Penhaligon's Trade Routes Halfeti Eau De Parfum, 100 ml

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Vague enough? Well sorry, but this one casts quite a net. And the main takeaway is that it's a scent that transports you. The oud, the amber, it's bold and daring. Tailored for the night time wear, in the cooler months. This to me is seasonal, and now is the time.

The staff weren’t the friendliest in the 1st Covent Garden store we went into and seemed inconvenienced by me coming in. It felt a bit like the scene in ‘Pretty Women’ where she’s snubbed shopping on Rodeo Drive. However, the second store in Covent Garden Market Piazza was much friendlier and more helpful. Legacy of Petra is one of Penhaligon’s newer unisex fragrances and was released in 2022. It’s warm, spicy, sweet and the vanilla’s not overpowering.Bracing desert winds. A riddle of bergamot and balsam. Dusk greets a convoy of fragrant woody amber – and just in time for tea. Warm myrrh makes tarrying tempting. But is it all a façade? Surely not. Penhaligon’s Est. London 1870 Today I'm going to take a brief look at the 3 Halfeti Fragrances from Penhaligon's.Helfeti Leather, Halfeti (Original) and the Halfeti Cedar. I've been road-testing these amazing fragrances for the past couple of weeks and have got to rekindle my love affair for both the orient and British perfume house Penhaligon's. HALFETI CEDAR I choose the pink Spanish leather sleeve from the 8 leather colors available for this style of bottle. The next step is to have the leather sleeve embossed with up to 3 characters in either silver or gold. It’s not overwhelming, as long as you’re not too heavy with it and it’s strength and complexity makes me feel more confident, sexy and powerful. Halfeti is towards the top of my favorites list for a Winter, going out/evening perfume.

The Penhaligon’s Halfeti Hair Perfume is softer and a little less punchy than the actual fragrance which is perfect for me because it means I get to enjoy the sensual and exotic beauty of Halefti without it overwhelming me. I don't think I was alone in that thought though and, when the company was bought by Spanish outfit Puig in 2015, it underwent a marketing rebrand. The brief was, no doubt, to keep the things that people liked about the brand (high end perfumes and a sense of British tradition), but ditch the stuffiness. Top hats and tails were out and the 'Trade Routes' and 'Portraits' series were in, followed swiftly by a lot of money from consumers, it seems. The hills of Halfeti remains unexplored... until now. Dried fruits and spice cascade through cedar's lofty canopy into a river of rum, minerals and vanilla. New love takes root in this ambery fragrance. I thought it'd also be a good opportunity to revisit the original Halfeti and its first flanker, Halfeti Leather at the same time though, so let us begin.

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If you were to ask me blind if Halfeti Leather was a flanker when comparing these openings, I wouldn't really have known, because the plum and leather combination is a big change from the original. The giveaways are subtle but there, however. I don't dislike its opening, but I do definitely think it's an acquired taste - it's a lot darker and leans much more towards the masculine side of things than its stablemates (which are reasonably unisex) Top Notes: Grapefruit, Bergamot, Green Notes, Armoise (wormwood, used in absinthe.), Heart Notes: Cardamom, Cumin, Nutmeg, Saffron, Cinnamon, Rose, Violet, Jasmine, Cypress, Muguet, Lavender., Base Notes: Leather, Oud, Amber, Resins, Cedarwood,Patchouli heart, Tonka, Vanilla, Sandalwood, Musk. ~