Today I am wearing Molton Brown’s Londinium.
It is a man’s scent dedicated to London and honours the contradictions
found in every day London life such as the flash of a coloured lining in a
smart Saville Row suit, ice in whisky, ancient and modern, magic and mischief….
So how do you interpret and capture that in a scent? The top notes are fresh and zesty bergamot
with berries whilst the deep base notes are musty incense and fiery
whisky. Linking the top and deep base layers
are myrrh and oakmoss.
The scent as a whole offers me the breath of a recently
mouth-washed man who has since drank a slug of malt whisky. Somehow he is clean and pays attention to his
male grooming, but has a problem and secretly drinks whisky at inappropriate
and rather worrying times of the day. I
guess that sums up an example of contradictions rather nicely.
Fresh, spicy, woody and musty all rolled in to one. It is quite fascinating, but not entirely lovely.
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