Which Penhaligon’s perfume do you recommend?

[ChicagoBears]

Every time I walk past the store I get a glorious waft of the beautiful perfumes. Haven’t treated myself in a while so wondered what your recommendations are?

If possible, OP, I’d test a bunch in the meantime, so if any you like come on offer you can grab them.

As Sawira was my favourite, it smelt like a dusty cathedral on an August afternoon in the south of France.

I gather it was a bit of a marmite scent and it’s been discontinued.

Used to be Violetta. I have bottles of Castile and Luna now, plus a small bottle of Halfeti hair perfume but rarely wear the Halfeti as it's a bit loud for me.

I would love them to bring back Cornubia, which I had as bath oil but never felt I was quite grown up enough for the perfume while it was still available.

Love Quercus, have the bath and shower gel of it and it always makes me happy when I use it.

Oh, now I’m getting confused! I think Cornubia might have been the first one I was obsessed with. Did that become Jubilee Bouquet? (It’s all so long ago …)

Vaara was my wedding perfume but I’m also prone to stealing a bit of DH’s Endymion…

Perfume Parlour dupe a lot of them - Halfeti, Cairo and Changing Constance are all bang on. Halfeti is what they pump out of the shops so start there.

@MetaDaughter I think Jubilee Bouquet might have been Ormolu originally? That was another nice one!

Halfeti is heavenly for the first 15 minutes then becomes powerfully masculine. I’d wear it all the time if I could keep it to the opening notes but mainly it smells like I’ve borrowed something from my husband’s cupboard.

Quercus for me.

Halfeti is amazing but I cant spend £200 on it so for now I'm using the one from Perfumes Zag Zodiak and its very close to the original https://perfumeszagzodiak.co.uk/products/270-ha-inspired-by-halfetti