English Lavender
English Lavender Water
Atkinsons 1837

English Lavender / English Lavender Water by Atkinsons

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English Lavender / English Lavender Water (Atkinsons)

7.8 / 10 56 Ratings

English Lavender is a popular perfume by Atkinsons for women and men and was released in 1837. The scent is fougèreartig-green. It was last marketed by Perfume Holding.
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Main accords

Fougère

Green

Fresh

Spicy

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Spike lavender

Lavender

Bergamot

Rosemary

Sage

Heart Notes

Rosewood

Clary sage

Base Notes

Moss

Musk

Tonka bean

Ratings

Scent

7.856 Ratings

Longevity

6.552 Ratings

Sillage

6.354 Ratings

Bottle

7.061 Ratings

Value for money

8.821 Ratings

Submitted by Steffel13589, last update on 31.01.2024.

Interesting Facts

The scent was re-released in 1910.

Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/04/2021

10
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

Landlord
18 Reviews

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Landlord

Top Review 21

Refreshment for the doctor and the dear cattle

As a self-confessed Anglophile with a penchant for tweed jackets, I have been searching for a typical scent for English country life for a long time. Some Penhaligon `s, Floris, Taylor of Old Bond Streets` et. al. went through my hands, respectively my nose. None of them could really convince me. And if there was a nice one, its persistence and charisma were arguably British "understated".

But somewhere it had to be found, the scent that Siegfried Farnon, the beary, sly and just therefore terribly lovable veterinarian, passionately embodied by the now deceased Robert Hardy, put on. Because with the series start of "All creatures great and small" (or "The doctor and the dear cattle") my heart for everything British began to beat faster. At that time I was 13, now 40 years older - and thus exactly at the age when Robert Hardy filmed the first seasons. If that is not a good omen for a test of "English Lavender"!

So, enough nostalgia, what is there to smell? Well, lavender. Sure. In the opening by bergamot and sage spicy refreshed, becoming softer over time, warm rosewood, musk and tonka bean are not explicitly to smell, but provide a lasting soft lavender freshness. The fragrance never loses its conciseness. A fresh, damp meadow in the Yorkshire Dales in the sunshine. To lie in. And it even lasts for six to eight hours! Works even on a snowy January day. I'm curious to see how it will play out its qualities in the spring!

03/15/2020

10
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

Konsalik
81 Reviews

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Konsalik

Top Review 18

A cottage in a bottle

No, this arch-british person - so rich in antiquity - should not have much in common with his original recipe. Unless, of course, the perfumer in charge had incidentally anticipated the invention of the fougère chord by about fifty years in 1837, without a Frenchman (or anyone else outside the Empire!) getting wind of it.
On the contrary, on the occasion of the "relaunch" of 1910, the fougère trend, which was already in full swing, must have been heavily cross-eyed, since the Proto-Fern of Houbigant, which gave its name to the fern, was only on the market for a tender 28 years (at that time, trends often outlasted one and a half generations). Penhaligon's also followed suit a few years later with "English Fern".

How English did he stay, this Lavender? Does he speak a little French? Does the lavender even go the flowery soft direction of continental European cultivation? Oh, not at all! The pampered Monsieur Fougère was mercilessly naturalized, fed with mint sauce, porridge and dark beer and in this condition he was put into a comfortable cottage in the country.
Still true to its name, the weighting of the Fougère pyramid has been decisively shifted towards a rather tart, less flowery lavender. The warm, herbaceous, hay-like components of a classic fougère only really appear on the skin after a few minutes (on paper almost not at all); but the lavender remains dominant for the longest time. And it makes you happy: On the occasion of the first test on a cloudy day (both literally and figuratively), the sun broke through the clouds while the first sniffers on the back of their hands and, broken by the bathroom window, painted warm rainbow colours on the white plastered wall. Wordless serenity, a mild smile on the reviewer's lips. I knew immediately: This is good
But "English Lavender" is not as British and reserved as one might think; in the first lesson he even projects quite clearly. So the mother-in-law shouted in the hallway over one and a half floors(!) full of ecstasy "What smells so good here? Well, in view of the favourable price the 430ml-canister should stay in the budget for Mother's Day...

"English Lavender" paints modest English country life in pastel tones with a noble attitude. Landed Gentry in a cottage. Mr Darcy should be riding by any moment to break the news to young Mrs Bennett. Meanwhile, I sit in the mild spring sunshine of an already warm March afternoon and enjoy a first stout.

01/26/2020

6
Bottle 8
Sillage 7
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Volker1964
63 Reviews

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Volker1964

Very helpful Review 8

Great Gentlemen Eau de Cologne

Atkinson's English Lavender is quite a valuable EdC. For the 320ml I paid nearly 50 Euro. A fair price for this quality. The fragrance begins pleasantly spicy with a great lavender note. Very pleasantly balanced. With time it becomes a bit stronger / more maculine and finishes with stronger, but not too strong, "green" notes.
All in all a well-balanced, pleasant and spicy lavender scent. I must explain a small point of criticism here purely informatively. The bottle is a "splasher" and the opening is quite large. Should be considered when using. A sprayer would have been mMn better. That's why I couldn't rate the bottle any better.

01/29/2024

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Tradescantia
53 Reviews

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Tradescantia

Helpful Review 6

Pureness

The fragrance opens like a cologne, but the lavender cloud is somewhat denser and longer-lasting than expected.
Applied in the evening, I can still detect a soft trace early in the morning. The lavender smells like freshly dried, very slightly hay-like, herbaceous and aromatic green. The sweetish notes only provide a delicate foundation and allow the lavender to take the lead. This minimal powderiness does not diminish the pure impression of the fragrance.
English Lavender - a timeless refreshment.
A little floral spice without any hot notes makes it shine, my soapy herald of spring.

10/29/2023

10
Pricing 9
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Liviuss
30 Reviews

Liviuss

Helpful Review 2

beautiful lavender, the best one for me

I love lavender so I can be biased... however Atkinsons lavender is one of the best for me. I've tried several over the years and I always found something I didn't like (often the sweet bases of coumarin or vanillin or musky and powdery) and it made me move on to the next one. I rediscovered the Atkinsons one (because a relative used it years and years ago and it is with her that I had the imprinting with the scent of this aromatic herb) a couple of years ago and it was immediately love. It's an almost usual lavender, if it weren't for the dry woody notes in the background, a very light geranium that gives it "movement" and nothing else. It is linear, herbaceous, cold and dry, not sweet at all and it is precisely this last characteristic that makes me love it so much. I find it perfect after the shower but also to use in the morning, on sunny and mild days, to be sprayed inside the shirt and on the neck to feel clean and fresh. Obviously for many it may seem like an "old style" perfume, in the sense that nowadays those sweet and nauseating filth that are masculine (for a lover of classic masculine like me) are in fashion, so perfumes of this kind are "out of fashion", but sticaxxi...