Purple Heart V.5 Map of the Heart 2016

Bottle Design:
Pierre Dinand

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7.3 / 10 76 Ratings

A perfume by Map of the Heart for women, released in 2016. The scent is fruity-sweet. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Fruity

Sweet

Smoky

Spicy

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Black cherry

Black plum

Heart Notes

Liquorice

Purple rose Violet

Violet

Base Notes

Tonka bean Ink

Ink

Vanilla

Amber

Australian sandalwood

Perfumer

Jacques Huclier

Ratings

Scent

7.376 Ratings

Longevity

7.959 Ratings

Sillage

7.260 Ratings

Bottle

7.462 Ratings

Value for money

6.423 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 08/15/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Jump Up and Kiss Me Hedonistic

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/29/2024

4
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 6
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Raluko111
353 Reviews

Raluko111

2

Gothic, smoky, meaty cherry.

Purple Heart is a gothic cherry with an interesting story that starts in Chinatown, NYC, in the window of Wah Fung where on metal hooks hang bits of smoked duck, chicken, pork, and other more exotic offerings. Each piece is velvety red from the Hoisin sauce, a mix of prunes and cherries.

From Chinatown we reach home in 20-40 minutes. The schoolgirl lays the smoked meat packages neatly on the table and proceeds to do her homework. The ink smell from her fountain pen blends beautifully with the cherry and prune sauce aroma.

The cherries become sweeter and sweeter, darker and smokier, and I cannot stop breathing them in deep, gulping breaths. It's not a perfume for those lacking courage. If you like mysterious cherries, it deserves a chance.
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Purple Heart este o cireașă gotică, cu o poveste interesantă, care începe în Chinatown, New York, în vitrina de la Wah Fung, unde pe cârlige de metal atârnă bucăți de carne afumată de rață, de pui, de porc, și alte animale mai exotice. Fiecare bucată de carne este roșie-catifelată de la sosul Hoisin, un amestec de prune și cireșe.

Din Chinatown ajungem acasă în 20-40 de minute. Școlărita așază pachetele cu carnea afumată pe masă, deschide caietul și începe să-și facă temele. Mirosul de cerneală se îmbină frumos cu sosul de prune și cireșe.

Cireșele devin din ce în ce mai dulci, adânci și fumurii, și nu mă satur să le adulmec. Nu este un parfum pentru cei fără curaj. Dar dacă îți plac cireșele misterioase, merită încercat.

02/13/2024

9
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Ravn1904
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Ravn1904

Helpful Review 6

I know you...

There are fragrances that build bridges. People love them, people feel comfortable around them and compliments are heaped on them. And there are fragrances that build walls. Purple Heart V.5 places stone upon stone, in a vertical form.

The first few seconds literally jump out at you. A heavy sweetness, surrounded by exorbitant smokiness. A sour cherry in the middle, clearly recognizable. It's almost unbearable, and yet somehow awesome. A fragrance that doesn't even try to please the masses, but instead directly pushes boundaries and unapologetically presents its tough side. Once the initial shock has been digested, the following thought creeps in: "I've smelled this somewhere before!", and indeed. At times, Purple Heart V.5 is strongly reminiscent of one of the most hyped fragrances of all, "AddictiveArts - Jump Up and Kiss Me Hedonistic | Clive Christian". This also focuses on the tart fruit and repeatedly emits shrill clouds of smoke that make the whole thing unmistakable. The longevity and sillage can easily keep up with the €550 luxury fragrance, but for me, Purple Heart V.5 is even more intrusive, even more uncomfortable and even more extroverted. Why it is restricted as a fragrance for women is a mystery to me. I see it as absolutely unisex, if not more in the masculine sector, as many ladies are sure to be overwhelmed by the heaviness. It takes a really long time, about 3 or 4 hours, before it calms down and slightly more floral notes come to the fore. I think I also detect a hint of leather and/or oud, but unfortunately I miss the licorice note. If this had also made an appearance, we would be talking about a candidate for the top score. This leaves us with a "merely" very good product with an impressive performance that could certainly impress fans of "beastmode" fragrances.

10/22/2023

9
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Malefiz692
3 Reviews

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Malefiz692

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Two hearts beat in my chest

Do you know this? Sometimes there is a certain discrepancy between your own behavior and the image you would like to have of yourself. At least that's how I feel. To be honest, I'm often a people pleaser in my day-to-day work. Harmony in the team is important to me, I avoid conflicts and try to create a constructive working atmosphere with compromises and helpfulness.

Sometimes, however, it annoys me even in me, because of course this does not always reflect my true emotional state and there are simply colleagues and colleagues with whom even this does not help.

In such moments I want to be a boss lady, a pinch of bad bitch, a touch of femme fatale. Someone who is respected and doesn't give a shit if she is liked or not. A little above the fray, a certain aura of rebellion, self-confidence and the security of one's own strength.

For me, Purple Heart V.5 transports exactly that. Immediately upon application, I am bombarded with almost scratchy, smoky notes. For me, however, it does not smell like a cigarette or a fireplace, but rather like a flamed whiskey (or plum liqueur?) Oak barrel. Shortly thereafter, the black cherry joins in, providing a fruity underpinning to the smoke. A totally exciting combination! After about half an hour, the smoke and the cherry retreat a bit and a pleasant dark sweetness (licorice & vanilla?) spreads. This is never sticky for me though, as the smoke definitely remains present in the background. Tonka and sandalwood finally bed the whole soft and a little gentler to rest, amber gives a certain heaviness.

The fragrance is certainly not a flatterer, especially at the beginning, here happen throughout the course of many contrasts and it is not cuddly, soft or pleasing but has bite and tension, but is not unpleasant. I find the durability and sillage super, because I can perceive him all day. I will probably soon treat myself to the beautiful bottle.

06/27/2018

10
Bottle 9
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Gschpusi
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Gschpusi

Top Review 3

Liquorice heart peppered with cherries

"So I stagger from desire to pleasure,
And in enjoyment, I pledged to desire."
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

I love those flacons. Once you have a heart in your hand, it just feels great.
Your heart belongs to me or You are in my heart. Hachz... my heart (word of endearment)
Palpitations, palpitations, heart palpitations, heart puzzles, heart shaped etc.

Uh, yeah, so the scent. Purple Heart V.5 does not sound very attractive or
as fragrance name interesting. Somehow after a car engine or vibrator with 5 stages.
But the contents are delicious. But only for scent noses that like liquorice.
Liquorice shavings have a completely different meaning here.
Sweetish black, slightly greasy liquorice in a basket of fully ripe cherries.
Fruity sweet, but not so sweet like chewing gum. Only the beginning befuddles the nose, as
if you open the lid of a rum pot and stir once.
Once you have overcome the first "shock", it becomes quieter and a hint of dark red,
bordeaux-colored, full of rose squeezes into the basket. Velvety soft and tender. Im
Tow a bunch of wild violets. Unruly, impertinent, but equal within the limits of
and I've been directed to you. If you close your eyes and let everything affect you, it smells delicious
for fruits in the rose garden. I love roses and it has to be - IF they are used as fragrances
in fragrances - natural and real smell. Not synthetic/artificial. And
in Purple Heart V.5 they smell heavenly soft.
Ink? Good. Could be the color. I don't notice it as a fragrance.
But after a few hours of amber, bright amber and tonka bean, the
with vanilla to make a delicious lover couple. Liquorice accompanies you permanently and is
always present. Sometimes light, sometimes dark, sometimes intense, sometimes by the way.
I've heard rumors that Purple Heart V.5 is getting close to Si or LVeB. Oh please, that's like
Throw pearls in front of sows.
Purple Heart V.5 is a wonderful fruity liquorice cocktail. Not too sweet, not too
heavy, but simply delicious.