Trade Routes

Cairo Penhaligon's 2018

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7.8 / 10 152 Ratings

Cairo is a popular perfume by Penhaligon's for women and men and was released in 2018. The scent is oriental-floral. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by Puig. Pronunciation

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Main accords

Oriental

Floral

Woody

Sweet

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Damask rose

Saffron

Frankincense

Heart Notes

Labdanum

Nagarmotha

Base Notes

Ceylonese sandalwood

Patchouli

Atlas cedar

Vanilla

Perfumer

Christophe Raynaud

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Ratings

Scent

7.8152 Ratings

Longevity

8.1134 Ratings

Sillage

7.5134 Ratings

Bottle

8.4131 Ratings

Value for money

6.765 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 08.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection "Trade Routes".

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/23/2023

5
Pricing 7
Bottle 8
Sillage 7
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Shemsmeller
175 Reviews

Shemsmeller

1

Caribbean pirate

tested in May of this year during my visit to the Printemps Boulevard Haussmann in Paris at the brand's stand.

it was one of the references that intrigued me the most with Constantinople .

after discovering it, the findings are mixed, I feel the rum intrusively, however, much less aggressively than kilian straight to the heaven or in a sospiro laylati. we smell a really worked perfume, even if rum is not my cup of tea, its discretion could one day make this perfume join my collection.

It is a warming and comforting perfume to be preferred for winter. It is not a perfume that I recommend for men under 45 years old.

the price is not totally justified with this background of rum and the average age to wear it will have encouraged me not to buy it for the moment.

hope this review helps you.

08/19/2019

Marquise27
168 Reviews

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Marquise27

Top Review 13

Back to a mystical age

First I give 10 stars for the very valuable black box with the golden label, then the beautiful bottle, also this one with gold-black label and black bow. This reminds me a little of the Egyptian Tut Ench Amun exhibition, this big golden box has already made me shudder respectfully. I associate with this country an old and very historical past . Now I come to the fragrance - the first sprayer puts me immediately into this old and mystical time. Very valuable spices, old fragrant woods mix to a great cocktail. Rose and saffron everything comes up and moves me mentally almost to Cleopatra, what did they probably smell good ....
The fragrance becomes a little closer to the body, rounder, slightly sweet and very balsamic. A wonderful mixture I am fully flashed, I take also after hours a smell excellent for me was the oriental but is in a modern way, not this heavy and musty. And this fragrance lasts very long 8-10 hours, which is very pleasing, price is already a higher segment - but also somehow a treasure. I find here you smell very high quality ingredients, nothing artificial at all. This company is known for its high quality. I thought Cleopatra would have liked this modern version of her old and mysterious world - that would have worn him and perhaps deprived even more great men of history of their minds.

05/19/2019

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Infloriental
7 Reviews

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Infloriental

5

Colonized Egypt, very close to Diors Oud Ispahan

I really wanted to try Cairo because I'm a huge fan of Halfeti from Penhaligon's Trade Route Collection and the description suggested similarities. A certain similarity exists in any case, also here in the center is a spicy oriental rose surrounded by woody notes and frankincense.

However, Cairo is "harder" than Halfeti, much more masculine, but not quite so dark. The rose often recedes behind the resins. Honestly, Cairo reminds me very much of Oud Ispahan of Dior. I love this fragrance, even though Cairo seems a bit more "sedate" than Oud Ispahan, with more resins and woods.

Compared to Halfeti I have to say that Cairo is also less complex and less round. Actually, the scent hardly changes, except that sometimes I have the feeling that the scent is almost scratchy-medical. But I must confess that I have worn it only on relatively warm days so far and believe that Cairo benefits from cooler weather.

In my opinion, it is more a fragrance for men than for women, and also nothing for very young gentlemen. The fragrance has a moderate sillage (it's definitely not a skin scent but you can't smell it across the marketplace) and lasts about 6-8 hours. I like him, but I have to say that he's definitely not groundbreaking in his fragrance, but that I've tried a lot of similar fragrances that he's hard to distinguish from. All in all, I think that's a bit unfortunate, because Penhaligon's Trade Routes Collection actually has very interesting fragrances and the bottle is also totally pretty.