Comments on: Penhaligon’s Lily & Spice ~ perfume review

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:46:29 +0000

you know how tastes change, so i might try it again, the last time i nearly liked it. but on my mom it is horrible, i cannot stand it. so i had to give her a bottle of coco mademoiselle, which she loves too. god thanks there are still duty free shops

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:39:31 +0000

Promise not to bristle — I'm not easily offended! But can't agree that Chanel No. 5 smells “old”. To me, it smells like “the” sophisticated classic

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:15:47 +0000

being old and smelling old are two different things my mom wearing chanel no5 smells “old”. this are aldehydes which remind me of unaired furs of an 80year old lady. i know this is a crazy desciption. don't bristle, it has been my grandma smelling like this trauma.

thank you though! and i did not mean to offend any of us ladies, not even the elder ones over 80.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:03:27 +0000

Most of us perfumistas bristle at the idea of scents being categorized as “old woman”, LOL– esp. those like me who could qualify as such. But I do get the idea, and this one doesn't strike me that way. No idea if it has aldehydes, but you needn't order it unsniffed, you can get a sample from Aedes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:35:27 +0000

i love malabah and also this genuine english style, but: does L&S smell like “an old woman”? i do not know the other scents, what can you comapre ist with? does ist have aldehydes? i would love to buy ist, but it is pretty expensive for an experiment. hugs to you, andreea

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:58:34 +0000

Gotcha!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:52:05 +0000

M, to me L&S, like many of the other Penhaligon's, does smell like a traditional English perfume. It is not always my favorite style either. Actually I was sort of confused by the idea that they're trying to get back to that style, because I missed the fact that they ever left it (?)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:49:18 +0000

No reason except that it was the first one I really loved, LOL…not a very good reason, I guess, since we don't always love the same things. But it doesn't have the same feel to me as the other classic Carons…it doesn't have that strong, dark, Caronish undertone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:52:15 +0000

P.S.–I have not tried Caron Alpona. Why do you think I would like it, since I can't seem to find one dern Caron that I love, save for the wonderfully girly-girl Bellodgia?

Hugs!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:24:12 +0000

I've only tried a few Penhaligons. Somehow they don't end up enchanting me, there's something sort of watery about them — and it's not like I'm opposed to old-fashioned scents either. I do like Malabah, but not “love.” If only the juice lived up to the bottles.