Brilliantly British Penhaligon's 2020

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8.1 / 10 102 Ratings

Brilliantly British is a popular perfume by Penhaligon's for women and men and was released in 2020. The scent is sweet-floral. It is being marketed by Puig. Pronunciation

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Main accords

Sweet

Floral

Spicy

Gourmand

Green

Fragrance Notes

Lavender

Salted caramel

Musk

Ratings

Scent

8.1102 Ratings

Longevity

7.590 Ratings

Sillage

7.092 Ratings

Bottle

8.785 Ratings

Value for money

6.535 Ratings

Submitted by WitweBolte, last update on 20.05.2023.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/05/2023

3
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 6
Longevity 5
Scent

Prousty
6 Reviews

Prousty

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Lavender Toffee

It's not a particularly original scent, on the lavender theme I really like Chanel's Jersey, but this one has that caramel twist that makes it worth staying in the collection. As the name itself says, "brilliantly British", the brand faithfully tried to convey a typically British everyday scene through lavender, which is an important and one of the oldest ingredients of British perfumery, and toffee, which should evoke the British tradition of drinking tea with scones. I can't say that I have British associations with this scent, but because of that unexpected twist with caramel, it occupies a special place among lavender-themed scents.

03/01/2021

Friedaherz

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Friedaherz

11

Brilliantly British = America First ?

You may now calmly hit me or write me nasty responses under my comment.
But when I first saw the bottle and the name of the fragrance virginally in a perfumery, the kaleidoscope of a carousel of thoughts raced through my head: "Brexit, Are they crazy now?, America First, They're crazy, the Romans!..." (I'm sorry, I can't help my thoughts, they're free...).

But in all seriousness, even though I'm a total fan of the British lifestyle and think the Union Jack is beautiful, I felt a little uncomfortable stepping on toes at first. You see, I'm suffering from the Brexit. The year before last in London, the year before that from Ireland on a short visit to Belfast, a couple of years before that in Scotland and with the will to visit many more places on the island (and mainland), I suddenly feel that as an EU member I am no longer a welcome member of the UK club. So the exuberant packaging of the bottle with the Union Jack and the name "Brilliantly British" came in handy. I had to gasp, then swallow.

But since the love of the UK in general and the traditional house Penhaligon's in particular is big enough and my heart as well: what the hell - test. In the end, but always wins the pragmatist in me.

Well, now I have the fragrance and can't figure it out. Why does such a fragrance have such packaging?
Yatagan talks about the tradition of lavender in England in his commentary. And although I was already in June/July in the Cotswolds, I missed it until now. So I've learned something again. For me, lavender has always been typically French, even though traditional English fragrance houses like to use lavender. In any case, I really like lavender, especially when mixed unconventionally with other notes. And salted caramel is one of those notes for me. I smell musk here (thankfully) at the very most to stabilize the scent. Even if the fragrance seems quite one-dimensional - he is not annoying, he is not penetrating, he is quite simply Gentleman.

And so then the circle closes. And I forgive the fragrance for the beautiful but, for me, inappropriate packaging. But that makes it unusually exciting. And has kicked off with me diverse emotions.

So, now you may complain about me....

11/08/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

Yatagan

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Yatagan

Top Review 65

Fabulously French

Uncommented fragrances No. 161

You could make it easy with this fragrance and refer to the strong parallels to the legendary Pour Un Homme de Caron (my Signature Scent). In both cases, lavender dominates, especially in the opening, but also in the further course of the fragrance, in both fragrances there is a moderately powdery musk note, and moreover, there is a sweet note in the base, because neither fragrance has a real heart, a sweet note that was indicated here with salty caramel. You could also say fudge. And there we are at the typical British scent: Lavender. In Great Britain there are large lavender farms in some regions that cultivate the herb. And there is fudge: everywhere. The parallels to the fabulously french caron are striking, but the salty caramel note makes the new Penhaligon's in Drydwon different. I still like my Caron more, because I find the vanilla note with a little touch of amber in the base of the Caron more elegant, because that's how they are, the French, always a bit more elegant than the rest of the world, but I have to say that Penhaligon's Brilliantly British was worth 9 points to me. How close fabulously french and brilliantly British are to each other and whether the small difference is worth a double purchase is best decided after an intensive comparison test. And you should like Fudge.