Poppy & Barley 2018

Poppy & Barley by Jo Malone
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Poppy & Barley is a popular perfume by Jo Malone for women and men and was released in 2018. The scent is floral-fruity. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies. Pronunciation
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Floral
Fruity
Fresh
Sweet
Spicy

Fragrance Notes

BlackcurrantBlackcurrant PoppyPoppy BranBran RoseRose BarleyBarley VioletViolet

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7.796 Ratings
Longevity
6.885 Ratings
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6.486 Ratings
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7.886 Ratings
Value for money
6.932 Ratings
Submitted by Greifswald, last update on 28.04.2023.
Interesting Facts
Initially released as part of the English Fields Collection, the scent was re-released as part of the permanent collection in 2019.
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Summer on Birkenlund
'In that big red house down by the river, that's where Madita lives. Mom and Dad and their little sister Elisabet, a black poodle called Sasso, and the kitten Gosan also live there. And then there's Alva. Madita and Elisabet live in the children's room, Alva in the girls' room, Sasso in a basket in the hallway and Gosan in front of the stove in the kitchen. But mummy lives almost everywhere in the house and daddy also lives when he's not in town and writes for his newspaper so that people have something to read there.'

Thus begins the writer Astrid Lindgren, who has so lovingly created so many idyllic Swedish children in her books, her story of the spirited Madita who lives on Birkenlund. Where the pious Linus-Ida helps with the laundry and next door on Waldesruh her friend Abbe bakes his sugar curls. Where in winter good-natured horses pull the sleigh through forests covered in deep snow, and in spring behind the house the liver flowers bloom. But most adventures of Madita play in summer.

This summer - the poppies on the meadow behind the house, which reaches down to the river, where Linus-Ida wringes out the wet sheets on the jetty, and the violets blooming under the birch trees in the light of the Swedish sun - you think you can almost smell Lindgren's clear and beautiful words when you read them. Where the currants grow very close to Nilsson's fence next to the shed, and the barley swings golden behind the hedge. And in Jo Malone's English Fields - Poppy & Barley you can actually smell him.

Poppy & Barley is one of only two fragrances from this year's limited English Fields series dedicated to the illustration of a wild garden or field (the second is Green Wheat & Meadowsweet, the other three are gourmands despite their relatives by name). It does this authentically and very beautifully: sun-drenched and full of lively flowers - even if the flowering poppy and the barley field in front of my inner eye do not sway in the English summer wind but in the Swedish one.

Conclusion, as Madita would probably say: 'Around the house there are lots of birches, I climb around inside. (...) But the most beautiful thing is by the river. We can play on the jetty, because the water's not deep there. But a little further out, it's getting deep. On the other side of the house is the street. There's a lilac hedge so no one can watch us. But we can lie behind the hedge, and then we hear everything that the people who pass by talk, and that's fantastic, isn't it?
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Awesome interplay
Poppy & Barley is a fragrance that draws me very much under its spell.
An atypical fragrance. He is related to Florabotanica. Not that he smells so, but the nature of the composition is very similar.

I come when wearing associations of one of the wonderful summer days from my childhood, I'm with my family on our fruit - vegetable field which stands in the middle of a giant cornfield. We always used those days for a little get together.
First see to the right, then cozy on a blanket, enjoying a small picnic, chatting about the week, watching the bees at the day's work - that was just beautiful.

I still have the scent in my nose that steadily surrounded us.
The greenery of the garden, delicate blossoms, earth, hedges, unripe fruit, currant bushes, apple trees, cherry trees and the field with quite a lot of poppies that cheated their way in between.
That's exactly how Poppy & Barley smells to me.

Yes, here the fragrance fits perfectly into the (previous) "English Fields" collection in which it appeared. I am very happy that it was included in the regular collection, it is a masterpiece.

The interplay of delicate, unsweet fruit - even slightly tart, but not unpleasant - and the scent of the cornfields is fantastic.
It doesn't smell like ground grain, no absolutely not.
The grain is in the field, giving off an incomparable, light-tart scent.
It is green-fresh, delicately floral, becomes creamy towards the end, the fruit is always there, but never becomes intrusive.
A perfect summer fragrance with an incredibly great scent.
The durability is not bad for a cologne, holds with me easily 5h through.
I like him very much and he is in tough competition to Florabotanica I actually always want to wear
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Get me out into the fields...
Hach yes a spontaneous purchase in New York, where I was a companion in a fragrance purchase for a work colleague and with the 15th bottle urgently needed a nice women's fragrance under the nose. So I went to the Jo Malone Counter and let the nice lady show me this new scent from the English Fields Collection. I remembered to have tried all the scents at least, but I didn't really remember any of them
So I didn't expect much when the saleswoman enthusiastically placed some pump strokes on my arm.

In the beginning, one perceives the black currant very dominantly, but on my skin it very quickly passes the sceptre to the delicate violet and in combination with white musk offers a delicate but nevertheless fresh fragrance experience. Unfortunately, like many Jo Malone fragrances, the scent does not last long and after a few hours only a fine residue can be heard at close range.

Nevertheless a nice, even if entertaining experience.
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PedroCabral

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PedroCabral
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Chic? Yes!
It is shareable, but leans a little towards the feminine side (it has a delicate essence). Reminds me of a beautiful, classy, intelligent and educated woman. When I think of a woman involved (and asserting herself) with social projects and commitments to society, I think of this perfume.
I can imagine this perfume with white clothes, satin fabric. I imagine a bride at the wedding with the presence of intimate people and the cake with champagne.

The notes are distributed harmonically. The powdery notes are noticeable, a divine talc in the right measure. But the blackcurrant note is the one that stands out the most, as it gives a fruity touch (albeit fresh, not sweet) to a floral and powdery fragrance.

It's a contained perfume that doesn't get to stay in the air. It is intimate, however, unique. It's almost a white wine tending to dry (without being exactly dry) from specific grapes that only grow in a certain region.
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Carboytony

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Flowers and grains
On my skin, I first experience the powdery, ionones of violet, immediately followed by light, sweet fig and juicy blackcurrant. These notes are tailed by musky barley, bran and wheat - musky and slightly earthy. The floral notes of the Poppy flower are there, more in the background nuancing, But every note and then coming through loud and clear.
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PedroCabralPedroCabral 9 months ago
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Powdered in the right measure, slightly sweet and very comfortable. Good one!
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Jazzy76Jazzy76 4 years ago
a light and very original cologne, where the fruity opening accents meet the bran note. The result is very clean.A daily (expesnive) scent.
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