Fruit Thieves

This one was a blind buy for me. I had been searching for a passionfruit scent that was complex and interesting and thought this could fit the bill. So I bought a travel sized bottle while it as on sale. When I first tried it, I was a bit disappointed. My first impression was that it was too sweet, and perhaps even too sexy. I wanted bright and fresh and this felt heavier and stickier than what I was searching for. So I continued my search for what I thought I was looking for, but without thinking too much about it, kept finding myself returning to this one over and over again. I even ended up bringing it with me on a trip to out of the country and it was there that I finally began to understand the TRUE magic of this scent. Every evening, after returning home from a multi-mile tromp through the city's summer heat, I'd take a cool shower and find myself reaching for Fruit Thieves. It turns out, when I wasn't comparing it to some idea of fresh and funkiness I had in my mind, the vine note in this bottle is GORGEOUSLY fresh and wonderfully dank. And what I had originally thought was too sweet, is actually a warm sweetness, not at all cloying, and actually rather comforting. It was exactly what I wanted to return to. All together, the notes combine to form the perfect occasion - fresh yet familiar, a little funky and thus unique, a great little hit of passionfruit and bright summer fun. Also, good to note! I've only been wearing this scent during warmer months, but because of the warmth in it's sweetness, I can absolutely imagine this being a wonderful scent for cooler weather as well. And it's great for both day and night. A really great and versatile scent!!

Realistic passionfruit opens the fragrance. Tart yet sweet in the most pleasant, nostalgic, floral-honeyed way. Humid and tropical, yet fresh, like vacationing someplace sticky and hot, but it just stormed and you're walking through the wet jungle, steam rising. The passionfruit is anything but shy here, and it doesn't smell nearly as synthetic as in other fragrances I've tried. It's fresh and invigorating, and smooth and creamy. Green, yet sweet, and a slight bitterness offsets any potential linearity of the passionfruit. The jasmine enters, enveloping the passionfruit in a delicate but discernible way. Your jungle walk has reached a tropical garden full of subtle white blooms. Not the least bit indolic or heavy, and not soapy. You're burying your nose in a sweet, white flower while the remnants of the passionfruit you've just consumed drips down your chin. This is a fruity floral for those who want to smell tropical, but don't like sunscreen scents, and for those who have been traumatized by screechy, decaying white florals in the past. Very wearable.

Takes me back to the first time I tried passion fruits. Tart and juicy, lips puckered as the juice drips down. So tart it wakes you up. Dry down mellows the tartness and adds a beautiful, soft floral. Clean sheets and jasmine on vines. Slightly skanky as well. I love it so much. I hope to find a photorealistic green tea to pair with this, to make passion fruit green tea drink ;)

not a big fan of passionfruit anything, but was curious enough about the green notes in this perfume. it smelled very much like tomato vines for the first couple of hours, which i surprisingly quite enjoyed on my skin! then the passionfruit note started coming through, adding a nice depth to it without overwhelming my nose. i didn't really get the jasmine though which was very interesting to me since most jasmine based perfumes smell overwhelmingly floral on my skin. all in all, a good experience!

i definitely get that the fruit note in this is ripe, bordering on rancid but not yet rotten that my nose kept anticipating to go sour but didn’t. i love elevated fruit scents like this that try to smell like the entire fruit; rind and vine and tree and all, and this is no exception. i’m hoping that my nose knows to expect that the passion fruit isn’t turning in this but i fear wearing this in hotter, humid weather may bring out that facet more.