Review of Passion by aad de gids

this is a fabulous perfume. there really isn't any other adjective that describes the qualities of this perfume so well. the perfume has the 'Template' which I instinctively remember as the one specific for the Grand Flower Powder Clove & Civet Bomb-Perfumes of the 1980s. (or choose any other Opulent and Headily Present adjective.) I will not name them (I have done that too much) but the very and most notoriously Attachante, Assailante & Enivrante (Catching, Clawing, Hitting & Intoxicating) perfumes had this same Template that houses in my Heart. these Templates can be various but share certain characteristics. what strikes me in Passion is the immediate Powdery Nebula that circumsurrounds your head the moment you give it leeway. it is a Tortioned Powderiness within which also come forward the Prominent Spicy notes and notably, the Cloves, Cinnamon, Insence, Caraway. one has to think about Youth Dew, KL de Karl Lagerfeld, in a sense, Obsession. yet the other Accords all, not so much interfere as Blend in in this whirl of Flowery, Woody & Civet Fixative Clouds that rain down upon us. the perfume is an entire Microclimate of its own. the Flowers I readily smelled (with no acute knowledge of the Notes) were Rose, Carnation (Cloves), Gardenia, Ylang, Orris, Heliotrope (the Powder Snow dawning upon and infringeing within, us), Jasmine, Lily-of-the-Valley (a Ting), then in wave upon wave and Swelteringly and at once, Gradually, Superimposing and Suffusing the Atmospheres, the more Resinous, Balsamic, even Herbal and intensely Forestrial, the Accords of Civet (also noticeable upon first sniff), Oakmoss, Leather, Incense, Patchouli, the great Animalcy and Soothing Layering Capacities of Honey, Vanilla, Artemisia, the Woody compartment Cedar, Sandel, Patchouli, Oakmoss. naming notes double exactly also mirrors this complexly layered and virtuosely blended Movie Star Perfume. Tuberose, Rose, Heliotrope, Orris, all jump in in this dreamlike Concoction Conceptualized as in a Cove of Witches. there has to be a Genius Perfumer or, several, behind this Dream, these Tectonics, Hydraulics Dynamo of a perfume. as Elizabeth Taylor were Pisces, a lot of (spiritually, not in perfume-technical sense!) Aquatics in this perfume. the perfume is the Nemesis of the coming Calone, Hedione and Aquatic, Oceanic perfumes that were coming. it already has a firm Housing in the 1980s. each of these Notorious Perfumes are Referencing and Retroactively, form References unto each other. they form all wether differentiated, yet also cosupportive Accorded Weaves of Unforgettable and History Changing perfumes. the perfume is a mystery while in the acenters of this mystery there is a smooth and sheer Cinematic Phantastical Perfume present. it is as soft as unforgettable and irrepressable. the Perfume of a Dystopia of Cinematic Presence within the Fabulous Fashions and Haute Joaillerie of miss Elizabeth Taylor.