Lancaster (Eau de Toilette Concentrée) by Lancaster

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Lancaster Lancaster 1987 Eau de Toilette Concentrée

8.3 / 10 284 Ratings

A popular perfume by Lancaster for women, released in 1987. The scent is spicy-oriental. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy

Oriental

Woody

Powdery

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lavender

Bergamot

Coriander

Orange blossom Thyme

Thyme

Basil

Neroli

Heart Notes

Geranium

Jasmine

Mimosa

Tuberose

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Ambergris

Sandalwood Vanilla

Vanilla

Civet

Frankincense

Ratings

Scent

8.3284 Ratings

Longevity

8.2220 Ratings

Sillage

7.4203 Ratings

Bottle

6.0195 Ratings

Value for money

8.542 Ratings

Submitted by Kittycat, last update on 07/23/2025.

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Reviews

31 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/04/2013

9Scent

Smellsogood
75 Reviews

Smellsogood

Helpful Review 4

A Shadow of a Shade

When I was a child, I used to love looking at the negatives of family photographs. Things that were familiar to me took on a different twist, as light was changed to shadow and vice versa. Lancaster Concentrate is the negative to the photograph of Houbigant Chantilly. In the Lancaster, the powder is still present, but the incense, oakmoss and civet are amped up while the vanilla and citrus are played down, while they both whisper that melange of florals. This 1987 creation smells truly vintage and I love it.

04/13/2013

9Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

LadyRogue
166 Reviews

LadyRogue

Helpful Review 3

Where were you all my life?

"Lancaster Eau de Concentree" is a very nice surprise! I didn't know what to expect when I came across a Lancaster stand with a small row of these black boxes with Calla lilies on display. The price was very friendly and after looking at the notes online I decided to risk a blind buy.

Hmm! Oriental bliss! At first spray it's amber goodness with a smooth vanilla and a sandalwood infused incense. I am liking it very much...it's reminiscent of a lighter and younger Shalimar but with more white flowers and a herbaceous twist (basil, coriander & lavender) I can discern these notes clearly and find it a very well composed fragrance. The middle stage reveals neroli and in the dry down a lovely jasmine note is added.

It's smooth, soft and very yummy! I can't believe its been around for so long and I have never noticed it! I must go back and buy another bottle, especially since I know now its very hard to find. It's a scent that developed and morphs on your skin, it's interesting and never boring; I can only recommend it.

A must sniff for all oriental fans that would like to have a very smooth, aromatic and sexy beauty. It's not a *light* scent, but if applied with sense you can wear it to all occasions including the office.

Silage is: an oriental aura with herbal goodness -- Longevity is: 80s era true with a 9+ hours in which it becomes a slightly powdery skin scent that also likes to cling to your clothes forever. *YUM*

12/16/2018

8.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Jazzy76
320 Reviews

Jazzy76

1

Sophisticated lady

You look at the simple bottle and you can think of a serum or a product for the face by Lancaster, but it isn't so. This scent is a silent "bomb" realising its power little by little, hour after hour.
Son of the opulent Eighties, it's a masterfully harmonized symphony of flowery, aromatic and oriental notes which keeps anyway its discrete and classy character for a very refined result.
At the opening you smell a spicy-aromatic bouquet giving way after a few minutes to a very femininine and vibrant flowery heart dominated by the tuberose (pleasant and not too intoxicating), the Jasmine and a light mimosa touch. At the base, a wonderful mix of oriental notes: ambergris, civet, Woods and frankincense made smoother and sweeter by the vanilla note, soft and not too sweetish or medicinal.
The sillage is good but not heavy and the result is longlasting. It could be the perfect mid season scent by day as well as by night. Precious and refined but simple like a silk shirt or a string of pearls, it's the perfect scent for a "sophisticated lady",citing the title of the famous jazz ballad by duke Ellington.

06/15/2019

9.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Can777
257 Reviews

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Can777

Top Review 61

The Ritual

I think each of us has rituals! Things we do over and over again. Repeating something that brings us joy, that makes us happy. Making one thing or an old habit even more beautiful or celebrating it. Rituals give things consistency and a kind of magic. They adorn a beautiful habit and emphasize it. A ritual can make something beautiful even more beautiful. With a ritual, something can be started or ended. Today, I will take you along to a very important ritual in my life!

Every year we go to the Canary Islands for two weeks. Always to the same hotel. Every morning, even on vacation, I get up at six o'clock to go swimming. I put on my swim trunks and go to the bathroom to throw on my bathrobe. But before I leave the room, I spray my bathrobe with a perfume that pleasantly underscores the ritual that follows. A scent that accompanies me on my way to the saltwater pool. The moon is still shining, but the sky is already slightly orange-violet because the sun can already be sensed, but is still a long way from being seen. I slowly step into the water and swim for a good hour. No rush and no hurry. The birds begin to gently sing during this time. Wonderful! Then I go over to the saltwater pool to warm up in the almost hot water. The water is so salty that you float in it. After about fifteen minutes, I usually head over to the outer spa area and take a hot shower. Then I dry myself off and put on my white, perfumed bathrobe. After that, I head over to my lounge chair, which has already been prepared by one of the pool boys. There, I usually sit in a lotus position and watch as the light of the rising sun slowly breaks in the crowns of the palm trees, shining over the pool, while the air around me mixes with my feel-good scent that escapes from my bathrobe. Until now, I have only had two perfumes for this almost meditative ritual: Laguna by Dali or Royal Bain de Caron by Caron. This year, there will be a third scent that will celebrate this ritual with me. Lancaster by Lancaster. Why Lancaster? I would be happy to tell you!

Lancaster is like a cocoon of purity, protection, and sensuality. Orange blossom and various herbs like thyme, coriander, and basil give a hint of freshness and cleanliness. Spicy and herb-floral notes are added from herbal geranium and a powdery-soft tuberose. Lancaster has something of a chypre that gradually transforms into an oriental scent. Slowly and steadily, warm tones from soft amber come in, adorned with cozy notes of vanilla. An incredibly soft sandalwood makes Lancaster creamier and even more cuddly before it sinks into a smoky base of protective oak moss and incense.

Conclusion
Lancaster embodies a lot for me. It embodies shiny-brown bodies and sunbathing on warm, spicy sand on a hot day by the sea. But also a spa temple where men and women in white bathrobes relax in misty steam saunas and sultry warm baths. Or where one can get massaged away the stress in a hamam with spicy-warm oils and fine soaps. Lancaster is a scent that connects the genders. For me, it is neither masculine nor feminine. Lancaster is like a very well-groomed,
delicate, and flattering veil on the skin. It radiates a deep sense of security and calm, but also a deep sensuality. It has something luxurious and very refined in its composition. It can be worn in the deepest winter, but also in the warmest summer. Lancaster can do many things, but what it can always do is make something beautiful even more beautiful. Back then and still today.

At least for me!

I thank SchatzSucher for the sample and for rekindling an old love that had been forgotten!

02/19/2017

8.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

loewenherz
916 Reviews

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Top Review 33

Longing is incurable

At the end of the 80s, there was a turning point in the world of fragrances. The era of aquatics and unisex scents began, and the orientals and fougères that had dominated for almost two decades gradually disappeared from the shelves or faded into pale shadows of their former selves. Only a few of them survived unscathed into the present, and there are virtually no new perfumes of this kind anymore. Many younger fragrance users consider them - factually, this is not wrong, although it sounds ugly - as old. Yet, as much as one might scoff at many trends from those culturally idiosyncratic years today, some of the scents from those decades are more precious than ever and can be worn surprisingly modern.

The packaging of Lancaster Eau de Toilette Concentrée is unmatched in its humility and understatement. If one were to place the bottle or the outer box aside from the perfumes, one would easily mistake both for a mid-priced body care product - perhaps a facial toner or a tonic. (I really like the bottle - precisely because it is what it is.) And inside is one of the perhaps most underrepresented and underestimated fragrance jewels - not only, but especially for fans of that bygone fragrance world of the 70s and 80s. It thrives on a melancholic, rough green herbaceousness - old-school chypre and hipper than an airbrushed wolf head T-shirt on the chestnut avenue - which is followed by a foundation of soft wood and gentle animal notes. It is robust, but not cumbersome - quite the opposite. Tamed, but neither subdued nor broken. Oriental. Balsamic without sweetness. A bit smoky. Soft. Incredibly exciting for a nose accustomed to contemporary scents. And full of longing.

It somewhat resembles Clinique's Aromatics Elixir, which is significantly older - both are full-bodied and hefty, both angular and unique. And both, despite their feminine label, are undeniably unisex in my nose. As if one were - pardon: a woman - wearing a high-gloss, brass-colored blouse with fabric-covered buttons, shoulder pads, a stand-up collar, and bell sleeves from 1987 paired with black skinny jeans from 2017. Retro-modern, self-assured, and cool. A grand perfume cinema in the second row.

Conclusion: the 80s were the decade in which the once highly popular singer Juliane Werding transformed from the 'cheeky girl with the guitar' she had been in the 70s ('If you think you think, then you only think you think') into the mystically contemplative housewife problem-solver. In one of her major hits from those years, it says:
'She never wanted to accept a no, she never wanted to lose her curiosity.
And still, she saw herself driving in a convertible with the wind in her open hair.
Uh uh - longing is incurable.'
I just watched it on YouTube. Fog machines. Really bad hairstyle. In contrast to Lancaster Eau de Toilette Concentrée, almost cool again.

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