of Lemon and Peony, the union among truth and sweetness, between the rupture and the chromatic caress. Symponie-Passion, the damp cement of the thought, deep echo among the archways that wrap, insatiable balm that screeches and welcomes The sonorous matter leavens, vision of the artefact that reassumes the depth of a handicraft melodic revolution, with the perfumed mantle of a step, gentle, aware of the revolution and illusion, noble anarchy of the rule, elegant neglect that elevate and suffers that in the reticulum of the musical idea it drug us in an inhuman dimension where the art is incessant, it is irreducible to the relative. The sound of the Ocean engraves in the perfume a signature, as a chisel in the wood of a harmonic box, where the magmatic equilibriums create streets to escape from what it is weak. And the magic of “no more looking for our own thought” takes over, forgetting the memory, remaining in the enigmatic threshold of the annulment of Ourselves without calling the Beauty, because it is the Beauty itself to call us. The enchantment found again is perfumed now: improvisation of everything as an inner impulse that calls, in the folly that cries, in tears that touches, in the shade of instinct and desires behind the puissant wind dust of desire” — press release of the brand.
Symphonie-Passion was launched in 2016.
hitman007 – :
Earthy vetiver within a cashmere in peony flavor.
Sweet yet sour vetiver it is an. It just hits back & forth with that peony vetiver and woody citrus.
It’s like a woody cologne but i can’t and won’t classify it as a cologne cause it’s much better than that usual boring cologne. I don’t like vetiver but this one here is just amusing and very addictive cause it has some woody sweet in it. Very good.
ein303Diobtetty – :
Woods. Aromatic and dry, something prickly in it – like pine needles they say – yes!, same time – sensing slight dampness – as in forest with live woods.. how can it be at the same time!? fascinating for me..
It is great to have a list of ingredients: something I always liked, but would not guess correctly and just “tortured” myself- Peony!
Not loud perfume – even subdued if you like. Sophisticated yet natural. Incredible longevity.
In my opinion- masculine scent, not unisex.
I went in thoughts for a moment when found that this is the choice of Roman Papa Francis (I’ve found it while visiting Rome and Vatican).. well, I like this progressive Papa so this fact finally added some interesting edge to the affect this perfume causes (aren’t they all should?).
At first I didn’t appreciate the given name. I do now, over time: it does encourage those “waves” in emotional state – from serenity and contemplation to desire and determination. Music like that. I would offer to experience it by not judging on one/first whiff. Please give it a time. Although the sudden and first encounter with this fragrance is good on its own as well.
Overall – outstanding perfume. One of my absolute favorites.
Thank you.
Weleenharce – :
Winter in Flanders by Valerius de Saedeleer 1927
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It may be black and white
FLorsWrotsbok – :
Filippo is also a musician, more properly an organist.
He regularly holds concerts all over the world and inserts,
in addition to the conventional repertoire, the art of improvisation.
Among the famous inventors of this discipline is Marcel Dupré,
organist who lived between 800 and 900, born in Rouen (Normandy) and lived in Paris.
Filippo dedicates the fifth fragrance to Dupré and his Symphonie-Passion,
four-stroke opera born as an improvisation during a tour
in the United States and transcribed in three years by Dupré himself in 1921.
Considered almost “non-playable” music due to its difficulty,
Symphonie-Passion evokes exactly the smell that Philip warned
when he himself, on a journey to Rouen, approached the lighted organ of the basilica of St. Ouen where Marcel Dupré was present at the executions of his
father and where he later returned as a great established organist,
recognized all over the world.
That damp and dusty wind, fresh and spicy musky,
which also evokes mechanical and wood gears and coming from inside the instrument, is fixed in the memory of Filippo, who proposes it as extrait de parfum.
Flacon and stopper are faded to remember just the material and the color
of the body of that organ.
Well he did it. I smell a woody, damp instrument in a church.
Oiled gears,smell of a cashmere sweater not used for some time. every note is present but in such a way as not to overpower the other. sometimes there are scents of lemon but light, wet wood, cedar wood but not invasive, a vetiver not clean as in ennui noir, very sandal but also light here … slight smell of peony … little imperceptible moss.
non-acre lemon, cashmere, and damp wood win over everything gently. a smell of an old church bench mixed with a little used musical instrument, the smell of a priest who confesses you, perhaps the smell of a confessional.
a mystical, meditative scent. another great masterpiece. not a sillage bomb but a lot of longevity. 8/10.
only applause.
vazgen26 – :
Soy sauce??? I get a soy sauce note.
fenix8605 – :
This is a very nice aromatic outdoorsy scent. Some citrus, vetiver and woods. This is a very linear fragrance. It’s good for invigorating you. I find its not sweet enough to be unisex. I’d love it on a guy.
For an extrait it is not that strong but I suspect it’s more down to the notes in this. The wood notes not surprisingly are the ones that hang around the longest.
Moderate silage and longevity.
galinatelly – :
I love it. It’s a perfume that brings to mind the Woods and the outdoors, green things growing, trees, plants… It has some similarity with Absinth Nasomatto, same nose of course ;0) Has good lasting power too.
militarystas – :
I really, really dislike this perfume.
First, here the passion is dead, if ever had been born. This is like a metallic tube, it’s cold, it’s anonymous, and there are million of these out there.
Second, the smell is Molecule 01 more “lemony”; so where are the passion, and the reason of its price tag.
What a disappontment for a House of whom I have and wear with love the whole three perfumes before this…”this”.
padljukavic – :
2/10
nadezh-da – :
Symphonie Passion is basically a riff on the Encre Noire / Sycomore theme. Less sharp and synthetic than the former but also less plush than the latter. It’s like if Sycomore was released as part of the Hermessence line. It’s a diaphanous, kind of watercolor-y take on a modern woody-vetiver with distant watery floral facets. It’s neither groundbreaking nor novel but I’m admittedly a big sucker for airy and fresh woody vetivers so I admit I like this one as well. Scent-wise there’s really not much else to describe or say but there are a couple more aspects of this fragrance I’d like to point out.
1) With a name such as Symphonie Passion I honestly expected a big floral and as much as I generally struggle with big florals, my mind still refuses to connect the scent-profile of this composition to its name / concept.
2) This is a light and airy / transparent vetiver which is something that clashes with the fact it’s marketed as an Extrait De Parfum. Nothing about Symphonie Passion is even vaguely classifiable as an extrait.
Downline: I like Symphonie Passion, I really do but it’s conceptually not coherent so, in the end, I’ll probably pull the trigger only if I’ll ever stumble on a serious deal because even though I like it, let’s face it, the market offers loads of extremely similar fragrances at a fraction of its price.
Rating: 6/10
siktym – :
It does start out with an initial blast of Encre Noire. But it quickly morphs into something more like Eau D`Italie – Bois d’Ombrie.
Personally, it’s a pass for me, but I can see how fans of Bois d’Ombrie might find this one appealing.
AlenLenard – :
a mish-mash of chanel sycamore sans tobacco note and encre noire without cypress…very little lemon and peony and nearly all vetiver, cedar and iso e-super…
tavakkaljon – :
real light and kind of boring. I smell the vetiver first with lemon and some kind of wood. I have coven from Andrea Maack for my vegetal wet root fragrance. not enough here.
sab58 – :
Amazing how this smells like Encre Noire. It seems like the creator wanted it to be a niche version of EN, which I would support, however it does not bring anything new to the fragrance world, as we’ve seen such vetiver based scent many times before. Also, on the projection and longevity side, it did not do enough for me. I would say that EN has the same P&L, even being “only” EDT while Unum claims their creation is an extrait de parfum. Sorry, I don’t see it. If it was stronger I would even be inclined to buy it as I love EN but would prefer a better, niche version with less Iso e super and stronger P&L. However, this does not justify its price tag at all (180 euro for 100 ml). Buy yourself Encre Noire if you want to smell like this, or spend that amount of money on a Chanel Sycomore, it is in a league of its own.