Description
“English Fields Collection Q&A with Celine Roux, Head of Global Fragrance, Jo Malone London and Mathilde Bijaoui, Master Perfumer.
Celine: The idea was to have a ‘sunny’ fragrance – not a tropical scent but more like sun-baked fields on a late summer’s afternoon.
Mathilde: I remember sitting in a café with Celine and she told me she wanted something very yellow and sunny with a touch of smokiness. Primroses are the perfect joyful yellow flower, and I added corn, coconut and mimosa to enhance that rich, hazy and solar effect. For the smoky warmth, I thought back to the bakery trip and the smell of rye: it had hints of vanilla (not sweet vanilla but spicy vanilla extract, which can be a bit woody and animalic) and earthiness too.
Rolling fields dotted with primroses. Swaying softly on a spring breeze. Warmed by golden corn. Brightened with mimosa. On an addictive base of rye and vanilla. Filled with sunshine.” – a note from the brand.
Primrose & Rye was launched in 2018.
ors203Negeltzex – :
I’ve been dying to test Jo Malone’s English Fields series, hoping these scents would take me on an olfactory trip to the romanticized picture of the English countrysize I have in my head. And I’m happy to say this Primrose and Rye doesn’t disappoint. I don’t think a warm spring afternoon among English fields, or anywhere, actually smells like this – but it should!
I can easily go along with the note from the brand in that this is an obviously “yellow” scent, though: it’s a very sunny scent, all yellow flowers in a bakery setting of wheat and unsweetened coconut and vanilla. It’s subtly sweet but not at all sugary, leaning gourmand without quite getting there. The florals aren’t recognizable as primrose (who knows how that smells?), and the wheat isn’t specifically rye, but it doesn’t matter: it’s very nice, really cosy and warm. Best in late spring and early fall, I think, when it’s neither too hot nor too cold to enjoy a golden day out in the fields.
The only negative, and it’s not a small one, is that I’d like it to have much more presence. I have to use a lot more than my usual amount of sprays to get much of anything out of this one, and even with a generous application I have to sniff my wrist rather closely to really appreciate it beyond the very first minutes of the opening. Which is always a shame at this kind of price point, especially with a limited edition – I only have a decant and would like it to last me a while, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards at this rate…
yrmola – :
I love this one. All the notes come to life and brighten my skin smell. Not super perfumey more clean and just good smelling. On me opens with vanilla not too sweet with a pretty floral, could be primrose but honestly have never smelled a primrose that I remember. The rye gives it some texture and I do smell some mimosa wafting in and out but it is light. I own the above Bronze Goddess that is compared to this and although they may share a vibe on my skin they wear completely different. This lasts just fine at least 5 or 6 hours. Is more of a skin scent then a sillage bomb does have some projection. To me it is a semi gourmand floral perfect for summer and possibly winter…we will see.
rinkai – :
Not planned … never on my wish list but i love it
Nice suprise as i still could not find some jo malone i reallly want
Very nice feminine powdery clean expensive scent
Daine – :
For some strange reason, this smells like suntan lotion + yellow flowers.
Not cloying, not too sweet, actually pretty nice yet somewhat banal.
It is just the you should reach for if you’re looking for a comforting summer scent.
Longevity and projection are quite good, better than the others in this collection.
phedya11 – :
Smells SO much like Bronze Goddess. The only difference is this has a bit more of a green smell to it. More of a true figgy earthy coconut smell.
Belkaiolya – :
My second favourite out of the 4 fragrances I own from the English Fields Collection (sadly Poppy & Barley was sold out) with the first Honey & Crocus. The opening notes has a blast of the rye notes which smells like rolled oats and then dries down to the flowery vanilla notes. The scent comes off as a warm powdery scent but unfortunately the fragrance is not as strong as the other ones in the collection. This was a successful blind buy.
taron80 – :
For me, the one that have most longevity in the whole english fields collection.
This is for me the only coconut fragance that makes the coconut elegant and natural, not synthetic.
tumony – :
This scent is beautiful almost smells (coconut) but in the most beautiful way!, if you’re a white floral lover you’ll adore this!.
I have to buy two perfumes from this collection and it is simply amazing! Projection is not the greatest! dry down is like a beautiful warm day and the vanilla just subtle and warm!, Such a lovely perfume! I had to buy this!!
galant306 – :
This one is nice but straight away too feminine for me. Primrose and Rye is the most floral of the bunch but still not overt in any way, non of these fragrances are, they are delicate by their very nature. The opening is creamy, grain yet again that oaty, creamy almond milk with touches of mimosa and primrose. This dries down to a vanilla, soft but uninspiring and no doubt easy to find elsewhere. I wasn’t expecting these to be anything earth shattering or massively original and they aren’t but they are all nice enough.
nagel – :
It opens up with a very crisp, sort of herbal, cereal-y feeling. Then, and here I know it’s probably just me, it smells somewhat soapy, even though this feeling I got is temporary.
The fragrance then settles to a beautiful warm, sunny, comforting scent which is definitely a floral with a strong gourmande twist to it due to the vanilla and also a slight herbal touch due to the cereals that makes you reminiscent of wheat or rye fields in the middle of july.
Lasting power is pretty decent for a colony, projection not so much but it doesn’t bother me as I like it delicate like this.
jfn252Unlogrere – :
The honey is quite obvious and the almond is intensive as well. But I literally cannot smell the saffron and lavender (lavender, are you joking?). It is sweet but not too sweet probably because of the smell of wheat? Nothing special.
pyhovik – :
It is sweet(there must be some coconut), warm, silky, creamy, hazy and a bit smoky. The scent of rye is obvious so you need to take some time to adapt it as wheat-like smell are very uncommon in fragrance. It reminds me of a relaxing afternoon tea in the fields with sunshine not so intense and it is the sweetness of macaroons make the perfume creamy ad silky, or a bed of quilt being dried in the bright and warm sunshine in dusk.
saszeka – :
At first sniff the rye is kind of strange smelling, but this is a very short phase…it gets very soft, kind of a yellow floral vibe, very pretty, but then, pfffffff, gone…I detect a hint of milkiness, then nothing….too weak for me to consider a bottle, although the smell is definitely interesting and would be nice on a summer day, there is something breezy about this perfume !! Thank you Miss Cherie for the generous decant !!
Julliett911 – :
This one has the weakest longevity out of all 5 of the English Fields collection. The primrose disappeared quickly on my skin after 10 minutes.
To my surprise, all 5 of them dried down mainly just rye/wheat/barley/oat in the end. Not sure that I would want myself to smell like those ingredients, rather than I just would like to smell them in the bakery 🙂
Leon444777 – :
This smells like sunscreen and nothing else for the few minutes until it disappears altogether. Anybody who has baked with rye knows that the grain has a wonderful smell…and this is not it. Seriously, shame on this company for this zero-effort product.
Gremlen – :
I blind bought three fragrances from this line (this one, Honey & Crocus and Green Wheat and Meadowsweet). This is my favourite of the bunch. It definitely has a beachy vibe, but less obvious, not tropical. There is the tiniest hint of a sunscreen/coconut note but it’s fleeting. Like I imagine you would smell this being piped in at a posh vacation resort that had white linen cabanas. It’s definitely summery and warm and breezy and the most feminine of the three I now own. I would consider buying a back up of this one eventually. It transforms into a really nice cozy skin scent that brings out more of the vanilla and rye/woodsy notes. I was out in the cold winter wind today and every so often I caught a subtle scent of it wafting up and it was beautiful and made me think of sunny days.
шмакодявка28 – :
This is my favourite from the line. I initially reserved the Poppy & Barley but when I went to pick it up, I had a change of heart. I much prefer this one…not as sharp but warmer and longer lasting. I smell coconut (even though it is not listed…must be the corn silk??) and mimosa. This will be great for summer!
qdr031bedyWelty – :
This one is a crowd pleaser. Nicely done . Must have? Probably not. Slightly warm and soft, easy to wear.