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Le Passant Ormaie 2018

8.0 / 10 135 Ratings

A popular perfume by Ormaie for men, released in 2018. The scent is floral-sweet. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Spicy

Powdery

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lavender

Bergamot

Tagetes

Heart Notes

Provençal lavender

Base Notes

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

Amyris

Perfumers

Serge de Oliveira, Michel Almairac

Ratings

Scent

8.0135 Ratings

Longevity

7.3116 Ratings

Sillage

6.8115 Ratings

Bottle

8.3111 Ratings

Value for money

5.942 Ratings

Submitted by Calista, last update on 08/14/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Pour Un Homme de Caron (1934) Eau de Toilette

Brilliantly British

Frenchy Lavande

Rimbaud

Lavender Extrême

Spigo

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/20/2024

4
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Sillage 5
Longevity 5
Scent

Raluko111
386 Reviews

Raluko111

1

It's been done a few too many times before.

This is an effervescent lavender that seems masculine at the beginning, after which slowly, slowly, tonka and vanilla appear on the scene and... TaDa! It becomes like a lot of other sweet, cutesy scents on the market that lack depth and personality. I don't want to be negative, but I feel like the market is flooded with a lot of these superficial, cute perfumes that are copycats of one another, and I get really bored when after 20-30 minutes they're all the same.

10/13/2024

6
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 9.5
Scent

xoxo
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xoxo

Blurred photo, summer in Provence

Late summer, Senanque, lavender fields glowing in the afternoon sun, tranquillity, dust in the air. Light, airy vanilla powder, green speckles, a little spice. Small white clouds on a blue sky. Then lots of tonka, cotton candy with a hint of crème brûlée, Playdoh and fog machine.
(But everything here is beautifully natural, three-dimensional, soft, silky and woven into a transparent veil of fragrance.)

The man wearing Caron's "Pour un Homme" just walks past quickly and gives me a glance. My sweet, powdered skin remains, clean and unkissed. (Unfortunately very close to the skin at the end.) Close to perfect, if only he would stay a little longer.
A blurred summer memory.

P.S.: I perceive it as more feminine, I think it is unisex, like all fragrances of this brand. The name was probably misleading here.

07/15/2024

8
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Rosie88
106 Reviews

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Rosie88

Helpful Review 7

Dummy hit

I really like lavender, but it often smells a bit old-fashioned or inauthentic - or is only a very brief pleasure...

Le Passant was in the souk and I was in a testing mood, so I thought I'd try my luck :)

Without any great expectations, I sprayed on Le Passant when it arrived.

I was slightly gobsmacked :-o

Blue-purple lavender fields, covered with a soft vanilla-tonka veil... such a beautiful fragrance aura that surrounds me, just beautiful...

I am so happy about this 100% successful blind purchase, Le Passant is my new favorite :-)

10/12/2019

10
Bottle 7
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

VegaOcean
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VegaOcean

Top Review 21

Lavender made portable. Masterful

In the Alsterhaus Hamburg I smelled myself again through unknown flacons. It's always very funny when you arrive at home and don't know which of the six sprayed paper strips was which one again. But I already have a trick, if I liked one right from the start, it gets into the wallet. So also with this fine fragrance, which I could get hold of again as a bottling over a souk here. Just great this community.
Regarding the scent itself I have to say that I have never been so in love with a lavender scent. I am not good with lavender and yet I swallow lavender capsules from time to time during stress. Then I'm always more relaxed and not so psyched. Smelling lavender usually only works for a short time. It's different with the French.
It starts green and fresh with lavender, then loses itself in a powdery tonka bean. Lavender remains discreet to the end where a vanilla cream with delicate almond rounds off. A gourmet light? It smells incredibly delicious. I want to lick my arm somehow. Very unisex. Super woven. Nothing really matters. Shelf life is over 10 hours. Just beautiful and noble. I'd like a detergent like that.

Ormaie created a real masterpiece. I bow to their quality of fragrance. The price around 200 € seems reasonable. They all smell high quality throughout. Have wonderful flacons with this beautiful wood ornaments on top.
I want to stop praising now, but in times of cheap lavender fragrances on every corner, this is really a unique selling point in the luxury fragrance segment. I'll compare him to Tom Ford's new one. I'll keep you posted. Absolutely recommendable.