All perfume samples are authentic fragrances that Surrender to Chance, Topeka, KS, has rebottled into smaller sample and decant sizes, repackaged and distributed. Surrender to Chance has no affiliation, connection or association with the manufacturers or brand owners of the perfumes.
Paraphrase is the new renamed Libertine Fragrances. They are an independent North American perfume house, blending, bottling and labeling perfumes by hand in Canada. Inspired by storytelling and of the contradictions of being human. Fruit Thieves is a floral fruity fragrance that launched in 2025. Created by Joshua Smith, it smells like overripe, sticky juices dripping down your forearms; sour passionfruit and green vines calling out. With notes of passionfruit, jasmine and passionfruit vines. Fruit Thieves is an eau de parfum, edp.
All Paraphrase fragrances are vegan and cruelty free and are unisex.
Fragrantica: “It has a very juicy and sweet opening. Pure passionfruit. Sweet and tart. Within a couple minutes, some green freshness from the vines come forward, balancing the sweetness for a lovely, although linear, tropical fragrance perfect for summer days spent outside.”
Fragrantica: “What an incredibly unique take on fruit. The top plays close to the skin (the sillage in general seems on the small side) but upon closer investigation, this beauty evokes the raw, green, almost vegetal bitterness of fruit rinds. The scent sort of crawls up your nose the way alcohol does in a well mixed drink. It reminds me of the cheap sangria my friend's mother used to make; unremarkable grapefruit, lime, apple, and orange, cut haphazardly (rinds kept in of course) and thrown into a box of red. Reading the notes, this scent is, unmistakably, passionfruit. I've only had a real passionfruit a small handful of times, but the recreation here makes each one feel like it must have been monumentally significant. I'm sure this bitter fruity floral sensation could go soapy on some skin but the overwhelming green bitterness seems to protect it from landing in such a mundane place. There is a sort of satisfaction in a fruit scent so bitter; as though one has dodged the pitfalls of a trick question and given a more satisfyingly true answer. Perhaps this is what Paraphrase means by "a tiny victory".”
Fragrantica: “Realistic passionfruit opens the fragrance. Tart yet sweet in the most pleasant, nostalgic, floral-honeyed way. Humid and tropical, yet fresh, like vacationing someplace sticky and hot, but it just stormed and you're walking through the wet jungle, steam rising. The passionfruit is anything but shy here, and it doesn't smell nearly as synthetic as in other fragrances I've tried. It's fresh and invigorating, and smooth and creamy. Green, yet sweet, and a slight bitterness offsets any potential linearity of the passionfruit. The jasmine enters, enveloping the passionfruit in a delicate but discernible way. Your jungle walk has reached a tropical garden full of subtle white blooms. Not the least bit indolic or heavy, and not soapy. You're burying your nose in a sweet, white flower while the remnants of the passionfruit you've just consumed drips down your chin. This is a fruity floral for those who want to smell tropical, but don't like sunscreen scents, and for those who have been traumatized by screechy, decaying white florals in the past. Very wearable.”
Fragrantica: “A ripe passionfruit that's baking in the sun. It is warm, sweet, and tart all at once. It is not particularly layered or complicated. On my skin, I don't get any one of the green vines to balance the sweetness, so it is sadly a bit cloying to my nose. It is meant for someone who unapologetically wants to smell like a passionfruit.”
