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Tiempe Passate Antonia's Flowers 1999

7.4 / 10 15 Ratings

A perfume by Antonia's Flowers for women, released in 1999. The scent is floral The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Synthetic

Citrus

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Amber

Bergamot

Cedarwood

Clementine

Montauk Rose

Perfumer

Norbert Bijaoui

Ratings

Scent

7.415 Ratings

Longevity

6.89 Ratings

Sillage

6.59 Ratings

Bottle

8.414 Ratings

Submitted by Ripieno, last update on 10/13/2025.

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4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/13/2025

6Scent

Pcsteele
21 Reviews

Pcsteele

Tried the new Tiempe Passate

I inherited some samples of Antonia's Flowers and Floret from my mother, who I know used to love her Tiempe Passate hand lotion. The assorted reviews on the internet from her loyal fans intrigued me with their cultish passion, and Floret has a lovely pea flower note that really did feel greenhouse-inspired. I struggled to understand from the barebones website whether the revived Tiempe Passate was the real deal or a very strange scam, but I was able to track down some people who had received their packages and affirmed that the scent was the same!

Antonia sent me a sample at my request (actually, several) despite acknowledging it wasn't very cost effective.

It's kind of a subdued, soapy, pleasant rose. Luca Turin describes it as "big rose" and that's a bit of a head scratcher for me. I like it but I am still waiting for the struck-by-lightning feeling that has older reviewers writing all-caps screeches of pleasure. Is that just the rosy light of nostalgia, or will my nose evolve to smell what they smell?

All in all, I preferred the tart, pretty little Floret!

08/02/2014

6Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Missk
1357 Reviews

Missk

Disappointingly Generic

I'm surprised to find that Tiempe Passate isn't an oriental. I had just assumed that with such a name and a dominant accord of amber, this composition had to be rich and exotic. Instead, Tiempe Passate smells fresh and citrusy, dominated by clementine, with only the slightest hint of syrupy amber.

The packaging can mislead you into thinking that this particular fragrance is elegant, bold and expensive. It's pleasant and inoffensive, but nothing so spectacular as to turn heads. As much as I hate to say it, it feels casual on my skin. Kind of like a scent for weekends and days spent in-doors.

I agree with Sherapop and afartherroom, this does essentially smell like a bar of soap. The unisex kind of soap, with a touch of citrus and woods. So far, it smells lovely on the skin, but a tad generic and plain. I want to stand out, and Tiempe Passate doesn't want to follow in suit.

After a few hours wear, it is not the composition that I'm bothered by, but the weak sillage and fast fading longevity. I expected it to pack a bigger punch than that, seeing that the sample I'm using is labelled as an EDP. Tiempe Passate is quite possibly the softest fragrance by this brand.

The drydown, (if only it had it been stronger), is more to my tastes. My nose can detect soft cedar with a creamy hint of rose. The citrusy bergamot and clementine have all but vanished by this point, in turn focusing on the smoother aspects of the composition.

While I am not bitterly disappointed, I am feeling a little cheated. I had imagined so much more and had become victim to my high expectations. I'm afraid this fragrance is not one I can see myself wearing for a second time around.

05/17/2012

7Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Sherapop
1240 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 2

Soapy Amber

Antonia's Flowers TIEMPE PASSATE is a very soapy amber perfume to my nose and on my skin. The soap is especially dominant in the opening and midstages. Eventually the composition becomes more of a light amber skin scent. The overall effect remains quite clean--while it lasts. I have to agree with other reviewers that the longevity of this edp is not very impressive, which is surprising since the edts I've tried from this house seemed fairly strong.

While wearing this eau de parfum, I was reminded a bit of Prada HOMME/AMBER, which is another soapy amber. But the soap in the two cases is quite different. In general, It think that soap notes are very tricky and there is no way of predicting whether one will be appealing or annoying, so I recommend trying TIEMPE PASSATE before buying even if you already know that you like soap, because you may or may not like this particular version. Some people have compared the scent to Dove, which seems about right to me.

04/21/2025

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Symphorosa76
10 Reviews

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Scent of Longing

In 2005, I traveled all the way from Cologne to Amsterdam just to get my hands on this fragrance. I had only heard about it from other perfume enthusiasts on the perfume forum I frequented at the time on makeupalley.com.
A niche fragrance from the USA that, of course, was not available in Germany.
I can no longer quite grasp what this scent triggered in me back then. A warm, ambered rose with fresh accents - nothing special, really... perhaps it was the slightly salty Montauk rose that enchanted me so? According to the press material, the fragrance was named after a love song supposedly written by the brand owner's grandfather in the 1920s... Nostalgia was clearly intended. The scent hit me like a bomb - I wanted to wear nothing else. It was as if TP had struck a chord within me... a deep longing for a place and time beyond consciousness.
But just as quickly and intensely as my love came, it also disappeared. And the half-empty bottle spent many years in the farthest corner of my closet before I sold it here in the souk. In between, I tried again and again to see if the magic would return - in vain. The love of a summer... gone with the wind. Tiempe Passate indeed.