Passport to Perfume

Passport to Perfume is a PC/Mac game that offers players the chance to engage in an end to end perfumery experience where you play the role of Sophia, a young adventure-seeker, perfume maker and shop owner in the 1940’s. Sophia’s quest is to uncover the formula for Marie Antoinette’s perfume before the rival gets it. Passport to Perfume is different from your average time management game as it creatively blends three different game genres into one: time management, economic sim and hidden object to deliver the entire luxurious experience of being a perfume maker.

Daily objectives comprises of setting up your shop inventory on how much you need to stock up and what type of upgrades you want to buy for your shop. The cash is a little difficult to earn here as you progress though the game so do consider carefully before you spend your hard earn cash on an upgrade. It’s not that difficult if you are easily satisfied for completing the level at the normal goal, but if you are a perfectionist and prefer to complete every level with expert score then I’m afraid you might have to replay the same level a few times. Thankfully you are able to put in extra add-ons for the perfume in order to earn the extra cash even though the customer might not ask for it. So my only advice here is… Feel free to exploit every customer that comes in and make sure that they pay more than what they have asked for. Haha! (Don’t practice this on real-life customers though!)

Another cool thing in Passport to Perfume that I like was if you have created a blue perfume with all the add-ons to it and realise that the customer was asking for a green one instead. Not to worry, all you have to do is to bring it back to the yellow perfume dispenser and you can just blend it to a green one. Well… at least you don’t have to recycle it and start all over again.

Players will also get to travel the globe hunting for exotic ingredients to create custom scents for their perfume shop. This is where the hidden object gameplay comes in. You have to search through the scene to collect your ingredients and bring it back to your shop where you can customize your perfume. Since there isn’t any time constrain during the hidden object gameplay so no worries if you can’t differentiate which flowers or which bottle you are suppose to collect. Feel free to click, brush or dig at everything or anything on the scene as there will not be any penalty for it.

The ingredients and bottles that you have found during your travels will be brought back to the shop. The ingredients will go into your customization of your perfume and the bottles will be placed in your shop for sale. Don’t just dump in every ingredient for your perfume as you have to take note of the time needed for the perfume and the pricing. It wouldn’t be effective to sell an expensive perfume but because of the time spent, you might end up losing more customers instead. So… try to balance up a little when you create the perfume. As for me, I will choose to have a perfume that has a faster timing than the pricing as the add-ons worth more than that.

Overall, I find this game pretty neat with the nice storyline, the hidden object quests and the customization of the perfume. Even though it’s pretty challenging at times especially if you strive to get expert score for every level but it was still attainable after a few tries and exploiting. All in all, I find that this game really nice and definitely worthy of its number one position in the top 10 games.

Review by Jasmine