Ealing Green

this is such a beautiful scent. it's a gentle green floral on me, with a powdery feel from the violet. the grass & the lavender notes are wonderful and I seem to be able to smell a hint of chamomile too, although that's not listed in the notes. I can smell the geranium quite clearly at first, but that blends in quite quickly to a gentle, calming whole. here is the description from Sarah's site - "I’d long wanted to make a scent for Ealing, my adopted home. I met my husband at Ealing Studios on Ealing Green, at a wedding. Then I was invited to make a midsummer scent for a charity evening, using plants and flowers named in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, so I combined the two ideas and created the scent of Ealing Green on a summer evening, but in the early 17th Century." I only wish that the whole of Ealing smelled like this!

Its a gorgeous warm zingy fresh green herbal scent. I applied it to my wrist and immediately the scent expanded all around me. Gorgeous. The lavender, geranium and thyme form a wonderful cloud of herbally greeness. My only reason for holding back so long before trying EG was the geranium note which I dislike intensely. I neednt have worried. It is blended in so beautifully and perfectly enhances the lavender, violet and thyme. What an inspired combination. For me the rose and patchouli create the perfect base for these notes. They add warmth and depth. It could have all too easily been harsh and strident but its just another lovely example of how good a perfumer Sarah is.

this is such a lovely green fragrance. it’s like fresh crisp air and a flourishing garden in a bottle. opens with dewy grass, dry herbs and blossoming spring flowers. once it dries down it remains fresh and green, but becomes slightly peppery. really gorgeous, uplifting perfume to wear on hot days spent outdoors in nature. the performance is pretty good for such a fresh scent. lasts around 4 hours on my skin with gentle sillage and it doesn’t leave much of a skin scent once it’s gone.

Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night This is a moment in time, it's the 70's and I'm lying , not on Solsbury Hill, but somewhere in the Midlands, and the summer holidays stretch out forever. It's the kind of smell - and scent - that was still all around in the 70's ; herbs , clover, grass . Real oakmoss. Time didn't stay still but I wish it had.

What a lovely perfume this is. For me it starts very green and herbally without much floral then turns slightly soapy. It then develops into a beautiful light powdery and effervescent floral...not a "big" floral, more meadow or wild flowers, maybe reminiscent of a sunny spring day walking round a National Trust garden! I don't know what Ealing is like as I don't know London... But it certainly smells nice!