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Brand: Elizabeth Taylor
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pluckyZebra7
Passion is the second Elizabeth Taylor fragrance I have purchased. The first was Diamonds and Rubies in either an EdT or an EdP formulation. I do not recall exactly. It was a new bottle, and given the notes, I expected it to be a love or at least a strong like, but sadly, I must tell you dear readers that it smelt like hairspray to me and not good hairspray either.
I decided I might find a vintage Elizabeth Taylor fragrance a lot more appealing, though. This time I opted for Passion in the EdT formulation. I purchased two vintage bottles from the first production run. The first bottle was simply unwearable. Whatever was left of the fragrance smelt more like old cardboard than a voluptuous Oriental.
The second, smaller bottle was wearable, but I did not like it as much as I hoped again based on the listed notes. I cannot identify it as an Oriental at all. I am not sure how I would categorise it to be honest.
I cannot pick out any of the wonderful notes listed in the pyramid. It smells like a very generic sort of fragrance. I find it neither spicy nor animalic. It is not particularly floral either. I am disappointed. Ms. Taylor was anything but ordinary. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for her fragrances, and I doubt I will try any more of them. They seem to be very low quality compared to a lot of other chemist shop scents. For example, Revlon Ciara is a very affordable fragrance, yet it is so much better than the Taylor fragrances. Passion’s longevity is reasonable, but sillage and projection are very low.
As for the bottles, they are a bit kitschy, but I like them nonetheless. However, Passion’s bottle feels so cheaply made that it could crack apart in my hand if I squeezed it too tightly, but I still like it.
I am so sorry to give a thumbs down to this fragrance. I wanted to be able to rate it neutral, but it would be less than honest of me to rate it neutral. Perhaps if I had smelt it whence it was first introduced, I would have liked it more. It has not aged well at all. By the way, the liquid does seem to be coloured purple, so be careful of it around your clothing if you decide to try it.
Fragrance: 2/10
Projection: 2/10
Sillage: 2/10
Longevity: 5/10
unhappyThrush2
Badly reformulated in recent years, this is a gloriously unabashed PERFUME (all caps), Vintage bottles, which have a gold colored diamond on the bottle, are readily and cheaply available on eBay and have held up very well over time. My review is of vintage Passion EDT.
Passion is basically everything great about old-school perfumery in one juice. The delightfully tacky Art Deco packaging is part of the deal. It’s a dark witchy liquid in a dark purple bottle that delivers the sort of skanky-yet-clean, mesmerizingly mysterious “waft” you just can’t get from Juicy Couture or Marc Jacobs. Is Passion an Oriental or a chypre? It’s both. Starts off with a soapy citrus tang, morphs into a coconutty herbal tuberose, and settles down into a dry, powdery vetiver with a dab of civet skank– just enough to enhance the whole thing, kind of like fish sauce in Thai cooking.
God, I love this stuff. It has a somewhat earthy/hippie/Goth vibe, due to the herbally undertones and skin-musk feel. Passion would be right at home at a seance, an indie rock concert, or a mass protest. Or, you can just wear it at home in your sweats and be comfortingly connected to the perfumed arts of the past.
insecureMuesli5
Hi! I’m one of those female 20-somethings who appreciates a great powerhouse from another era. Just bought a 75ml EdT online, and I gotta say, it’s absolutely stunning! From some other reviews and blogs I’ve read, I thought there would be a lot more florals in here, but on my skin it’s pure incense, smoke, beautiful woods, leather, and a bit of powder. This beauty sure packs a punch, and it lasts for a very long time. My hubby could still detect it on my décolletage 8 hours later! I love the leathery, suede-like, smooth feel of this with no jagged edges. It’s robust and round. This would be perfect to wear when I perform a rock’n roll set. I can’t believe the price, this should have a way higher price tag IMO. For anyone into orientals, you gotta give this one a shot. Just buy it blind I say! The bottle is awesome too! The reason I gave the packaging a 4 is because I wish the cap wasn’t plastic.
P.S. I usually steer clear of all celebrity frags, but this one is the exception!
gloomyVenison1
A previous reviewer said if this was in a Serge Lutens bottle it would fly off the shelves and I am inclined to agree with her. The bottle itself is not too awful, definitely a bit cheap looking, but the box is in a league of its own, it’s like something you’d win in a raffle. But it’s what’s inside that counts, and this is a beautiful fragrance. It reminds me of something which I can’t quite pin down, it’s very evocative but not necessarily of the 80s – it feels like something you’d have worn for a rainy day in bed with Jim Morrison just as much as to a gala with Liza. If you like Opium, Mitsouko, TF Black Orchid (or even if you don’t!) do not pass up an opportunity to give this a try.
vengefulPlover2
It’s 1986. Extremely expensive Southern California hotel lobby with Italian marble floors and very glittery chandeliers. Men in uniforms are wearing white gloves. A couple emerges from the elevators in the lobby a ways off and you’re about to pass by them in a few moments. You don’t notice the man so much but perceive he is unshaven, ruggedly handsome and in an expensive-looking slightly rumpled suit, shirt unbuttoned down to his chest. He’s wearing a cheap after shave like Brut or Old Spice. The woman is what draws you in. Amethyst silk dress with thin straps that clings to her body as she moves. Tan skin, enviable skin. Sheer black nylons. Black leather heels. An elegant scattering of gold jewelry punctuates her golden skin and her hair, which is long, bouncing, and brown, and was curled with an iron, but undone, in just that way that the day after causes it to look better than the night before. They both wear sunglasses because even though they’re dressed for evening, it is 11am. And they are wholly unself-conscious. Because nobody else exists. She holds a cigarette, drags, and then as you’re about to pass them, they stop, and she puts her hand on his back and smiles and kind of tilts her head towards him, watching him, as he watches her and holds her hand, with the cigarette, to his mouth, and inhales. You’ve passed them in a very private moment, and you’re the one who feels self-conscious. Their stopping prematurely has created a sort of vacuum of air which now hits you full-force, and Passion is the name for this entire moment and all that it is that you see, sense, and smell: civet – promise – love – eroticism – leather – cigarettes – lived-in silk – dried sweat – perfume – fancy hotels – sex – cosmetics – money – romance – aftershave – cheap mens cologne – masculinity – strength – hotel soap and the scent of detergent from the sheets – the height of excitement between two people when it’s new – drinks – hairspray – the core of the flame between two people – and, and this cannot be underestimated – the scent of nylons against a woman’s lotioned skin.
Their entire story unfolds before you in a split second, and you are pretty sure that if that woman or man is not a film star either in America or Europe – hopefully Europe – then he or she could be. This is Elizabeth Taylor’s Passion.
artisticBaboon6
Top notes: aldehydes, artemisia, gardenia, coriander, ylang-ylang, bergamot, lily-of-the-valley
Heart: tuberose, sandalwood, honey, orris root, patchouli, heliotrope, cedar, jasmine, rose, spice
Base notes: leather, musk, incense, sandalwood, oakmoss, cedar, civet, coconut, vanilla
This perfume is like a true blue vamp. You know the type, ample cleavage, wearing a tight, deep purple velvet dress with a white feather boa, red lipstick and a long slim cigarette sticking out of her mouth. She’s perfectly woman, makes no excuses, and gets down with men at the casino while she matches them shot for shot.
No, she’s not trashy. She’s not refined either. She’s just herself and she’s damn proud of it.
That’s this perfume in a nutshell. I only wear this when I’m feeling kind of “purply”; lovers of purple know exactly what I’m talking about. There are just some days when only gorgeous purple eye shadow will do, or that exotic orchid handbag must be pulled out and used. Those are the days to spritz on Passion, walk out the door, and sashay those hips fiercely.
Ok, don’t sashay your hips. But you totally could if you wanted to, because that’s what this perfume is all about: brazen femininity and sensuality.
Not everyone can where this. In fact, if you’re young or a wallflower, expect this perfume to wear you, not the other way around.
vengefulDotterel0
Moderately interesting and ultimately disappointing.
I love orientals and orientals love me. I regularly wear Bal a Versailles, Tabu, Ciara, Youth Dew and other heavy oriental hitters. Given the notes in it, Passion should have been perfect for me. I found some bottles available at a good price. There was no tester available, but I’ve had a lot of luck with Elizabeth Taylor fragances, and love the sound of the notes that I decided to blind buy.
First impression – the first spray smells like hairspray and cheap mens cologne. After about 5 minutes it dries to a very dusty, somewhat spicy incense.
Second impression – there is none. I keep waiting, and sniffing, waiting and sniffing, hoping that it will transform into something more than this, but it doesn’t. It continues to smell like very dusty, somewhat spicy incense. It’s just too dry for me.
Longevity: 3-4 hours
Sillage: low/moderate. I have to sniff my wrists to really smell it, but friends have said they can smell it when sitting next to me.
None of them are repulsed by it, but none of them think it smells particularly good on me. All of them say it smells a bit like I’ve been smoking. In fact, this smells like a fragrance that someone who smokes would wear to try and cover up the smell of cigarette smoke.
The good news is that I was able to find a way to redeem it. I mixed it into fragrance free sorbolene. This completely eliminated the dry dustiness and turned it into creamy spicy incense. I then added the tiniest bit of vanilla extract and a couple of drops of lavender essential oil. This turned it into a very interesting, almost gourmand spiced oriental which smells lovely on me (all friends agree). I will use this in winter when I don’t want full on fragrance but just that slightly perfumed skin scent aura.
Given that I’ve been able to redeem it, would I buy it again? Highly unlikely. I have other orientals that work perfectly on me without having to tinker, and I’m trying to reduce the number of fragrances I have anyway. Also, this fragrance is not all that commonly available in Australia.
When will I learn not to blind buy? Somehow I think the answer is never.
affectedCaviar4
I’m pulling out my cooler weather scents and this is one I haven’t worn much yet love. I only have a mini perfume, I’m not sure if it’s been reformulated or if it’s the original but it says House of Taylor on the bottom label. At first sniff it seems very chypre-ish, along with the aldehydes. After a few minutes it becomes spicier and the deeper notes come up. This is right up my alley. It’s deep, sensuous, multilayered, well blended. It has the feel of a vintage scent from the ’40’s or ’50’s. On my skin it’s not at all loud, reminds me of spices around the holidays mixed with greenery, womanly, not trendy. It’s perfect for Autumn or wintery nights.
cheerfulCamel5
Pow! First spray…what an animal Liz Taylor created with this juice. Passions, animals on the prey, musk and incense all attack the senses. It must be the civet that I adore and smile about, but smile inside it makes me do. I keep sniffing my wrists and saying, “So beautiful.” I love this fragrance.
Passion settles down into a woman’s sensual scent, promising what’s yet to be. A high-heeled, black-stockings, bat your lashes, use your fingernails, arch your eyebrow, Baby I know who I am and what I’ve got fragrance. It’s not a user beware, it’s the opposite. Your date, SO, whatever is in trouble.
Drydown to a sweet, musky, powdery incense, making Passion a wonderful Oriental that’s ignored because of it’s price. Don’t be fooled by the name and the politics. Don’t let yourself be swayed by commercialism and hype and pay exorbitant prices to cover the costs of commercials and tv. Close your eyes and let your nose tell you what’s wonderful.
One spritz lasts for hours and hours and sillage is about an arms length. This is sexy, yes, but also cozy and warm in it’s own way.
The African Amethyst color of the art deco glass bottle is elegant. The gold cap could be replaced, I’ll agree, but if that was the decision, I’ll live with it.
There are so many different flavors to this delicious scent, one try isn’t enough to benefit from it’s full potentials. At times, spices mix into the brew of decadence, while leather, smoke and incense dance around the flames of desire that the creator of this frag intended to concoct a potion so intense she was willing to chance it all as her very first fragrance on the market. Passion is just so delicious!
Why has this ET fragrance been ignored or shunted? By far, it is the richest of them all. It is an eye-opener, a knock-your-socks-off with the aldehydes at the top. But the sandalwood, patchouli, coconut and vanilla all bring it down in the base to a scent of incredible strength. Think 1940’s Hollywood and strong women such as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Betty Davis.
Some call this a drugstore perfume, because Elizabeth Taylor wanted all women to be able to appreciate her scents. Ironically, her perfumes are also sold in department stores such as Macys. So they must appeal to women of various backgrounds.
I also love Diamonds and Rubies by ET. I’m searching for Black Pearls, the only other I believe will fit my fragrance nose. I’m just not a floral person, and that’s why I’m not a fan of the others in her line. But their popularity should tell consumers that her perfumes will become classics just as the inimitable Elizabeth Taylor has become in history. I am delighted to own, wear and display these.
Top Notes: Aldehyes, Artemisia, Coriander, Bergamot, Gardenia, Ylang-Ylang, Lily-Of-The Valley.
Middle Notes: Honey, Tuberose, Sandalwood, Patchouli, Orris Root, Jasmine, Heliotrope, Cedar, Rose, Spice Notes.
Base Notes: Leather, Musk, Coconut, Civet, Vanilla, Oakmoss, Incense, Sandalwood, Cedar.
wakefulSyrup4
a mix of KL and Knowing, theres a touch of opium there but its definitely more like KL on me. Its one of those hot then cold fragrances. One second I’m loving it, the next I want to wash it off. But now I can’t stop sniffing it. This would smell gorgeous on a man.