Belgravia Chypre

Penhalagons Belgravia Chypre: This Is My Second Penhalagons Fragrance Purchase, My First Being "Bluebell" Which I Absolutely Love Love LOVE!!! Well As You All Already Know I Absolutely Love "Chypre Type Perfumes Especially Those That Have Patchouli In Them, As For Some Unknown Reason I'm Drawn Very Much To Them, & They Smell Absolutely Delicious 0n My Skin!! & This "Belgravia Chypre" Is Absolutely No Exception To That Rule!! Been Wearing This All Day For The First Time From 9am & It's Now 10.20pm & It's Still Going Strong With No Touch Up's Required!! & I'm Getting The Most Beautiful Wafts Of Fragrance Comming 0ff Myself Everytime I Move!! This Perfume Is "Pure Expensive Class" At It's Very Best, & I Can Actually Imagine Upper Class Ladies 0f Yesteryear Actually Spraying This 0n & Absolutely Loving It!! It's Deffo A "Regal Chypre" That Oooozes Pure Expensive Class Without Even Having To Try!! & I'm Absolutely In Love With It & So Glad That I Have It Proudly In My Vast Perfume Collection!! It's Beautifully,Perfectly Blended,& All The Notes Seamlessly Blend Into Each Other In An Exqusit Way I Just Can't Explain!! 0nly That This Beauty Is Pure Chypre Heaven!! & Those 0f You Like Me Who Absolutely Adore Chypre Perfumes Should Deffo Have This Hidden Beauty Firmly In Your Perfume Collection!! Well Done Indeed Penhalagons For Yet Another Gorgeous Fragrance!! lol'lol'lol'lol When Your 0ther Half Tells You That You Smell Gorgeous Then Your Certainly Doing Something Right & Wearing The Perfect Fragrance!! Will Up-Date This Review 0nce I've Wore This Perfume A Good Few More Time's & See What My Friend's & Family ALL Think 0f It!! For Me I Already Give It A 10 From Len!! A Little Up-date 0n "Penhalagons Belgravia Chypre" This Is Now The Second Day That I'm Wearing This Absolutely Stunning Chypre Perfume & I'm In Absolute Chypre Heaven Here!! The Lasting Power 0f This Fragrance Is Just 0utstanding!! For Not 0nly Did I Continue To Enjoy Wafts 0f This Perfume While Sleeping In Bed, I Woke First Thing This Morning & Could Still Smell It Plainly 0n My Skin Before My Morning Shower!! & 0nce Again I Find Myself Reaching For It's Bottle!! Having Family 0ver Today For Sunday Dinner I Can Report That My Mum Passed The Most Loveliest Compliment To Me When I Gave Her Her Usual Hug "Gosh Paulie You Smell Absolutely Wonderful Love,What's That Perfume Your Wearing Today"!! My Mum Is Also A Firm Lover 0f Penhalagons Bluebell!! So Was Intrigued When I Showed Her What Was Inside The Gorgeous Emerald Green 0utter Box!! The Next Compliment Came From My Daughter Who Again Couldn't Get 0ver Just How Nice I Smelt!! So Much So That My Husband Then Had A Good Sniff 0f Me Announcing "That's My Paulie Alright"!! & I Think You Should 0rder Yourself Another Bottle 0f That Right Away!! Which I Just Have!! lol'lol'lol'lol From Penhalagons Direct!! No Joke, But I Honestly Think I've Just Found My All Time Favourite Chypre Perfume,& I'm Absolutely Looking Forward Till Wearing This 0utside & Seeing If Any Stranger's Pass Remarks 0n It!! Absolutely Thrilled To Bits With It & Honestly Can't Get Enough 0f It!! "Will Up-Date Again At A Later Date"!!

It has some mildest echoes of Opus 1870, but that is just a fleeting impression that doesn't last for more than a moment. The underlying warmly irritating mate, some dash of fine oakmoss and a pale creamy rose that has passed it's best, give a look of patina to a suede-bound book, not a dusty one, but fresh out of print in a slender mildly nervous hand of a wannabe cheeky aristocrat (played by Daniel Day-Lewis 25-or-more-years ago), while he wants to be taken seriously in his patchouly drenched midnight blue velvet robe... It claims the obvious: cyphre or bust. And then, unexpectedly, this one turns so suave and seductive it would knock you out of your shoes, grabs a hold of you in his arms and right then you wouldn't even notice it happened before you felt his warm breath on your neck...but by then it is already too late: you are almost hooked like a naive little fish, while at the same time you really so-do-hope there is no escape. Is he the one you were dreaming of all this time? Or is it all just an illusion? Great scent to wear while reading a book in a sun-drenched room after a heavy storm with a cup of tea waiting on the side...full of promise and relief. First impression felt like Q80's bellow+++++

We have a complicated history, but I’ve come around again to loving BC. I first tried it at a Saks counter, and obsessed over the smell the rest of the day. It was gifted to me a year later, and when I first sprayed it ... grape soda!? Nothing like my first experience. ‘Fume-head conspiracies of reformulations and batch differences circled my brain. I half-heartedly wore it a few more times. Then one day I decided to go all in, and sprayed it heavily - a pool of liquid on each wrist and either side of my clavicle. Suddenly I’m transported back to ... that beautiful fragrance I experienced the first day! A chewy, resinous, labdanum-rich base with a swirl of raspberry sweetening and balancing the composition, providing a similar structure to one of those rich oud oils with juicy blackberry-like sweet top notes. The moral - BC needs a concentrated blast. Dispersed from too far away, the base disappears and it’s a sweetly confusing mess, but done right, extraordinary and so very addictive.

There is a very pronounced Labdanum note from the very start in this fragrance and the moss note on the other hand is actually less obvious. The Pink Pepper is unexpectedly spicy like Black Pepper and enveloping without the usual fruity berry rosy vibe to it. In the heart, the airy May Rose accompanied with a mossy Mate note made the scent feel extremely dry and cool. The Patchouli here is clean and earthy with a slightly bitter and moss like feel to it. Very interesting fragrance and totally not following the trend of most of the recently launched fragrances. Although the silliage is not great, it does have very good longevity. Love it!

It starts with salty patchouli note. Some people on Russian fragrantica page are referring to it as 'pickle' note or 'salad' note but in fact it is very interesting and makes the composition unisex (not even close to Dzonkha's pickle note:))). Then patchouli transforms and when the rose is present it gets sweeter. Very posh perfume. The longevity is great. There were some comparisons here to Voleur de Roses - the patchouli-rose combination is absolutely differently executed in L'Artisan's perfume - it is more like a cellar with matured red wine. Belgravia Chypre is more bubbly and refined.