Passion de l’Amour

I ordered a House of Sillage discovery set and when I initially started wearing the different scents, I was underwhelmed. When I first sprayed this on I didn't love it. It opens strong and a bit sour and I screwed my nose up a bit. And then the sweetness hit. And oh my, the heady spice mix, the sweet and fruity and smooth oud goodness. I cannot stop smelling myself when I wear it, it is delicious on skin. It gets very hot and humid here in the summer and I think this will be too heavy then but it is perfect for the cool autumn nights were having now. I ordered the full bottle despite the heavy price tag because I plan to wear this all winter. I'm finding that nearly all the HoS fragrances I got are better with a few wears, to give yourself time to appreciate their complexities. I kind of wish I hadn't discovered this because now I want Benevolence and Hauts Bijoux and Chevaux D'Or too, and lordy those cupcake bottles are expensive.

Absolutely in love with! I get the tartness of the raspberry, the saffron and the oud mainly. No vanilla comes to my nose and I am not familiar enough with amyris, lily of the valley or liatris to say that I can smell them individually. BUTTTT this fragrance is so beautiful, in one layer the fruits make it light airy summery and flirty and in the under layer the oud gives it this dark nuance. Its like a beautiful woman who has terrible secrets haha. The oud in it is not heavy nor animalic, but comes off more like a dark woody scent. It is not a safe blind buy (even though i did) because of the oud. projection for me was a little more than arm's length and this fragrance lasted on me for over 12 hrs! which is amazing because my skin is typically dry and eats up fragrances quickly. Very glad i liked it, especially seeing that price tag, but I bought at a 40% discount from the site.

I love this frag, BUT I will say, as I've said on other HOS reviews...IMHO the "male" counterpart to MOST of their frags lean more "fem" than the actual feminine version. This is unisex...BUT the "male" version has more vanilla, fresh, sweet woodsy smell...while this version is more Oud, amyris, Saffron, & liatris, with hints and waves from, a light rasberry(not overly sweet at all), and patchouli. Just much more masc than the male version of this, same goes for the Ruby reign line, and batman BOTH frags are perfectly unisex imo. So keep that in mind. The ruby reign is SUPER masc, while the male version is much much much more fem. I traded with my fiance he agreed 100% on with opinion and wad happy to trade. But I still enjoy this fragrance very much. It's unique imo, an oud, forrest, fresh, spicy scent blended and done very well.

Wow, this house is seriously pretentious with its boring perfumes and cheap notes and unnecessarily high price tag. What you’re paying for is the cupcake bottle. That’s where 75% of the money goes to and I’m too much of a true scent lover to fall for a weak, generic perfume in a fancy bottle. Out of the ten samples I tried in the discovery kit, only one actually stood out as pretty decent. The rest are nothing special and not worth the high price tag. Save your money and buy two very well made perfumes. You have to remember , when the juice is gone u will be left with a useless cupcake perfume bottle. Cute but useless nevertheless.

I'm always looking for fragrances that have aoud as a background note without it taking over the entire fragrance. House of Sillage has created that in Passion de l'amour. This is a beautiful fruity perfume where the bergamot and raspberry really balance out the aoud and vanilla. It's very sweet, but the woody notes keep it from being too cloying. This is definitely going on my list of fragrances to purchase.