I spent some time today at the huge Douglass perfumery chain flagship store in Frankfurt, finally smelling, among other things, the four Hugh Parsons fragrances. Yes, four:
Traditional (blue)
Hugh Parsons Yellow Edition
99 Regent Street
Old England
I have no idea who actually owns this license or where this stuff is actually conceived, beyond the British name/image. They don't even seem to have a website. Trumper's this is not, a good deal more modern and metro, though with a nod to the English tradition.
Blue I didn't care for, smelled too much of a generic fresh modern fragrance / shower gel / foam bath. Regent Street felt like MI from a British perspective, not my cup of tea really with those aquatic top notes. Yellow was more like it, a pleasant aromatic citrus, and perfume reactionary that I sometimes am, my favorite was "Old England," which is a very strong and persistent clean lemon scent. Not a must, those last two, if you own AdP, GFT, Crown Imperial and Monsieur Balmain, but very nice.
Traditional (blue)
Hugh Parsons Yellow Edition
99 Regent Street
Old England
I have no idea who actually owns this license or where this stuff is actually conceived, beyond the British name/image. They don't even seem to have a website. Trumper's this is not, a good deal more modern and metro, though with a nod to the English tradition.
Blue I didn't care for, smelled too much of a generic fresh modern fragrance / shower gel / foam bath. Regent Street felt like MI from a British perspective, not my cup of tea really with those aquatic top notes. Yellow was more like it, a pleasant aromatic citrus, and perfume reactionary that I sometimes am, my favorite was "Old England," which is a very strong and persistent clean lemon scent. Not a must, those last two, if you own AdP, GFT, Crown Imperial and Monsieur Balmain, but very nice.
