Fragrance Reviews by serenissimo

Yes, yes, everyone knows that it smells like an inaccurate mixture of MI and GIT by Creed. Some of us know this fact well enough to tell everything about this similarity without even testing any of these three... But let us test it one more time and let's look the other way. And voila! it has the most true smell of angelica stem. I'm talking about a freshly picked leaf with a stem.
That's why, I think, Wall street such a fresh and even slightly overpowering fragrance: just smell angelica on a rainy day, pick up, smear and smell. And the feeling of some sterile freshness is quite similar to angelica greenery as well an uplifting effect. And some bitterness too. To me in spite of all the likeness they are not copies or anything like that: they are absolutely different from the very beginning.
Their effect is similar, but look, if one takes tea to freshen up at noon or drinks coffee for the same purpose, you won't tell these drinks are the same...

Well, it's May and lilac's in full bloom and it is now that one can feel how really far En Passant stays from true lilac fragrance. Lilac seems to be "too much" near EP. Sure En Passant has lilac in it (I mean not extraction but olfactory impression of course), but there's more, much much more. There is a feeling of spring humid cool air somewere in the country (or an early chilly morning in the center of rather an old city, somewhere on an embankment of a local river, just an abstract european city). A smell of fresh bread (I don't know what it means to you, but to me this smell has always been a kind of intimate, very personal and self... well not "selfish" but something you do not usually have intention to share). And something more that makes a morning tense with anxiety that something good and important is to happen...
but well, maybe it's just a personal reaction.
One thing is doubtless: it is very impressionistic and there's a lot more in it then just the chemicals it's made of...