Perfume review #6: En Passant
I have a bottle of orange-flower water; it's a very beautiful scent, very evocative of dew covered flowers. Take that scent, replace the orange-flower with lilac, triple the strength of the "dew" component of the scent, and you'll have a very good idea of what En Passant smells like. It's quite mild, and by far the softest of the perfumes I've smelled so far: if it was a picture it would in pastels, not oils.
As it fades, the green notes predominate, with a bit of freshly cut grass thrown in. Its after-scent is slightly disappointing to my nose ; the lush green scent disappears and all that's left is a rather ordinary floral perfume. However, this only appears after six hours, so there's a lot of green to enjoy.
Like Bigarrade Concentree - and unlike the Creeds and Knize - this gradually fades rather than actively develops, but unlike Bigarrade Concentree, the fade is very pleasant and never stale.
To sum up, a nice little fragrance; very mild, very natural; soft and green rather than big and bold. This isn't a scent I'd use every day, but if I was feeling sick and not in the mood for anything heavy and complex, it might be just the thing to cheer me up.