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The purveyor to the court, who became a friend of the house
Since 2017, Penhaligons has dedicated a character fragrance exclusively to Harrod in its portrait series. Beside many members and friends of the family around Lord George the supplier of the high nobility finds entrance into the history around a very interesting and very English family constellation.
Without a doubt, the fragrance is dedicated to the department store founder Charles Henry Harrod, who actually made it to court supplier and built one of the most successful and famous luxury department stores in the world. How does the remarkably successful merchant, who made a considerable fortune, now find himself in the story of Lord George and his family? The imagination knows no bounds here. Mr. Harrod is portrayed on the once again beautifully designed perfume box as an elegantly dressed, moustachioed man of the best age with his avatar, a large brown bear. Both because of his reliability as a supplier of the finest goods, as a wealthy bourgeois with the finest manners and almost aristocratic features, he will have become a welcome guest in the house of the lord. Especially the ladies of the house, especially Lady Blanche, like the company of this successful charismatic man, who after all also equips the royal house with all the goods that such a house needs.
Very nicely represented in the background is the parent house in the upscale London quarter Knightsbridge, which was built in the style of eclecticism after a fire of the previous building around 1900. In addition to tropical plants in the nobly furnished salon you will find tropical fruits, fresh local fruit, a barrel of the best tobacco, bags and leather goods, fine candlesticks and selected silverware. Everywhere the salon is freshened up by flowers, especially white flowers and colourful butterflies.
It is probably supposed to represent a part of the goods which Mr. Harrod so successfully brings to the customers of the high nobility and the upper middle class But why the bear? This can probably neither be explained by the character attributed to him in fables, in which he seems nice, friendly, good-natured, a little bit naive and simple-minded. Not exactly what you would expect from a successful businessman.
Nor can it be the role of the bear in the stock market, for the bear attacks from top to bottom and describes a falling price, and this was certainly not compatible with Mr Harrods success.
It's probably the courage, the strength, the persistence that Mr. Harrod brought to this Avatar And so we approach the scent. I must admit that I would have expected a completely different scent in view of the Avatar, the brown bear. What does success and wealth smell like? On the other hand, I honestly do not want to know what bear smells like. To my surprise, the fragrance is clearly fruity-floral in design.
The fragrance picks up the fruits exhibited in his salon, plums, raspberries. I could also swear I smell pineapple and maybe even peach. The fruit and a light note of cinnamon, which goes well with the plums, set the tone. Is that the smell of the Food Halls on the ground floor of Harrods, where exquisite food is offered? Without the fruit noticeably retreating, noble warm woods and white-flowered trees join in. And I do not only smell jasmine, there is at least a hint of lily of the valley or another early bloomer.
The fragrance becomes sweeter and harmoniously rounded off. Oud and tobacco are used very sparingly and do not stand out clearly.
I would have liked these more clearly. A little cocoa, coffee or even tea could also have refined the range, perhaps even a noble leather note.
But here the perfume remains true to its time in the 19th century, when men confidently wore flowers in their buttonholes and the scarf around their neck or breast pocket handkerchief was splashed with flower extracts.
Elegant and stylish is this time always. It turns the heads of the ladies of the house and flatters the nose. The scent is unisex for me, too. It is noticed on an elegantly dressed gentleman as well as on a lady who is not afraid of bears.
The fragrance has an outstanding performance and should be used sparingly.
The flacon is like the whole portrait series with the golden animal head very noble, a little playful, but very detailed designed, for me a must-have in the collection.
Unfortunately only available exclusively at Harrod's directly, which is probably why he remained somewhat unknown.
Without a doubt, the fragrance is dedicated to the department store founder Charles Henry Harrod, who actually made it to court supplier and built one of the most successful and famous luxury department stores in the world. How does the remarkably successful merchant, who made a considerable fortune, now find himself in the story of Lord George and his family? The imagination knows no bounds here. Mr. Harrod is portrayed on the once again beautifully designed perfume box as an elegantly dressed, moustachioed man of the best age with his avatar, a large brown bear. Both because of his reliability as a supplier of the finest goods, as a wealthy bourgeois with the finest manners and almost aristocratic features, he will have become a welcome guest in the house of the lord. Especially the ladies of the house, especially Lady Blanche, like the company of this successful charismatic man, who after all also equips the royal house with all the goods that such a house needs.
Very nicely represented in the background is the parent house in the upscale London quarter Knightsbridge, which was built in the style of eclecticism after a fire of the previous building around 1900. In addition to tropical plants in the nobly furnished salon you will find tropical fruits, fresh local fruit, a barrel of the best tobacco, bags and leather goods, fine candlesticks and selected silverware. Everywhere the salon is freshened up by flowers, especially white flowers and colourful butterflies.
It is probably supposed to represent a part of the goods which Mr. Harrod so successfully brings to the customers of the high nobility and the upper middle class But why the bear? This can probably neither be explained by the character attributed to him in fables, in which he seems nice, friendly, good-natured, a little bit naive and simple-minded. Not exactly what you would expect from a successful businessman.
Nor can it be the role of the bear in the stock market, for the bear attacks from top to bottom and describes a falling price, and this was certainly not compatible with Mr Harrods success.
It's probably the courage, the strength, the persistence that Mr. Harrod brought to this Avatar And so we approach the scent. I must admit that I would have expected a completely different scent in view of the Avatar, the brown bear. What does success and wealth smell like? On the other hand, I honestly do not want to know what bear smells like. To my surprise, the fragrance is clearly fruity-floral in design.
The fragrance picks up the fruits exhibited in his salon, plums, raspberries. I could also swear I smell pineapple and maybe even peach. The fruit and a light note of cinnamon, which goes well with the plums, set the tone. Is that the smell of the Food Halls on the ground floor of Harrods, where exquisite food is offered? Without the fruit noticeably retreating, noble warm woods and white-flowered trees join in. And I do not only smell jasmine, there is at least a hint of lily of the valley or another early bloomer.
The fragrance becomes sweeter and harmoniously rounded off. Oud and tobacco are used very sparingly and do not stand out clearly.
I would have liked these more clearly. A little cocoa, coffee or even tea could also have refined the range, perhaps even a noble leather note.
But here the perfume remains true to its time in the 19th century, when men confidently wore flowers in their buttonholes and the scarf around their neck or breast pocket handkerchief was splashed with flower extracts.
Elegant and stylish is this time always. It turns the heads of the ladies of the house and flatters the nose. The scent is unisex for me, too. It is noticed on an elegantly dressed gentleman as well as on a lady who is not afraid of bears.
The fragrance has an outstanding performance and should be used sparingly.
The flacon is like the whole portrait series with the golden animal head very noble, a little playful, but very detailed designed, for me a must-have in the collection.
Unfortunately only available exclusively at Harrod's directly, which is probably why he remained somewhat unknown.
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