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Trade Routes

Lothair Penhaligon's 2014

7.9 / 10 230 Ratings

A popular perfume by Penhaligon's for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is spicy-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Sweet

Green

Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cardamom

Fig leaf

Juniper berry

Bergamot

Grapefruit

Red berries

Heart Notes

Black tea

Lavender

Fig milk

Geranium

Magnolia

Base Notes

Cedar

Vanilla

Ambergris

Musk

Oakmoss

Wenge wood

Perfumer

Bertrand Duchaufour

Ratings

Scent

7.9230 Ratings

Longevity

7.3191 Ratings

Sillage

6.5192 Ratings

Bottle

8.1184 Ratings

Value for money

6.753 Ratings

Submitted by ExUser, last update on 10/28/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Trade Routes collection.

Smells similar

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/20/2017

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Smora
155 Reviews

Smora

Top Review 8

Sunny Gentleman

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Zofka – Parfum Vanille

Lothair is structurally very similar to Sartorial. Like Sartorial, the note breakdown suggests it could be a mess of the fragrance, but in reality it is a beautiful and balanced fragrance. One can smell most of the notes from the breakdown. Lothair is a bomb of positivity. A liquid sunny day.
It opens with strong Bombay Sapphire-like juniper, spicy cardamom and sunny grapefruit. This opening reminds me of L’Occitane’s Eau des Baux. The fougere lavender is well hidden, and overshadowed with milky fig leaf and a soft black tea note. Deep in the background there is a fragile flowery note, possibly magnolia. I really like the ambergris note of sea wind. I live on the sea, and this note is completely realistic. The base is woodsy and archaic, made of cedar and teak wood. The vanilla of the base is soft and very transparent. Perfectly harmonized with the woods.
Lothair is a beautiful creation. Archaic, yet modern. Transparent and credible.

Rating: 9/10

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Very good and original fragrance.

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BEAUTIFUL VANILLA , BERGAMOT AND FIG

This is a journey of perfectness. Although not mentioned in the notes, I also detect black pepper type of smell in the notes and its mixture with vanilla is for me incredible. These type of unique perfections are of interest to me.

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Starchy, spicy lavender latte

Lothair is a perfume that smells Scottish for no apparent reason other than I think the initial wallop of metallic lavender, starchy rhubarb, black pepper, and milky cedar is what I imagine a thick, purplish carpeting of thistle or heather on highlands to smell like. The punchy, herbal opening smells hoary and old-mannish to me in the best way possible, like an entrance hall thick with the smell of waxed jackets and tweeds and galoshes (and perhaps the odd bit of Lynx too, for good measure). High country pursuits, then, which, while not typically part of the cultural ‘scent’ lexicon for a woman in her forties from a working-class Irish background, still occupy a shape in the scent library of my mind. Lothair brings in some tonka bean towards the end, but it never smells creamy, just aromatic and kind of manly.

People say they smell fig and black tea in this, and that may be true, but I smell more of those hot metal bars on the old electric Calor gas heaters and the thick, fuzzy scent of wet wool fibers fluffing up when exposed to the intense heat confined to the 2cm radius of the bars. Kind of Gris Clair-ish but better, in that the metallic lavender-tonka combo keeps the screechiness to a minimum and clothes it all in a rich, dry, yet almost lactonic cedar that smells like a special type of incense only the rich can afford. It’s all very Sean Connery – gravel in the streets, butter in the sheets.

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