Halifax Parfum-Individual Harry Lehmann 2022

It should be obvious that this fragrance is not named after Vicsount Halifax, Viceroy of India, advocate of the appeasement policy towards Hitler and Churchill's ambassador in Washington. But I'd bet all my Canada souvenirs, including the moose T-shirts, that Lehmann wasn't thinking of the big city in Nova Scotia either, especially as there are no oranges blooming up there in the rugged north.

The last Lehmann, rest his soul, was a passionate Floridian, according to rumors in Berlin, and so he liked to name his citrus fragrances after Floridian cities and regions. This is obvious in the case of Miami and Key West, but Naples is certainly not named after Naples, but after the small town of Naples, FL, with a population of 20,000. Even with the somewhat older Lehmann Springfield, which I adore, I don't think a Bay County location is far-fetched. And in the case of Halifax, an arch-citrician, I'm even sure that Halifax Area / Daytona Beach was the inspiration for the name of the fragrance.

Halifax is one of Lehmann's last creations; unfortunately, I didn't get to try it during his lifetime and have now ordered a small bottle from the Neo-Lehmanns. I was certainly not disappointed. Halifax is a Lehmann as it is written in the book: straight, wearable, special, linear and with a duracellal longevity.

I feel the fragrance is related to Springfield, and that's high praise coming from me. Because Springfield is one of my favorites and one of my favorite fragrances ever. On the surface, it has a crisp, radiant citric quality; behind it, however, there are earthy and spicy, almost animalic depths, with the consequences described in my review of that fragrance.

In the first text, Halifax impressed me as a fragrance brother of Springfield, that's how similar I found the overall character. As I sniffed further and further, and after having let the two fragrances compete against each other in a double non-blind test, I don't take that back, but I also see considerable physiognomic differences between the brothers.

Halifax's citricism is thoroughly Nerolian. I would almost go so far as to say that Halifax is the most beautiful neroli fragrance I can think of, more beautiful even than Lehmann's Monoflor (or Monofruct) of that name. I perceive orange blossom almost as prominently, and this also comes across wonderfully radiant (and unfluffy), although perhaps not as brilliantly as in my "tenner" Azemour les Orangers. The rounding green notes are definitely brighter than in Springfield, and the trace element of abysmal animalism that gives Springfield a barely perceptible erotic note is replaced by light, hard, precise, precious woody notes in Halifax.

All in all, a midsummery, very masculine, very long-lasting and projecting, extremely self-confident, brightly radiant neroli fragrance with light green and wonderfully fused light woody notes. The 9 I give it is close, but thoroughly justified. Springfield, which I once upgraded from 8.5 to 9, I would now perhaps rate at 9.5.