02/01/2019
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The burden of the old name
Most of the younger creations of this traditional British house are not well liked on Parfumo by proven friends of Old English nobility: Too arbitrary, too contemporary, too effect catching, so the accusation - and not only with the affektierten animal head digdel series with the funny, long names. This might also be the fate of Marylebone Wood, because on the surface we are dealing with a fragrance that draws its presence from a very modern woodiness and groups all other scent impressions around it. But always in order.
In the statements Marylebone Wood is so often compared with Black Afgano that one would like to think of a dupe. I can't judge it, because I've been bracing myself about this radical neo-classic so far, because "higher, faster, further" as a unique selling point doesn't interest me about perfumes and I wouldn't like to have to sandblast myself in order to be able to put on another perfume the following day. Besides, I'm much more interested in other things. In short: I am allowed to review this fragrance impartially. Beautiful too! Sandblasting is not necessary at all with this pseudo dupe: The shelf life is very neat, but after ten, twelve hours is final shift.
In the opening I see a freshly sliced or beaten sandal grapefruit. Citrus and sandalwood? There you go I can't think of anything more English! But wait, it's true. Something's different. On the one hand, there is the fact that the grapefruit among the citrus fruits is the one that appears most frequently in modern fragrance pyramids. On the other hand, the two fragrances are "forcibly married" by a sweet amber mist, which also shifts the overall impression towards "here and now". Besides - please don't yawn, not even in the back row! - the woodiness shifts further and further in an oudige direction in the smell process, even if it is not listed. After two hours you can already smell a slight, medical sting, which however (e.g. in comparison to A.d.P.'s "Colonia Oud") shows its stinging tips only cautiously. Hedgehogs instead of porcupines.
This finding can be transferred to Marylebone Wood as a whole: despite all his modernity, he lives from a restrained composition with a sense of proportion and an associated permeability and transparency that can be described as "British" on a more transferred level. I understand the reluctance of the classic faction (of which I am a member), who would expect from new Penhaligon's scents more a contemporary update of the eternally valid and wonderful from Old Albion than an anglification of the already smelled at every corner. I hope so too, especially as this representative is not a big litter, despite all his pleasures. But I would recommend to a friend who is currently still dieseling with 08/15-Eau de Sägewerk a noticeably nobler approach to the topic "Hippes wood": Why not Marylebone Wood?
In the statements Marylebone Wood is so often compared with Black Afgano that one would like to think of a dupe. I can't judge it, because I've been bracing myself about this radical neo-classic so far, because "higher, faster, further" as a unique selling point doesn't interest me about perfumes and I wouldn't like to have to sandblast myself in order to be able to put on another perfume the following day. Besides, I'm much more interested in other things. In short: I am allowed to review this fragrance impartially. Beautiful too! Sandblasting is not necessary at all with this pseudo dupe: The shelf life is very neat, but after ten, twelve hours is final shift.
In the opening I see a freshly sliced or beaten sandal grapefruit. Citrus and sandalwood? There you go I can't think of anything more English! But wait, it's true. Something's different. On the one hand, there is the fact that the grapefruit among the citrus fruits is the one that appears most frequently in modern fragrance pyramids. On the other hand, the two fragrances are "forcibly married" by a sweet amber mist, which also shifts the overall impression towards "here and now". Besides - please don't yawn, not even in the back row! - the woodiness shifts further and further in an oudige direction in the smell process, even if it is not listed. After two hours you can already smell a slight, medical sting, which however (e.g. in comparison to A.d.P.'s "Colonia Oud") shows its stinging tips only cautiously. Hedgehogs instead of porcupines.
This finding can be transferred to Marylebone Wood as a whole: despite all his modernity, he lives from a restrained composition with a sense of proportion and an associated permeability and transparency that can be described as "British" on a more transferred level. I understand the reluctance of the classic faction (of which I am a member), who would expect from new Penhaligon's scents more a contemporary update of the eternally valid and wonderful from Old Albion than an anglification of the already smelled at every corner. I hope so too, especially as this representative is not a big litter, despite all his pleasures. But I would recommend to a friend who is currently still dieseling with 08/15-Eau de Sägewerk a noticeably nobler approach to the topic "Hippes wood": Why not Marylebone Wood?
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