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Penhaligon's - An Obituary for Headless, Vegetarian Fragrances, Eleventh Strike
Chypchen
Posy translates to something like little bouquet. And for this fragrance, there could be no better name, as Victorian Posy embodies the olfactory diminutive. I think of a little house with flowers in the garden and a little tree beside it, a house with a garden on a little cliff by a little sea under a radiant little sun.
At Penhaligon’s Victorian Posy, clear parallels emerge with the two-year-older Ormolu from the same house. Both are unmistakable representatives of the Chypre genre, and even Ormolu is not one of the usual bombastic fragrances. Victorian Posy is even sweeter and milder. While the combination of jasmine and rose with chamomile on the typical moss base is common to both, Victorian Posy expresses the theme in a more subtle, elegant, and lively manner. The wonderful obligatory hesperidic-citrus opening certainly plays a role, but so does the overall more discreet, elegant presence and the underlying green tone. Ormolu represents its roots as a Chypre from the late seventies more vehemently, making no secret of it. Victorian Posy, on the other hand, is also quite bitter, almost austere, but remains overall more reserved and does not seem quite so obviously out of time today.
Ladies and Gents, I present to you Victorian Posy aka Chypchen, little sister of Ormolu.
Unfortunately, like its older sister, it is already in early retirement.
Posy translates to something like little bouquet. And for this fragrance, there could be no better name, as Victorian Posy embodies the olfactory diminutive. I think of a little house with flowers in the garden and a little tree beside it, a house with a garden on a little cliff by a little sea under a radiant little sun.
At Penhaligon’s Victorian Posy, clear parallels emerge with the two-year-older Ormolu from the same house. Both are unmistakable representatives of the Chypre genre, and even Ormolu is not one of the usual bombastic fragrances. Victorian Posy is even sweeter and milder. While the combination of jasmine and rose with chamomile on the typical moss base is common to both, Victorian Posy expresses the theme in a more subtle, elegant, and lively manner. The wonderful obligatory hesperidic-citrus opening certainly plays a role, but so does the overall more discreet, elegant presence and the underlying green tone. Ormolu represents its roots as a Chypre from the late seventies more vehemently, making no secret of it. Victorian Posy, on the other hand, is also quite bitter, almost austere, but remains overall more reserved and does not seem quite so obviously out of time today.
Ladies and Gents, I present to you Victorian Posy aka Chypchen, little sister of Ormolu.
Unfortunately, like its older sister, it is already in early retirement.
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