Citrusy and fruity notes clash in an olfactory experience reminiscent of a tropical holiday. Vibrant notes of juicy peach and mango melt into greener facets—awakening the senses in a deliciously fragrant synthetic composition.
The tropics produce a plethora of fragrant delights, one of which being the juicy passionfruit tree. Native to Central America, the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, passion fruit (sometimes called maracuja or granadilla) is the tropical fruit of the passiflora—a climbing plant. The fruit flourishes in a number of gorgeous colors: from purple to yellow, orange and brown. However, it is not the fruit itself that creates the alluring passionfruit note we’ve come to love. Rather, clever perfumers utilize the headspace technique to identically reproduce the fruit’s scent in lab.
The name “passion flower” might evoke images of passion or love, but the reality is rather less sensual: the passion flower was named by Spanish Catholic missionaries during the 17th century, who saw the flower as a symbol of the Passion of Christ. Every aspect of the flower was thought to be significant: the color purple symbolized the season of Lent; the five sepals and five petals represented the ten apostles present during his passion; the three stigma represented the nails that held Jesus to the cross, etc.
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