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Penhaligon’s + Meadham Kirchhoff Tralala ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 11 June 2014 38 Comments

Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford

With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture. And this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls…. You think just because you made a little money you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can’t, because you’ll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing. With this money, I can get away from every rotten, stinking thing that makes me think of this place or you!

Tralala!

What could be uglier, more ruthless (and perversely “fun” — for an audience) than dialogue like this from the movie Mildred Pierce starring Joan Crawford. These words are spoken to Mildred (Crawford) by her hateful/ungrateful daughter, Veda.

Perfume fanatics, when sniffing a fragrance, “see” things, remember people, places, animals, plants…even if what we’re sniffing is awful, or banal. Sometimes, a perfume provides a complex scenario for me…it “clicks” — with a painting, an event, or in this case, films.

When I first wore Penhaligon’s + Meadham Kirchhoff Tralala,1 a woman from the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood came to mind…

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Modern by way of being so old-fashioned

Posted by Robin on 7 May 2014 Leave a Comment

Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff talk about working with Penhaligon’s on their new fragrance, Tralala.

Then below the jump, perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour talks about working with Meadham Kirchhoff.

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Penhaligon’s + Meadham Kirchhoff Tralala ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 17 January 2014 57 Comments

Penhaligon's + Meadham Kirchhoff Tralala

Design team Meadham Kirchhoff will launch Tralala, their debut fragrance, under the Penhaligon’s label. The scent represents “the surreal and fantastical world their designs evoke”; the name was inspired by* a character in the movie Last Exit To Brooklyn…

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