Passage d'Enfer L'Artisan Parfumeur 1999

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7.4 / 10 204 Ratings

Passage d'Enfer is a perfume by L'Artisan Parfumeur for women and men and was released in 1999. The scent is smoky-woody. It is being marketed by Puig. Pronunciation

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Main accords

Smoky

Woody

Floral

Spicy

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Ginger

Rose

Heart Notes

Frankincense

Lily

Oud

Base Notes

White musk

Benzoin

Cedar

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Olivia Giacobetti

Ratings

Scent

7.4204 Ratings

Longevity

6.5162 Ratings

Sillage

5.8149 Ratings

Bottle

7.9147 Ratings

Value for money

6.630 Ratings

Submitted by Schnuffi, last update on 11.03.2024.

Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/07/2020

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Jersey
15 Reviews

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Jersey

Very helpful Review 16

Highly emotional experience

Innocently clean, elegant, discreet, remarkably fresh, gentle and highly emotional experience during the wedding ceremony in the small Annaberg - pilgrimage church only thanks to a little incense and lilies that are placed in the vases next to it.

In the air you can feel silence, love, joy and excitement from the bridal couple, and tears and emotions during the organ music even more intensified from both parents' sides, because they know that their children have now left home to start their new life together. . .
A masterpiece by Olivia Giacobetti

05/03/2020

8
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 7
Scent

Vrabec
61 Reviews

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Vrabec

Very helpful Review 8

En Voyage chez l'Artisan Parfumeur: 6 Passage d'Enfer - heavenly gates of hell

With this fragrance I expected something completely different than what I finally got. The description "smoky-woody" , incense in the given notes and especially the name "way to hell" made me think of something oriental, smoky, biting.
Well, maybe I should have just read the other comments.
Passage d'Enfer is above all: gentle The rose is clearly in the foreground. It is very beautifully staged, appears above all natural, no soapy associations are forced upon it. It is light, cloudy and fluffy. It is accompanied by freshly plucked green, which reminds me of tender shoots and buds. Authentic blooming nature, awakening spring. I think of a wonderful walk in nature, everything is bouncing and jumping inside me. I have never experienced incense so mild, so peacefully pale. It paints the scent of roses at most timidly and otherwise keeps the currently given distance. Also the other notes are hardly noticeable and when they are washed, powdered, ironed out, they are clean of any characteristics. And here we come to what bothers me:
The fragrance is a wonderfully weightless rose scent for spring, which is especially good for young ladies.
But where are the edges? Where the sillage, where the course ?
It doesn't have to be anything exhausting or even offensive, but I expect a bit more "bubbling" by the name, which promises the "way to hell". Everything here smells so harmless, so light, so peaceful that one rather thinks of heaven than hell. And unfortunately this heaven smells a little bit one-dimensional from beginning to end, so Passage d'Enfer for me "only" remains solid
A bit of a pity, I think.

Thank you very much for reading my comment.

09/24/2013

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Very helpful Review 8

composition

When asked recently that old chestnut, “Whom would you invite to dinner if you could have any 10 guests from history?” I was mortified as usual by the pedestrian quality of my answer compared to the great wits and intellects around me. I'd love to think of myself as a rounded person, but my head must've been in my perfume closet, and my answers were quite narrow. Edmond Roudnitska, Germaine Cellier, Bernard Chant... I was happy with myself, though, for the living perfumer I included, Olivia Giacobetti.

I've actually only recently found my way to Giacobetti’s work, but I am fascinated. I still want to investigate her fig and flower perfumes, but having experienced Dzing! Passage d’Enfer and Fou d’Absinthe, I'm sold.

I love the scents of the perfumes that I've tried, but I am drawn to her for her artistic approach. Dzing! captures my desire for a considered use of abstraction toward specific ends. Abstraction isn’t throwing things at a wall and seeing what sticks. It is a specific and complex means of revealing attributes of an idea or thing, and has only as much randomness to it as any other means of composing work does. Passage d’Enfer shows that thoughtful juxtaposition highlights the frame of reference, and bends contexts to create new and unimagined possibilities. Juxtaposition is never simply about the two ideas placed next to each other. It’s about the space between them, the artist and the audience and what they together make of it all.

While there certainly is more to the composition, Passage d’Enfer combines incense and lily and comes up with something both interesting and unexpected. While I can still make out the two components, my attention is mostly drawn to a third, new quality. It is creamy, soapy, spectral. It suggests an atmosphere like fog, which cannot be experienced in inches, but must be taken in in yards, over terrain. It has a comfortable density to the touch that feels like it would absorb sound. It has a giving property and maybe even a forgiving nature.

I know I'm reading a lot into this perfume. But that's what I want to do with perfume. And in order to do so I choose well-considered perfumes, ones rich with ideas. I've always loved the T.S. Eliot expression, “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” It tells me about subject, object, the things between them, and intent. By the same token a smart, qualified perfumer can show a willing and informed perfume wearer the world in a bottle.

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09/03/2019

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

Pollita
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Pollita

Helpful Review 4

Childhood flashback

There has been a lot of talk about this beautiful beginner incense lately. In addition, Blauemaus and her Chinatown Kommi have thematized the theme of scents and childhood memories, which in turn brings me to Passage d'Enfer.

Passage d'Enfer was my first incense and actually incense scents have not interested me at all until now. At that grade, I always thought of old church walls. For me incense was a purely sacral scent and had nothing to do with perfume. But I was taught a better lesson.

First, the history of my childhood. Since I was six years old, my parents went skiing with me twice a year, at Christmas and Easter, to Austria. It was always a wonderful time for me because there were always other friends of the family who had children my age. So always enough playmates and fun. The farmhouse where we stayed was idyllically situated in the middle of meadows and woods with a rushing mountain stream and a waterfall. I always climbed up the steep slopes and picked primroses in spring. We built dams at the creek and experienced many other exciting things. And of course skiing itself has always been a pleasure. We were in different ski areas on the way and got to see so much over the years. From this time there are also masses of photos of me with a shining smile. Even as a teenager and beyond, I still took a vacation there, even with friends and my first life partner.

When about ten years ago a nice internet acquaintance showed me her fragrance collection, I sniffed Passage d'Enfer for the first time. The total flashback for me, because I was exactly in this pension in Austria. The reason: Passage d'Enfer smelled exactly like the bed linen there. Awesome! Once this memory and once the fact that I find incense really horny and not at all as sacral-dusty. I was taught better, so I bought my first incense fragrance. Meanwhile I don't own it anymore, but with L'Ether from IUNX I have a twin fragrance, also from the wonderful Olivia Giacobetti.

10/03/2018

10
Bottle 7
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

MisterShaver
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MisterShaver

Names are sound and smoke .....

Whenever I have decided for a fragrance without looking in here before, I had to read here, it is in this community often a differentiated commented fragrance. Is that good or bad?
Very noticeable for me is that the fragrance was always very good when I bought it. The reading here about the then purchased scent led mostly to the fact that I liked the scent even better afterwards. Possibly pure defiance?
Anyway, that's how it's been here. In the excellently equipped perfumery Thaler in Bolzano I was very well advised due to my search for a scent with sandalwood and in the end I landed at the Acqua di Parma Concentrada Sandalo at the pass to hell. I don't speak French and only read here what I had bought there. I also read the comments that were always rushing to associate this name with anything about the fragrance. And I bought this perfume without knowing what the name meant to say. But now I happen to know exactly, that such composed scents, like all others, react on the skin according to the chemical attitude of the skin owner. Therefore I noticed a wonderful slightly woody, but also warm scent. It's very close to the body, you write it here. Aha... has anyone ever asked their environment if that's the case? I do. So, also my fellow men perceive the smell. And pleasant. I'm not going to take it apart because it leads nowhere. The fragrance does not smell as one might think when knowing the name translated into German. But it's a soft, sandalwood scent with incense in the bag. Not a church, but in time for a sunny autumn. And the name is just sound and smoke, it doesn't matter and I'm sure Olivia Giacobetti wanted the same fragrance and didn't want to create a mass product. It is what it is. A gentle autumn scent with a slope to the fireplace room and a gin bottle on the table. Besides a copy of the last Playboy to pay tribute to the theme hell. If that's what's important.

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