Jubilee Bouquet

A beautiful green chypre, very pleasant indeed. The opening, sparkling with bergamot and chamomile, is extremely refined and elegant. Then it develops into a beautiful sporty-elegant fragrance, one that Her Majesty Elizabeth II would wear at Ascot, on a sporty venue that commands a certain elegance, both formal and innate. Flowers and woods embrace in a lovely heart note that brings you to the promise of the drydown in a beautiful way. As it lingers on the skin, Silver Jubilee becomes deeper and woodier, it gains a certain powderiness but remaining very aromatic and sort of vigorous, it's not a soft baby talcum powderiness, more than a fresh powderiness. Yes, I understand this may seem an oxymoron, a paradox, but it's not. It's just that this scent is multilayered, multidmensional and therefore it's fine in every season, on every occasion, whenever you want to be elegant in a subdued, regal way. EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL

Update: I even love it more every day:)I must say I have to give reviewer Juliette a point: "respectability in a bottle, a scent created for Victorians" sounds to me even more what I was longing for in this floral chypre! Yes our olfactory impressions are different, and that 's good ! For me the perfume even has an erotic feeling, bur more of a cold, brilliant , untouchable Victorian beauty and in the drydown for me the notes sandalwood, ylang and musk give the creation a clirring sensation, yes now it is warming up and gives the erotic clue of that insurmountable beauty:) I will buy that one again and again..

I ve finally found it: MY floral chypre!:) To me it is everything I have ever dreamed of a chypre to be: classy, highly natural smelling, mossy, chique, royal, embracing, floral powdery without being sweet...just a lovely fresh and high class bouquet of my most beloved flowers!And that combining with tho oakmoss and the balmy sandalwood.. Great stuff, evokes impetuous childhood memories. Just a feel happy perfume I longed for and it's sure for every day use.. give it a try if you love floral chypres without being old nanny-stuff.

I have the vintage of this with the glass stopper and it is unlike anything else that I own. Lovely. Green green green in the top with a little oakmoss and some sweetness then it dries down a bit soapy but with an edge and the softness of violets and sharpness of rose. I do not like many chypres because they are overdone on the oakmoss. This is a supporting player that is balanced just right. A blind buy love.

To me it smells like cold cream stored in a florist's fridge. Divine.

I recently bought a bottle of Clinique Aromatics Elixir shower gel, having discovered that I liked it but more in the body care products than in the EDP concentration. I used it for the first time today, and as I was in the shower, I made the connection: Jubilee Bouquet smells a bit like a very light Aromatics Elixir! Jubilee layers beautifully with the CAE shower gel. They have these notes in common: chamomile, rose, ylang, oakmoss, bergamot, sandalwood, jasmine, musk. Jubilee is very retro and elegant.

Old-school chypre with no sweetness. Mostly chamomile and oakmoss with a touch of spice and the florals very blended, though jasmine stands out a bit. Nice to be able to wear this during the Platinum Jubilee.

I had a splash version, which I sold as it was a bit to difficult - reminding Aromatics Elixir Clinique. The spray version is similar to Lancome Climat and Paco Rabanne Calandre. The two versions smell pretty much like two absolutely different fragrances. So it is clear for me now why the reviews below are so different. :-)

This fragrance brings to my mind a visit to an antiques store, and after browsing through the crystal, beaded and embroidered items, one comes upon an elaborate perfume bottle, with some juice still left. Excited to smell an old scent, one tries a drop, and realizes that the fragrance has turned, but underneath the top notes of sourness, there is a hint of the beauty it once was. Flowers covered in mildew. It may be that my body combined with this fragrance is a poor fit. Or, it's possible that the sample I bought was truly an original 1970s version, stored improperly. It could also be I don't care for what Penhaligan does with scent, as I've liked none of the samples I've purchased. I'm off to wash this off.

it's good. smells like floor cleaner at first, then dries down to a soft powdery floral.. doesnt last long at all, maybe 2 hours, and stays very close to the skin

I was in search of a scent like thise for years. I just bought it today, and I'm lifted out. I agree with Gaby, it's a feel happy perfum.