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Blasted Bloom Penhaligon's 2015

6.5 / 10 52 Ratings

A perfume by Penhaligon's for women, released in 2015. The scent is green-floral. It was last marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Green

Floral

Aquatic

Fresh

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green leaves

Aquatic notes

Wild berries

Heart Notes

Eglantine rose

Pink pepper CO2

Hawthorn

Base Notes

Moss

Nootka cypress

Clearwood™ Musk

Musk

Perfumer

Alberto Morillas

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Ratings

Scent

6.552 Ratings

Longevity

6.842 Ratings

Sillage

6.141 Ratings

Bottle

8.151 Ratings

Value for money

6.510 Ratings

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Blasted Heath

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/02/2021

Friedaherz
38 Reviews

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Helpful Review 3

Nasty Dog with Cucumber Aroma in Compost with Seaweed...

...this triggered the blind purchase appeal. I have to smell this!
What a combination. I’m into quirky things, bring it on!

Good little flower meets berry and lands on the wild compost in the forest. That’s how I would describe it. But even that would be too wild as a description for this scent. Ultimately, it is a berry floral fragrance with a musk base. Exactly what I don’t like. By far better than some cheap scent, meaning it’s of good quality, as one would expect from such a fragrance house.
But so boring!
I’d rather smell the withered flower. Or the wet dog. Or the compost. At least that stimulates the imagination, just as the name of the fragrance promises.

If you like a berry floral scent with a musk base, I recommend testing it. But definitely don’t “blind buy,” or else it might smell like wet dog with cucumber aroma in compost with seaweed...

01/30/2016

5.5Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

loewenherz
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Top Review 13

Everything They Had to Give?

The constant challenge of a 'good, old name' - one like that of the house of Penhaligon's - lies in the fact that the love of its followers is often based on classics - and often on something perceived as typical that these classics have in common. Because 'tradition is the preservation of the fire and not the worship of the ashes' (as the wise quote from Gustav Mahler goes), a 'good, old name' is also expected to bring innovation - something new and original that continues the signum of its history - and ideally honors it time and again.

The Penhaligon's signum consists of the (sovereign and often humorous) variation and reinterpretation of what the rest of the world sees as 'British' - fragrances that speak of wild roses and lavender fields, of tea in the afternoon and duels at dawn. Loved for classics like Blenheim Bouquet and Lily of the Valley, the house has managed for decades to create modern classics - a kind of 'modern British' without being overly West End cool like Paul Smith or Vivienne Westwood.

In 2015, this line was lost.

'Never let me go' (in the German translation: 'Alles, was wir geben mussten') is the title of a highly regarded novel by Anglo-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, which was chosen by Time Magazine as the most significant British book of the year in 2005 and was charmingly adapted into a film. Ishiguro describes a Britain of the 1980s, where there are no diseases and no ailments because society has found another way to renew the human organism. Unlike Michael Marshall Smith's 'The Island' (the title of its film adaptation with Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor), which stages the same theme as an action thriller, Ishiguro and director Mark Romanek use an unexcited, calm language. Spiegel Online wrote in 2011: 'With contemplative calm, Romanek illustrates a terribly familiar-looking England, whose civil scenery of gentle hills, old seaside resorts, and steaming teapots further amplifies the profound horror of this subcutaneous science fiction. Without ever becoming loud or flashy, the film gradually pulls away even the last piece of ground from under its viewers' feet, leaving them struggling for composure in the face of the relentless consequences of the narrative.'

Here lies the analogy between the book and film to Penhaligon's latest (women's) fragrance Blasted Bloom (as well as to Blasted Heath, its male counterpart, which I have already described): they all consciously draw on aesthetic elements that we know and accept as 'British.' Yet the result is something entirely different from what is expected - a disturbing retro-dystopia on one hand, and a strange green artificial scent on the other, which has hints of cottage gardens and hedgerows, but is so sterilized in its interpretation that it leaves one feeling perplexed at best.

Conclusion: Penhaligon's remains one of my favorites - just as a single bad film does not permanently damage my love for a director. The attempt to give 'old English' a new (fragrance) direction is honorable and understandable - but with Blasted Bloom (as with Heath), it feels too forced and, from the perspective of a Penhaligon's aficionado, unsuccessful.

01/02/2016

2Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Ergreifend
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Very helpful Review 12

Green Poison

The title already says quite a bit.
The scent is an affront to the nose and to the general environment.

At first encounter, it feels like a rich, green poison that bores into the nose and eats away at it. I'm not a fan of green scents, but I try everything. However, this one pushes me to my limits.

The fragrance starts cynically, then it hisses into the nose, making the head throb. Algae come to mind. The sound of dirty water, behind it wilted flowers, and then a pale shimmer of fruit appears. The beginning is totally misguided.

Aquatic streams set the scent in motion. The fruity aspect becomes increasingly lukewarm, somehow totally out of place. It becomes greener and greener. Really grass green. Grass green under dark skies, which are slowly beginning to send rain to the earth. Not this refreshing, cooling rain. No, it’s a rain that is warm, tepid, and dreary. Thus, the perfume simply glides into the drain ahead of it. With thousands of algae and green leaves.

It gets a bit peppery towards the end, but that doesn't make it any more positive. Musk drenches everything once more, making it seem a bit closer, more timid. Fresher. But that doesn't convince me at all.

I’m sorry for my devastating judgment, but I couldn't even dream of wearing this perfume. Not even for the most intimate spaces in my apartment. It is banished by me.

Sillage and longevity are in the middle range. The scent is anyway just a shadow of itself after a short time and leaves a strange film on the skin.

The bottle is okay, and it is solely for that that there is a small rating.

12/05/2015

4Scent 2.5Longevity 2.5Sillage

Fefaminz
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Helpful Review 2

The Power of Imagination.....

....often works very well, but sometimes it just doesn’t!

I hesitated for a long time to write the second comment on the new Blasted fragrances from Penhaligon's, but - well, I have to!

Blasted Bloom starts with a strange mix of aquatic and dull. The marine note is recognizable, but restrained, as if through a pane of glass. I can only identify the berries because they are named; otherwise, I would have thought of something green-leafy, just a tiny bit floral, but the floral hint has already vanished before it can be properly perceived. This green scent component makes Blasted Bloom appear a bit clearer over time, pulling it out of the dullness. With my nose pressed directly into my arm, I even believe I catch a hint of ozone and think of mountain forests, firs at high altitudes. There’s nothing left of the sea or wild coast, however - after just 3 hours, it’s all over!

As well as these imaginative suggestions worked for me with Blasted Heath, I could share so little of Señor Morillas' vision here. The whole thing feels very rushed, as if one had to create a women’s fragrance alongside the men’s fragrance (though I can’t understand this classification for either). What a shame!

The longevity is low, the scent stays very close to the skin, doesn’t hurt anyone, and the bottle is, as always, pretty.

Statements

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Calendula

9 years ago

4.5Scent 5Longevity 3Sillage

Cucumber juice with lots of parsley and some other crushed greens, plus a bit of sourness - et voilà - it smells terrible.

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Fragilly

3 years ago

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

berry-colored PopArt bouquet
surrounded by neon green foliage
symmetrically framed
large pixelated representation
bursting with fresh rain
no mustiness

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