Elizabeth Taylor Passion EDT Spray 74 ml

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Smelling Passion now is like looking at a fine painting that has been hanging in the sun for decades, subjected to dust and grease, then accidentally run over by the vacuum cleaner. Jan Moran in Fabulous Fragrances quotes Taylor as saying about Passion, “It has a scent of mystery, slightly effusive, kind of smoky and sweet. I can see that fresh off the easel the painting must have been something to behold, but now all I can make out is that it’s a guy on a horse.

Passion Elizabeth Taylor perfume - a fragrance for women 1988

Now that I’ve lived with Passion a few days, I smell musk wrapped through the entire composition, and the incense has taken more of a back seat. There are so many different flavors to this delicious scent, one try isn't enough to benefit from it's full potentials. This perfume is a dirty old style oriental which on my skin it is all about the musk, spices, woods and resins in the drydown. And many modern perfume brands seem to claim to be direct descendants of perfumers to the Court of Versailles, attempting to make Marie Antoinnette into a celebrity endorser. More of a scent your mother or grandmother might wear, even back in the late 80s, when this debuted.

Passion must have been complex and grand at one time, like Elizabeth Taylor herself, and I want to experience it. Amazing sillage and longevity, easily fills a room making the wearer the center of attention, something that I personally love. Sometimes it’s simply that I’m getting to know perfume better and so I widen my range of “likes,” and sometimes it’s simply my mood!

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I like better in the LE version, but the older stuff seems very sugary-sweet to me, I mean in the sense of feeling grains of sugar crunch between my teeth. The drydown is predominantly strong oakmoss with a hint of vetiver and patchouli, and the sandalwood feels very creamy and buttery.For reason of hygiene and safety, we cannot refund or exchange any cosmetics that have been removed from the original wrapping or show any signs of having been used unless they are faulty, damaged, unsatisfactory quality or incorrect item received. I don’t know how old my mini is, but it’s old enough that the color of the juice has gone off a bit (it was originally purple, now kind of a weird green). All I get is a flattened, texture-less, sweetened white flower combo that might as well come packaged in a Glade plug-in.