Niche line Washington Tremlett has launched three new London-inspired fragrances:
Notting Hill Carnival (shown above) ~ " The festival is held each year on a 5km stretch of road in West London where the participants, dressed in colourful costumes, dance to various Caribbean bands and rhythms of reggae, jazz, soul, hip-hop and funk. Washington Tremlett has dedicated this sunny, yet stylishly British fragrance to Europe’s most colourful carnival." With notes of lime, bergamot, bay laurel, coriander, pink pepper, ginger, leather, frankincense and labdanum.
Hampstead Water ~ "Hampstead Heath is the largest and oldest park in London and the trees and natural lakes provide an impressive backdrop. Hampstead Water is characterized by a special essence which grows in the lakes of the park: the water mint which builds the heart of this unforgettable fragrance." The notes for the fougere fragrance include bergamot, orange, lavender, water mint, leather and musk.
Chelsea Garden ~ "Thanks to its central location, Chelsea Garden is perfect for anyone who wants to find a tranquil spot amidst the hustle and bustle of city life, or simply enjoy a few moments of relaxation...For the fragrance Chelsea Garden, the original formula of Rose Centifolia from Grasse was rediscovered. The composition is simple, but the fragrance unerring. It begins floral-fresh and spicy, with faint notes of rose and cardamom that lead to a heart of jasmine. Rose absolute, ambergris and Indonesian patchouli create a wonderfully floral-woody base." Additional notes include cedar, musk, lignum vitae.
Washington Tremlett Notting Hill Carnival, Hampstead Water & Chelsea Garden are available now at First in Fragrance in Germany, 140€ for 100 ml Eau de Parfum. (via first-in-fragrance)
Ack, another multi-launch!
These all sound well-made and very worth sampling, though. I’m wondering if water mint resembles spearmint or peppermint… off to wikipedia.
My guess is that in perfume, “water mint” smells like peppermint + water.
The Chelsea Garden sounds like it may be worth getting a sniff of. Dzien dobry Joe! Hope you had a chance to check out that Pol-Store site. Researching Poland’s fragrances is no easy task. I now remember what site I got the info from,if you’d like to go to it; 1000 fragrances.blogspot.com. It also listed a men’s scent called Prastera( kind of sounds like something, right?)Perhaps a trip to the homeland is in order. Can the husband and I come to dinner? He’s not Polish, but we can make him an honorary one for the holidays. I’ll even bring some golabcki!
Excuse me, Joe. I forgot to add after the net address: / fragrances from Poland. My brain is on auto pilot right now. 10 degrees in this section of the northeast. Also, it’s called Prastara Eau de Colonge( the male fragrance.) Hope you got your mint mystery solved.
Miss Kitty- Hope you read this. There is also a Pani Walewska Chic, which I am guessing is the sophisticated sister to PW Classic. I hate to buy these unsniffed or even without a composition of notes to read. I wish I had something to go on. Oh well, off for more snooping.
I went to the Polstore to check it out as well….not too spendy but totally unsniffed….maybe I should get a bottle and the three of us could split it up? Just my usual plotting and scheming activities…. I’m always thinking of the “next” sniffy.
Good idea, Daisy– and maybe you could organize a split of Notting Hill Carnival too?
That’s not a bad idea—-as soon as it’s available in the USA. Shipping from firstinfrag. is ginormous.
Call me crazy–but I think it’s fun to host splits!
OMG! I’ve been out of town and haven’t read this in days! What’s going on? Have I been left out of something? Aaaaaghh! Dolly, contact me at MUA if there’s a split to be had.
Hurray for Daisy! My kind of people.
we’re talking about the Pani Walewska miraculum classic, correct?
It’s 30ml at a total cost of like $27 —-so that makes for a pretty easy 3 way split, yes? Are you in the US?
Daisy- Yes, I am. I jumped off for a moment. The PW Chic is available on http://www.beautycosmetic.biz/pani-walewska-chic and unfortunately not at Polstore. It’s 17.95, I think.
PW Chic gift set- from Bulgaria- translated into US dollars- 14.00. Don’t think it will make it in time for X-mas. Will have to wait until after the new year.
Daisy, from what I could gather on some site I happened to be on, one woman’s interpretation of it was of jasmine and powder. I hope we’re not talking Jontue here.
I went to the perfume intelligencer and they have PW listed as discontinued. Another dead end in the search for the composition of either one. UGH!
Daisy- I am going out of town for the weekend. No computer access. I will be back on this Monday. Have a great weekend. May just order the darn thing and pray.
Dolly, feel free to email me at Daisyloo82 at gmail.com and we can iron out the details. After the new year might be best just because the post office is such a mess right now and everything takes so loooong.
Where did these people get their information from?
1) ‘The festival is held each year on a 5km stretch of road in West London…’ That’s not correct: the carnival is held on a ‘5km network of roads’ in Notting Hill, not on any particular road and one thing is for sure: there isn’t a road there that’s 5km long. LOL!
I lived in Notting Hill, around the corner from Portobello Road, on a prime location for sound systems, for 16 years. Will the fragrance also conjure up the exasperation verging on despair the people who live there feel every year as the Carnival is approaching because it means that for two whole days (and sometimes nights) one will be subjected to deafening boom-booming music; one’s windows will be rattling because of the noise; one cannot leave one’s abode because the number of burglaries shoots up that weekend? The Carnival is fun if you’re just visiting; if you live in the area, it is torture.
2) ‘Thanks to its central location, Chelsea Garden is perfect for anyone who wants to find a tranquil spot…’ There is no such thing as Chelsea Garden. There is the Chelsea *Physic* Garden, which is indeed very small and quiet, but which has a huge admission charge so not very welcoming. And it’s hardly ‘central’: it’s on the Embankment and quite difficult to access.
Once again: how difficult is it to check and then provide the right information? One would think Google didn’t exist. Look it up, folks!
Ah, but you think they care about accuracy. They don’t. They just want to sell perfume. They don’t want the truth to get in the way of sales. How many of those Bond no. 9s bear any relationship – really – to the parts of NY that they attempt to evoke? Sorry – feeling very cynical today.
Maybe the issue is that the marketing of these fragrances attempt to establish a direct relationship to a place many people will know well. Others – such as maybe 31 Rue Cambon, Bel Respiro, Escale a Pondichery & Portofino – work at the level of dreams and fantasies. And because perfume is all about dreams and fantasies – that works okay.
Oh well. Just a thought.
I don’t know the Bond No9s well enough: do they have blah blahs attached to them that describe the areas of New York the scents relate too? If so, are these descriptions accurate? I bet they are. I’m not talking about the fragrances themselves (of course they cannot accurately evoke an area of a city. I’m only talking about the publicity material that is sent to reviewers, etc. and that is supposed to attract customers.
Foreigners will come over to London and ask for directions to the Chelsea Garden and they will be met with uncomprehending looks or they will ask in what road the Carnival is on and will encounter the same reaction. Things like that *have* to be accurate and these days, with the Internet, it is child’s play – and there is no excuse for such blatant errors.
Yes, you are right, despite the specificity of the names, the Bonds tend to be merely evocative.
Still, I don’t think people read their fragrances like a map, and most of us, in this day and age, consciously or unconsciously peel back a layer of spin from most of the products we buy.
You know, I don’t know how much of this came directly from the brand since I’m reporting on the copy from a retail store…and a German retail store at that.
Dear Robin, I know very well you have nothing to do with this: I saw the inverted commas. *You* care about such things.
Well, I wasn’t even trying to excuse myself…just saying I don’t know if we can blame the brand: I haven’t seen their press materials so don’t know what they say.
Oh, I see. Sorry… misunderstood you.
They still called one of their perfumes after a garden that doesn’t exist.
Last time I was there, NTC smelled like jerked goat, warm beer and the scent of sheer desparation from waiting in an endless queue for the only tube to get out! LOL.
that’ll be NHC, sorry.
What is bay laurel?
Yeah, first think and then write, but it is already late here. I only had to read the description at first-in-fragrance.
Well inaccuraces aside, I’d still like to smell the bottled version of Chelsea Gardens.
It sounds like yet another rose-patch I’d love.
Could be…I like their other rose, Black Tie.
Does anyone know of a ‘perfume of the month club’ that will send decanted fragrances monthly? I’m looking for something ‘off-the-beaten-path’ and not the usual department store fragrances – any suggestions?
I’ve never come across a preorder club like that –I would worry that everything chosen for me would be loaded with patch and saffron….
But your question made me immediately segue into a daydream where, on the first of each month I went to scentwiki and (throwing caution to the winds) selected a decant of whatever was new and struck my fancy! Wouldn’t that be cool to know that every month like clockwork you got to make a pick? Maybe that would be the answer for you….ever been to scentsplits.wikidot.com ? and if this is an idea you were having as a gift for the perfumista in your life—you could still do it: just peruse the site around the middle of each month, make a selection and have it shipped to your giftee….you could time it so that they got it on/near a specific day each month. Oh good lord, now I wish my CEO would do that for me!!!
There are a couple very reliable people on scentwiki who are always very “current” —if there’s a new release they are almost sure to be ordering. Good luck
I don’t know one either.