Lily & Spice by Penhaligon's, 2006

The first part is really natural, green, cool and botanic with (as said) a realistic smell of spicy lily and its  typical green-floral, projecting, lymphatic and almost aromatic whiff. The smell is nearly sparkling because of the aromatic-pungent chord of cloves, saffron and pepper. A touch of hesperides and a sheer patchouli shadow the smell enhancing its importance and royal temperament. With time the smell tames its hispid sharpness morphing in to a warmer musky-floral-vanilla outcome that is less angular but not too much soapy or linear. The scent is pleasant, well balanced and elegant with its touch of british style and Victorian reminiscences. I appreciate a lot the smell of romantic lily in parfumery, dozens are the fragrances with lily in composition that i love, from Fracas to Ungaro III, passing through Equipage, Salvator Dali for Man and Heritage. I like so much the muguet in Diorissimo and Lys Mediterranee by Malle (mostly lily, citrus  and musk). Lily &Spice is slightly more spicy-dark but less green and less floral than its cousin Lily of the Valley  by Penhaligons. The Lily & Spice's dry down is tamed but not powdery as happens in other womanly lily fragrances and the fragrance in its complex is not too much floral as happens for Diorissimo (with its hyper floral soul of muguet, rose and jasmine), not as heady as happens in a great lily fragrance as Molinard's Les Fleurs de Provance: Muguet. A more than pleasant spicy-floral scent anyway.